Spencer Finch <-- Born in New Haven, CT 1962; Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York; Education: Rhode Island School of Design Providence, RI M.F.A. in Sculpture 1989; Hamilton College Clinton, NY B.A. in Comparative Literature 1985; Doshisha University Kyoto, Japan 1983-1984

I came across the paintings of Jade Doreen Waller (artist based in South Africa). She offers up a slew of some truly wonderful pieces of art.

Giuseppe Licari was born in Erice, Sicily, in 1980. He uses different materials with particular reference to nature and in relation to the built environment. The public, invited to participate, share, experience and interact, creating a collective memory, is the central point of his work. He defines the public participation as the engine of his artworks. In 1999 he moved to Bologna to study Painting at the Academy of fine Arts. Before completing his studies in Italy, Licari spent a year of studies at AKI Enschede, in the Netherlands, at the Monumental Department of Art. There he got in contact with the environment of social art, site-specific installations and art in the public space. Since then, installations, ephemeral art and happenings have become the main field of interest for his research. Since 2007 he lives and works in Rotterdam.

Stephane Dillies is a figurative French painter born in April 1975 in France. Graduate of Fine Arts, he lives and works in Brussels and exhibited in France (Lille, Le Touquet, St Tropez) as in Belgium (Brussels, Mouscron). His paintings, of varying sizes, are executed from photographs (or photographics combinations) of trash bins found in differents streets of the world. His paintings are landscapes of modern streets, they are snapshots of our life and reveals the futility of our society… Stephane Dillies proposes an approach similar to hyperrealistic painters, except that he offers new issues of painting to spectators, rarely addressed elsewhere. His paintings of garbage reflects the world of insatiable consumption of our society. The themes that are particularly favored are waste, whether real (plastic bottles, soda cans, cardboard, paper) or symbolic (celebrities in alcohol & drugs, low-resolution images from the internet…) His paintings are modern vanities and they remind us of the famous Latin phrase “memento mori”, “remember that you shall die” and that we’ll all end up like soda cans, to scrap!

This sprinkler by Dutch artist Edwin Deen spits out jets of coloured water to create a rainbow pattern on the wall.

‘In 2011 the Québec Triennale at the Museed’Art Contemporain de Montréal commissioned a large-scale drawing installation by the two artists, Jim Holyoak and Matt Shane. For three months Shane and Holyoak drew for six days a week in a paper covered room at the museum. The work was entitled Quagmire and had a central drawing that featured a dead sperm whale with cities growing out of it.’ (via Hi Fructose)

I don’t know anything about this artist other than I really like these paintings she is showing us. Click here for the link.

Photographer Egor N has a set on Flickr showing us this fantastic series of high speed photographs titled Coffee Time. Worthy of your attention.

Here’s some lovely-looking illustrations from Liz Clements, illustrator based in London. There’s a lot more on to see on her website.

GT Tower East is a 130-meter high contemporary office tower designed by the Dutch architectural firm ArchitectenConsort and located in Seoul, South Korea. “Within its gross 54,000 m2 of floor space, GT Tower East fulfills a range of purposes. In addition to functional office spaces, there is room for commercial and cultural uses, as well as parking. We achieved the high adaptive capacity of GT Tower East by placing the compact core at the heart of the floor plan and using a carefully thought-out column structure. These measures ensure that the facade remains entirely unencumbered, and large floor spaces are created that allow the building to accommodate a variety of uses in the future. Many sustainability measures were integrated into the design, including a well-insulated facade, the installation of solar panels for generating power, and a lot of natural light and ventilation to create a pleasant working environment.”