Aug 16
You’re in the home stretch for the weekend. You haven’t crossed that much-desired finish line yet, so in the meantime, check out some of the wonders of design, art, and architecture we found this week.
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Aug 16
Is Amazon Art a Ripoff?
Posted in: Today's Chili
It’s been more than a week since Amazon launched Amazon Art, a marketplace for fine art where online shoppers can one-click-buy directly from galleries. And while it’s great to imagine disrupting one of the wackiest, most unregulated markets in the world, the question remains: Just how good of a deal are you getting on that $1.4 million Warhol painting?
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Aug 16
We’ve shared LEGO Transformers made by New York-based artist Baron von Brunk before
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Aug 15
You’ve seen Andy Gilmore‘s art before—you might just not know it. Gilmore’s colorful kaleidoscopes have adorned everything from magazines to album covers to snowboards. And now, thanks to a collaboration with the Ghostly Store, these hypnotic prints can also deck your walls.
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Aug 15
At first glance it looks like a giant, industrial, animated chandelier hanging over your head. But instead of just illuminating a room with its imposing glow, artist Conrad Shawcross’ Timepiece doubles as a modern take on the sundial. Because unlike the ancient clocks that kept our ancestors on time, this one doesn’t need the sun at all.
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Aug 15
Ballet dancers have an uncanny ability to give gravity the finger while effortlessly doing things with their limbs that normal folks will literally *never* be able to manage. Oftentimes their maneuvers are too quick to catch with the naked eye, but Jesus Chapa-Malacara has managed a sweet way to show every step from start to finish.
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Aug 15
At first glance, we weren’t entirely sure what Radiant Soil, a massive installation by architect Philip Beesley, actually was. An industrial-sized Lite Brite crossed with a giant set of K’Nex maybe? A sentient being sent here to lord over us? Either way, it’s mesmerizing—and we wouldn’t mind being beamed up inside of it.
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Aug 14
Have you given a dude in a blue hat directions around Manhattan recently? Did he have a Century 21 shopping bag? If so, there’s a good chance you’ve unwittingly participated in the art (gasp!) of Nobutaka Aozaki, who is building a map of Manhattan based on directions drawn by strangers.
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Aug 14
Humans have been obsessed with the weather—and how to control it—since the dawn of time. We talk about it constantly. We spend millions of dollars trying to change it
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Aug 14
The art of Brooklyn-based artist Mark Wagner is all about the dollar, although the whole thing is clearly worth so much more than the dollars he used to create it. Mark is known as the “Michael Jordan of glue” or “the greatest living collage artist” and he wows once again with his dollar art series.
He basically takes a dollar and another and another to create awesome collages, from portraits of Abraham Lincoln and President Obama to a dinosaur trying to claw away at an bored-looking George Washington.
The one dollar bill is the most ubiquitous piece of paper in America. Collage asks the question: what might be done to make it something else? It is a ripe material: intaglio printed on sturdy linen stock, covered in decorative filigree, and steeped in symbolism and concept. Blade and glue transform it-reproducing the effects of tapestries, paints, engravings, mosaics, and computers—striving for something bizarre, beautiful, or unbelievable… the foreign in the familiar.
It takes a man with true talent to do what Mark does all the time. I can definitely say not a single dollar went to waste in his latest masterpieces.
[via Colossal]
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