0 DIRTY CAR ART GALLERY by SCOTT WADE

Artist and painter Scott Wade from his native Texas, USA,  produces his art in a very unusual way - with dust!  Dust on dirty cars to be exact. Using the rear windows of... well, dirty cars as his canvas, Scott creates stunning detail scenes and images.

The formally trained artist typically employs the surfaces of cars belonging to he and his wife, though he often creates intricate works of art from the grime covering the vehicles belonging to strangers. 

Wade has developed a portfolio which features recreations of famous pieces including works such as Johan Vermeer's 'Girl with a Pearl Earring', Leonardo da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa', in addition to portraits of contemporary popular figures such as footballer Ronaldinho Gaúcho.



Mona Lisa/Starry Night 

This image featuring Leonardo's "Mona Lisa" with Vincent Van Gogh's "Starry Night" is shown at its peak. These images drawn in the dust are obviously quite impermanent. One of the cool things about them is how they change over time. More dust accumulates as the car is driven down the road. Early morning dew streaks and dots the image, creating a patina. A light shower creates a deeper patina... Photo Credit: Scott Wade

0 JENS PRAET'S SHREDDED MAGAZINE FURNITURE

Florence-based belgian designer jens praet has sent designboom his latest collection of shredded magazine furniture - to be unveiled at design miami.

The series was developed in collaboration with the publication elle decor, where kilos of the glossy leftover magazines were transformed into a mass of splintered paper - making up the main ingredients for the set.

'shredded' collection, 2012 by jens praet
shredded elle decor magazines, clear resin
image © theo van pinxteren, courtesy of industry gallery

0 FEATURED ARTIST: FREYA JOBBINS

Australian artist Freya Jobbins's sculptures are assemblages of used dolls parts and recycled plastic toys.  Her precision and attention to detail, results in the most captivating humanoid forms, unique pieces of art.

0 FEATURED ARTIST: TRINA MERRY

Trina Merry is a fine art and avante garde fashion bodypainter based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the owner of the bodypaint installation and performance troupe the ART ALIVE GALLERY. She has been a bodypainter since 2006 when introduced to it by Australian band the Red Paintings on a Dresden Dolls Tour.

Trina is very passionate about this most ancient and simultaneously contemporary artform. “Bodypaint creates a special connection to a person that other visual art forms have trouble accomplishing; it’s a distinctly human experience”.

After graduating with a B.A. in film, she worked on many major films & TV shows in the art department. She decided to move back to the Bay Area to focus on her own art and was exhibiting in up to 9 gallery shows a month, selling ¾ of her work.


The Human Motorcycle Project

Trina Merry and her ART ALIVE Gallery team created three bodypainted human motorcycles to promote the International Motorcycle Roadshow tour starting November 2nd.   Through teamwork, they pushed through impossibility together to create a cutting-edge work of art.  It is one of the most ambitious and highly inventive bodypaintings ever created.  This creative team invented living human Transformers-  Cruiser, Sport Bike and a Dirt Bike - that can breathe, move & even be tickled.

0 INDOOR CLOUDS BY BERNDNAUT SMILDE

These awesome photos of clouds by dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde are by no means photoshopped.


The clouds are generated using a smoke machine, but Smilde must carefully monitor a room's humidity and atmosphere in order to get the smoke to hang so elegantly, and with such life-like form. Backlighting is used to bring out shadows from within the cloud, to give it that look of a looming and ominous rain cloud.

Nimbus - Sala Murat, 2012 Cloud in room

Sala Murat, Bari, IT

As part of 'Chaos Theory'

curated by Fausta Bolettieri 

and Roberto Lacarbonara

photo: Andrea Leonetti

2 BRIDGE VLAARDINGSE VAART - THE 'TWIST' BRIDGE BY WEST 8 ARCHITECTS

The BRIDGE VLAARDINGSE VAART or the "Bridge Over the 'Vlaardingse' Canal, is a bridge designed by West 8 Architects with structural engineers ABT.  Spanning approximately 42 meters, this bridge connnects the Holy-Zuid district and the Broekpolder district over Vlaardingse Vaart in The Netherlands.

Photos © Jeroen Musch

0 WASTE LANDSCAPE BY ÉLISE MORIN AND CLÉMENCE ELIARD

“Waste Landscape”, created by designers Élise Morin and Clémence Eliard, at the CENTQUATRE in Paris, France, was a 600 square meters artificial undulating landscape covered by an armor of 60,000 unsold or collected CDs, which were sorted and hand-sewn.

It is well known that CDs are condemned to gradually disappear from our daily life, and to later participate in the construction of immense open-air, floating or buried toxic waste reception centers.

1 FEATURED ARTIST: LIU BOLIN

Liu Bolin

Liu Bolin (Chinese: 刘勃麟; pinyin: Liú Bólín) is an artist born in China’s Shandong province in 1973, and he earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Shandong College of Arts in 1995 and his Master of Fine Arts from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 2001. His work has been exhibited in museums around the world.

Also known as "The Invisible Man", Liu Bolin's most popular works are from his "Hiding in the City" series; photographic works that began as performance art in 2005.

Liu Bolin, Hiding in the City - Panda, 2012

1 CREATIVE SHOE DESIGNS COLLECTION #1

Shoes by Maskull

Maskull Lasserre was born in Canada, 1978, and spent his early childhood in South Africa. He has a BFA from Mount Allison University (Visual Art and Philosophy), and an MFA from Concordia University.



"Caribou"