Australian artist James Corbett began sculpting old car parts in 1999 while managing a car recycling business in Brisbane. Eighteen months later, he closed the shop and turned pro. Corbett never bends the parts, but uses the existing shapes to create (comparatively) realistic forms.
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Filmmaker Tim Burton’s visual art will be on display starting on Sunday, Nov. 22, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. His media include watercolors, line drawings, pastels, and sculptures. The exhibit features not only film concept work, but his independent, stand-alone projects.
You can expect to see some pictures from here posted in the next couple of weeks!
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Oblong Pictures is an imaginary film company which specialises in making short stop-motion films using the popular children’s toy, LEGO.
This is a music video, after a fashion, for a very short song by Ween. It features LEGO’s Orient Adventure characters in a helter skelter race against time to locate their missing dairy produce. Kind of.
The song and its history can be found on the Ween website – long story short, it started out as an advertising jingle for Pizza-Hut but they (or their ad agency) passed on it, so the band posted it online.
As if the song wasn’t catchy enough, this video turns it into something infectious. Be careful, this will creep into your brain and never come out. What was Pizza-Hut thinking, passing this one up?
For more information on Oblong Pictures and more lego videos, see their website: link
Terry Border’s blog, Bent Objects, is a great example of an artist using simple techniques to bring life to inanimate objects. From the zombie peanuts (shown to the left) to the muscle flexing “Stud-Muffin”, all of these creations are given a pulse with simple bent objects.
In a recent interview with Neatorama, Terry Border says:
“I started a blog so that I could show off some of my wire creations, hoping that I could sell of them. (Plain and simple profit-driven beginnings! ha!) People were liking what I was doing, but much to my surprise they wanted photos of what I was making, and not so much the wire things themselves. I also started adding my screwy humor to the pieces, and again, much to my surprise, people really connected with it.“
As if these objects themselves weren’t enough, Terry also creates some amazing scenes which do a great job of adding emotion to the mix. One of my favorites, “The Party”, shows a lone cheese puff amongst crackers, which seems to be sadly drinking its wine.
“I’ll tell you a secret – a lot of times I’m not trying to be funny at all. I’m just creating the saddest situation I can think of while using a certain object. Sometimes, while I’m photographing a scene, I’m like “Oh man. I’ve gone too far here. People are gonna see how sick I am, and make me get psychological help.” Know what though? Those are always my most popular images. People see them as funny. There are a lot of sick people out there, just like me.“
Terry has recently put out a new book, Bent Objects: The Secret Life of Everyday Things
For more info on Terry and all of his creations, visit the blog: link
Goons is a Chicago-based street artist who, with the help of director Ace Norton, and sponsor Orbit, created this stop-motion one minute clip.
More on Goons at his website: link
Taking vintage typewriters and turning them into sculptures without using any kind of glue, welding or soldering may sound impossible, but not for Jeremy Mayer who has created these amazing typewriter sculptures by using cold assembly methods.
More info: Jeremy Mayer
Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Historically, Blue Note has principally been associated with the “hard bop” style of jazz (mixing bebop with other forms of music including soul, blues, rhythm and blues and gospel). In 1956, Blue Note employed Reid Miles, an artist who worked for Esquire magazine. The cover art produced by Miles, often featuring Wolff’s photographs of musicians in the studio, was as influential in the world of graphic design as the music within would be in the world of jazz. Under Miles, Blue Note was known for their striking and unusual album cover designs. Miles’ graphical design was distinguished by its tinted black and white photographs, creative use of sans-serif typefaces, and restricted color palette (often black and white with a single color), and frequent use of solid rectangular bands of color or white, influenced by the Bauhaus school of design.
With The Wu-Note Project, Logan Walters redesigned the classic Wu-Tang Clan albums in the fashion of this Blue Note design. Amazing.
The Wu-Note Project: link
Artist Karen O’Leary of North Carolina cuts paper by hand to create these stunning street maps. Shown here is a photo of her New York City map cutting.
“four paper panels, each panel measures approximately three feet by four feet (overall dimensions, six feet in width x 8 feet in height) and exposes city blocks of brooklyn, manhattan, queens, and the bronx.. city blocks were cut by hand and forms a delicate paper art. only one original panel of each exist.”
She also has completed cuttings of Paris and London.
View more New York City images here: link
View Paris images here: link
View London images here: link
View her Etsy store here: link
“fred lebain is not scared of the mundane or clichés.
instead, he plays with them, superimposing their images on one another. last spring lebain
took images of various areas in new york city, each one of them an occasion of a ‘first visit’
to the location, in which he photographed and then printed in large poster format. later,
he returned to the same spots for a second visit, capturing a larger framed shot in which
he aligned the poster documenting his first visit to the current scene.”
View the photos here: link
Flickr user, EYE-talian, has a wonderful photostream of hundreds of masks collected from all around the world. EYE-talian says, “I’ve been collecting masks since 1989 when I first purchased a mask in Cancun, Mexico. I was intrigued by the weird hallucinogenic Mexican masks because they looked similar to the oddball sketches I was doing at the time.
On subsequent visits I purchased additional masks, usually buying the most unusual masks I could find and/or what my budget and baggage limits would allow. In the meantime, I stumbled upon some very cool German paper mache, and starched buckram Halloween masks at antique shows around Cincinnati and picked those up as well. I never had any intention of amassing a formal “collection” but one thing lead to another and then…. Holy Shit… Ebay!
Besides Ebay, a few of the masks were given to me by fellow collectors and a handful were purchased at local import shops. Yes I have way too many, and unfortunately don’t have room to display them all. I began taking photos of them a few years ago as a record of what I had, and eventually ran across Flickr and decided to post them there.”
Visit Eye-talian’s The Maskatorium
