The installation ‘Penelopiad’ by Lightning & Kinglyface aka Anna Fulmine and Victoria Shahrokh, uses a white, stretched canvas as a metaphor for human skin. Named after a novella by Margaret Atwood, the artwork fills the entire room, stretching from the floor to the ceiling, held down by eerie white hands.
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Willie Witte created this video, using printed out still frames from videos. Nothing in the video is computer generated trickery: it simply uses clever camera tricks and lots of printed photographs to create the seamless transitions. ‘All the trickery took place literally in front of the camera,’ Witte says.
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Food Photographer Beth Galton and Food Stylist Charlotte Omnès collaborated for the series ‘Cut Food’. We can’t decide if looking at the pictures makes us sick or hungry but it is definetely a fun idea to provide a peek at food in a way that defies gravity- slicing it right down the middle in whatever container it’s normally found in.
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The ‘Parkhaus Berlin’ is a showroom founded in 2002 by product designer Anja Witte. She started the business as a felt crafting manufacture which steadily built up its own esthetic identity. You can still purchase products made of felt like an oversized seat pad or a couple of smaller accessories.
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DIY is a movement within skateboarding which operates outside civic and societal norms. Through the utilisation of skater-constructed spaces, which are ordinarily, an adaptation of existing, but often abandoned, terrain in both urban and rural settings, the modern skateboarder transcends the need to exist within a more conventional environment.
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We came across the candid statements of Wasted Rita dozens of times when strolling through diverse tumblr blogs. Thus we are very glad to finally introduce you to the author of these straightforward artworks. Wasted Rita is a graphic designer and illustrator conceived in New Jersey, working and living in Porto, Portugal.
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Westpol architects created this wonderfully picturesque spot in Vöcklabruck, Austria where visitors are able to sit in the middle of a pond without getting wet. The scenic landscape includes a path leading down to a hollowed out circular area where people can take a seat and relax amongst nature.
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“Did you flee?”, you asked, found a retreat for protection and safety of course, but you’re not asking: Why did you escape? Who knows the answer? Who says: I do feel anxiety when I look behind, the familiar used up, away, just away. Inside it screams, outwardly feigned interest slopped out of fuzzy throats. Watch out! Don’t spill or clean it up later.
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Craig Redman aka Darcel Disappoints designed the cover of Mercedes-Benz Mixed Tape’s 50th anniversary issue. Click here to download the edition featuring ten hand-picked new finds. mb! met the illustrator in his New York studio in the Lower East Side to discuss art and music.
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‘Forest’ is a large interactive musical laser installation by Marshmallow Laser Feast. This giant interactive forest covers almost 450 square meters and is composed of over 150 musical ‘trees’ made of rods and lasers. The audience can freely explore the space, physically tapping, shaking, plucking, and vibrating the trees to trigger sounds and lasers.
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The world of iGNANT expresses itself in terms of ideas and creative output. By means of the internet esthetic standards have been spreading faster than ever before, and the conclusions drawn from new ideas are within a new range now.
