Camper Kart and Camper Bike – Designed by Kevin Cyr
January 8, 2010 by admin
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Next week at New York’s Raandesk Gallery of Art work by Kevin Cyr, alongside with fellow artist Jason Bryant, will be on display. Cyr is a painter and sculptor who produced two one-off vehicles you just have to love – Camper Kart and Camper Bike.
Camper Kart
Camper Kart is a pop-up camper constructed out of a shopping cart. The project investigates habitats and housing; recycling and ecology; exploration and mobility.
Camper Bike
Camper Bike is a functioning sculptural piece, built in April 2008. A stand alone piece and the subject of a series of paintings.
Street Art Photography – Urban Mirrors
December 7, 2009 by admin
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Street art photography takes many forms. Photographers enjoy capturing magnificent beauty of urban areas of cities from around the world. This fine photo art has produced some wonderful series of images such as this amazing series here. The main motive of these images are Urban Mirrors that can be find in the city at night and low light conditions. A really nice usage of long exposure photography, I’d have to add.
Banksy – Street Graffiti Artist That Makes You Wonder
December 3, 2009 by admin
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A girl who is flying over the wall between Palestine and Israel.
It makes one stop and think about the two sides of the conflict and how the other is perceived by each side. This image seems to suggest that Palestinians believe that life on the other side of the wall is more peaceful and fruitful, without considering their own stance in life.
Banksy, as a example of both a contemporary artist and a street artists, makes one wonder about how art can influence society. Do spray-painted images such as the one above really make people stop and reflect on the issues it addresses? In terms of a topic, I may want to learn more about contemporary street art and it’s impact on society. It would also be interesting to focus on Banksy as an example of an activist who is trying to bring about change through a medium we have not looked at yet-art.
Here are some of Banksy’s his sayings:
We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.
Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
Think from outside the box, collapse the box and take a f***ing knife to it.
Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
If you want someone to be ignored, then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town.
Interested to see more artwork from Banksy, see his official website. Or check out our previous article about Banksy’s street art.
One Dollar Art: Laser-cut Money Made Worthless Gained Artistic Value
December 2, 2009 by admin
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Artist Scott Campbell has effectively displayed us that with dozens on one dollar bills and some precise cutting you can create some amazing One Dollar Art which is a series of laser-cut etchings, each on a stack of $1 bills. Kind of a crime against the nature, to ruin your dollar bills. Although, everything goes when it comes to art. We hope that his investment pays off in the end.
About the author and the exibition: Critically acclaimed tattoo artist, Scott Campbell, recently showed his work at the O.H.W.O.W. gallery in Miami, FL. The highlight of the evening was a series of laser-cut etchings, each on a stack of $1 bills. The collection is entitled “Make It Rain†and shows a sampling of the artist’s dark and beautiful undertones.
Scott Campbell was born in rural Louisiana and began his career illustrating before mastering the art of tattoo. In 2004, he opened Saved Tattoo in Brooklyn where he perfected his signature style. If you are interested to see more artwork from this artist or buy some of his fine artwork visit online web-page:Â scottcampbelltattoo.com.
Source:Â scottcampbelltattoo.com & O.H.W.O.W. Gallery
Amazing Tilt-Shift Lenses Photography by Tim Grimshaw
November 22, 2009 by admin
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These are some of the finest images of New York and London ever.
All images taken using Tilt/Shift lenses to control the depth of field. Photography by Tim Grimshaw.
You can find all of these amazing photos and much more @ Orange Blob
County Hall – London
Big Ben and Westminster – London
Empire State Building – New York
Queensboro Ramp – New York
Park Avenue Rain – New York
Flatiron Building – New York
Ron Muech – Hyper Realist Sculptor
There is a point, when sculpturing, at witch taking great care of details leads to creating hyper realistic artwork that cannot be set apart from the real world objects it is supposed to represent. Ron Muech sculptures are just that, extraordinary realistic work that seems real even after looking at it for the tenth time.
About the artist:
Ron Mueck was born on 1958 is an Australian hyper realist sculptor working in Great Britain. Mueck’s early career was as a model maker and puppeteer for children’s television and films, notably the film Labyrinth for which he also contributed the voice of Ludo.
Mueck moved on to establish his own company in London, making photo-realistic props and animatronics for the advertising industry.
Although highly detailed, these props were usually designed to be photographed from one specific angle hiding the mess of construction seen from the other side. Mueck increasingly wanted to produce realistic sculptures which looked perfect from all angles.
In 1996 Mueck transitioned to fine art, collaborating with his mother-in-law, Paula Rego, to produce small figures as part of a tableau she was showing at the Hayward Gallery. Rego introduced him to Charles Saatchi who was immediately impressed and started to collect and commission work.
This led to the piece which made Mueck’s name, Dead Dad, being included in the Sensation show at the Royal Academy the following year. Dead Dad is a rather haunting silicone and mixed media sculpture of the corpse of Mueck’s father reduced to about two thirds of its natural scale. It is the only work of Mueck’s that uses his own hair for the finished product.
Mueck’s sculptures faithfully reproduce the minute detail of the human body, but play with scale to produce disconcertingly jarring visual images. His five metre high sculpture Boy 1999 was a feature in the Millennium Dome and later exhibited in the Venice Biennale.
In 2002 his sculpture Pregnant Woman was purchased by the National Gallery of Australia for $800,000.
Camouflage by Liu Bolin – Invisible Man Series
November 18, 2009 by admin
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A series “Camouflage” by Liu Bolin shows an amusing concept that makes it a first class artwork. All his works in this series express an obvious motive of common people remaining unnoticed by their governments. Common man is an invisible man in the world of today is what he says in his clever way. A feeling universal enough so that it can be understood by all the nations of the world.
About Camouflage:
A series “Camouflage” by the young and very talented artist Liu Bolin. Aged 35, he is originally from Shandong in China. It depicts, covered with paint to hide in the background. All without post-production or editing.
About the artist:
Liu Bolin, who has exhibited primarily in China until last year’s solo show at Paris’ galerie Bertin Toublanc and a group show with the gallery in Miami. He recently finished up a show at Eli Klein fine art in New York showcasing a variety of his pieces including some form the series ‘camouflage’. This series is an exploration of human nature and animal instincts which features Chinese citizens painted to blend into their surroundings. The subjects are covered head to toe in paint,
camouflaging themselves in front of the chinese flag, a billboard or downtown beijing.
See more of his work on Flickr.
Photographer Markku Landesmaki’s Photo Gallery
November 10, 2009 by admin
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Photographer Markku Landesmaki displays his lush talent through this series of pictures. He displays the best in photography art; capturing the right moment and allowing the picture to tell a complex story but only for those who pay close attention to detail. So, take a careful look at this online gallery as if you were walking through a real art gallery and enjoy as we at the Chill Out Point have enjoyed his work!
Body Part Bread – Sold at a bakery in Thailand
November 10, 2009 by admin
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Artist Kittiwat Unarrom’s father owns a bakery in Ratchaburi. To attract attention for the business he creates some of the world’s more unusual breads! All of Kittiwat’s creations are of human parts of the body in various stages of, shall we say, disrepair! The results are unnervingly realistic with eyes, lips and other details constructed out of cashews, raisins and the like. A lack of hair and blood-like glazes make the work all the more creepy.
Sold at his family’s bakery, Thailand, he displays the parts wrapped like food in plastic and hung from meat hooks. Apparently, the art is in fact edible and tastes like regular bread.
Kittiwat says that the bread heads are not designed for human consumption, but mainly to place in the window of the bakery to attract attention. The shop is in a small town in Thailand about 65 miles east of Bangcock.
It’s not just head. You can buy a wide assortment of parts to, we suppose, temporarily decorate your home.
Eeewwww. I’m not even sure Tony Montana would enjoy a loaf of theis bread.
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Creative X-Ray photo artwork by Veasey
August 21, 2009 by admin
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“We live in a world obsessed with image. What we look like, what our clothes look like, houses, cars… I like to conter this obsession with superficial appearance by stripping back the layers and showing what it is like under the surface Often the integral beauty adds intrigue to the familiar. We all make assumptions based on the external visual aspects of what surrounds us and we are attracted to people and forms that are aesthetically pleasing. I like to challenge this automatic way that we react to just physical appearance by highlighting the, often surprising, inner beauty.”
The Artist – Nick Veasey
These are his composite photographs (as known as: artwork) using a combination of X-rays, back scatter, visible light photographs, and hand-drawn parts, combined together to look very interesting.
