Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva
Transpire 2010
stucco and 23.5cr gold leaf,
Recycled leather belt floor tiles, Ting London
Ting London’s luxury leather flooring re-works vintage leather belts to create an amazing hardwearing surface that is full of intricate texture, detail and color. Each leather belt tile is carefully designed in-house by skilled artisans, as the color and patterning of the belts is sensitive to each tile. Available at Siglo Moderno
Cecropia by Christian Schoeler Maldonado
About the project:
“Unless you clearly see that ugliness Which makes me beatiful, You cannot know that there is a certain Ugliness more beautiful than any beauty. - Il Vertunno dell’ Arcimboldo Don Gregorio Camanini Milano, 1591.”
Inspired by the work of Arcimboldo in the 16th century, this project became an investigation on the relativeness of the beauty. Each photograph shows one individual leaf from the Cecropia tree after one month of it’s fall. They are naturally transformed into organic shapes and sometimes into weird faces and masks or even human figures. Captured in the way they were at the moment, but carefully positioned and lightened to better show it’s individual character.
Astronomical - scale model of the solar system in 12 506 page books
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Origami Masks and Tessellations by Joel Cooper
Paper artist Joel Cooper folds these astounding masks and tessellations from single pieces of paper.
source. This is Colossal
Jim Denevan makes enormous temporary drawings on sand, earth and ice that are eventually erased by waves and weather. Thank goodness we can still see his work in beautiful photos like these and soon a documentary film directed by Meredith Danluck.
I’ve posted about >Jim Denevan before…
…his work is amazing!!
Source: http://jimdenevan.com
ocean has been turned in to a giant cup of cappuccino in Cape Town, South Africa | Photos by mallix
Robert Hodgin - Turbulence
Source: http://roberthodgin.com/
This spectacular high-speed video shows a dove in flight. Note how its wings flex through its stroke and the way the wings rotate over the course of the downstroke and reversal. There is incredible beauty and complexity in this motion. The change in wing shape and angle of attack is what allows the bird to maximize the lift it generates. Note also how the outer feathers flare during the downstroke. This promotes turbulence in the air moving near the wing, which prevents separated flow that would cause the dove to stall. (See also: how owls stay silent. Video credit: W. Hoebink and X. van der Sar, Vliegkunstenaars project)
Source: http://www.vliegkunstenaars.nl/