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Cyberpunk Robots Battle To The Death: ROSA.

The much-buzzed-about short film ROSA has finally been released online. Take a look at the gorgeous post-apocalyptic future, where all that’s left are beautiful cyborgs who bleed plants (Interesting premise). From Jesús Orellana, who created this short in one year, with no budget. Here’s the official synopsis:

ROSA is an epic sci-fi short film that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where all natural life has disappeared. From the destruction awakes Rosa, a cyborg deployed from the Kernel project, mankind’s last attempt to restore the earth’s ecosystem. Rosa will soon learn that she is not the only entity that has awakened and must fight for her survival.

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2012: 03/03
CATEGORY: Art
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Superhero Dinosaurs.

Wolveraptor

These were created by artist d.r3sto as part of his exploration of morphing some of our favorite creatures with comics.

My parody set of Superhero Characters as Dinosaurs. I’ll be working up a few of these every week so stay tuned. I’ve opened the idea up to ALL superheroes. So, I’m sure ya’ll will appreciate some new faces in the mix. I’m also in the process of getting prints together, believe me, I’d love to share these dinos with your walls too, but I’m running into some red tape. Soon enough.

Hulkasaurus-Rex

AnkyloTHORus

Captain-Ameritops

Iron-Brontosaurus

Stegolossus

PteranoSTORM

Paracyclophus

Deadpachycepoolosaurus

Gambilophosaurus

Nightcrawlimimus

Daredevilnotauros

2012: 03/02
CATEGORY: Art
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Vacuum Sealed Love Bugs.

In the fascinating series “Flesh Love” by Japanese artist Photographer Hal, different couples were vacuum-packed together and then photographed. I’m not exactly sure how Hal was able to do this without suffocating anyone, but part of the magic is not knowing how its done… Check the method.

2012: 02/26
CATEGORY: Art
Entertainment
Photography
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Ayaka Itos.

Graphic design is a profession that’s nothing new to me, although I’m not blessed with design skills, I’ve been around enough of them to know what good design consists of, and Ayaka Itos has it in spades. Check out some of her work and read her bio below. To see more from Ayaka, just click here.

I am a graphic designer / illustrator who is in love with rich colors and all things handmade. Originally born and raised in Japan, I moved to America by myself in 2005, with two suitcases and solid determination to study at the New Media Imaging & Design program (a mix of Communication Design and Interactive Design) at Rochester Institute of Technology.

After graduating in May 2009, I moved to New York City to make rich digital experiences & innovative campaigns with an amazingly talented multi-disciplinary team at Big Spaceship.

I love what I do, so I spend most of my non-working hours learning more about design and trying out new techniques on my personal projects. If I’m not doing that, then I’m usually staring at alpaca videos (because they’re too cute not to), making my own clothes, eating sweets — chocolate chip cookies are the best — or watching episodes of my favorite show ever, Adventure Time.

2012: 02/24
CATEGORY: Art
Design
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Colorful Designs.

Design’s love affair with bold color inches one step further with the application of graphic art into everything from tables to chairs, bookshelves and even yachts. Cappellini gave Adam Goodrum’s ‘Stitch’ chair the colour treatment with blocks or red, blue, white and black applied to the segments of the aluminium folding chair. Designer Enzo Berti recasts the humble bookshelf as a canvas for graphic prints with his Bar Code Street shelves. London based artist Anna James, who transforms pieces of 20th century furniture into contemporary art works, applied a clean graphic to her Genoa table. And of course who can forget Jeff Koon’s ‘art’ yacht, released last year, which is still wowing onlookers on the Mediterranean.

2012: 02/19
CATEGORY: Art
Design
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The Work Of The Magnificent ‘Sepalcure’.

There’s nothing that I hate worse than having incredible work with no background information on the artist. With all of the video’s and pictures from ‘Sepalcure’, all I can seem to find out is Sougwen, the Canadian-born, Brooklyn-based artist responsible for all the incredible work you see before you is awesome.

2012: 02/19
CATEGORY: Art
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The Yum Yum People.

I got an email recently with “Yum Yum” in the title, and just assumed that it was from the Yum Yum the writer of the ‘Boost & Boobs‘ blog I’m an avid fan of. But I soon found out that it was a notification about the work of Beth Algieri and Jonny Plummer who for the graphic team Yum Yum. The two person team are both directors and designers with “a common passion for creating new and exciting things”, and their work shows they mean it. From animation to illustration to design, Yum Yum has created some brilliant, simple, and attention grabbing imagery. They recently started on some work for Wired magazine, you can check out more of their work here.

2012: 02/18
CATEGORY: Art
Design
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Heikki Leis And His Incredible Illustrations.

Heikki Leis was born in Tartu in 1973, Estonia and has lived and worked in the same town for the better part of his life. He graduated from Tartu Art Grammar School and later masonry and sculpture faculty in Tartu Art School in 1991. He works as a freelance artist since 2000. Heikki does mostly hyper realistic pen and pencil drawings and also sculpture. Since 2004 he is also an avid photographer and takes part in exhibitions.

2012: 02/18
CATEGORY: Art
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Rise Of The Underground.

Mark Moore Gallery presents Rise of the Underground, a two-person exhibition featuring new works by Jeremy Fish (CA) and Kenichi Yokono (Japan). Each adopting the age-old craft of woodcutting through a distinctive contemporary technique, Fish and Yokono employ bold and enchanting cartoon-like narratives to illustrate quotidian and pop cultural excerpts. Unmistakably handmade and remarkably intriguing, Yokono’s woodblocks explore the “horrors of everyday life,” while Fish’s paintings and cut-outs reveal untapped histories often swept under the rug. Seemingly innocuous at first observation, each work is intricately laced with undercurrents of the sinister and the foreboding, saturated with cultural reflection, psychoanalysis, and social commentary in a fusion of high and low aesthetics.

2012: 02/18
CATEGORY: Art
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Your Body Is A Canvas (Some Tattoo Facts).

One of the greatest things about design is that people are constantly coming up with new and creative ways to solve problems, display information or convey a message in a better way. Paul Marcinkowski (AKA Kaplon) is the designer behind this tattoo infographic which he made for a class project at the Academy Of Fine Arts in Łódź, Poland. Readers know that I’m a fiend for good infographics, and while poorly made infographics have been called the ‘plague’ of the internet, it’s great to see an artist sink their teeth into the medium and create something truly original.

The infographic highlights different aspects of the tattoo process: where tattooing is practiced (worldwide), the percentage of people who have tattoos, interesting fun facts about the tattoo machine, most popular tattoo designs, and the top three reasons why people regret getting their tattoos. The artwork is brilliant and nails the style of tattoo art on the body while also integrating the tattoo style into infographic design.

2012: 02/18
CATEGORY: Art
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Taken By Storm.

Storm Thorgerson has been designing album cover art for over 35 years. Thorgerson was a key member of the British graphic art group Hipgnosis, and designed many of their most famous single and album covers. Perhaps Storm Thorgerson’s most famous designs are those for Pink Floyd as his design for The Dark Side of the Moon has been called one of the greatest album covers of all time. Many of Storm Thorgerson’s designs are notable for their surreal elements as he often places objects out of their traditional contexts, especially with vast spaces around them, to give them an awkward appearance while highlighting their beauty. And I’m not just saying that because we share the same first name.

Storm Thorgerson’s surrealist work raised the bar for album cover designs, changing the way the world looked at the music of everyone from Peter Gabriel to Black Sabbath. Born in Dartford, Kent in 1944, Storm Thorgerson went to school with Roger Waters and Syd Barrett. He studied English and Philosophy at university before going on to complete an MA in Film and Television at the Royal College of Art. His career as an artist began accidentally; around the time of his graduation from the Royal College Pink Floyd were completing their second album A Saucerful of Secrets, when a friend turned down the job of creating its sleeve. With no background in art or graphic design Storm Thorgerson volunteered to step into the fold.

2012: 02/17
CATEGORY: Art
Design
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PSA’s Concerning The Dangers Of Art.

What happens when you make anti-drug PSAs about art? An awesome series of photos that make me want to go back to art school. Now I just need to learn how to draw. But they’ll teach me that, right?

2012: 02/17
CATEGORY: Art
Design
Entertainment
Photography
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Supakitch & Koralie.

I know by reading the title of this post, you might think that it’s about some pair of German stripper twins. And that would make you wrong. Supakitch & Koralie are two innovative artists that breach the bounds of conventional art. Take a look at the video below to get a better idea of just how they do their thing.

2012: 02/17
CATEGORY: Art
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Wild Urban Animals.

Mikel Uribetxeberria’s series Animalia seems to ask the question: what would happen if humans disappeared and gorillas (or other animals) took over the city? In a collaboration with animal photographers on flickr, he has created both intriguing and disquieting imagery using his own architectural photographs to set the scene. The Photoshop work on all these images is nothing short of incredible. Check the method below.

2012: 02/17
CATEGORY: Art
Photography
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Absolut London.

Absolut vodka has launched a limited edition bottle called London in collaboration with one of the UK’s leading graphic artists, Gorillaz’ Jamie Hewlett. Set against a London backdrop, the bottle introduces key characters from the past who have influenced and shaped London’s present fashion scene. The seven characters encapsulate the city’s diverse heritage, spanning the ages from Dickensian and 18th Century Dandy, through to Pinstripe gent, 60’s chick, SKA , Punk and 80’s Casual. To celebrate the launch, ABSOLUT will be offering consumer the chance to buy one of only 50 unique ABSOLUT London collectors gift packs on Facebook. ABSOLUT London will be launching in-store on 1st March in Selfridges and Harvey Nichols and then to general retailers from 1st April.

2012: 02/16
CATEGORY: Art
Design
Entertainment
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Anamorphic Art.

Artist Felice Varini, born in in 1952 in Locarno, Switzerland. (and currently lives in Paris) is a master of anamorphic installations. He paints directly on indoor and outdoor spaces such as rooms, stairways, buildings, and more. His work requires that you view it at a specific angle, so that you can see geometric shapes.

The paintings are characterized by a single vantage point from which the viewer can see the complete painting (usually a simple geometric shape such as circle, square, line), while various ‘broken’ fragmented shapes are seen from various other view points. Varini contends that the work exists as a whole — the complete shape as well as the fragments. “My concern,” he says “is what happens outside the vantage point of view.”

And once again, the photos below are NOT digital edits, they are 100% real.

2012: 02/14
CATEGORY: Art
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The Will Kurtz Sculptures.

Will Kurtz‘s paper sculptures bring ordinary New Yorkers to life. Extra Fucking Ordinary is Will Kurtz’s debut exhibition at the Mike Weiss Gallery.’The show consists of life size figural sculptures constructed of collaged torn sheets of newspaper, wood, wire, screws, tape and everyday objects which depict the characters captured by Kurtz’s iPhone camera lens. Utilizing the observing eye of a curious urban voyeur, Kurtz spends large portions of his days combing the streets of New York for his subjects, which are later transformed into sincere and amusing life-size sculptures. It is not the subjects’ aesthetic appeal that draws Kurtz as much as their essence and strong representation of the multitude of prototypes that typify New York City: from an old married couple and endearingly eccentric dog owners to curmudgeonly middle-aged smokers.

Kurtz’s sculptures openly reference real people engaged in real scenarios, be it posing for group shots at a tourist attraction, walking their dog, awkwardly changing their clothes or reluctantly sweeping the floors. Kurtz holds an admiringly holds a magnifying glass to the genre of subjects and scenes that are commonly overlooked. The subjects collectively present a candid and unapologetic mosaic of New Yorkers in their blunt, colorful, borderline-manic ways made of the same papers they read in coffee shops and subways during their morning commute.’

2012: 02/13
CATEGORY: Art
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Simen Johan’s Unique Work.

Simen Jones is a miraculous photographer out of Norway that has a unique ability to paint incredibly imaginative pictures with her work. Now I know that a picture is worth a thousand words, so on and so forth, but these gallery photos stick in a way far more remarkable than work I’ve seen from many other surreal photographers.

Even this little odd and disturbing chicken thing picture above is quite hard to stop looking at. But check out the rest of her work below.

2012: 02/10
CATEGORY: Art
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You Can Color Your Food?

Want to impress your guests at a dinner party? There’s nothing more baller than wheeling out a golden chicken. Developed together with The Deli Garage and a small food factory, which supplies high-quality fine pastry shops with food coloring, this easy to use with the spray can and the result is beautiful. Why not create a chrome trout or gold-plated asparagus tips. It is completely harmless and tasteless to eat, Food Finish brings new luster in the creative cuisine. Check the method.

2012: 02/09
CATEGORY: Art
Entertainment
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DJ Storm vs. Tumbrl.

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Lots of folks tend to stick to one blog site. WordPress has served me well for over two years now, and with tens of thousands of views a week, its hard to see why anyone would feel the need to start posting on a different forum. But with the simplicity of Tumblr and its direct connection to my twitter (@YoungStark) I found a new way to put things up that wouldn’t necessarily work on this beloved WordPress. Single pictures without descriptions, and things of a more uh… far more raunchy nature than are found on this blog are easy for me to throw up onto Tumblr without upsetting any of my generous sponsors, or deviating from this sites general aesthetic. So if your interested in an entirely different side of things that I find interesting, feel free to follow me on Tumbrl as well.

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2012: 02/09
CATEGORY: Art
Design
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Cool and Creepy. Anatomical Cross-Sections Made From Paper.

Artist Lisa Nilsson has taken the technique of quilling to a whole new level by creating these amazing (and kinda creepy) cross sections of the human body. Also known as paper filigree, quilling is an art form that involves the use of strips of paper that are rolled, shaped, and glued together to create decorative designs.

“I was out [junking] and came across an antique quilled piece of religious art. It was a very fancy filigreed crucifix-gilt. I later learned that nuns and monks used edges of old bibles to make pieces like this,” said Nilsson in an interview with ArtSake. Around the same time, she had stumbled across a French book of hand-colored anatomical cross sections which she felt was a great way to showcase quilling.

2012: 02/09
CATEGORY: Art
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Field Candy.

FieldCandy tents do not give you camouflage protection in the natural setting, nor do they help you blend in with the rest of the crowd at the campsite. FieldCandy tents are designed to stand out. When I saw the first images of these limited-edition designer tents with their cool flysheets, we had to really stop and think. Is it true that no-one else has manufactured these types of tents for sale before?

Pieces can be individually displayed as art, but I haven’t seen anything quite like this. It was one of those moments when you think: Why have all tents always looked pretty much the same? We customize everything else, why not tents? And even more remarkably: Why have we been satisfied with those boring, standard tent colors for so long?

So, through a two-year development process, Jersey, UK-based FieldCandy has created what we did not know we needed. Until now. They selected a group of 20 or so artists and designers – photographers, graphic designers, illustrators, branding and advertising designers – to create designs that were then transferred to the ultra-light, waterproof flysheet that covers the two-person tent.

They now offer more than 40 different designs by 18 artists. The designs are grouped in several collections. In The Legend Collection, for example, includes Terry Pastor’s black design with psychedelic guns and Philip Gatward’s blue and yellow parrots on a grey hued background. On the FieldCandy website, a counter next to each design indicates how many of that design are still left. Each tent comes with a label that shows the edition number and the design name. Prices range from $430 for the black FieldCandy signature tent to over $1,000. FieldCandy ships around the world The tents are available exclusively through the website.

2012: 02/09
CATEGORY: Art
Design
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The Fine Art Photos Of Ryan Schude.

Photos always evoke certain emotions, and when composed correctly can have different meanings to each person who looks at them. Photographer Ryan Schude seems to be a master of composition and technique in his photos. The small collection I came across recently features models of all ages, and wildly creative concepts (like candy in your grandmothers purse, and milk and cookies.) But no matter what the message you take from any of his photos may be, they are all fully constructed from background to foreground with meticulous attention to detail. Check the method.

2012: 02/09
CATEGORY: Art
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Byoungho Kim’s Sculptured Art.

Is it visual art, audio art, a sculpture, a product, a machine? Byoungho Kim’s works could be described as all of these. They are visually stunning, make sounds, have a sculptural quality and they are manufactured just like any other highly-engineered industrial products. Born in Seoul, Korea, in 1974 Kim has explored the edges of art and product, sounds and visuals throughout his career. As his sound sculptures have no “practical use,” they are defined as art but their intrigue lies in the technology behind them. The two lighting fixture-like pieces we are featuring are made of aluminum and they use both piezo and arduino technology. A piezo is an electronic device that be used to both play and detect tones. arduino is a popular open-source single-board microcontroller. None of this means much to most of us, but the result — sounds being emitted and changed by the sculptures — is fascinating.

2012: 02/06
CATEGORY: Art
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Alexander McQueen Spring 2012 Campaign.

Alexander McQueen has just released several photos from its Spring/Summer 2012 Ad Campaign featuring Zuzanna Bijoch photographed by David Sims. The designs are incredibly unique, and personally quite striking. Check the method below.

2012: 02/04
CATEGORY: Art
Design
Entertainment
Fashion
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