#1
The Grand Library Detail by Guy Laramee
“Biblios” by Guy Laramee
“To create the sculptures, the book is pressed by clamps so that it becomes as hard as wood, explains Laramee. Using standard electric tools for wood carving and other techniques, including a sand blaster and tar, Laramee whittles away at his masterpieces. ” – Dina Spector, Business Insider (2012)
#2
Arranged Diatoms on Microscope Slides in the California Academy of Sciences Diatom Collection; Photograph of diatoms arranged on a microscope slide by W.M. Grant.
“Arranged Diatoms “ by California Academy of Sciences & Sarah Mansfield
“These beautiful geometric arrangements are actually microscopic diatoms—a common form of phytoplankton—that have been artfully arranged on microscope slides. The arrangements were created in San Francisco at the California Academy of Sciences, which houses a collection of 50,000 diatom specimens.” – E. D. W. Lynch, Laughing Squid (2014)
#3
Suspended animation Installation by Mabona Origami
“Mabona Origami ” by Sipho Mabona
“Sipho Mabona is a professional origami artist based in Lucerne, Switzerland who was born with a natural gift. At the young age of five, he folded his first paper airplane. In 2000, after having folded planes for fifteen years, destiny called. Mabona ran out of paper airplane designs so he turned to origami in hopes that it would inspire him to come up with something more original.” – Alice, My Modern Met (2011)
#4
Bubbles II by Andres Amador
“Earthscape Art” by Andres Amador
“He uses rope and a rake to create large geometric drawings on beaches. His work can span an entire beach — often covering 9,300 square meters (100,000 square feet) in area — and usually takes little longer than two hours to create. That’s useful, for his canvas is ephemeral, often subject to rogue waves, high tides (he always sculpts during low tide) and dogs. None of that fazes the former computer technician, who has so far drawn hundreds of short-lived artworks on around 30 beaches in the United States, Mexico and the Channel Islands.” – Hiufu Wong, CNN (2014)
#5
6 by Nicolas Bruno
“Sleep Paralysis Therapy” by Nicolas Bruno
“Experiencing the phenomenon — often associated with scary visions and feeling unable to move — since he was 15 years old, Bruno decided to do something therapeutic to combat the visions and take back some control. He began writing notes about his visions. Tapping into his artform, he then recreated them in a series of haunting, eerie photographs he calls a “bittersweet homage” to what he sees.” – Jennifer Dunning, CBC News (2014)
#6
Jump by Bob Carey
“The Tutu Project” by Bob Carey
“Bob and Linda Carey’s love story is told in a new video, and it centers on a middle-aged man with a bit of a belly being photographed in an assortment of locations while wearing a big pink tutu and little else. If that’s the best sight in this video, the best sound is Linda’s laughter. And that’s why Bob Carey began wearing the tutu, to make his wife of a quarter-century smile amid her battle against cancer. Carey, a photographer, began taking self-portraits while wearing the tutu after his wife’s 2003 breast cancer diagnosis.” – Amy Hubbard, LA Times (2013)
#7
Tin Toy Chicken with Watercolor and cotton swab by Echo Yang
“Autonomous Machines” by Echo Yang
“ ‘What could happen…in a world in which obsolete machines like hand-powered alarm clocks, walkmans and mechanical toys take center stage?’ in an experiment with old technologies and new, yang has taken a series of various everyday items and hooked them up to mechanisms, which allow them to create artworks on their own. attaching a paint-soaked q-tip to the edge of a chicken tin toy — which spins in an infinite circular pattern — generates a repetitive, vibrantly colored dotted illustration; a pen secured to the edge of a spinning walkman’s wheels draws a concentric design; paint applied to vacuum cleaner brushes brings about an abstract formation.” – Nina Azzarello, designboom (2014)
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