I know there are fans of coffee art among the frankylicious readers, so I thought I might as well post a link to it here. Even though I would not want to wait or have a barista make a lovely piece of art I would ruin by stirring it up. No, I never would waste any of the guests’ time layering flavoured mocchas. Anyway, here you go : Art in My Coffee.
Category Arts
Why Not Be Creative And Buy A Simpsons Stained Glass For Your Condo
There are no limits anymore nowadays and if body art is one of the great and regularly covered topics here at frankylicious, we certainly need to spend more time to ‘real life art’. Like stained windows. No, not your operating system, FFS!
Windows as in windows, those small glass things you look out in the real world trough! Yeah, windows. That’s exactly what I said!
And why shouldn’t you have your own original Simpsons Stained Window?
Source: Stained windows master Joseph Cavalieri.
Arcade Expressionism Paintings
Three creative paintings by Brock Davis. I guess everyone remembers these games, ya all that old already, aren’t you?
Organs as Pills or Pills as Organs
Sara Asnaghi is both pills and organs artist and what way to better express this as with pills sculpted as organs.
Cartography Nerds: 10 Awesome Map Tattoos
WE here at frankylicious are big tattoo fans and urgently need more ink ourselves. Recently the attention was drawn to this gorgeous whole back world map tattoo and today we have some more cool map tattoos to show you.
The whole world, tattooed over both feet is a great concept and it looks ace. Too bad that Britain is barely visible and Eurasia and Africa need both feet. Ace tattoo though.
In the same spirit this world map spread over both cheeks. It is not clear if this is a tattoo or a temporary airbrush, but no matter what it is this makes anyone want to explore the desert. Read more
Flightpattern by Gwen Vanhee
It surely seems to be a video heavy Friday afternoon so what’s a video more? Gwen Vanhee, a fellow Belgian, is a master of audioresponsive video. Especially hand-drawn art. He released his latest video ‘Flightpattern’ some days ago.
Also check out his other pieces of art.
Finally: Man as Industrial Palast Animation
This has taken too long to be animated, but finally Henning Lederer did it: Fitz Kahns’ Man As Industrial Palast (animated).
For thousands of years human beings have used metaphors as ways of understanding the body. We talk about our ‘ear drums’, or our ‘mind’s eye’. When we are in love we say our hearts are ‘bursting’ or ‘broken’. When we are nervous we say we have ‘butterflies in our stomach’. When we are impatient we have ‘itchy feet’. These familiar images help to explain the unfamiliar and to comprehend the complexity of our bodies.
The image above, by the artist Fritz Kahn, shows the nervous system as a complex electronic signalling system, complete with buttons, charts and busy workers. Fritz Kahn’s books and illustrations explored the inner machinery of the human body, using metaphors of modern industrial life. Kahn turned the brain into a complex factory with light projectors, conveyor belts, secretaries and cinema screens; he showed the journeys of blood cells as locomotives encircling the globe; and he compared bones to modern building materials such as reinforced concrete.
Cristiano Who?
I’m a latecomer to this one, but it certainly makes you think ‘Cristiano Who?’. Cristiano Ronaldo certainly wishes he were as good as the guys from Team Ryouko, even if the majority of this video is edited.
FYI, Team Ryouko is a martial arts team, not some kind of football juggling group.
Font Nerds: LAIKA Is The Future of Fonts
No of course not Laika the dog but LAIKA the font.
A font that is able to move between its extremes in real time. An interactive font that is able to respond to its surroundings. A font that questions deadlocked dogmas and throws up completely new design questions, and thus has the potential to revolutionise the understanding of digital typography.
Test run LAIKA here.
Nocturne by Vincent Laforet
All that really needs to be said about this video is that it was shot with a DSLR. HD-DSLR. In 1080p. Without using any external, additional light source other than the poor lightning in the industrial area of East 6th and Mateo St. in LA.
With a photo camera it was shot.
Without additional external light sources.
Mainly shot in ISO 6400, except for some shots in ISO 3200.
The story behind this video can be read at Vincent Laforet’s blog. The video is viewable in full 1080p at SmugMug.
The camera? The soon to be launched Canon 1D MKIV. Go ahead for $4.999 this is a steal. Yes, you’ll have to steal some lenses as well. The only question left over is whether the built-in micro is good enough for (hard) rock concerts.
Ukraine’s Got Talent!?
It seems a nice performance, acceptably cheesy music included, but to make it the winner of Ukraine’s Got Talent 2009 show makes me wonder of the quality of the candidates. It is certain that Simon Cowell would not vote for this, nor would Paula Abdul find this *hic* interesting. Wait, that was a different show or?
Anyway, sacrifice almost 9 minutes of yours and look at this dramatic performance of how Germany invaded Ukraine in WWII… in sand on a lightbox!
Home of TV Series Stars Blueprints: Bruce Wayne Mansion
Artist Mark Bennet has several prints of maps of the house of TV Series stars up for sale. Interesting or boring, I don’t know. The jury’s still out on that one but a map of the House of The Jetons or the Bruce Wayne Mansion always is welcome here.
More blueprints at Mark Bennet’s online gallery.
Give Him Three Balls and Send Him to Bermuda
Michael Moschen and balls go hand in hand. Now he even uses a triangle. Awesome art. And juggling.
And no that wasn’t David Bowie juggling that crystal ball in Labyrinth but the master himself, AKA Michael Moschen.
Frankenfashion
Although the music in this video rather annoying seems, I like the edits and can perfectly understand that the video has been exclusively commissioned by Dazed & Confused.
Exclusively commissioned by Dazed & Confused and featured as part of onedotzero and Dazed’s Fashion in Film program at the BFI, Frankenfashion is being screened alongside the works of Chris Cunningham, Solve Sundsbo & Saam Farahmand. In his contribution, Turvey takes inspiration from the mythical Dr Frankenstein who took parts from different bodies to make a new being. Here, a macabre sequence of events sees fashion follow suit, leading to a surreal and transformational climax.
