New World Transparent Specimens by Lori Tomita. To produce the specimens… Tomita first removes the scales and skin of fish that have been preserved in formaldehyde. Next he soaks the creatures in a stain that dyes the cartilage blue. Tomita uses a digestive enzyme called trypsin, along with a host of other chemicals, to break down the proteins and muscles, halting the process just at the moment they become transparent but before they lose their form. The bones are then stained with red dye, and the brilliant beast is preserved in a jar of glycerin.
Windswept by Charles Sowers
Art installation fixed outside a gallery’s wall, displaying natural flow and turbulence of the wind - via dezeen:
Hundreds of spinning blades reveal the invisible patterns of the wind in American artist Charles Sowers’ kinetic installation on the facade of the Randall Museum in San Francisco.
The installation, titled Windswept, consists of 612 rotating aluminium weather vanes mounted on an outside wall. As gusts of wind hit the wall, the aluminium blades spin not as one but independently, indicating the localised flow of the wind and the way it interacts with the building.
“Our ordinary experience of wind is as a solitary sample point of a very large invisible phenomenon,” said Sowers. “Windswept is a kind of large sensor array that samples the wind at its point of interaction with the Randall Museum building and reveals the complexity and structure of that interaction.”
You can find out more at Dezeen here, with photos and a video of the work in action.
Another beautifully painted and subsequently animated wall by UK artist and designer INSA (previously featured here).
This piece is a collaboration with artist Stanley Donwood called Hollywood Dooom to help celebrate the release of a new album for Atoms for Peace, AMOK, for which Donwood did the album artwork. INSA painted the entire exterior of XL Recordings four times to create the frames for the animation. Of the work he says:
“My challenge was to take two very static items, a beautiful lino-cut and a less beautiful box of a building, and bring them to life. After a week of sweating in the Los Angeles late summer sun re-painting the whole building several times I got there. Animated as a continuous GIF it may only live online but some would argue that is where most now live there lives…
Check out more of INSA’s gif work and other pieces on his blog.
[via Colossal]
Hey guys, I decided to create a calendar of my work for the new year. You can purchase it through LULU and you get free shipping with the coupon code 17DEC today only. They’re doing a holiday special on the site, and every day is a new coupon.
October 30, 2012 - December 26, 2012. The end of another sketchbook. This one started out so promising but I quickly lost my focus. I’ve been thinking about a lot of other things lately (like gas bills, what to eat for dinner, how to start a conversation aaaah), so even though I find myself doodling on Post-it notes on my desk at home or scrap paper at work, it rarely ends up anywhere but the garbage. I guess I’m slightly proud of myself for exploring anatomy a little more, but it was a smaller step than I thought I would take. Still, there were some splashes of color and even some thicker pen lines. So here’s to another good year, for myself, for all of you as well.
Sean Wes is a super talented lettering artist—and he has a great shop full of great Christmas gift ideas!
Calvin and Hobbes Quotes
California based designer Emily McLain created poster series of quotes from the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson.
A flock of colorful origami butterflies flutter overhead in this installation, entitled Dream Colourfully, by Dream Interiors and Elixr. The collaborative piece was created for Saturday In Design, an annual event for the design community that alternates each year between Sydney and Melbourne. In 2011, the event extended for the first time to Singapore and so Dream Interiors, best known for their blend of eclectic and modern furniture collections approached Elixr, a boutique graphic design studio, to assist in this captivating display in their home city.
Each delicate creature is formed out of translucent paper, which allows light to pass through from every angle. Set against the stark white atmosphere of Dream Interiors, the aerial display comes to vibrant life above. According to the project description, each origami butterfly represents a dream in various stages, from “the emergence of an idea, to the idea being in transit, and then taking flight. Every butterfly has its own character and destination, but when flying together, new dreams are created and celebrated.”
Another beautifully painted and subsequently animated wall by UK artist and designer INSA (previously featured here).
This piece is a collaboration with artist Stanley Donwood called Hollywood Dooom to help celebrate the release of a new album for Atoms for Peace, AMOK, for which Donwood did the album artwork. INSA painted the entire exterior of XL Recordings four times to create the frames for the animation. Of the work he says:
“My challenge was to take two very static items, a beautiful lino-cut and a less beautiful box of a building, and bring them to life. After a week of sweating in the Los Angeles late summer sun re-painting the whole building several times I got there. Animated as a continuous GIF it may only live online but some would argue that is where most now live there lives…
Check out more of INSA’s gif work and other pieces on his blog.
[via Colossal]
I have also had the privilege of trying out some new (to me) pens with my new sketchbook. So far the Artline and the edding have both been phenomenal.
