All Blog Posts Tagged 'art' - Wave Avenue

Street Art Mathematics by Aakash Nihalan

2013-01-16T03:30:00.000Z

You've probably seen all kinds of street art but have you stumbled upon one that involves mathematics? Artist Aakash Nihalani offers a simple yet brilliant street art that will definitely make you look.

This project called 'Sum Times' involves adding oversized tapes of simple algebra symbols onto mundane things. Clever.

[via woostercollective]

Walk Through a Brilliant Interactive Maze

2013-01-14T01:00:00.000Z

Design studio LIKE Architects made an illuminating installation for IKEA in Lisbon, Portugal this year. The said project was composed of 1,200 pieces of LEDARE lamps attached to HEMMA floor bases in varied heights. A brilliant way to introduce IKEA's new project, the LEDARE.

[via architizer]

Wondrous 760 Stacked Bicycles by Ai Weiwei

2013-01-12T00:00:00.000Z

Artist Ai Weiwei has come up with an interesting installation composed of 760 stacked bicycles that have been physically attached resulting to a single cohesive structure which can be explored from within. It seems that the artist has an unusual bond with bicycles since he also had similar work in 2011 dubbed as Forever Bicycles wherein he used 1,200 bicycles. You may want to visit the artists' exhibition at Galleria Continua until February 16th.

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Awesome Poster Images Created from Handwritten Movie Scripts and Album Lyrics

2013-01-10T00:00:00.000Z

These posters seem ordinary but actually they are not. Artist Mike Matola puts a little twist to his artwork by writing down the lyrics of a song or a script of certain movie in order to form a picture. Among his posters include images of members of The Beatles as well as characters from the movies such as The Shining. Remarkably, he does not draw these portraits and instead writes down words and the results are amazing. Check them out after the jump! ♥

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Amazing Portraits Rendered Using Discarded Jeans

2013-01-08T02:00:00.000Z

Who would've thought of making portraits made entirely of jeans? That would be British artist Ian Berry, also called Denimu. At first, you wouldn't think that these portraits and urban landscapes were created by weeks and weeks of cutting, stitching and gluing jean fabrics because the composition, shades and shadows are simply remarkable. But it is made of discarded jeans and that's “Jean-ius”.

Check out more of Ian Berry works on his website.

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Stunning Palette Knife Paintings by Kathryn Trotter

2013-01-08T00:00:00.000Z

What's with a palette knife that makes a painting look so elegant? A palette knife is a blunt tool used for mixing or applying paint, with a flexible steel blade. The "palette" in the name is a reference to an artist's palette which is used for mixing oil paint and acrylic paints. Achieving a thick texture that is rich in color, blending, building surface texture, edging, detailing and scraping off layers of paint are the main goals of palette knife painting. Check out these gorgeous paintings by Kathryn Trotter who creates artwork with layering effect of thick paint and intentional pairing of colors.

Pedestrian Path Lets You Reflect On Your Life Choices

2013-01-07T02:00:00.000Z

This installation will make you feel nostalgic and think, what did you want to be when you grow up? Was there anything you wanted to change about your career now?

Candy was commissioned to create public art for Finland’s 2011 European Capital of Culture events. For this project, a pedestrian/bike path nicknamed Uraputki or “Career Path”, because it is a popular route that students take from their residences to the university, to get a degree to get a job. This path was turned into an interactive space with stenciled fill-in-the-blank sentences to make students reflect on their life choices as far as careers are concerned.

For example, sentences stenciled on the pavement say “When I was little I wanted to be ____. Today I want to be ____.” in Finnish, Swedish, and English. Passersby can use colored chalk to write directly on the pavement and reflect upon their larger life choices. Sun and rain erase the responses and the installation starts again. The project is created with temporary spray chalk and will fade with weather and foot traffic.

This project is about comparing yourself today and when you were young, reflecting on how you’ve changed or stayed the same, and thinking about the desires you had as a child. What made you come alive as a kid and why? How can this help inform the decisions you make today? Some favorites: “When I was little I wanted to be a princess. Today I want to be an electrician.” “When I was little I wanted to be a bird. Today I want to be a speech therapist.” “When I was little I wanted to be a grown-up. Today I want to be a kid.” The project is also about learning from the people around us and humanizing our neglected spaces. The industrial path is now a space to pause, reflect, and share with others.

Candy Chang's website.

Captivating Macro Photography by Wil Mijer

2013-01-07T00:00:00.000Z

Last Christmas, we posted macro photos of snowflakes, but what does macro photography really mean? Accordingly, macro photography refers to extreme close-up photography, usually of very small subjects, in which the size of the subject in the photograph is greater than life size (though macrophotography technically refers to the art of making very large photographs). Here's another treat for photography lovers out there. See some of Wil Mijer's amazing photos of insects after the jump!

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Splendid Watercolor Paintings by Grzegorz Wrobel

2013-01-05T14:30:00.000Z

Grzegorz Wróbel's interest in drawing and painting from the early years of childhood but he found fascination in the watercolor technique only in 2002. You'll find that his paintings mostly features buildings and the urban landscape, that's because he works in architecture and everything that is connected with it.

The artist says,

My watercolors are created from a passion to observe the world around us. Each watercolor is just my personal version of reality. I just add the number of pigment at the right time, and the water and gravity do the rest.

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Lovely Carpets Made From Plastic Clothes Pins

2013-01-05T04:00:00.000Z

Check out these adorable Peg Carpets designed by We Make Carpets and commissioned by the Graphic Design Museum in Breda, The Netherlands. Just imagine how many clothes can be pinned up using these colorful clothes pins, amazing isn't it? ♥

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Giant Colored Pencils Appear in Matsudai Joyama

2013-01-05T01:00:00.000Z

Reverse City is a giant colored pencils installation hung in rows in Matsudai Joyama created by Cameroon-born artist Pascale Marthine Tayou. On each pencil is written the name of one of the countries of the world.

The giant pencils are variously colored; some are short, some are tall. This town of pencils is fixed into a stainless steel frame and hovers, detached from Nature, at a height of about two meters. Suspended upside-down, the points of this colorful city are aimed at human visitors who, looking up at it, feel both awed and threatened.

[via lifeartworks]

Extremely Detailed Cardboard Sculptures Inspired by Movie Sets

2013-01-04T02:00:00.000Z

With the use of surgical scalpel and wood glue, Melbourne based artist and filmmaker Daniel Agdag makes these extremely detailed cardboard sculptures guided with only pure intuition and imagination.

The artist calls this collection 'Sets for a Film I’ll Never Make'. He likens the process of creating every piece to sketching 3d objects with carboard.

The unassuming use of boxboard as a medium belies elaborate complicated machines and contraptions that preserve the incessant redundancies of the modern industrial world. His work has been described as architectural in form, whimsical in nature and inconceivably intricate.

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Awe-inspiring Aerial Land Artwork Spanning Two Football Fields

2013-01-04T00:00:00.000Z

In honor of female activists, Cuban-American contemporary artist Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada was commissioned by the feminist organization Mama Cash for their campaign, Vogelvrije Vrouwen - Defend Women who Defend Human Rights. The artist came up with a gargantuan portrait of an anonymous Mesoamerican woman that spans the length of two football fields in Amsterdam and was completed through the help of 80 volunteers. His work serves also as a sign of protest against the persecution of female activists in the Mesoamerican region. You may want to visit and check out a 360 virtual tour of the artwork here.

[via designboom]

Intricately Handcrafted Topographic Maps

2013-01-03T00:00:00.000Z

Maps are usually made of paper. Then there was something else. How could anyone carve out something so detailed from a wood? Yes, that's right... everything is possible. You might want to check out these topographic maps dubbed as Below the Boat, which literally means that they reveal the world below the boat, primarily prominent locations such as Nantucket, Long Island Sound, the San Francisco Bay.

What the artists have to say:

Starting with a bathymetric chart (the underwater equivalent of a topographic map), the contours are laser-cut into sheets of Baltic birch and glued together to create a powerful visual depth. Select layers are hand-colored blue so it's easy to discern land from water, major byways are etched into the land, the whole thing's framed in a custom, solid-wood frame and protected seamlessly with a sheet of durable, ultra-transparent Plexiglas.

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7 Million LED Lights at Nabana no Sato Annual Winter Illumination

2012-12-31T01:00:00.000Z

If you happen to be in Nagoya, you'll definitely enjoy the Nabana no Sato Annual Winter Illumination. Nabana no Sato Flower Park is a botanical garden on the island of Nagashima in Kuwana. This ethereal display of over 7 million LED lights are light every night until end of March 2013.

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Fascinating Feather Art by Chris Maynard

2012-12-31T00:00:00.000Z

Artists can be so genius! Take a look at these miniature artworks made from feathers by American artist Chris Maynard. With feathers as his canvas and tools such as eye surgery scissors, forceps, scalpels, and magnifiers, the results are truly incredible. Plus, what's more special with his pieces is that he only uses feathers from private bird owners or zoos. Check them out after the jump!

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Naturalistic Paper Bird Sculptures

2012-12-29T01:00:00.000Z

One of Colombian artist Diana Beltran Herrera's paper bird sculpture collection is this series called Salida de campo which means Field Trip. The artist assembled paper bird pieces in different poses as they would act in their naturalistic environment. You'll see one peaking thru the branches, landing on its feet or sipping nectar.

The artist says:

”Im having a special collaboration in this project: talented Victoria Holguín (professional photographer from Colombia) in which we are including the “subject” into a real context that provide a new information of it and its relation with the environment As a body with movement, the inclusion allow me to create a new reality recreated in the habit, behavior, situation and intention of each element represented.”

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Witty Minimalist and Negative Space Posters by Adri Bodor and Mark Szulyovsky

2012-12-29T00:00:00.000Z

Most of us would agree that we need to stretch our brain cells once in a while and let our imagination ran free so as to keep our minds working and avoid stagnation. Check out these clever illustrations by ingenious artists Adri Bodor and Mark Szulyovsky who came up with negative space posters designed to tease the eyes of its viewers. Come on and try the best that you have got while having fun! ♥

The artists say:

There was this question that fascinated us for a long time: Can the hundred-times-seen pictures/icons be interesting again? It think we found a way, so... Let me introduce you to our new project called Thinkinvisible, which was designed with the aim of showing that there’s life beyond complete symbols.

[via 123inspiration]

Lovely Ceramic-Like Paperware by Rebecca Wilson

2012-12-28T00:00:00.000Z

Artist Rebecca Wilson has created a series that intends to underscore wasteful consumerism. Taking inspiration from a paper cup that has been considered as a representation of the throwaway culture. she then came up with a project that deals with ceramic styling and transposing materials. Check out these adorable paperware that looks every bit like a fragile porcelain.

The artist says:

These cups are hand-built from cast sheets of specially formulated porcelain paperclay slip. They come in two different styles derivitave of traditional ceramic aestheitics. The ‘Jasperware’ version emulates Wedgewood’s iconic range using stained porcelain slip and embossed relief details in white. And the Dutch classic ‘Blue Delft’ is alluded to in digital decals scanned from hand drawn decals in blue biro.

[via honestlywtf]

Incredibly Detailed Moon Wood Carving

2012-12-27T01:00:00.000Z

Pittsburg based artists Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth have been making intricate artwork using conventional printmaking since 2006. Their latest and biggest hand-carved project is called The Moon. The drawing was done on a block of 3/4" Birch plywood. The size of the block is approx 36" x 32". The woodcut image prints bleed off the edge of a 35.5" x 30.5" sheet of white paper and they offer prints that's available on their website..

The text above was not be included in the final print image, but the artists have noted some of the major geographical features of "THE MOON" for your reference.

Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth's Tugboat Print Shop website.

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Spellbinding Private Moon by Leonid Tishkov

2012-12-27T00:00:00.000Z

There really is something with the moon that leaves people staring at it mesmerized and I guess artist Leonid Tishkov is one of those. His visual poetic installation dubbed as Private Moon is truly spellbinding! ♥

The artist says:

In its unusual position within a landscape, in a stretch of open country, inside some deserted accommodation or water-cooling towers, the artificial moon sheds its light on surrounding objects and offers viewers as they arrive or occasional passers-by a chance to experience the fairytale nature of our existence.

You may view more of his works along with his poems here.

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Cute and Interesting Illustrations by Dale Keys

2012-12-26T00:00:00.000Z

Hmmm... Christmas has passed and still you haven't thought of something to give for your loved ones? Well, it's never too late when it comes from the heart. Here's a unique treat for you. Artist Dale Keys offers something refreshing through his cute and bubbly illustrations. You may choose a design from his collection which could be finalized as a framed art print, stretched canvass, stationery card, iphone case, iphone and ipod skins, laptop and ipad skins, throw pillows, tshirts, tote bags, or goodies. You may view more of his works and how to order here.

[via thecuriousbrain]

Colorful Voyage of 300 Illuminated Boats by Aether & Hemera

2012-12-25T01:00:00.000Z

Claudio Benghi and Gloria Ronchi of Aether and Hemera collaborated for a festive and enjoyable installation called Voyage. 'Voyage' installation consists of three hundred floating 'paper boats', encasing coloured dynamic LED lights that come alive at night in the Middle Dock of Canary Wharf.

The exhibit can be seen until February 15th, 2013. Photos by Sean Batten and Ian Docwra.

Have a truly Blessed and Merry Christmas everyone!

[via hypn and colossal]

Awe-Inspiring Snowflake Photography by Andrew Osokin

2012-12-25T00:00:00.000Z

Have a blessed Christmas everyone! Did you know that no two snowflakes are alike? Yes, they are not though it can also be said that it is statistically possible. In 1885, Wilson Alwyn Bentley attempted to find identical snowflakes by photographing thousands of them with a microscope that paved the way for the wide variety of snowflakes that we know about today. According to Wikipedia, it is very unlikely for any two snowflakes to be exactly alike due to the roughly 10¹⁹ water molecules which make up a typical snowflake, which grow at different rates and in different patterns depending on the changing temperature and humidity within the atmosphere that the snowflake falls through on its way to the ground united.

Now that we have learned something new about snowflakes, check out these amazing macro photos by Andrew Osokin, who is now based in Moscow and also takes photos of insects and raindrop covered spider webs.

[via inspirationhut]

Steven Spazuk Creates Incredible Portraits Using Fire

2012-12-22T02:00:00.000Z

Self-portrait by Steven Spazuk

Artist Steven Spazuk used to be a conventional painter when he dreamt of using soot as a painting medium. Holding a piece of paper on one hand and a lit candle on another, Steven accumulates enough soot on the back of the paper then using his hands or drybrush, smudges the soot to form an artwork.

Years later, his work has evolved into doing lifesize portraits composed of over 200 pieces of paper. These pieces can be stored in a shoebox making it easy to transport to another exhibit.

Steven Spazuk while working on his self-portrait.

Steven Spazuk's father by Steven Spazuk

Steven Spazuk's mother by Steven Spazuk

Dr. Brenda Milner by Steven Spazuk

Check out more on Steven Spazuk's website.

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Awesome Paper Art Made From Thousands of Museum Tickets by Mia Liu

2012-12-22T01:00:00.000Z

Artist Mia Liu finds materials in everyday items. In this particular art installation, thousands of Guggenheim tickets were put together to create a wonderfully unique recycled art.

Artist says:

I like to draw freely, and is particularly mesmerized by the unique textures created by drawing on different papers; therefore, I love to discover different papers from my everyday life to use as my creative medium, and the medium itself also leads to the inspiration for my installation works.

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Fun Interactive Cloud Sculpture Composed of 6,000 Light Bulbs

2012-12-21T02:00:00.000Z

This CLOUD will surely put a smile on anyone visiting this enjoyable installation. Calgary based artist Caitlind Brown begun the interactive CLOUD sculpture in September of this year. It's made of 5,000 busted light bulbs and 1,000 working light bulbs that invites you to turn it on by standing beneath it. It's like having a bright idea come up to you over 1,000 times! Simply brilliant.

[via yellowtrace]

Unbelievable Hand-carved Victorian Lace Eggs

2012-12-21T00:00:00.000Z

We have seen artworks from carved wood, ice and even books, but have you seen hand-carved eggs? Take a great look at this collection of Illinois-based artist Beth Ann Magnuson, who patiently turns eggs into carved masterpieces reminiscent of fine Victorian lace, hence, she calls her series as Victorian Lace Eggs. You may want to watch how she does her incredible artworks here.

The artist says:

Since the dawn of man, the egg has been associated with creation. Because they contain new life and such potential, eggs were seen as a tool of divination. Their size, shape, and contents were used to forecast the future. Christians regard the egg as a symbol of the risen Christ. Beautifully decorated Easter eggs are a common tradition throughout Christendom. The Victorians, fond of ornamentation, decorated their eggs with snippets of daily life: trade cards, ribbons, beads, and bits of old lace.

[via cmybacon]

Captivating Rainbow Roses

2012-12-20T00:00:00.000Z

Yes, red roses are absolutely romantic while white roses signify purity... But would you want to receive a multi-colored rose? Sometimes it is not all about the color of the flower, isn't it. What really matters is the good intention behind it, what the heart truly says and that is real love.

Anyway, interested to know how these roses became rainbow-colored? The stem was split in equal parts and each splinter was dipped in water with different food dyes and the results are fantastic multi-colored petals! Lovely! ♥

[via designboom]

51-meter Long Road Made Entirely of Trampoline

2012-12-19T02:00:00.000Z

Tallin based practice Salto Architects created a fun-filled installation for this year's Archstoyanie creative festival. Set in Nikola-Lenivets, Russia, the project is called Fast Track, a 51 meter long road made entirely of trampoline.

According to Salto Architects:

“Fast track” is a integral part of park infrastructure, it is a road and an installation at the same time. It challenges the concept of infrastructure that only focuses on technical and functional aspects and tends to be ignorant to its surroundings. “Fast track” is an attempt to create intelligent infrastructure that is emotional and corresponds to the local context. It gives the user a different experience of moving and perceiving the environment.

Salto Architects website.

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