This past year has seen a rising interest in long-lost hobbies due to shelter-in-place, social distancing, and lockdown orders. Google Trends and Polygraph charted the hobbies that saw the biggest spikes each day of the year.
I’m surprised that sourdough or bread-making is on there, but maybe they didn’t fall under the hobby definition they used.
Gareth Wild se propuso aparcar en todas las plazas de aparcamiento de su supermercado. Le ha llevado 6 años, pero por fin lo ha conseguido y se puede sentir realizado como ser humano
“Oasis,” watercolor and gouache on paper, 20 inches x 20 inches. All images courtesy of Nucleus Portland, shared with permission
Sinuous branches half-submerged in water, fish swimming through the treetops, and plant life spearing small birds compose the intricate entanglements rendered by Teagan White. Through gouache, watercolor, and colored pencil, the artist merges plant and animal life in delicate scenes that focus on the interconnectedness and beauty of the natural world.
Having just moved to the Pacific Northwest, much of White’s work draws on their years spent biking throughout the Midwest and viscerally experiencing life and death on the region’s roadways. The artist describes their recent series, Things As They Are & As They Could Be, which includes many of the mixed-media pieces shown here, as “meditations on peril and possibility; what has been lost and what remains; dystopian presents and improbable futures.” It’s on view now through May 3 at Nucleus Portland.
Find glimpses into White’s process and see works-in-progress on Instagram, and pick up prints, stickers, and other goods in their shop.(via Supersonic Art)
“Citadel,” watercolor, gouache, and colored pencil on paper, 20 x 20 inches
“Yield,” watercolor and gouache on paper, 11 x 14 inches
“Waver,” watercolor and gouache on paper, 8 x 10 inches
“Wander,” watercolor and gouache on paper, 8 x 10 inches
“Territory,” watercolor and gouache on paper, 18 x 24 inches
Friendly monsters with enthusiastic grins and pastel fur and feathers have been sauntering through the streets of New York City thanks to Loe Lee. The jolly characters are part of the Chinese-American illustrator’s Creatures of Hope series, which overlays photographs of the city with the whimsical figures. The project was born out of the city’s strength and perseverance this last year. “As a native New Yorker, it was heartbreaking to see NYC endure such crippling loss and confusion during the pandemic last year. Yet, despite everything, I still saw people striving with unshakable resilience,” Lee tells Colossal.
Creatures of Hope was named the runner-up in Creative Quarterly 62 and will be displayed on LinkNYC this year. Lee also has been working with Chinatown NYC to paint murals imbued with magic and joy around her native neighborhood—the idea is to increase safety and draw people back to the area following the reduced traffic and violence against Asian people since the onset of the pandemic.
Pick up prints, postcards, and stickers of the towering creatures in Lee’s shop, and follow their latest adventures around the city on Instagram and Behance. (via Creative Boom)
Instead of tossing an old pair of pants or T-shirt, Helga Stentzel puts her tired garments out to pasture. So far, the London-based artist has added Pegasus and Smoothie, a pair of clothesline equine and bovine, to her herd of playful interventions hung in bucolic landscapes. Stenzel’s practice, which she terms “household surrealism,” is derived from her childhood in Siberia, where she spent hours surveying her grandmother’s carpet, birch logs, and random objects for recognizable forms, including “a stack of buckets resembling the tower of Pisa,” she tells Colossal.
Prints of the laundry creatures are available in Stentzel’s shop, and you can follow additions to the drove—the artist currently is creating a few more farm animals while braving the -32 degree weather in Russia—on Instagram, where you’ll also find a variety of quirky food-based characters. (via Laughing Squid)
I don’t have chickens, gut the sheer existence of this egg-pocket-apron makes me want to have chickens. It helps you collect the eggs in the chicken coop.
Este interesante artista se dedicó durante 2007 a enviar distintos cubos de cristal del mismo tamaño del paquete. En su exposición artística se podía apreciar que muy pocos paquetes lograron llegar intactos a su destino (gracias Pan)
What brings you hope? That’s the central question behind a new group exhibition presented by Port City Creative Guild. Couriers of Hope boasts more than 120 original pieces from more than 90 artists—the list includes Rosanne Kang Jovanovski, Andrew Hem (previously), Sean Chao (previously), and Yoskay Yamamoto—all rendered on vintage envelopes. Prompted by the mail art movement of the 1960s, the exhibition features an eclectic array of watercolor, pencil, and mixed-media illustrations that transform the miniature canvases into the artists’ vision for the future, whether through relaxed otters, peaches, or vivid portraits. Many of the works prominently display original postmarks and stamps and serve as a reminder that communication doesn’t have to be digital.
Students from Long Beach Unified School District have the opportunity to acquire one of the envelopes by trading their own response to the artists’ same prompt, with the guild providing art supplies for participants to ensure that everyone has access to the initiative. The show was curated collectively by a Long Beach Museum of Art, Creative Arts Coalition to Transform Urban Space, Flatline, Inspired LBC, The Icehouse x Ink and Drink Long Beach, Arts Council Long Beach, Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum, Compound LBC, and the Creative Class Collective.
Couriers of Hope will be on display in the windows of the Psychic Temple of the Holy Kiss in downtown Long Beach and on the guild’s site for virtual viewing from January 19 to February 28, 2021.
By Sean Chao
By Megan Boterenbrood
By Adam Harrison
By Bodeck Luna
By Christine Yoon
By Hilary Norcliffe
By Judy Kepes
Left: By Jonathan Martinez. Right: By Kelly Yamagishi
En esta curiosa página titulada Stonehenge en tu ciudad han recopilado decenas de mapas de ciudades buscando una alineación con los solsticios. Los datos proceden de OpenStreetMaps y lo que tratan es de encontrar calles que estén alineadas con la posición del Sol naciente en los días del solsticio de verano y de invierno, hacia el 20 de junio y el 21 de diciembre de cada año.
Esto es algo parecido a las alineaciones que se dan en monumentos prehistóricos como el de Stonehenge, y por eso las llaman «calles Stonehenge». He mirado en los mapas que hay para España y no son gran cosa, aunque en Madrid hay alguna calle notable, como la Avenida de la Albufera de Vallecas, que está perfectamente alineada, junto con las calles paralelas aledañas. En ciudades como Atenas (Grecia) hay muchas más, quizá por la antigüedad de la ciudad.
Tal y como explican en la página «tampoco está claro si esta alineación es intencionada o accidental»; de hecho en Bilbao por ejemplo coincide con las vías férreas en zona de la ampliación del Muelle 3 del puerto, lo cual es parte de un enclave digamos «natural». Pero a falta de hacer una estadística puede considerarse que aunque tenga cierto sentido –incluso estético– puede ser algo puramente azaroso.
Este libro que se llama simplemente The Book con el ambicioso y atractivo subtítulo de La guía definitiva para reconstruir una civilización es un trabajo medio artístico, medio enciclopédico, medio científico. Los dos creadores de la idea (Vsevolod y Timur) comenzaron intentando conseguir 8.000 dólares de financiación colectiva en Kickstarter y ya van por cerca de 2,2 millones de dólares. Así que lo que era una pequeña iniciativa se ha convertido en un gigantesco trabajo documental, artístico y editorial con todo tipo de detalles y lujos.
El libro tendrá unas 400 páginas llenas de profusas y detalladas ilustraciones. Básicamente es un compendio que pretende explicar «cómo se podría reconstruir una civilización desde cero» explicando cómo fabricar instrumentos, resolver problemas y alimentando la mente al tiempo. Un gran resumen del conocimiento humano en diversas áreas, entre ellas:
Medicina
Materiales básicos
Mecanismos
Artes militares
Hogares y vivienda
Cultivos y labores de granja
Entretenimiento
Instrumentos musicales
Sociedad
Juegos
La lista se ha ido ampliando a medida que han acaparado más financiación y recursos. Trabajando con un pequeño equipo de ilustradores esperan tenerlo todo listo para octubre de 2021; el precio del libro durante la campaña varía entre los 80 y 100 euros en papel (que es lo suyo) y unos 40 en digital, gastos de envío aparte, y ediciones de lujo también.
Casi tan interesante como el propio libro es la idea de meditar acerca de qué debería incluir un libro con tan osado título: seguro que hay algunas cuestiones básicas (ej. materiales, mecanismos, medicina) y otras que irían un poco a gusto de la gente. Una auténtica odisea de proporciones enciclopédicas que tal y como parece que será ilustrada puede ser una auténtica maravilla.
The iceberg is comparable in size to many well-known islands. A68a is very similar in size and shape to Jamaica, almost as long as the U.S. territory Puerto Rico, and dwarfs China’s Hong Kong Island as well as the Southeast Asian city state of Singapore.
Observers from the British Antarctic Survey told media that a flight last year over the A68a took about one and a half hours. The berg is so big, Royal Air Force pilots this week were unable to capture it all in one, single photograph.
In a delightful holiday tradition, the small town of Newburgh in southern Scotland tasks its youngest residents with creating the glowing Christmas decorations that adorn the streets. Now in its 19th year, the annual event begins with school-age kids submitting their quirky designs to a competition. Once a winner is chosen, the artwork is sent to Blachere Illumination to be translated into LED before it’s unveiled at a ceremony held at Lampost 15, where the new work is hung each year. The winning artist gets the honor of turning on the light, illuminating their crooked gingerbread figure or beaming reindeer for the 2,000-plus residents to enjoy. In a similarly charming practice, the runner-up’s art is featured on the town’s Christmas card. (via It’s Nice That)
Hasta con el ratón queda bastante bien [github] (gracias McNolo)
(gracias Pan)
El libro tendrá unas 400 páginas llenas de profusas y detalladas ilustraciones. Básicamente es un compendio que pretende explicar «cómo se podría reconstruir una civilización desde cero» explicando cómo fabricar instrumentos, resolver problemas y alimentando la mente al tiempo. Un gran resumen del conocimiento humano en diversas áreas, entre ellas:
