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Contemporary artists have discovered that street art is not only beautiful to look at, but that it can also be soft and smooth to the touch. Moss graffiti is eco-friendly as it doesn’t use any aerosols; what the “painting” needs is just a dash of water to thrive. Here is a recipe for how to make your own moss graffiti. Just bear in mind that choosing the right space for street art is very important too, as, in any case, vandalism is a crime.

To get started you’ll need:
3 cups of moss (washed, clean of soil)
2 cups of buttermilk or 2 cups of yogurt (should be plain yogurt)
2 cups of water or beer
1/2 tsp of sugar
corn syrup (optional)
a blender that you probably don’t want to use other than for this

More info: wikihow

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Image credits: webponce (artist Anna Garforth)

Image credits: Edina Tokodi

Image credits: Jaime Rojo (artist Hugo Rojas)

Image credits: Anna Garforth

Dolls, 2002 (dir. Takeshi Kitano)

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Fan incontesté du célèbre manga Dragon Ball Z, le graphiste thaïlandais Phuwadon Thongnoum a créé une série de GIF représentant les héros de la série japonaise. Ces animations très réussies mettent en scène les personnages lors de leurs transformations ou pendant leurs attaques fétiches. Des GIFs de Sangoku, Piccolo ou encore Végéta sont à découvrir dans la galerie.

Fernando Livschitz of Black Sheep Films (previously) is back with his magnificent live video editing skills. This time the Argentina-based director transforms a typical intersection into an absurdly choreographed dance of cloned cars, bicyclists and pedestrians who at almost every moment appear destined to collide. I’ve watched this three times and I still keep yelling at the screen. So well done.

Le photographe Richard Silver a eu l’excellente idée de réunir en une seule image toutes les couleurs et lumières observées au cours d’une journée . Un principe de découpage intelligent et visuellement réussi qui met en avant sous un nouvel angle des lieux mondialement connus.

Après son projet Window Silhouettes Illusions, le street artiste espagnol Pejac a réalisé une série de dessins muraux, sur lesquels se racontent des histoires, faisant ainsi partager aux passants toute l’étendue de son talent et de son imagination. Une série à découvrir dans l’article.

Le réalisateur canadien Joel Mackenzie a conçu et produit ce superbe clip d’animation pour le chanteur Rich Aucoin et son titre « Yelling In Sleep ». Ce clip a remporté le prix du meilleur clip dans la catégorie « Animation » au Block Party 2014. L’album de Rich Aucoin sortira le 9 Septembre 2014.

These spooky apocalyptic images are not a scene from “Walking Dead”, they were actually taken at one of the biggest car cemeteries in the world – the Chatillion Car Graveyard, Belgium.

According to an urban legend these cars were left behind by US soldiers from World War II, who could not ship them back to the US so they decided to hide them in a forest until they could come back and retrieve them. The locals disagree and say that it’s simply an old car dump of vehicles made after the WWII.

At one point there were four car graveyards in Chatillon with as many as 500 retro vehicles. Unfortunately, most of the cars were stolen or removed by the locals and due to environmental issues the whole graveyards was cleared in 2010.

h/t: amusing planet

Image credits: Rosanne de Lange

Image credits: Rosanne de Lange

Image credits: Theo van Vliet

Image credits: Rosanne de Lange

Image credits: Marcel Wiegerinck

Image credits: Marcel Wiegerinck

Image credits: Marcel Wiegerinck

Image credits: Rosanne de Lange

Image credits: Rosanne de Lange

Image credits: Rosanne de Lange

Image credits: Theo van Vliet

This Traffic Jam Was Stuck In Belgian Forest For 70 Years originally appeared on Bored Panda on July 9, 2014.

It’s been over a year since we last checked in with video artist Erdal Inci (previously) who clones multiple recordings of himself moving through public spaces resulting in these bizarre looping performances. Inci often carries lights or other objects which lend a sense of choreography to each video, and at times the exposure eliminates him from the scene or makes him appear shadowlike in the background. Here are a few of our favorites over the last few months but you can see more on his website and at a higher resolution on Vimeo. (via iGNANT)

When something is “lost in translation,” it could have been due to a simple mistake or due to the fact that one language was not quite able to capture the essence of a word’s meaning in another language.

This conflict is the idea behind New Zealand-based designer Anjana Iyer’s “Found in Translation” series of images, which try to explain the meaning behind words in other languages that have no direct equivalent in English. There’s no word for the German schadenfreude or the Inuit iktsuarpok in English, so the best we can hope for is to approximate or explain these words’ meanings.

Iyer created the images as part of the “100 Days Project,” a website that invited and encourages artists to spend 100 days straight doing and creating what they love. Iyer is roughly half-way done with her project, so be sure to follow her and see what else she comes up with if you like her work! And if you’re creative, as we know many of our bored pandas are – consider starting your own 100 day project!

Source: 100daysproject.co.nz | Behance (h/t)

1. Fernweh (German)

2. Komorebi (Japanese)

3. Tingo (Pascuense)

4. Pochemuchka (Russian)

5. Gökotta (Swedish)

6. Bakku-shan (Japanese)

7. Backpfeifengesicht (German)

8. Aware (Japanese)

9. Tsundoku (Japanese)

10. Shlimazl (Yiddish)

11. Rire dans sa barbe (French)

12. Waldeinsamkeit (German)

13. Hanyauku (Rukwangali)

14. Gattara (Italian)

15. Prozvonit (Czech)

16. Iktsuarpok (Inuit)

17. Papakata (Cook Islands Maori)

18. Friolero (Spanish)

19. Schilderwald (German)

20. Utepils (Norwegian)

21. Mamihlapinatapei (Yagan)

22. Culaccino (Italian)

23. Ilunga (Tshiluba)

24. Kyoikumama (Japanese)

25. Age-otori (Japanese)

26. Chai-Pani (Hindi)

27. Won (Korean)

28. Tokka (Finnish)

29. Schadenfreude (German)

30. Wabi-Sabi (Japanese)

30 Untranslatable Words From Other Languages Illustrated By Anjana Iyer originally appeared on Bored Panda on May 12, 2014.

The epic and unforgettable cultural phenomenon that is Star Wars left countless fans in its wake who were inspired to interpret that universe in their own way. Zahir Batin, a talented Malaysian photographer, combines his talent for photography with paper art and miniature figures to reinterpret the Star Wars universe in his own way.

Zahir arranges various miniature toys and figures into creative scenes and shoots them from close-up to make them seem like actors in his own personal Star Wars-themed adventure. Some of them are humorous (especially the ones with anatomically incorrect figurines), but many do a good job of creating drama, suspense and emotion.

What’s also great is that Zahir shares the behind-the-scenes work that goes into his photos on Facebook. Because he shares his techniques with us, anyone with a bit of photography and Photoshop experience and some time can borrow from his techniques to create their very own dramatic scenes. He uses strings, wires and twigs to position his characters, using Photoshop to remove these aids from his final product.

Zahir’s a prolific photographer – if you’d like to see more, check out his 500px account, or visit his Facebook page, where he also shares behind-the-scenes tips! And for similar work by other artists, check out this art by Vesa Lehtimaki and Terry Fan.

Source: 500px | Facebook | Deviantart

Miniature Star Wars Adventures By Zahir Batin originally appeared on Bored Panda on April 2, 2014.

The folks over at Fysikshow decided to take the Rubens’ tube to another level by building a two-dimensional ‘Pyro Board’ with 2500 holes. “Sound waves are transmitted through a flammable gas creating alternating high and low pressure zones. This creates the flame pattern.” (via)

Pyro Board: This Is What Happens When Music Meets Fire In A 2D Rubens’ Tube (VIDEO) originally appeared on Bored Panda on April 20, 2014.

These videos by Adam Magyar are one of those things that are difficult to explain verbally, but as soon as you see it, you realize how completely amazing it is. Filmed in Tokyo, New York and Berlin, Magyar positioned himself on trains as they pulled into subway stops, filming the waiting crowds at 50 frames per second using a high speed camera. The resulting footage creates an uncanny feeling as the train is clearly moving quickly through the station, but the people seem to remain motionless. Any of these scenes wouldn’t seem out of place in a Ron Fricke film. To learn more about how Magyar filmed them, head on over to PetaPixel. (via The Fox is Black)

Update: There’s another great piece about Magyar’s work over on Medium.

Famous landmarks like the Arc Du Triumph, the Pyramids of Giza, and the Sagrada Familia have been photographed countless times by photographers from around the world, and they are recognizable to most, if not all, of us. But this collection of stunning aerial photographs gives us a bird’s-eye-view of these places, casting them in a totally new light.

Most of the pictures are of places or things that most of us could easily identify right away. The images illustrate just how much a change in perspective can alter. It’s also worth noting that a few of these sites, like the Pyramids of Giza and the hotels in Dubai, were designed with an aerial perspective in mind. The designs of certain Dubai hotels can only be appreciated fully from above, and some theorize that the Pyramids of Giza were meant to be aligned with the stars in Orion’s Belt.

Although taking photographs from a bird’s actual perspective is possible, most photographers prefer taking pictures like these from hot-air balloons, helicopters, gliders, or very tall structures. A few of the photographs also seem to be taken from altitudes that even birds couldn’t reach. None of this, however, detracts from their epic beauty.

For more great examples of aerial photography, check out these photographs by Kacper Kowalski and Klaus Leidorf. (via)

Image credits: Judit Kovacs

1. Barcelona

Image credits: Aldas Kirvaitis

2. Central Park, New York City

Image credits: Sergey Semenov

3. Maze at Longleat, England

Image credits: archive.4plebs.org

4. Mexico City

Image credits: Pablo Lopez Luz

5. Venice

Image credits: Yann Arthus Bertrand

6. Amsterdam

Image credits: unknown

7. Giza Pyramids, Egypt

Image credits: satimagingcorp.com

8. Niagara Falls, U.S.A.

Image credits: thezooom.com

10. Chicago

Image credits:  Robert Elves

11. Tulip Fields, The Netherlands

Image credits: Normann Szkop

12. Bern

Image credits: imgur.com

13. Mangroves in New Caledonia

Image credits: Yann Arthus Bertrand

14. Dubai

Image credits: unknown

15. Dubrovnik

Image credits: Michaelphillipr

9. Namib Desert, Namibia

Image credits: SysaWorld Roberto Moiola

16. Paris

Image credits: imgur.com

17. Meskendir Valley, Turkey

Image credits: Beng Lieu Song

18. Shanghai

Image credits: imgur.com

19. Cape Town

Image credits: imgur.com

20. Moscow

Image credits: imgur.com

21. Athens

Image credits: imgur.com

22. Vancouver

Image credits: Evan Leeson

23. Male, Maldives

Image credits:  Mohamed Abdulla Shafeeg

24. Seattle

Image credits: thatcherphotography.com

25. Vatican City

Image credits: Randy P

26. Bac Son Valley, Vietnam

Image credits: Hai Thinh

27. Marina Bay, Dubai

Image credits: airpano.com

28. Rio de Janeiro

Image credits: Antonello

29. Terraced Rice Fields, China

Image credits: Thierry Bornier

30. A Lake in Pomerania, Poland

Image credits: Kacper Kowalski

How Our World Would Look If You Were A Bird originally appeared on Bored Panda on December 19, 2013.

Tatsuo Horiuchi is a 73-year-old artist, who found his passion in digital art 13 years ago, right before his retirement. However, as graphics software often can be quite expensive, Horiuchi chose to challenge his artistic capabilities by creating his beautiful and highly intricate pictures with Excel.

The idea of trying out something new in life came naturally to Horiuchi – the retirement was approaching quickly and uncompromisingly, and like in most such cases, a new hobby becomes a must. Horiuchi’s been interested in graphic arts for quite some time and it was only a matter of choosing the most affordable and practical software.

Horiuchi had never used Excel at work, nevertheless he soon mastered the technique and even won Excel Autoshape Art Contest in 2006. His deeply delicate and harmoniously colourful images mirror the traditional Japanese paintings, often exhibiting gorgeous landscapes and pieces of natural and cultural heritage.

P.S.: If you don’t believe the works were made with Excel, download the raw files here:

Cherry Blossoms at Jogo Castle (2006)

Kegon Falls (2007)

Source: odn.ne.jp  (via: spoon-tamago)

73-Year-Old Man Creates Magnificent Paintings Using Nothing But Excel originally appeared on Bored Panda on December 27, 2013.

While we’ve seen examples of objects suspended mid-air using quantum levitation and acoustic levitation, a team of three Japanese engineers from The University of Tokyo and the Nagoya Institute of Technology recently unveiled an ambitious device that uses sound waves to move objects through three dimensional space. The machine uses four arrays of speakers to make soundwaves that intersect at a focal point that can be moved up, down, left, and right using external controls. You would think such machine would be extremely loud, but according to one of the engineers the device uses ultrasonic speakers and is almost completely silent. You can read more about it right here. (via Reddit)

La historia es más o menos así. Un grupo de siberianos pasean por encima del hielo del lago Baikal, el más profundo del mundo y la reserva del 20% del agua dulce no congelada del planeta, cuando uno de ellos se da cuenta del sonido que produce el hielo. Así que se juntan y deciden dar un mini concierto de percusión tocando los témpanos de hielo como si fueran tambores. Cuentan en Smithsonian que el vídeo ha despertado las sospechas de algunos, que no se creen que suene tan bien y dicen que no ven el micrófono. A mí me parece creíble porque, entre otras cosas, son bastante malos como percusionistas. Y la idea de tocar sobre el lago Baikal me parece tan friqui que merece que le echéis un vistazo :-)

For his thesis project in “Interface Culture” at the University of Arts and Industrial Design Linz, designer Javier Lloret converted the entire facade of the Ars Electronica building in Linz, Austria into an interactive Rubik’s Cube called Puzzle Facade. Lloret created a handheld device the mimics the function of the ubiquitous puzzle toy which then wirelessly communicates with a computer that controls the network of lights installed on the building. From his website:

In Puzzle Facade the player interacts with the specially designed interface-cube. The interface-cube holds electronic components inside that allow for it keep track of its orientation and the rotations of each side of the cube. This data is sent over Bluetooth to a computer that runs the Puzzle Facade designed software. This software changes the lights and color of the large-scale Ars Electronica’s media facade in correlation to the handheld interface-cube.

Due to the nature of this building and its surroundings, the player is only able to see two sides at the same time. This factor increases the difficulty of solving the puzzle, but as the player is able to rotate and flip the interface-cube, it is not a blocking factor.

Although Lloret was the primary designer for the project he relied on a huge team of people to realize the idea. You can learn much more here. (via Vimeo)

This short clip about artist and maker Zina Nicole Lahr may be as tragic as it is beautiful. Earlier this fall Lahr approached her friend Stormy Pyeatte and asked if they might shoot a quick video for her portfolio. The video was shot and edited in just two days and demonstrates Lahr’s insatiable desire to build, invent, and “bring life to something inanimate,” a process she called her “creative compulsive disorder.” Almost unthinkably, Lahr was killed in a hiking accident in Colorado on November 20th, a few weeks after this was shot.

I didn’t know Lahr, but if this brief glimpse into her life is any indicator it’s clear she possessed an extremely rare spirit that feels completely genuine and infectious. It seems she was involved in practically every genre of creativity we normally cover here on Colossal. Make the most out of every day, folks. Lahr certainly did.

Reinventado algo tan emblemático como los autocines, JamesonNotodofilmfest abre su XII edición con una acción especial en la calle que muestra la esencia de todo buen cortometraje: “Mucho cine en poco tiempo”.

La NBA a dévoilé la collection spéciale Noël des maillots qui seront portés par les joueurs le 25 décembre à travers une vidéo proposant de voir plusieurs stars de la franchise comme Kevin Durant, Derrick Rose ou Lebron James se servir de paniers pour composer la musique Jingle Bells.

He dado con una serie de reglas que describen nuestras reacciones a las tecnologías:

1. Cualquier cosa que está en el mundo cuando naces es normal y corriente y es simplemente parte de cómo funciona el mundo.

2. Cualquier cosa que se inventa entre que tienes quince y treinta y cinco es nuevo y emocionante y revolucionario y probablemente puedas hacer una carrera en ello.

3. Cualquier cosa inventada después de que cumplas treinta y cinco va contra el orden natural de las cosas.

– Douglas Adams
(@Davo_twi vía @ARC_twi).

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inFORM est un dispositif impressionnant pensé par le groupe de recherche The Tangible Media Group permettant de créer une interaction du digital avec le monde environnant, permettant par exemple de faire bouger un objet à distance. Une création absolument époustouflante à découvrir en vidéo dans la suite.