These charming little people, positioned by artist Anton Tang all around Singapore, are full of personality. They look like cardboard boxes but are actually Mini Danbos, characters in cardboard box suits from the Japanese manga series Yotsuba&!.
There are times when many of us would like to cover our heads with a cardboard box and shield ourselves from the outside world. Other times, we walk around feeling as if we’re enclosed in such packaging anyway — like faceless, boxed-up products on an assembly line. Yet whichever our experience, alienated or anonymous, one plain fact gives us hope: We’re all human. And we’re not alone.
These are the impressions one might have on observing the miniature mis-en-scenes created by Singapore-based photographer Anton Tang, an artist who reuses toys to express his uniquely playful and comic, yet simultaneously touching take on life, and its fragility. Cue cuteness overload.
This time-lapse video shows artist Paul Alexander Thornton drawing a detailed human skull with bic pens. The four and a half minute video represents two days of work.
Japan students presenting at bunkasai, the annual school festivals came out with this stop-motion video of Super Mario made out of Post-it notes. Very well done!
Pernice and Christian Hanson were inspired by Apple’s Photo Booth software to create a mask modeled after a somewhat typical looking Photo Booth shot. The filter applied is one of the distort options (stretch, squeeze, dent) and the mask came out to be an almost perfect replica.
Using Apple’s Photo Booth application as inspiration, the idea was to take the 2D image that it manipulated and create a tangible face in a real environment, then in turn bring it back into a 2D image. Using Photo Booth on the mask itself may create some sort of paradoxal shift where I cease to exist.
Artist Jason LaFerrera makes wildlife collages out of old maps. His first show is coming up in Richmond, VA, and he’s posted some samples of the material he’ll be showing, along with some limited run prints on Etsy.
The textures and contours of old maps are fascinating, even the tattered and stained parts. In this series, I digitally manipulate cartographic materials to create fauna, mostly birds, in poses reminiscent of field guides from a similarly early era of publication. The patterns of forests and shores often become an animal’s feathers or fur, while the rings of topography often trace out wings or antlers.
Dave Devries takes children’s sketches of monsters from their imagination and renders them in paint, bringing them to life with scary details.
The process is simple. I project a child’s drawing with an opaque projector, faithfully tracing each line. Applying a combination of logic and instinct, I then paint the image as realistically as I can. My medium is mixed—primarily acrylic, airbrush, and colored pencil.
“Pixels” was created by Patrick Jean and follows a swarm of pixels as they take over New York. The pixels spawn some iconic video game characters to help in the destruction
Written, directed by : Patrick Jean
Director of Photograhy : Matias Boucard.
Photographer Nikki Graziano takes pictures and then maps mathematical functions over them. I have been guilty of doing this in the past (the beach definitely is a great place to find nice curves!) This a fun and interesting way of combining math, nature, and art.
Michael Paul Smith is a model photographer with some amazingly realistic model pictures.
What started out as an exercise in model building and photography, ended up as a dream-like reconstruction of the town I grew up in. It’s not an exact recreation, but it does capture the mood of my memories.
And like a dream, many of the buildings show up in different configurations throughout the photos. Or sometimes, the buildings stay put and the backgrounds change.
Visually, this is heading towards the realm of ART. NO PHOTOSHOP WAS USED IN THESE PICTURES. IT’S ALL STRAIGHT FROM THE CAMERA.
It’s the oldest trick in the special effects book: line up a model with an appropriate background and shoot.
The buildings are 1/24th scale [ or 1/2 inch equals a foot ]. They are constructed of Gator board, styrene plastic, Sintra [ a light flexible plastic that can be carved, and painted ] plus numerous found objects; such as jewelery pieces, finishing washers and printed material.
Alex Wild is a biologist at the University of Illinois. He started taking photographs in 2002 s an aesthetic complement to his scientific work. He uses Canon’s MP-E 1-5x macro lens for many of his pictures and they are brilliant. His blog also provides some great information and is a very interesting read. This is a great example of science and art mixing beautifully.
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