Shadow Stealing

"Ztunnel is a performance done by ZEVS in Eindhoven, the Netherlands last weekend. It includes 'invisible spraypaint', arresting passersby to steal their shadow and silhouette and blacklight. It was commissioned by MU and Glow Festival is will be visible until November 19th at sundown."

Morning After Portraits

"Andy Diaz Hope deconstructs his own digital photographs and painstakingly reassembles the original image in a mosaic of gelatin pill capsules, each containing small portions from several original prints. As a continuation of his Morning After Portraits series, Diaz Hope has turned his lens on the hidden landscapes of drug culture—from high school hideaways to psychiatric institutions. “

"MORNING AFTER PORTRAITS

Our society focuses on the glamorous night before--the parties, the clothes, the highs. Magazines dedicate countless 4 color pages to the beauty of the night. . . but what of the next morning? What of the hangovers, the headaches, the depleted serotonin receptors and the bags under the eyes that have no designer label?

The morning after portraits are portraits of people in front of their medicine cabinets or in their local pharmacies with hangovers, migraines, morning sickness and other maladies self-inflicted or bestowed by nature.

When viewed from afar, the portraits can be read as a whole image. As one moves closer, the image begins to break down and the individual capsule pixels become more dominant. As we continue to find new ways to modify our appearance and our psychological and social presence through legal and illegal drugs, we begin to dissipate the whole that we were born as. We are no longer a sum of our natural history, but a sum of our natural history plus our self selected recreational and medical regimes. We look to our medicine cabinets and stashes to attain social and physical super powers. To stay up longer, show no pain or sorrow and look ageless in the process.

The series looks behind the mirror to expose the inner workings of our medicine cabinets and our relationship to them as our doctor, psychologist, cosmetician and spiritual healer. It appeals to the viewer’s voyeuristic desire to look inside another’s hidden cabinet of frailties and insecurities. To see another’s vulnerabilities through the medicines they take strips away that person’s invincibility while bolstering one’s own."

http://www.andydiazhope.com/

More Art From Computer Parts

"Ann Smith knows exactly what to do with old electronic parts. Instead of gathering dust, her little creations brighten up the office and don't require any reason for existence other than "just because"

http://www.burrowburrow.com/robots.html

Animal Fruits

Japanese Train with a cool Interior Design

With the results looking nicer than most nurseries, the Japanese have taken the idea of ‘child-friendly public transport’ to the next level. They were designed by Eiji Mitooka, the artistic force behind a couple of regional trains which travel on a daily basis on the 14.3km Kishigawa line in Japan. The train contains hundreds of toys, TV screens showing cartoons, immaculately clean wooden flooring and cots for younger children.

Pencil Crayon Fence

All I can say is... COOL

River Road

"Next year it will be no road, it will be water again."
Henk Hofstra's blue road in Drachten (Holland) stretches 1000 meters long.

Road Kill Toys

A toy designer has come up with a gory end for teddy bears and other cuddly animal toys.

The first to be launched is Twitch, the Roadkill Teddy, which comes complete with opaque plastic body bag to keep the maggots out and attached to its twitching toe is an identity bag giving details of its demise.

According to its tag it was run over over by a milk float last Thursday, near the Hangar Lane Giratory system in London.

The toy's innards and blood can be stuffed in and out of his body. A zip on each side contains the blood and guts. Its eyes are goggling, tongue is lolling around and a tyre print runs across its back.

Toy creator Adam Arber, 33, from London, said: 'I got the idea from looking at my mother-in-law's dog which is quite ugly and I thought it would make a great toy. A friend of mine had taken some pictures of road kill and the two things gelled into one idea.'

He said he thought the toys, which cost £25 ($50), would appeal to people with a sense of humour and 'probably not anyone easily upset'.

Typwriter Part Sculpture

Pencil Bench

Boex 3D Creative Solutions designed this award winning quirky bench. The seat is made up of 1600 pencils which are individually sprung. Each pencil can be removed and used.

Clockwork Insects

"Insect Lab is an artist studio that customizes real insects with antique watch parts and electronic components. Offering specimens that come in many shapes, sizes and colors; each insect is individually adorned, each is one of a kind and unique.

Borrowing from both science fiction and science fact, Insect Lab's customized insects are a celebration of natural and manmade function. Specimens are presented in custom black shadow boxes or glass dome display, allowing for presentation anywhere."

Scooter Menorah

Celebrate Hannukah in style with this scooter menorah from the Jewish Museum.

Liquid Logos

Landscape Rings

Can't wait to get one.