3D Resin Sculptures

Artist Dustin Yellin works with lays of resin and collage to build up these incredible humanlike forms that he calls Psychogeographies. Objects used in the sculptures include everyday objects he finds like flowers, bugs, and magazine cut-outs. These incredible pieces are life-size, measuring 72" tall, 27" wide, and 15" deep.

Psychogeography 42, 2013

Psychogeography 39, 2013

Flowers frozen in ice create a visually stunning font

Graphic designer and illustrator Petra Blahoiva created this stunning sans-serif all caps font entitled My Garden.

Leaves, flowers, and berries were collected and frozen into ice to create this short-lived text expression.

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Adam Magyar: Stainless

Adam Magyar had created an incredible film called Stainless, which utilizes slo-mo footage of NYC and Berlin captured with a backpack-concealed camera. When played back the effect reads as a 3-D panoramic pass through a moment frozen in time.

Full video below:


Adam Magyar, Stainless - Shinjuku from Adam Magyar on Vimeo.


For those too impatient, here are two shorter segments:

The Phenakistoscope

(this post originates from visualnews.com)

The Phenakistoscope is the earliest form of animation. I'm fond of this particular one because of the both the endless spiral of rats coming out of the holes, but also because of the added details of realism: the shadows of the rats and also note that the edge of the disc is black, allowing the rats to seemingly crawl AROUND AND BEHIND the edge of the disc.

In truth, the disc is to be viewed through a slit in the disc. Similar to Zoetropes, the disc is spun, and looking through the slit forces the viewer to focus on the image and seamlessly advances the images creating the motion. In the example below, you view the dancers and the slits are visible on either side of the couple:

When exposed to show the entire cycle of motion, these early early motion pictures are excellent resources for understanding animation and are pretty hypnotic.

Imagine how this could be made into a seampunk-esque series of gears and cogs:

Notice how the figure pauses to squat before leaping into the mouth of the lion:

Check out more at The Richard Balzer Collection.

(Awesome) Dad colors his kids drawings

A father who identifies himself as 'Tatsputin' on Reddit takes line drawings made by his children on a three-hour flight he regularly takes and colors them in. Most are done with colored pencil, others on an iPad using ArtStudio.

...why can't more parents be like him and Mica Angela Hendricks?

Crochet portraits

Although I haven't picked up a needle and embroidery floss for a while, I was pleased to see the crochet work of Jo Hamilton.

The portraiture and the dangling pieces of yarn come together to create truly beautiful compositions.

I'm excited to announce my solo art exhibition, THIS GUY WALKS INTO A BAR, at AdventureLand Gallery, located at 1513 N. Western in Chicago. The Opening reception will be Friday, October 4, from 7-10pm. The exhibit will be up through October 25. More information is available at my website.