Almost every day for the past month, artist Hong Yi has been playing with her food; an act that was frowned upon growing up. Using her food, she was able to create quirky images and photograph them for documentation. The rules of her playing were as follows: the image could only be made out of food on a white plated backdrop. To view the entire series of her food photographs, click here.
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For New Year’s Eve this year, we ran as fast as we could to catch the fireworks in San Francisco. Unfortunately, all we got were the sounds and not the visuals! That’s okay though because this video above makes up for it. Filmmaker Julian Tay shot this video of the fireworks in Melbourne, Australia over New Year’s Eve, reversed it and put some pretty music behind it. How can you not love this?
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Ben Boutwell and Steven Alan shot this short film in Hawaii using frames and it’s pretty silly.
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Italian installation artist Esther Stocker has created some new geometric environments for people to explore and wander through. Apparently, each piece was constructed to follow a very specific equation that includes linear patterns and planes enabling a transformation of a physical pace.
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Graffiti artist, Tilt, has recently created a masterpiece out of a French hotel room. One half of the room is completely done in graffiti and it looks AMAZING. I can’t even begin to imagine the patience and time it took to get this right. This piece of interior design along with five other pieces can be found at the Au Vieux Panier hotel in Marseille, France.
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I have got a very strange love/hate relationship with airports. Well, how many times have I started a blog post with that sentence? Plenty probably. Frankly, I enjoy being in airports because of all the people. Have you ever stopped to think about how many people are traveling at the same time as you are? Some will be on your flight, but chances are you’re only going to recognize the faces of the six people that are sitting near you. Many of those people are traveling to a couple states over, across the country, to another continent. They could be they for a few days, a few weeks, or years. The idea of that many people moving about within one place is incredible to me.
The only thing I don’t like about airports is that knot in my stomach I get when a flight first takes off and the huge breath I take in and hold right before we land. Also, people getting motion sickness around me isn’t ideal.
My yearning to be in an airport was sparked by this post I found on Colossal on this set of screen prints by Nomo Designs of airport runways. Designer and architect Jerome Daksiewicz has created screen prints for some of the more popular airports, but has plans to expand the collection to include five more cities. Crossing my fingers for a Seattle! To purchase, click here.
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I promise I haven’t traded in my regular television shows for children’s show, but this stop motion video is too cute. The children’s television show, Yo Gabba Gabba, asked animator Kirsten Lepore to design a video explaining what it means to give a present and this warmed my heart.
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At ten stories high, this public installation made of 1,000 reused doors was designed by South Korean artist Choi Jeong-Hwa. The article I read speculates that this piece may have been installed back in 2009 near Seoul, but there’s no word yet on whether or not it is still standing. For more pictures and the source, click here.
Does this give you the biggest grin or what?!
I want slash need to have this measuring device in my kitchen right now. This was designed by Stefán Pétur Sólveigarson and can be purchased here at the Reykjavik Corner Store.
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