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  • Jud Turner - Sculpture Gallery - Duel Nature - 2010
    "'Duel Nature' is my latest 'Impossible Flying Machine' sculpture. It's about the unnatural act of war-making, expressed by heavily arming 2 trees; it's also about the fact that much of what appears to be pastoral nature is also a war between plants for sunlight and nutrients played out very slowly."
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  • Strange Worlds on the Behance Network
    My work involves the construction of small-scale meticulously detailed models using various materials and objects to create emotive landscapes.

Links:

• Interactive Storytelling Jewelry – Quirky Accessories That Tell a Story Each Time They’re Worn (GALLERY) – Interactive jewelry is a new concept found in the intriguing work of Allison Wells. Her pieces exercise elements of humor, play and interactivity.
• Miniature oranges from modelling clay – How to make highly realistic cut and peeled oranges from modelling clay. You can apply the same techniques to other items.
• Czech artist tells European Union to lighten up – Instead, he got together with his pals and made an eight-ton sculpture called “Entropia” that depicted Romania as a “Dracula theme park,” the Netherlands as being underwater “with only the tops of minarets sticking out,” Bulgaria “as a series of squat toilets,” Sweden as being “packed into an IKEA box” and so on.
• David Cerny – Sculptures – Kits – On-the-sprue art. A rock star, Jesus, The Artist and others as plastic model kits.
• Arts & Genomics :: VivoArts – This course will introduce students to issues and concepts relating to contemporary arts practices dealing with living biological systems (sometimes referred to as wet biology, art practice, Bioart, environmental art, body art, breeding practices). Emphasis is placed on developing critical thought, ethical issues and cross-disciplinary experimentation in art (art/science collaborations, art as research).
• DIYbio – DIYbio is an organization that aims to help make biology a worthwhile pursuit for citizen scientists, amateur biologists, and DIY biological engineers who value openness and safety. This will require mechanisms for amateurs to increase their knowledge and skills, access to a community of experts, the development of a code of ethics, responsible oversight, and leadership on issues that are unique to doing biology outside of traditional professional settings.
• Dangerous Liaisons and other stories of transgenic pheasant embryology – we make money not art – If we are in the process of engaging in auto-evolution, then diversity, the inherent biological love of difference, implies that the human genome should be engineered with as wide a range of genre humans as there are art movements and swanky tastes in the world. Posthuman integrity is only guaranteed by an expanded aesthetics of anatomy, the more obscure the better… ! Let’s alter our identity as a species by birthing versions of ourselves into every permutative potential of fleshbound imagination.
• who killed bambi? » Blog Archive » Julia Murakami – Anatomy of a fairy tale by Julia Murakami.

Image Credit: © David Cerny

Links:

• Swedish artist uses “unethical” cash to fund cultural scholarships – He chose companies involved in what he called the “five main unethical industries”: arms manufacture (Lockheed Martin), tobacco (Swedish Match), alcohol, pornography and gambling. “My investments are [doing] better the worse the situation in the world [becomes]. Wars, drinking problems and so on lead to growing profits for the companies I invest in. But people do not understand that others get hurt to increase their fortunes
• I Fell In Love With The Majesty of Colors – I Fell In Love With The Majesty of Colors is a poetic exploration of alienation and social interaction. Are you a man dreaming you´re a cthonic leviathan? Or a cthonic leviathan dreaming you´re a man? Or are you a player trying to deduce a finite number of endings?
• I wish I were the Moon – There are five potential endings, and to the degree that there is gameplay, it’s a puzzle of a sort, working to uncover all five. It’s also rather sweet, in a vaguely romantic sort of way.
• Build Your Own Woolly Tiny (Mammoth) – Following in the footsteps of the Tinysaur, the Woolly Tiny is a miniature woolly mammoth skeleton. Completed, he stands about 3/4 an inch tall and an inch long. He’s seen here storming my laptop, trying to get to the freezer.
• Scratching at Cardboard – Scratching at Cardboard: Poetry & Short Stories Selected as the Best of the Whittaker Prize 2008
• Keyboard cemetery – Keyboard cemetery by Paul Chan. It is a physical referent to Alternumerics, a work on fonts that explores the relationship between language and interactivity by transforming the simple computer font into an art form that explores the fissure between what we write and what we mean.
• Floating Island Sculptures – 3D Art by Markus Hofko (GALLERY) – 3D replicas of miniature pieces of land and the imagined life on them. It seems that sometimes things make more sense when seen in smaller scales.
• Betty Pepper – Home – A strand of humour runs through Betty’s work using word games, hidden messages and secrets. The work features ‘grown-up’ interests, but they are treated with a child-like attitude.
• Recursive Generation — The Technium – Progress, intelligence, and life itself are all fueled at the fundamental level by bootstrapping, self-creation, autopoeis, auto-genesis — all names for recursive organization.
• The Video-Game Programmer Saving Our 21st-Century Souls – Jason Rohrer’s solitary and stubborn quest for a future in which pixels and code and computers will make you cry and feel and love
• Quotes on Experimenting, Writing, Art and Life | Confident Writing – Some quotes on experimenting.

Links:

• The Book Design Review – I’ve always imagined any Silicon Valley complex full of faceless, like-minded programming drones, and I assume that’s what most other people imagine as well. So, it’s not a far stretch of the imagination to go with pixilated peeps.”
• Playpen » Blog Archive » Playing Word Games in Blog Comments – Word-association and other games going on in the comments of Fail Blog posts.
• 100 Must-See Art Blogs (of Every Form) | Art Career – These blogs can help keep you in the loop and provide inspiration for art of just about any kind from illustration to performance art so you don’t miss out on a single opportunity.
• lines and colors :: a blog about drawing, painting, illustration, comics, concept art and other visual arts » Larry Roibal – Roibal’s blog is often devoted to portraits of another sort, chronicling his practice of sketching character studies of people currently in the news directly on newspaper articles about those people.
• http://www.boingboing.net/2008/11/25/trainset-in-a-pocket.html – Pocket-watch that’s also a miniature train set
• Matt and Fred the Moose « Cardboard Safari – Moose Head by Cardboard Safari. It comes flat-packed and you assemble it yourself.

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• Ana Serrano » Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog – Playful paper sculpture work of Ana Serrano. I love this piece, Cartonlandia, a vibrant cardboard microcosm of perfect little houses and vehicles.
• New Art: Fly Me to the Moon – Line drawings of complex fantastical architectures.
• Esc Clock won’t let you be tardy – Designlaunches.com – Another alarm, this time fashioned as an Esc key.
• Book illustrated with type: Victor & Susie » Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog – Victor and Susie is a cute illustrated book in which the illustrations are all created with typography.

• How to make money with free software…(not what you think) – I approached the subject ‘Netherlands and Architecture’ from two points of view. On one hand I paid tribute to the rich Dutch architecture history and on the other hand to the contemporary quality of Dutch architecture.
• Text-adventure game award-winners of 2008: Everybody Dies takes bronze! – Boing Boing – The 14th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition and keeper of the old-school text-game torch, recently declared its winners.
• Artsy Games Incubator » Games – Some of the games created during the Artsy Games Incubator

 
Image Credit: © SPE IDE – Stani’s Python Editor

Links:

• Naughty Jewelry – Provocative Pendants and Risque Rings (GALLERY) – This collection of sexy, risque jewelry includes raunchy resin rings from brune-woehlke.de
• 3D printer uses office paper – Hack a Day – A brand new rapid prototyping machine. The Mcor Matrix forgoes the standard of expensive and rare build materials by using A4 office paper. The machine selectively deposits glue on the sheet of paper: more glue on the cross-section, less on the waste.
• Ponoko! | Illustration Friday – Ponoko is a very cool service from New Zealand that takes your designs and laser cuts them on demand into a variety of materials like acrylic, felt, wood, and cardboard.

 Image Credit: © brune-woehlke

Links:

• Mattias Inks: Canary Town – The most canaerial link this week – Mattias Adolfsson’s moleskine sketch of a canary town. Click on the image to see it in full-size on Mattias’ site, and while you’re there have a look at some of his other fantastic work.
• Hanging Around With “A l’Heure de l’Apéro” – The tiniest people are definitely having all the fun. Her one-of-a-kind creations incorporate miniature handmade figurines (less than 0.8″ each) captured in graceful, chain-wrapped movements.
• Watches: Hiranao Tsuboi Minimalist LED Watch is, Sadly, Just a Concept – The LED lights forgo the need for a watch face by being interwoven with the links on the wristband.
• Your source for all things wicked and awesome: Bela Borsodi – Bela Borsodi’s work is equal parts caricature and vanguard, and products that stand on their own. Instead of models, he resorts to all sorts of objects to aid in the spotlight, be it balloons, wires, collages, illustrations, and all that you can think of.

Image Credit: © Mattias Adolfsson

Links:

• Scaffolding: Not just for construction workers anymore on Flickr – Photo Sharing! – In complex systems science, “scaffolding” are those structures necessary to move from an initial state to an emerged form… Once the new state has emerged, the scaffolding comes down… BUT, without the scaffolding, no change would have occurred.
• 10 Writing Reasons To Take More Photographs | Confident Writing – What’s the relationship between taking photos and writing with greater confidence: realising the power of our words?
• PingMag – The Tokyo-based magazine about “Design and Making Things” » Archive » Yay! Best Of Design Week Tokyo 2008 – All the new hot stuff in artful design and designful art, includes “The Most Delicate Irony By Porcelain Figurines” and “The Simplest Practicability” – a stamp calendar where you tear off a stamp each day.
• need ideas? | Illustration Friday – A fun little sheet on Ways to Get Ideas.
• 51JapaneseCharacters – “51 Japanese Characters” is an insightful collection of figurines showcasing several typical members and cultural phenomena of Japanese society – an easy and playful approach to Japan.
• Jolly Good Then | Writer Dad – I’ve also dreamt of earning a living by creating things of value, and then inserting them into my own agenda.

Links:

• On Seeing and Noticing – Book Covers – The double-function of the night gown being pulled off the hangar and the woman’s shoulder creates double meaning, contiguous with the double meaning of the title.
• Book Covers – Covers is dedicated to the appreciation of book cover design.
• Shapeways | passionate about creating – Shapeways is a unique community that helps you turn your designs into reality with 3D printing.
• Papercraft heart made of rotating gears » Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog – Papercraft heart made of rotating gears. Watch the video and wait for the magic moment when the contraption is cranked into life.

Links:

• The Unfinished Swan – The Unfinished Swan is a first-person painting game set in an entirely white world. Players can splatter paint to help them find their way through an unusual garden.
• PingMag – The Tokyo-based magazine about “Design and Making Things” » Archive » Emotional Tempest — In A Snow Globe – Tiny little dramas from our everyday madness and transformed them into short therapeutic scenes: What started as miniature snow globes a couple of years ago, has now evolved in veritable landscape panoramas that depict the elaborate bleakness of an emotional icy desert populated by all sorts of creatures.
• How To Do What You Love Without Selling Your Soul | Zen Habits – Is there such a thing as authentic marketing? Because we all know, your business isn’t going to sell itself. Even if you’re not in business for yourself, and you just want to actually enjoy what you do for a living, you have to find a way to market yourself.
• 10 Ways to Avoid Writing Insecurity | Copyblogger – The first keystroke is always the hardest, but begetting something from nothing is what separates us from the lower species (well, that and opposable thumbs).

Image Credit: © Ian Dallas

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