0 AN ARTIST'S CANVAS USING OLD BOOKS

These awesome artworks by artist Mike Stilkey puts old reclaimed books to good use by using their covers as canvases. What a great idea! Instead of tossing out these old books, he uses his artistic talents to bring them to life and showcases all his artworks in galleries throughout the world.

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

0 FEATURED ARTIST: IRIS SCHIEFERSTEIN

Artist Iris Schieferstein broke into the fashion world like a hurricane, providing an unusual fashion line of shoes with 'grave smell', the main element of the decor which were carcasses of dead animals.  The designer from Berlin gets carcasses of animals from local butcher shops.  The modern day frankenstein later performs her magic to eventually create her one-of-a-kind masterpieces.

The artist discusses life, death and getting her knuckles rapped by the police in her homeland, Germany...

What attracted you to working with dead animals? 
My interest in using animals began in 1990. I was thinking about what we eat whilst I was preparing some fish. They are like garbage. They can’t eat or sleep or whatever. Then I started with chicken, because they look a little bit human-like. I started using them because of the nature of making and fixing, but also to create another material from the animals too. Of course, you could create them for a practical purpose, but for me it’s an artwork.