Whilst scouting about for juicy fodder for this week's blog I came across so many exciting new things happening in the world of art and design I have decided to dump ten of the best bits onto your screens. It must be the weather, a burst of creativity is springing forth like magnificent blossom, if you are still struggling for a little motivation read on for a few moments of instant inspiration...
A cactus lamp made from re-heated and re-blown beer bottles from Sao Paulo by Studio Swine
Animation Sketchbooks is a new book by Laura Heit which gives us a sneak peak into the inner working of 50 top animators brains from David Shrigley, to Koji Yamamura. My art teacher once said that showing someone your sketchbook is like showing them your brain so consider yourselves honoured to be in such a voyeuristic postion.
Time Magazine grabbed a few of the world's most famous and important people and asked them which everyday object they could not live without and then photographed said object. Behold, Michelle Obama's gardening gloves...
Rosa María Cano, the mayor of Mojácar in Spain has banned the playing of dominios in her town because she just can't bear the racket they make when lined up and knocked over. She would bloody hate this video called Tuna Melt by A-Trak & Tommy Trash who took inspiration from Fischli & Weiss for this ridiculous excerise in patience and physics...
Ben Roberts and journalist Sarah O’Connor have always wondered what happens behind the scenes at Amazon and therefore started a project called Amazon Unpacked where they came upon a warehouse the size on nine football pitches in Staffordshire and a filing system to categorise even the most obscure of tombes.
A few weeks ago I posted about a real-life remake of Toy Story where Toy Story toys were made into a blow-by-blow animation of the entire film. The Simpsons. Devilfish, a London-based creative agency, and director Chris Palmer at Gorgeous has given the opening titles of The Simpsons a similar treatment but with real life humans as opposed to the more familiar yellow characters.
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Every day in November of last year, Michael Crowe and Lenka Clayton created one drawing of something they had witnessed first hand that day, using only a typewriter as their medium.
Those of you who like to indulge your dark sides will enjoy these bizarre, beautiful ukiyo-e inspired watercolours and oil paintings by Mu Pan, a Brooklyn-based artist channelling all the darkest, most surreal elements of his genius Japanese predecessors into large, complex paintings.
'On Paraphotography: Uncertainty, the Occult and the Uncanny' is an exhibiton exploring the aesthetic realms of supernatural representation through photography. Exhibiting at Harlan Levey Projects in Brussels, the show features the work of Czech photographer Tereza Zelenkova, AnOther contributor Paulina Otylie Surys, the 1930s photographer Joel-Peter Witkin, and Jeffrey Silverthorne.
Working under the pseudonym Pip & Pop, Tanya Schultz spends her days crafting miniature worlds out of pastel coloured sugar and teensy figurines, well it beats stacking shelves. The Australian artist was asked by Romance Was Born’s Luke Sales and Anna Plunkett to create the set for their Spring Summer 2013 show during Australian Fashion Week
That's all for now folks. Hope you are feeling suitable refreshed and inspired.
By Jessica Hazel
