Art
February 23, 2012

Vinyl Record Faces

Are those heads popping out of vinyl records? In one word, yes. Italians Angelo Bramanti and Giuseppe Siracusa of L017 take waste materials or recycled objects and create art out of them. They find the “charm” in things that have been “abandoned, thrown away, discarded, forgotten or intentionally removed.” This stop-you-in-your-track piece is made up of five overlapping vinyl records that have each been shaped on one side to create distinct heads. Fantastic!

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Art
February 21, 2012

25 Stunning Examples of Shape-Shifting Smoke Art

Disclosure: This post is coming to you from MiO. Change your water. Change your day. What do you want to change? After looking at some fantastic photo manipulations of water, we thought we'd turn our attention to the art of smoke. Today, we've rounded up a stunning collection of photos that show how digital artists can change its look and shape to take on different but all too familiar forms.

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Art
February 19, 2012

Regina Silveira’s Magnificent Illusions

Renowned Brazilian artist Regina Silveira creates incredible illusions that play with our senses and messes with our minds. She invites the viewer see huge shadows or watch as toy cars make their messy track marks on a gallery's white walls. In Lodz, Polland, she created an installation called “Depth” where she incorporated the gallery's architecture, particularly its windows, to show a never-ending abyss one could actually walk on.

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Design
February 16, 2012

Innovative Home Office with an Overhead Library

Who needs an office at work when you've got a home office like this? National Geographic Society's Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis called on architect and designer Travis Price to construct his very own personal at-home workspace in Washington, DC. Price's architecture and design firm Travis Price Architects took on the task of creating this unconventionally visionary design for the multifaceted scholar.

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