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Now these are some nice looking Japanese bike locks.

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Hungarian Cubes

by Katharina Roters

Found by Jeff's Inspiration

Le logo de Google a été entièrement retravaillé un tout petit petit peu retouché.
Ben oui, les approches, c'est important :-)

Whether you find it oddly comforting or just downright strange, fad diets have existed long before our time. Photographer Dan Bannino documents the temporary eating habits of celebrities as far back as Henry VIII and as recent as Beyonce. He goes beyond simple tablet settings, however, and crafts moody, rich-looking scenes that are luscious in their color and texture. Bannino describes the inspiration for his series entitled Still Diet, writing:

With this series my aim was to capture the beauty that lies in this terrible constriction of diets and deprivation, giving them the importance of an old master’s painting. I wanted to make them significant, like classic works of arts that are becoming more and more weighty as they grow older. My aim was to show how this weirdness hasn’t changed even since the 15th century. (Via Artnet)

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If you read about “The Great Wall of Vagina,” you know that walls made of modeled human genitals are nothing new, but student artist Peiqi Su’s 3D printed “Penis Wall” raises the bar. This interactive installation is composed of 81 interactive phalluses, which go erect and flaccid according to the viewer’s presence and gestures, each of which is registered with ultrasonic sensors. These little guys can be linked to stock market and translate data visually, or they can be programmed to play along with “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker.

Inspired by the widespread notion that “everyone on Wall Street is a dick,” Su satirizes the male sexual organ. But she also treats it with the utmost reverence, referring to it as “one of the oldest and probably the most attractive thing that humans can interact with.” The wall is a very literal manifestation of male desire; the viewer is in total command of the erections, which rise like small columns of vertebrae, giving new meaning to the term “boner.” (via Animal New York, Lost at E Minor, and Huffington Post)

Dancing along to Tchaikovsky’s recognizable composition, the phalluses look delicate and agile as a prima ballerina; instead of the deliberate, immaculate movements of the female form, we see a surprising representation of male sexual impulse. These penises seem not like organs governed by erotic urges but rather like whole creatures with minds of their own, capable of executing the most complex choreography. Like ocean tides, their careful movements speak to a strange and unexpected unity and harmony between the self and the community. Here, the genitals aren’t base and vulgar but intelligent and thoughtful. What do you think?

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Helio Collective and Leica have concluded their LET US ROAM video series, which profiles skateboarding's most talented photographer's and filmmakers. This episode features Los Angeles-based photographer Atiba Jefferson, who discovered his passion for photography when he broke his hand at high school and had to take the photography class instead of fine art. He goes on to discuss how skateboarding has influenced and inspired every aspect of his life, from the bar he co-owns to the band he plays in. "I'm so content and happy with my life," he says. "I look back and it's because my friends are the greatest skateboarders and they gave me the opportunity to shoot them."

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Hassan Rahim “Distillations” (New Works) at HVW8 Art & Design Gallery; 661 N Spaulding Avenue Los Angeles; Opening Thursday May 29 7PM; May 29—June 26

Santiago Villanueva.

 

Often in our daily lives, something needs to be taken out of it’s normal context to be seen with renewed appreciation. In Arnaud Lajeunie‘s recent photoseries  Water meets colour, colour meets water, the Paris-based photographer explores new waves of seeing the constant ebb and flow of ocean waves by making them more visible, through the use of biodegradable, sugar-based dyes. Arnaud’s interventions tint the surging water with a plethora of colors, which are captured using an extremely fast shutter speed, which produces photos of violent, colorful takes of traditional landscape photography. Taken out of a normal context, one can see more clearly the natural beauty and fury. Says Arnaud, “Here, colour is seen as a raw material, as are the waves and the rocks. Colour adds density and thickness to transparent water, thus enhancing the flux fixation process.”

As writer Eugenia Lapteva notes in an essay on the series, Colours of Absence, “As the colours bleed into the sea, the texture of the water thickens and the motion of the waves is (re)defined, revealing its hidden course and complex networks. The crashing waves, which are carefully contained within the camera frame, pull the viewer into a vortex of frozen shapes and novel configurations that are otherwise indiscernible to the human eye.”

In his own words, the photographer explains, “I rely on the camera as a device with technical features that can give tangible shapes to ever-moving fluxes, in this case the waves. The high shutter speed transcends the human reflex of persistence of vision: it reveals existing shapes that the ‘mortal eye’ cannot perceive on its own.” (via mymodernmet)

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Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira (previously) recently completed work on his largest installation to date titled Transarquitetônica at Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade in São Paulo. As with much of his earlier sculptural and installation work the enormous piece is built from tapumes, a kind of temporary siding made from inexpensive wood that is commonly used to obscure construction sites. Oliveira uses the repurposed wood pieces as a skin nailed to an organic framework that looks intentionally like a large root system. Because the space provided by the museum was so immense, the artist expanded the installation into a fully immersive environment where viewers are welcome to enter the artwork and explore the cavernous interior. Transarquitetônica will be on view through the end of November this year, and you can watch the video above by Crane TV to hear Oliveira discuss its creation.

Photojojo now offers Human Sized Prints made on industrial printers typically used for architectural and engineering work. That’s why they call them Engineer Prints. Print your photo in halftone black and white ink on extra-light 20lb bond at a whopping 4 feet wide! Once it’s done it ships free, rolled nice and neat for just $25.

the vehicle comprises a stripped-down electric scooter embedded into a suitcase, situated in such a way that the rider straddles the handbag and uses it as a seat.

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Le papier bulles a été créé en 1957 par Alfred Fielding et Marc Chavannes. A l'origine ce devait être du papier peint avec relief facilement nettoyable. Ce n'est que plus tard qu'il deviendra le papier isolant que l'on connait aujourd'hui.

dozens of portraits, meant to represent the people of the brazilian culture, are rendered in the artists' signature style.

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Mike Rottenberg, “Hole” (2014).

Le père Noël est une ordure, réalisé par Jean-Marie Poiré,1982.

Une étonnante série de photos du photographe italien Lino Russo.

Where Children Sleep est une série de photographie de James Mollison. C’est une histoires de divers enfants dans le monde, à travers des portraits et des photos de leurs chambres. Ceci est une sélection de 56 diptyques du livre.

Gustavo Quintana, designed a branding for Ros Interior Design, a interior design dtudio based in Guatemala lead by Estefania de Ros and himself.

The Studio has a unique Style that se defines as « Nordico Tropical » a fusion between the Modernism and Functionalism of Nordic Desing, with the Colorful Tropical Influence of Guatemalan Design, Ros projects are a mixture of quirkyness and Elegance that range from Interior, Furniture, Styling and Landscape Design.