If you liked playing with Mr. Potato Head as a kid, then you will love this new project by photographer Fabien Nissels. By photographing each of his friend Johan's body parts at different angles then printing them out on life size cubes, he created a modular man with lots of hilarious options. They positioned the pieces in various poses in a myriad of locations and the result was quite entertaining.
Japanese artist Sagaki Keita creates composite pen and ink illustrations using thousands of densely scribbled doodles, goofy characters seemingly born from the margins of notebook paper that then form everything from Roman statues to artworks from pop culture. Several of these illustrations are actually part of a commissioned campaign for Expedia from late last year.
Barcelona-based artist Borja Martinez crushes watercolour pigments and turns them into amazing portraits. He begins with a vector image printed on a piece of paper and cuts out pieces of the face to create a template. Next, he crumbles the rainbow colored pigments onto paper with his hands, allowing only some to pass through while the rest land on the template and are tossed aside. Once finished, he lifts the template up revealing a clean and final portrait underneath that plays on positive and negative spaces.
Filmmaker Julian Tay shot some footage of the 2012 New Years fireworks at Docklands in Melbourne, Australia and then decided to see what happened if he digitally reversed it. The result is strangely beautiful as all the little rockets move in reverse creating pretty counter-intuitive visuals, imploding into nothingness.
Since 2004 Simon Beck has strapped on a pair of snowshoes and lumbered out into the the freshly fallen snow at the Les Arcs ski resort in France to trample out his distinctly geometric patterns, footprint by footprint. Each work takes the artist anywhere between 6 hours and two days to complete, an impressive physical feat aided from years of competitive orienteering. The orienteering also helps him in the precise mapping process which often begins on a computer before he’s able to mark landmarks in the snow that guide his precise walking patterns.
