Selleck Waterfall Sandwich
Just what it says. Visit the Selleck Waterfall Sandwich website for more, including animated sandwiches and a random high-speed car. Be sure you scroll down far enough to hear the theme song…and be warned, it will stick in your head.
(Thanks to Nick for the submission!)
Liu Bolin, Invisible Man
Here’s a guy you never want to play hide-and-seek with.
Artist Liu Bolin, from Shandong, China, camouflages himself into his surroundings with paint and painstaking effort. The effect is truly amazing. Click on a thumbnail to see it larger, then use your Back button to return to this page. (My favorite is the last one…it took me a while to find him.)
(Thanks to Rory for the submission!)
Mysterious Letters on Kickstarter
I recently ran across Kickstarter.com, a website that provides “a funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, inventors, explorers…”. Propose a project, and if you’re lucky enough to make it onto the site you can promote your project and bring in pledges from site visitors. Bit by bit, dollar by dollar, projects are successfully funded every day. A pretty cool concept.
A lot of the projects are what you’d expect: books to be published, movies to be made, bands who want to “come play in your town”. But here’s a wacky one that caught my eye: Mysterious Letters, a project by two artists in Ireland who want to send a hand-written letter to everyone on the planet. So far they’ve covered one town in Ireland (see the video on the website) and raised $1,518 towards their $2,000 goal. But my favorite part is what you get for your pledge. In particular:
Pledge $5 or more: You will have your name written in calligraphy on a list that will be read in a reverential tone of voice into the letterbox as we post all of the letters. (Specific accents requestable.)
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Pledge $24 or more: You will receive a unique hand-written postcard composed whilst we were sober, clear-headed and utterly focused on the task.
Pledge $25 or more: You will receive a unique hand-scrawled postcard written while we were drunk, which we’ll regret horribly by the time it arrives.
Not surprisingly, the highest number of pledges are in the $25-or-more category.
This project not your cup of tea? No worries, there are plenty of others to choose from. Your pledge could definitely improve someone’s day!
Psychiatric hotline typography animation
Typography animation is a cool computer arts technique that creates animated video art using primarily typographic characters.
OK, not sure that really made sense, so let me show you. Here’s a fave:
(Thanks to Betty for the submission!)
Perspective photos
Some cool perspective photos from the Russian photo/video site, Interesno.dn.ua (click a thumbnail to see a larger image, then use your “Back” button to return to this page):
(Thanks to Tina for the submission!)
Toothpick cities
Artist Stan Munro (although he prefers “architectural historian”) builds entire cities out of toothpicks and a whole lotta glue. According to the Telegraph article:
He has built structures out of toothpicks since his school days when he was asked to build a 6-inch tall structure that could hold an egg.
His was so strong it could hold his desk.
Here are some of my favorites, or check out the entire gallery:
Post-it love
This reminded me of our soon-to-be-married friends (and Day Improver subscribers) Olivia and Drew. A little over a month ’til The Big Day! Ah, love…we’re clearly fans.
Like having fun with stickies? Check out Post-it stop motion as well!
(Thanks to Betty for the submission!)
Post-it stop motion
A student’s senior project for Savannah College of Art & Design. 3 months planning, 4 days shooting, 6,000+ Post-It notes. Too cool:
And here’s the making-of:
(Thanks to Steve for the submission!)
Amazing shadow art
Paul and I are big fans of shadow art, and here are some great examples.
First, a compilation of works by different artists, including the Pilobolus dance company, artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster (they create art from their own garbage), and Shigeo Fukuda (made from 848 forks, knives, and spoons):
Second, a car commercial for the VW Phaeton–a far cry from my one-handed little hopping bunny:
3D chalk drawings from Julian Beever
More amazing sidewalk art from popular 3D chalk artist Julian Beever:
(Thanks to Lauren for the submission!)
