Heather Jansch creates amazing and unique life-size animal sculptures out of driftwood. Each piece of driftwood is carefully put together and fixed with steel screws and fibreglass-coated steel frame to ensure a longer lifespan.
Sunday, November 28, 2010
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Folding Art: Artist Rides Down River Thames in Paper Vessel
Folding Art: Artist Rides Down River Thames in Paper Vessel:
From the childhood hobby of making and sailing paper boats has sprung a truly unusual art project from German conceptual artist Frank Bölter. As part of the Drift 10 art exhibition in London, Bölter folded a massive origami boat with the help of some members of the public, then launched it into the waters of the Thames, hopped in and enjoyed a relaxing ride.
The paper boat was reinforced with some metal poles to hold its shape, but otherwise was composed entirely of folded reinforced paper of the kind used to make juice and milk cartons. Given the highly appropriate name “HMS Origami,” the 5.4 meter (17.7 feet) boat was sturdy enough to support one passenger in the calm waters of the Thames.
Although the boat wasn’t technically paper – at least not in the way that most children’s folded boats are – the origami boat is still an impressive feat of artistic experimentation. Bölter was confident enough in the water-worthiness of his craft that he laid back and read a newspaper, enjoying a leisurely sail while onlookers watched in wonder.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Incredible 3D Chalk Art
Incredible 3D Chalk Art: "
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The first photos of Mr. Hou’s 3D chalk art first appeared last month on Sina Weibo (a Chinese microblog service like Twitter) and Chinese netizens nicknamed him “Chalk God”. One netizen said: “Is he an architect like in ‘Inception‘?” There were even netizens shouting one after another: “This isn’t chalk, this isn’t chalk.”
With regards to his own creative ideas, Mr. Hou said: “I think these 3D artworks actually aren’t that rare/surprising, but the idea is very key, and only with the idea can you move people. For example, I once went to a tourist sight/attraction, and there was a sculpture at this intersection. Below the sculpture, on all four sides, were a bunch of advertisements for counterfeit official documents. I felt this was so representative of China today, so I started drawing, never expecting to become so popular.”
Mr. Hou expressed that the piece that he is most satisfied with was “drawing ‘happy birthday’ for my son, and the vegetable planting piece was created last year when stealing vegetable games were really popular”.
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Monday, November 22, 2010
Sitting can be cool: 18 creative chair designs
Sitting can be cool: 18 creative chair designs: "
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If you’re looking for a cool and unusual chair, you should probably take a look at this collection of great chair designs. Some have been featured already on Get Inspired, our inspiration feed on Designer Daily, make sure to subscribe to it if you don’t want to miss any update.
1. Barnacle Chair
Designer: Ania Wagner – Via Yanko Design
2. Firewood Storage as Chair
3. Nir Meiri stool
Designer: Nir Meiri – Via Design Milk
4. Deep Forest
Designer: Kibardin Design
5. Spoon Chair
Designer: Gaëtan Van de Wyer
6. The Pata
Designer: Hiroyuki Morita – Via Nvelt
7. Space invader chair
Designer: Igor Chak – Via Designboom
8. Lost in sofa
Designer: Daisuke Motogi Architecture – Via Dezeen
9. The Aperto Chair
Designer: Caroline Havag – Via Contemporist
10. Ocean Rocker wood
Designer: Jolyon Yates
11. Kilo
Designer: Kilo Design
12. Leaf chair
13. Alright rocking chair
Designer: Joseph Riehl – Via Yanko Design
14. ABC stools
Designer: Roeland Otten – Via Design Milk
15. Flip Chair
Designer: John Caswell
16. Inside-out chair
Designer: Alberto Villarreal
17. Fadeout chair
Designer: Nendo – Via Iain Claridge
18. Foam Chair
Via CCTV
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