Heather Gargon is a 26 year old illustrator, toy maker & stop motion animator. She got her start in Phoenix, AZ. Currently resides in the New York metropolitan area & is involved in several solo projects as well as the collective works of Fortoul Presents. Heather recently spent her summer in an art residency in Eretria, Greece where she refined her toy making skills. Currently her work can be seen at Blue in Green in SOHO, New York City.
The world’s largest deckchair by artist Stuart Murdoch. Taller than a double decker bus, the deckchair is 8.5metres tall and 5.5metres wide. Link here.
‘Originally from a village in the Norfolk Countryside, Nom Kinnear King studied at the Norwich school of Art and Design going on to live in Australia, London and now based in Hove East Sussex, spending the days creating her imaginary female portraits in oils on wood and canvas. The subjects are girls who roam from town to town in a patchwork old fashioned neverworld, where accordions and clarinets trail their steps, their joyful and curious behaviour shadowed by sweet melancholy. Nom is represented by George Thornton, Fine Grime and Just Another Agency and has exhibited in the UK, America and Australia.’ (via Prisma Artist Collective)
This collective housing’s scale is intermediate position between detached housing and building. This project site is situated on the west side of small station, a big 700-year-old camphor tree passing through the platform and the canopy. The west side being mixed multiplicity of environmental-elements (bicycle-parking space, shrine, shops under the elevated, small street stand, etc) is more congested and lively than the east side being developed small station plaza and roundabout in order. This project site having 5 borders is enclosed in too many elements, but the front road on the west side of this site facing 1st floor office and the elevated platform viewing to north, the sun to south are particularly important things. So, the D-Aparment was designed to connect these 3 elements smoothly. (Continue reading…)
Quasi-Objects is an art project by Lorenzo Oggiano consisting of 3d generated videos and prints, a practice of “organic re-design” – started in 2003 and still in progress – that aims to stimulate thought and dialogue on the progressive relativisation of natural forms of life as a result of techno-biological evolution. “Quasi-Objects” regards data actualization, the production of biologically non-functional organisms and ecosystems as transient output of an operative practice: aesthetics of process.
Striking pieces from Denielle Nigretto‘s Remanufacturing the Self series. “Through the process of combining sections taken from numerous formal studies of intimate nudes, I have re-created the human form. These figures are representative of the way a survivor of prolonged abuse grows up and processes human relations. They express the futility in the abuse survivor’s approach to defining a sense of self through the physical and emotional compartmentalization of others: the need to grid the like and dislike of specific body parts as a means to assess aspects of personality. This reaction is due to their compulsive attention to detail, which inevitably boxes them off from seeing the whole and from being whole. In an effort to simplify things, take down the walls, and become complete, one must first create a sense of stability from instability. This photographic body is about working through the visualization of a whole self – in order to heal a fractured relationship with the surrounding community, we must first see our fractured reflection through others. This act allows us to remanufacture the self.”
‘Russian photographer Vadim Mahorov goes to death-defying heights for the perfect shot. While the thrill of scaling buildings, towers and monuments is part of the allure, the dramatic aerial landscapes Vadim captures are absolutely breathtaking. Although many are quick to lump Vadim with other youths simply looking for the rush of infiltrating places they shouldn’t be, Vadim shows a clear passion for photography. Some of the images below show the dizzying heights he and his friends scale, while other shots show the beautiful scenes he captures from his unique vantage points not many photographers will ever reach. This gives his work a unique perspective of cities around Russia. Vadim runs a very active blog at livejournal.com where he shares all of his work and travels. All of the images are full screen and it’s inspiring to see his photography skills develop over the last few years.’ (via twisted sister)
Jon Jaylo’s artworks play around a parallel dream world in where everything is floating surreal and dancing in a contained universe inspired by poetry. His technical depictions are often varying in display and style, as if he himself is never contented with the present stature of his works. They are constantly evolving in both idea and form, gradually maturing together with the artist himself.Scaling this balance, narrating a massively deep philosophy of thought through a theatrical rendition of intensely brilliant colors that seem to amuse its audience and present a status of intellectual complacency. Like dreams that reflect a reversed mirror of man’s desires, fantasies,his works are merely manifestations of knowledge, the metaphysics of his own philosophy and the resolving of experiences behind and even far beyond it. On the full picture of it, the artist’s works are masked and laced with a dream-like feel, very inviting, yet when you go inside, there’s always a puzzle to be solved. Because his works are not just depictions of visual aesthetics. His works are a research on life itself, and the enigma of thought beneath it.
Haley Jane Samuelson was born and raised in Denver, Colorado until the age of thirteen when her family relocated to Amsterdam, The Netherlands. It was there she first fell in love with photography. She received in B.F.A. in photography and digital media from the Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida. In 2008 she completed her M.F.A at Parsons the New School for Design. She is currently represented by HousProjects Gallery in New York City, where she is currently exhibiting her second solo show, “An Indecisive Moment.” Her work has been published in several international magazines including Zoom Magazine, Oxford American and Photo France, among others.
