Papercraft High Heels

Posted by John Farrier in Arts & Crafts on November 13, 2009 at 2:57 pm


Photo: Le Creative Sweatshop

Le Creative Sweatshop is a French art studio that produces (among other things) enormous papercraft art installations. The high-heeled shoes pictured above are a part of their effort to “make a paper world.” You can view more pictures of the studio’s work at the link.

Link via Gizmodo | Video about their work

 
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Cardiovascular Paper: Printed Anatomy by Laurent Champoussin

Posted by Alex in Arts & Crafts, Medicine, Pictures on July 1, 2009 at 4:38 am

No, not a tattoo though undoubtedly it would make an excellent anatomically-minded example that would rival this famous skull face tattoo we had before on Neatorama. The gruesome painting is actually printed paper by Paris-based photographer Laurent Champoussin.

Vanessa Ruiz of Street Anatomy asked Laurent what inspired his art series titled Cardiovascular Paper:

I’ve always been interested by the écorché model. I was inspired by the classical representations of Andréas Vesalius, Charles Estienne or Adrian Van Den Spieghel. My idea was to play with the partial, the uncovered (open/discover) of an essential part of ourselves. I also wanted to work on the propagation, the invasion. My will was to design the model, to file down it like a texture and I hope, somewhere like a poetry.

More at Street Anatomy Blog: Link | Laurent’s website and blog – via Cakehead Loves Evil

 
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Wombat Poo Paper

Posted by Alex in Animal on April 19, 2009 at 11:33 am

Those wily Tasmanians have hit upon a gem of an idea that lets them:

a) get rid of stuff no one wanted (i.e. wombat poo)
b) make lots of money doing it (make it into paper)
c) from people they don’t like (tourists)

Creative Paper manager Darren Simpson says the manufacturing process can be rather unpleasant.

"When we are boiling it, it does smell horrific as you can imagine, but once it has been sterilised and rinsed properly there’s no scent left to it. If anything it just gives you a nice organic smell," he said.

He added that it was the tourists themselves who came up with the wombat idea.

"As people were coming through and we were showing them the samples of our paper, they would throw questions at you like ‘can you make it from sheep poo or can you make it from koalas?’. And the one that kept popping up more than any other was the wombat."

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Previously on Neatorama: Tiny Flower Turns Pig Poop into Fuel, Elephant Dung Paper

 
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Sustainable Water Bottles

Posted by Queuebot in Arts & Crafts, Everything Else, Food & Drinks, Gadget, Science & Tech on February 3, 2009 at 11:54 pm

Brand Image has set out to change the way we drink bottled water.  In an effort to enhance the consumer drinking experience and create a sustainable alternative to plastic bottles the designers have created the 360 Paper Bottle.

It’s the first 100% recyclable paper container and is made entirely from renewable resources. The paper packaging is food-safe and can hold a variety of liquids, making it the perfect alternative to traditional water containers.

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Kusudama and the Wonderful Art of Modular Origami

Posted by Queuebot in Arts & Crafts on February 1, 2009 at 1:10 am

Kusudama is an ancient Japanese form of paper folding which is still practiced today.  As time passed the form evolved in to something that looks similar to origami but has a very different set of rules.

Quazen has some great pictures of both Kusudama and modular origami, into which it evolved:

The form of Kusudama goes back to before written history. The general consensus is that they were used to hold bunches of herbs or flowers as urban culture
took hold. With urbanization the desire for objects with both utility and beauty took greater hold. Before this the plants would have been hung on their own and the kusudama evolved as an aesthetically pleasing receptacle for both potpourri and incense.

Link – via webphemera

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Papercraft CCTV Camera

Posted by Queuebot in Arts & Crafts on January 29, 2009 at 2:34 pm

Who doesnt love a good papercraft? Especially one that mocks a large scale survelliance system that invades privacy of millions?

Enjoy Nude Magazine's (no nudity on this page just papercraft, I promise) CCTV Papercraft.

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Yulia Brodskaya's Papercraft

Posted by Alex in Arts & Crafts, Pictures on December 17, 2008 at 3:55 am

I was going to call it a night when I decided to check one more link. I’m so glad I did because that’s when I ran across this amazing papercraft artwork by Russian artist Yulia Brodskaya.

Her website is a little bit slow, but it’s worth the wait: Link – via Drawn!

 
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Neat Paper Toy

Posted by Algonkin in Everything Else, Video Clips on February 6, 2008 at 9:45 am



Just Piece Of Paper . Crazy Paper Toy. – video powered by Metacafe

This is really neat. I tried it myself (takes a while the first time) and the more you use it the better it gets due to the paper being folded often. The kids just love it.

Link: Superpunch

 
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