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Photo Realism

".. on another level."

Robin Eleys ability to imagine and then create 'polaroid perfect' is simply breathtaking.  Enjoy.

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By Sammy on 9/5/11

Hell Yeah!

"... who wouldn't want a ride on this?!?"

This the creation of Raymond Li, a Chinese Canadian from St. John’s, Newfoundland.  His dream, his creation.  Yours to buy today for just under 100,000 USD.  Bargain.

And the soundtrack so let's us all know summer's just around the corner!  Enjoy.

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By Sammy on 13/4/11

The Beautiful Game

"Pure artistry..."

Skills from football's hottest young talent, animation genius by Richard Swarbrick.  More of the same tonight please Mr Gareth Bale (when the mighty Spurs take on AC Milan for the uninformed!)

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By Sammy on 9/3/11

An Art Of The Samurai

"Yours with a piece of A4 at the back of the classroom today!"

Origami, from ori meaning "folding", and kami meaning "paper" is the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding.  It started started in the 17th century AD and was popularized in the mid-1900s. Today it has become a modern art form that leaves my efforts at paper planes look, well, pathetic.  To be clear the goal of this art is to transform a flat sheet of material into a finished sculpture through folding and sculpting techniques.  The use of cuts or glue are not considered to be origami.

Take a look at some of these amazing creations from the brilliant minds of some of the world's leading masters of origami here (Sipho Mabona, Satoshi Kamiya, Fumiaki Kawahata, Brian Chan, Eric Joisel, Phillip West, Shuki Kato, Romain Diaz, Seth Friedman, Hoang Trung Thanh, and Robert Lang to name but a few). 

One of our personal faves is of the master himself ...

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By Sammy on 11/1/11

A Warhol For Xmas?

"Could be worth $35.3m one day ... more if it features a slimline alumimium can of course!"

Last month, at Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale in New York, the 7ft 1962 Warhol painting of a Coca Cola bottle sold for a tidy some of cash.  Try $35.3m. This against the presale estimate of $25m!

For those of you not necessarily dialed in to the whole Warhol phenomena - from the 1960's to 1980's, portraits by this New York artist were de rigeur for the rich and famous. Anybody who was anybody wanted one, and owning an original was an undisputed mark of fashionable, social and career achievement - indeed, only the very wealthy could afford one. The commissioning price could reach $40,000.

The Warhol technique was all about colouring-in silk-screened and monstrously enlarged photographs with deliberately clumsy blocks of psychedelic and pastel colour on canvas. 

There will neer be any more genuine Warhol pictures because the artist died in 1987. However unsurprisingly there are today some talented Warhol inspired artists around looking to make new portraits in his style so that new generations might still own something like the real thing, but at an affordable price. 

Modern digital techniques combined with today's printing technology make this more commercial than ever but if you're looking for your own Warholesque one off, the trick is to find and commision the more superior creative talents around in this field. Those who have genuinely studied the original master's work in detail, and thus are capable of delivering an unmatched authenticity and reverent spirit of homage in their work. If you're looking for a special Xmas present this year try these guys out for size.  Only remember ... slimline alumimium is so the way forward if you're looking to cream a few million! 

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By Sammy on 3/12/10

Circuit Board Beauty

"Sea Turtle Searches For Deep Data"

Born in Havana Cuba in 1963 Steven Rodrig is what they call an environmentally conscious artist.  Over the course of a career fixing computers and other electronical equipment he has come to realise just how bad for the environment it is to dispose of circuit boards by ordinary means.

Today Steven reycles circuit boards by turning them into innovative creative art sculptures, or PCB (Printed Circuit Board) Mixed Media s as he calls them. He tells us "My goal is to manipulate each PCB into an organic life form where the PCB characteristics become part of the living fabric helping to shape its meaning."  Sound too much? Well check out these creations out and then you decide if they were better off as landfill.

(visit www.pcbcreations.com to see more of Steven's highly imaginative and creative work)

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By Sammy on 15/9/10

(hms) Plastiki

"... on course in every sense."

Explorer, environmentalist, and British celebrity David de Rothschild is currently crossing the Pacific Ocean (11,000-mile) in a boat made literally of plastic bottles.

Rothschild's  60-foot (18-meter) catamaran, aptly named Plastiki, was created from a special composite of recycled plastic.  Its fiberglass-like frame, made buoyant by the addition of 12,000 two-liter plastic bottles along the hulls, is tasked with making the trip from San Francisco to Sydney as part of a journey to explore and pinpoint the level of plastic litter in the ocean— the most common type of pollution to the wolds water.

The fundamental aim of the expedition is to highlight how materials can be re-used and the imagination Rothschild has applied in doing so is truly commendable.  Have a look at how this story took shape over the last 18 months below.

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By Juan on 25/5/10

Death By Retro

"Kong never looked so good..."

We've got the imaginative Director Patrick Jean and the team at One More Production to thank for this highly creative clip.

This is New York city under attack from old-school videogames. Pac-Man, Frogger, Donkey Kong .... they're all here will Tetronimos combine with skyscrapers, destroying the buildings four floors at at time. 

Quite simply ... sit back and enjoy.

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By Juan on 11/4/10

Tim Sure Does Sexy

"But the depth of construction in his photography makes it so much more." 

Tim Bret-Day is not your average point and shoot photographer.  In fact he couldn't be further from one while still holding a camera in his hand. 

Tim's area of speciality is two fold - on the one hand he is one of the worlds premier fashion photographers working with the likes of Agent Provocateur, Harvey Nichols, Marie Claire, L'Oreal, Adidas, David Beckham, Kylie Minogue (and so many more) - and on the other he is the master of the visual overload, a celebrated creator of fantasy and desire that so appeals to the high end fashion world. 

He specialises in hugely elaborate images - decadent banquets, kinky semi-orgiastic feasts, celestial picnics - often awash with beautiful scantily clad women - therein marrying the ultra modern with the historically symbolic.  It is the imaginative, creative depth of construction in his photography, and the resulting glamour and gloss, that quite clearly sets him apart in his field. 

To some the guiding idea behind much of his work is relatively simple - that women can be both sex object and dominatrix all rolled into one.  Check out some of his amazing work below and see what you think...

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By Juan on 2/2/10

Magic Fingers

"Flippin' heaven ..."

As we have recently been reminded, a fingerboard (or Finger-Skateboard) is a miniature version of a skateboard complete with moving wheels, graphics and trucks.  Measuring an average 96 millimeters long and 26 to 28mm wide, fingerboards can be employed by those gifted few to deliver the same breadth of board tricks that the better known skater pros deliver through their feet.  Only in this case the tricks are delivered through magic (highly determined) fingers...

And such nimble digits in (or should I say 'on') the hands of a talented cameraman makes for highly imaginative and creative cinema....

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By Juan on 30/1/10