The origami of Sipho Mabona

Sipho Mabona origami

Sipho Mabona, a young artist currently residing in Switzerland, was commissioned by ad agency Nordpol+ Hamburg to design and create the origami models for this stunning five-minute video.

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The alphabet, but not as we know it…

alphabet light writing

The alphabet in light writing, found on Nir Tober’s Flickr page. If light writing is your thing, check out this previous post of mine, with some light writing YouTube videos.

In this post I showcase a number of creative ways to display the English alphabet. Some fascinating works of art.

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Escher in LEGO

Escher LEGO

Andrew Lipson has a talent. He merges his LEGO skills with some of my favourite works of art. You can view larger images of Escher’s ‘Waterfall’ by clicking on the image (above), or read on for some additional info here.

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Light drawing and light writing

Light drawing by Lichtfaktor

Light-drawing and light-writing is getting a fair bit of attention lately. Take these two commercials (below) for Sprint (also seen on Marc Schiller’s blog). Quite creative don’t you think?

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Focus on art: Dan Havel, Dean Ruck

tunnel house 1

Dan Havel and Dean Ruck scultpurally altered two buildings in the Montrose neighbourhood of Houston, Texas. Read on for more photos and description of the fantastic installation.

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Focus on art: Octavio Ocampo

When it comes to fine art, it takes more than a simple still life to really capture my attention. This morning I was reading a few forum threads in the 9rules art community when I was prompted to revisit the surreal paintings of Octavio Ocampo.

Here I showcase some of Octavio’s excellent works of art.

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Focus on art: Julian Beever

Pavement chalk drawing

Artists make their money in a variety of different ways, and I can’t think of any more interesting than these anamorphic pavement (or sidewalk) chalk drawings.

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The Graffiti Project on Kelburn Castle

The Graffiti Project

If you haven’t heard, there’s a unique project happening right now, here in Scotland. It’s called The Graffiti Project and the idea is simple…

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Justice DANCE music video

Something a little funky for the Saturday night build-up? If you enjoy good t-shirt design then check out the multitude on offer in this music video from Justice, called D.A.N.C.E. I had to watch it twice to catch the animations I missed first time around. “Do the DANCE!”

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Art from a Red Bull can?

Red Bull plane

How creative do you think you can be with Red Bull cans?

There’s a competition open to one and all from Red Bull The Art Of Can, with the winners having their work of art showcased in Philadelphia later this year.

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