Art

June 22, 2017

Mesmerizing Animation Made Entirely of Wood Transforms into Weightless Sand

Get ready to sit back and enjoy the mesmerizing sight of wood grain as it glides across your screen. Though that might sound totally banal, it's anything but. Called WoodSwimmer, the brief stop motion animation follows a piece of raw wood as it travels through a milling machine. In a series of graceful movements, the irregular rings, knots, and shifting colors fill the frame with life-like abstract forms.

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June 19, 2017

Man Illustrates the Silly Faces He Finds Hiding in Ordinary Places

Some people see faces wherever they go. Whether it’s a backpack or a brick wall, inanimate objects suddenly come alive with googly eyes and goofy smiles. In fact, there’s a whole Twitter account dedicated to sharing faces in places. Keith Larsen regularly spots these types of expressions in ordinary things—often, that others don’t see. To illuminate his creative visions, he illustrates these characters and brings them to life with silly stories.

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June 16, 2017

What If Early 1900s Immigrants Arrived in Modern-Day New York

Hungarian artist Flóra Borsi has been captivating us with her worksince she was a teen—whether it be her self-portrait and animal hybrids or bringing figures from abstract paintings to life. Now, with her new series The Forgotten Dream, she's taken her photo manipulations to a new level by tackling the topic of immigration. Inspired by a visit to New York's Ellis Island, Borsi set about researching the history of immigration in the United States.

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June 13, 2017

Tree-Like Pattern Dug into the Ground Makes a Desolate Green Field Come Alive

Great land art reimagines the world in ways we never expected. From Andy Goldsworthy’s complex leaf arrangements to Robert Smithson’s iconic Spiral Jetty, earthworks art is a mesmerizing facet of the creative world. Carrying on this great tradition is Krisztián Balogh. His 2012 site-specific installation called World Tree embeds a branch-like motif into the soft grass.

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