Posts filed under 'Art/Images/Photos'
Daft Punk Helmet
Harrison Krix of Volpin Props spent 17 months creating the Daft Punk helmet worn by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. The result? Pure awesomeness!
Add comment August 23, 2010
Painting On Water
Taking the concept of watercoloring literally, this unnamed artist creates amazing images by painting directly on water.
Add comment August 19, 2010
Pictures from St Andrews
Below are a few pictures from our week in St Andrews:
Daniel meeting his Great Gramp.
All four generations of Kidd’s.
The view from the beach on an early morning walk with Daniel.
Trying on Uncle Mike’s hat
Add comment July 31, 2010
CD Sea by Bruce Munro
Until recently I often got given CDs or DVDs with bits of software or clips on them. Rather than throwing away unused CDs, UK artist Bruce Munro decided to turn them into an art installation titled CD Sea. His goal is to get 1 million CDs and display them in the Long Knoll Field in Wiltshire, England. So far, he’s collected about 600,000 CDs:
Over the weekend 140 friends and colleagues, including Kevin McCloud and other celebrities from the design-art world, helped to lay the installation. One family arriving from Frome in Somerset for a day out helping to build the artwork had a young boy with them. He sidled up to Munro and asked, “ Are you the one making the sea?”
One man who had already donated 40,000 CDs brought his family and a further 1,000 CDs in the trunk of the car, keen to do all they could to contribute to this unusual artwork. Cider, sausages and sunshine added to the atmosphere.
The 10-acre field at Long Knoll is where in 2005 Munro installed a prototype of his installation ‘Field of Light’ which went on to huge acclaim at the Eden Project in Cornwall.
In this setting ‘CD Sea’ is on public view for the next two months. Munro conceives it as an inland sea reflecting light from the sun and moon. His assistants Ben and James fashioned the footpath into a meandering shape, following his design.
“I was very nervous about it” says Munro. “You never know how something will work out, but now I could not be happier. I’m so grateful to everyone who turned out to help. We had a magical weekend and CDSea looks amazing, like a giant painting on the grass.”
Check out Art Daily for more or the BBC Gallery for more images.
4 comments June 26, 2010
Crayola Monologues
Crayola Monologues (2003) uses the crayon as a human metaphor for exploring color and identity in the United States. This animated video features crayons expressing how color hierarchies have shaped their lives. These crayons live in a world much like our own, complete with prejudice, class boundaries, social hierarchies and those who fall between the lines. Crayola Monologues also reveals the politics behind Crayola label changes, and gives a voice to the previously unheard perspective of crayons.
Add comment June 26, 2010
Christmas is coming…
Nick blogged about Christmas is coming and the 2010 Christmas Poster from ChurchAds.net. As Christmas is launched earlier and earlier I think this could be quite a powerful poster. Certainly one I’d be happy to use with our youthwork, maybe for a series on Advent, in the run up to Christmas.
Add comment June 10, 2010
Around the World in 80 Seconds
Following the route of Jules Verne’s book, filmmakers Romain Pergeaux & Alex Profit managed to squeeze the entire journey into 80 seconds. The tour included stops in London – Cairo – Mumbay – Hong Kong – Tokyo – San Francisco – New York – London.
Very clever.
Add comment May 18, 2010
Funny stories from around the world
Some funny and useful stories from around the world:
- Boys ‘prefer cars from early on’: Research suggests that girls naturally prefer dolls and boys cars from as young as nine months old.
- Washington’s $300,000 book fine: A New York library discovers two unreturned books checked out by George Washington that have accrued some $300,000 in fines for being 220 years late.
- Super-rich ‘become richer again’: The UK’s super-rich saw a resurgence in their fortunes during the past 12 months, the Sunday Times Rich List suggests.
- Chocolate ‘linked to depression’: People who eat chocolate regularly are more depressive, experts discover.
- Hole-in-one triumph for woman, 90: A 90-year-old woman says she is “amazed” and “stunned” to have hit a hole-in-one on her local course near Bradford.
- Banksy gives band £200k painting ‘in apology for stealing their name’: Banksy, the graffiti artist, gave a £200,000 painting to a band after he accidentally “stole” their name as the title to his new film, Exit Through the Gift Shop.
Add comment May 15, 2010
What do you love most about yourself?
An interesting question from Thought Questions:
Add comment May 13, 2010
T-Shirt War
T-Shirt War is a good little stop-motion by Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal.
1 comment February 22, 2010
Glow stick art
Darcy Pendergrast of Dee Pee Studios has made this amazing art video, possibly the best youtube of 2009:
Lucky by All India Radio, is the viewable blood, sweat and tears of Australian based animation company ‘Dee Pee Studios’.
It involves a painstaking animation technique, whereby the team paints in the air with glow sticks, frame after to frame to create entire sequences of animation, usually taking a whole night to shoot.
2 comments December 26, 2009
Paint Chip Mosaic
Crown Paints take 3,074 paint chips in 36 colours, a few glue guns and a team of volunteers to make a great mural.
Add comment December 14, 2009
Balancing 117 toys on a single Lego block
Children’s author and photographer Walter Wick decided to balance 117 toys of various sizes and shapes on a LEGO block to create the shot that he was looking for.
Add comment November 28, 2009
The Dubai Fountain
These fountains are amazing. It uses 6,600 lights with 50 coloured projectors and is able to fire the water into the air at as astonishing 150m or 490ft!
Via Neatorama
Add comment November 13, 2009
‘The Last Supper’ recreated with Rubik’s cubes
Five artists recreated Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper out of 4,050 rubik’s cubes, in all measuring 8.5 feet by 17 feet. The work was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records and sold to a collector in Florida.
Add comment November 3, 2009
Parahawking
Parahawking involves skydiving while specially-trained birds of prey swarm around you, including vultures, eagles, and falcons. It looks amazing:
Add comment November 2, 2009
How does your holiday/vacation look?
Add comment October 29, 2009
The Greatest Treehouse Ever
We have a treehouse in our home, but this is amazing! A guy called Horrace Burgess, in Tennessee built a treehouse 97 feet tall. Its got 11 floors to it, and is about 80 feet high and 12 feet wide at the base:
A building of over 11 floors would be expected to have some extra amenities – and the treehouse Horrace has established is no exception. This particular one comes complete with a mini basketball court – if you thought playing you would never live to see guys playing basketball on top of a tree!
The owner of the edifice is a 56 years old landscape architect by the way, and he say an upwards of $12,000 has gone into building thetreehouse . Asked about where he got the inspiration to build the edifice, he cites a prayer vision he got in the early 90s – going further to say that he built it ‘for God.’ Nobody is arguing with him – and nobody is contesting the assertion that it is the world’s greatesttreehouse either. Meanwhile, building work has not stopped at the 11th floor…the building is still a ‘work in progress!’
Add comment October 28, 2009
