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Seattle Erotic Art Festival | April 30 - May 2, 2010

elevator ads-that make you look twice

slick - trick- some fun ad art…………..

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This brilliantly executed idea was created by design agency Ogilvy Beijing of China for Maxwell House Coffee. When the doors opened, sleepy people in an office building were shocked awake, providing an effect that the designers figured mimics the effects of drinking a cup of coffee.
The design wont an international design award for “Best Use of Ambient Media: Large Scale”in 2008.Source
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in Situ: architecture and landscape……….at MOMA

well…….i’ll be dipped……….

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Roberto Burle Marx. Garden Design Saenz Peña Square, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Plan, 1948. Gouache on paper, 24 3/8 x 40
n recent decades “landscape” has taken on an expanded definition in architecture. In the first half of the twentieth century, the architectural avant-garde celebrated autonomy from nature, and architects devised utopian schemes for creating urban realms ex novo, with little consideration for their surroundings. More recently, however, the challenges of a threatened environment and rapidly expanding cities have fostered a revised understanding of landscape. Harmony between the spatial, social, and environmental aspects of human life has become a priority in political thought, and this has had profound reverberations in both architecture and landscape design. “Landscape”—no longer understood merely as nature untouched—

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

April 8, 2009–January 18, 2010

Roberto Burle Marx. Garden Design Saenz Peña Square, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Plan, 1948. Gouache on paper, 24 3/8 x 40″ (61.9 x 101.6 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Philip L. Goodwin

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recycled art-building with paper-

pics explained at link-
you know me-all about the paper-and all about recycling it………..

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7 Creative Approaches to Building Big with Paper: Adaptive (Re)Uses of an Everyday Material

New and innovative products are being conceived and produced all the time, but what about new ideas for already-familiar materials? What would it take to get you to see a well-known building material in a new light? Some designers are doing just that now with forward-thinking furniture and architectural features made of one of the most versatile yet familiar materials in the world: paper. Most people think of paper as an incredibly weak and fragile material, these furniture designers, architects and artists have taken paper and cardboard to new levels by creating amazing structures from these simplest of materials.

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awesome 3D paper sculptures

these make me- plum/giddy!!!

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”Mathematically organic paper sculptures,” is how Miami-based artist Jen Stark describes her quirky and captivatingly colorful creations. Having started off using colored construction paper more out of economic necessity, she now minutely assembles up to a hundred layers of paper that she separately cuts by hand into complex, precisely arranged, vibrant 3-D objects.Source

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painted alive: the art of craig tracy

loving this - wow!

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Craig Tracy is dedicated to creating surreal moments in time. Without the use of digital manipulation or photographic tricks, he creates dazzling body painting compositions that have elevated this particular type of artistic expression into the realm of fine art. He recently opened a gallery in New Orleans: the first gallery in the world dedicated to fine art body painting images.

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Although he’s been an artist his whole life, it took Craig Tracy a number of years to truly find his passion. His first professional art job was airbrushing t-shirts in a shopping mall. This experience gave him the foundation that would later lead him to discover that he could – and should – paint on unusual surfaces.

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papercraft theo jansen walker

ahhhh……….a few of my favorite things- art- art from paper-and Theo Jansen!!!

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Papercraft Theo Jansen Walker

Gareth @ MAKE posted about this papercraft walker inspired by Dutch kinetic sculptor Theo Jansen’s “Strandbeest” walker.

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from russia with love- cool sand sculptures

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Russian Sand Sculptures

These days there was a sand sculptures contest in Moscow. Some of the most cool looking ones you can find in this post.

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shadow play…………….

mark ryden

love this guy!

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This set of 17 postcards showcases all eight paintings, two detail painting views and seven drawings from Mark Ryden’s 2009 solo exhibition at the Tomio Koyama Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. The postcards are printed on high quality card stock and are packaged into a heavy card stock folder. This is the first time that this collection of images has been reproduced in any format.

Postcard size: 5″ x 7″
Porterhouse Item Number: P077
Price: $12.95


Available on Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 8:00 am PST.

Price $12.95


Availability: 12/03/09 at 8 am PST
Product Code: P077
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