Art
March 14, 2012

D*Face Takes Over the Streets of New York

UK-based street artist D*Face has just recently made the trip to the States and transformed urban walls across New York City with his Roy Lichtenstein-inspired murals. The three public works known as Love Her, Hate Him, Handle With Care, and Grim Tales each reflect D*Face's comicbook style. In this new set of street murals, the artist recreates a character eerily similar to the skull-faced man in a suit from Beauty and the Skeletor.

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Art
March 12, 2012

Geometric Faces Fused Together

France-based artists David Mesguich and Valentin Van der Meulen combined their creative efforts to construct this large triple-headed sculpture known as FOLDS. The structure, made of polypropylene, presents an interesting image of a series of three-dimensional, geometric, bodiless heads. It seems like two halves of a face pulling away from a centered skull. There is a remarkable sensation of animated movement in this stationary sculpture that makes it an anomaly.

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Art
March 12, 2012

Melting Disco Balls

Try as I may but I just can't get these images out of my head! Currently floating around the web are these melting disco balls by Rotganzen, a Rotterdam, Netherlands-based artist collective made up of Robin Stam, Joeri Horstink and Mark van Wijk. Is it just me or do these disco balls look like they've had enough? Maybe they're just in a “resting” state…being the life of the party must be hard, right?

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Uncategorized
March 9, 2012

Revolutionary Himalaya Water Tower

During this year's 2012 Skyscraper competition, hosted by Evolo, the first place award was presented to designers Zhi Zheng, Hongchuan Zhao, and Dongbai Song for their revolutionary water tower concept. Their proposed idea, the Himalaya Water Tower, involves a skyscraper that sits high in the Himalaya Mountain range, surrounded by 40% of the world's fresh water.

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