We have been quietly watching Belgrade-born Ana Kraš for some time now. She is working as a product designer, a photographer, and a model. Her presence has an immediate calming influence and so does her work; every detail has a sentimental, inspirational value. Truth and authenticity found in Kraš’s nature, her designs are a reflection of her personality.
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Swedish Design Studio Human since 1982 combined 288 analogue clocks to create this installation of shifting monochrome patterns, forming letters and numbers. This piece is called ‘A Million Times’ for Victor Hunt Designart and features 576 motors which can be controlled via a customized software on an iPad.
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Ray Gascoigne has been around boats his whole life, as a shipwright, a merchant sailor, and now as a ship builder on the smallest dry dock there is: a bottle. This short film, by Smith Journal and Melbourne-based production studio Commoner, picks through the wood chips to tell the story of a craft honed over 60 years, and the man behind it.
Italian athlete Roberta Mancino is an award-winning wingsuit pilot, skydiver, BASE jumper, kick boxer, free diver, and part-time model. Having began her career jumping into thin air only twelve years ago (after forcing a friend to take her skydiving), Mancino’s fast rise to the top of the almost monolithically male world of skydiving and BASE jumping is no small feat.
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In 2007, 26-year-old real estate agent John Maloof walked into an auction house and placed a $380 bid on a box of 30,000 prints and negatives from an unknown photographer. Realizing the street photographs of 1950s/60s era Chicago and New York were of unusually high quality he purchased another lot of photographer’s work
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Daniel Franke created a moving sculpture from the recorded motion data of a real person. A dancer had been recorded by three cameras while visualizing a musical piece with her body. The camera also reacts to sound and supports the physical imitation of the musical piece by the performer.
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This short video by Russian art collective FaceHeads is a fun exercise in spontaneous art-making. Narrated by Carl, the talking piece of cardboard, Instant Face Maker details how to create a variety of accidental characters by marking a page full of erratic lines and superimposing a set of eyes on top.
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‘Choros’ is the latest experimental art film by Michael Langan, that explores the movement of the human body, specifically the motion of a female dancer. Langan layered 32 sequential instances of a single movements and stretched them out over time. Thus he created a hypnotic impression, making us feel like watching the waves in the ocean.
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Ever wondered who is the clever brain, making sure that your new kicks are always slightly better than the ones you had before? It is very likely that Mike Friton is one of them. Mike is is a freelance shoemaker, weaver, paper sculptor and innovator with over 30 years of experience at Nike. His innovations are responsible for many elements of athletic footwear that people wear today.
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Artist Carlo Vega learned of geometry and the perfection in logic from his mathematician grandfather, and absorbed a potent iconography and sense of spiritual mystery from his Catholic surroundings. This knowledge is clearly shining through when watching his video ‘Gray Keys’, an animation of geometric lines and shapes morphing into each other.
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