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LEE STOETZEL, artist

Dropped by mathis.: ""

(Via Dropular.)

Michael Jackson Graffiti

"Michael Jackson stencil on a jersey barrier next to the Artkraft Strauss building." (Photo by Joe Schumacher)

Sketchbook Series: Karen Klassen

Sketchbook Series: Karen Klassen: "

Looking through Karen Klassen’s very impressive and extensive portfolio, you might wonder the preparations she takes to make one of her gorgeous illustrations. Today, on a reader’s request, I am happy to share an inside peek at her many sketchbooks. In these pages, compositions are thought out, sketches for finals pieces are made, type treatments are tested, and then there are many explorations of mediums. She seems to be able to handle a variety of materials expertly from painting a realistic portrait, to collaging layers of textured papers. Thanks so much to Karen for sharing. See more of her work here.

For more sketchbook love check out Doodlers Anonymous’s post of Ted McGrath’s sketchbook.

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(Via Book By Its Cover.)

Dog on Cheeseburgers, William Hundley, photographer

Nothing makes your day like a dog on a bunch of cheeseburgers.

via Flickr

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A bus sculpture made from 50 scrap cars

A sculpture to remind people to take the airport bus and save the emissions of 50 cars. Great idea and apparently it's created quite a buzz.

[from creativity-online] Acne Advertising created a sculpture from of 50 scrap cars to look like the airport shuttle service's coaches alongside the highway to a Swedish airport. Fifty cars represents how many fewer cars are on the road when one airport shuttle bus is full of passengers. The campaign website hosts a live feed from the installation and counts all the cars en route to the airport in the video. Counters exhibit the number of cars next to the equivalent number of buses that would be on the road if those car passengers had taken the shuttle service. via creativity-online

Explosão tipográfica

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O trabalho bacana de Cody Hoyt.

via booooooom"

(Via collecta.)

Leanne Shapton, illustrator

Full of energy and color. Love it.

via Leanne Shapton

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Rivane Neuenschwander on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Rivane Neuenschwander on Flickr - Photo Sharing!: "

via http://flickr.com/photos/sokref1/433927881/in/photostream/

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(Via FFFFOUND! / EVERYONE.)

Lost In A Sushi Moment

A hypnotic video where all it is a camera simply placed on a conveyer belt at a sushi restaurant. It's an inspiring idea that feels like equal parts art, music video and film title sequence. Click on the top link to play.

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The effect of sending the camera around a Tokyo sushi restaurant via the conveyor, coupled with the music on this video, is quite a beautiful thing.

Dennis Wheatley and Stefan McClean were sitting in a Tokyo sushi bar when they had an idea to make this impromptu film:

'We were sitting in this sushi bar pondering how best to set up a camera to film things all by itself whilst we were in Tokyo.
Take our hands out of the equation… let the camera have its own journey.

What we loved about watching this film back was the space that the
camera was able to enter.. extremely personal and scrutinising but not
too lingering.'

The music is titled 'Lost in a Moment' by Shrift.

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Jake.

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(Via Neatorama.)

vivien wayruch + fabian röttger: a nice idea every day.

vivien wayruch + fabian röttger: a nice idea every day.: "

[written by Shape+Color] Oh, A Nice Idea Every Day… you had me at hello. Seriously. I knew I was about to fall in love with German film-makers/photographers/objects of my affection Vivien Wayruch and Fabian Röttger when I read on their site that ‘our work is inspired by pretty much everything, mostly bad tv shows, video games, goulash and ponies.’

C’mon. That’s fucking awesome.

Constantly exploring, the huge variety and amount of work on their site has a kind of infectious, exploratory energy. Their work is fun, experimental, and doesn’t concern itself with much of anything besides the pure delight of trying shit out and seeing what happens. It’s pure and sunny and feels genuinely alive. In one of their photographic series, ‘Flying Things’, various household goods take to the sky. Maybe they were tossed. Maybe they’re levitating. Maybe they’ve just always been up there…

With ‘Magic Hands’, (and, really, who doesn’t want magic hands?) they take the same study of regular objects but this time they create the visual interest through the interplay of the objects with human hands.

I dare you not to enjoy the subtle brilliance of ‘Noodles’:

Their site is definitely worth checking out. On top of way more photographic series, there are also short films, video experiments, and an ongoing personal project, ‘Every Day’, featuring small and lovely photo experiments. Hence… A Nice Idea Every Day. More please.

To close off, two shots from their series ‘Colour Me Summer.’ These just make me happy…

Via Today and Tomorrow

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