Shay Aaron from Israel has made his art out of creating these magnificently tiny 1:12 scale sculptures of food. These miniature morsels are all hand crafted and look good enough to eat!
Click through to see more of Shay’s amazing work!
Jar Jar Binks wears Margiela, Darth Vader wears Band of Outsiders, Superman wears D&G. The words alone spark intrigue and imagination on so many levels and when John Woo executes these visions through watercolour with such skill & class, any potential gimmicky hipster factor that may or may not have gone through your head should be layed to the wayside, or at least taken on with pleasure rather than eye rolls. Continue reading
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Our talented friend and studio mate Benja Harney  is one of the most creative and talented people we know. He’s a paper engineer. Benja makes mesmerising artworks purely out of paper. He’s been at his craft for a great many number of his years, and has produced art for the likes of some of the worlds biggest brands and personalities. We love sharing a studio with Benja – and you can probably guess why.
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See more of Benja’s work on his portfolio.
Thank you to the fantastic creative video series Slashies for the insight into Benja’s world.
PS. We’ll be showcasing more of our friends a few times a month through this new category.
Wow, just wow. This is a work of perfect patience if I’ve ever seen one.
Spike Jonze: Mourir Auprès de Toi on Nowness.com.
So Haunting, so beautiful, so beautifully produced is Spike Jonze’s new short film with Olympia Le-Tan.
Designer Olympia Le-Tan’s embroidered clutch-bags spring to life in director Spike Jonze’s tragicomic stop-motion animation Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side). On a shelf in famed Parisian bookstore Shakespeare and Company, the star-crossed love story of a klutzy skeleton and his flame-haired amour plays out amidst Le-Tan’s illustrations of iconic first-edition book covers. “It’s such a beautiful and romantic place,â€� offers Le-Tan of the antiquarian bookstore. “The perfect setting for our story!â€� The project started after Jonze asked for a Catcher in the Rye embroidery to put on his wall and the plucky Le-Tan asked for a film in return. Enlisting French filmmaker Simon Cahn to co-direct, the team wrote the script between Los Angeles and Paris over a six month period, before working night and day animating the 3,000 pieces of felt Le-Tan had cut by hand. “I love getting performances from, telling stories about and humanizing things that aren’t human,â€� said Jonze of working with Le-Tan’s characters. After spending five years adapting Maurice Sendak’s Where The Wild Things Are, Jonze’s recent shorts include robot love story I’m Here and an inspired G.I. Joe-starring video for The Beastie Boys. “A short is like a sketch,â€� he says. “You can have an idea or a feeling and just go and do it.â€� Here the iconic director reveals his creative process to writer Maryam L’Ange.
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Ever wondered what would happen if you threw a collection of dark photographic seascapes onto some whitewash plywood boards and added a hand painted homage to beach and surf culture over the top? What about a bunch of beaten-up wetsuits sewn together to create a giant logo-covered patchwork doona? Well with photographer Ryan Heywood and artist Luke Taaffe teaming up for an exclusive show, you don’t have to wonder.
Catch their show SURF CITY at the National Grid Gallery in Sydney from the 14th of October through to the 2nd of December.
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American painter Richard Phillip’s submission for this years Venice Bienalle is a 98 second “filmed portrait”/”moving image”/”art film” featuring the inimitable Miss Lohan.
Despite the hate, you can’t deny she is rather enigmatic right?
The Toynbee tiles are something I find absolutely fascinating. I first became aware of them in 2009. Ever since then I have wanted to do more and more research. However, it is very hard to find out information, because quite frankly there isn’t a great deal. There is only speculation as to what they are, what they mean and who “may” have been the creator. There is no concrete answer.
The Toynbee Titles are cryptic messages found embedded in asphalt in various cities across the United States including Washington DC, Pittsburgh, New York City, Baltimore, Boston, and many more. Some have even shown up in South American countries such as Brazil, Argentina, and Chile. To date, about 130 tiles have been discovered.