Design
September 7, 2015

Find Inner Peace by Creating Your Very Own Japanese Zen Garden

Architecture studio Talmon Biran has designed an award-winning garden that viewers can playfully rearrange. “AROUND ABOUT is a ‘dry landscape’ installation inspired from the concept of Japanese Zen gardens,” Talmon Biran told Contemporist. “A set of large roundabouts is to be placed inside a field of gravel. These roundabouts, whose design is inspired from agricultural machinery, include tines below their bottom beam which rakes the gravel in circular patterns as the roundabout spins.

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Art
September 6, 2015

Artist Suspends 1,200 Hand-Painted Cubes to Create a Pixelated Portrait

Laguna Beach, California-based artist Andrew Myers suspended 1,200 hand-painted acrylic cubes from 800 yards of stainless steel wire to create an remarkably precise sculpture that, when viewed head-on, forms the pixelated face of a man. Titled My Dealer is Not a Square, the unique portrait depicts Lawrence Cantor, Myers' art dealer, in a configuration that's both abstract and impressively true to life.

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Photography
September 4, 2015

Blended Images of Classic Books Give the Magical Stories New Life

Photographer Ellen Cantor has found a way to artistically express that books are the source of her favorite memories. “My current project, entitled Prior Pleasures, is deeply influenced by my love of literature,” she revealed. “This series explores memory and preservation of the past while ensuring the creation of a visual legacy for the next generation. The books photographed for this series are the ones I have carried with me since childhood.

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