Art
April 29, 2011

Psychedelic Room that Swallows Human Beings

Japanese artist Yosuke Goda creates living, breathing rooms that swallow human beings. Armed with black markers, Goda has no mercy for the surrounding white walls, floor, and ceiling. A pychedelic organism is born, with a body that looks similar to the roots and vines of an old, tall tree. The monster appears to constantly grow, as if it has no self-control and needs to furiously feed itself..

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Art
April 26, 2011

The Most Beautiful Origami Art

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. As they say, the rest is history.

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Art
April 25, 2011

Giant House of Cards Sculpture

Auckland-based designer Fletcher Vaughan believes that the second half of the 20th century was a wild party, full of gas-guzzling cars, cheap energy, and vast personal wealth from a booming economy. Fast forward to today and we are waking up to a nasty hangover, facing the consequences of last night's excess. To represent the the precarious balancing act we are performing with our planet, he created this giant house of cards installation titled Collapse.

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Art
April 22, 2011

Geometric Japanese Art

When it comes to geometry many of us cringe at the thought of it. Tokyo-born artist Ray Morimura not only embraces it, he is wonderful at creating art that celebrates it! His beautiful woodblock prints are known to be filled with abstract geometric forms and beautiful pastel colors.

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