New York City bike racks designed by David Byrne
Back in 2008, the New York City Department of Transportation installed nine bike racks designed by David Byrne. Each bike rack is meant to represent the neighborhood in which it is installed—the rack on Wall Street is a dollar sign, for instance. The bike racks were originally installed as temporary public art works, but they are now on permanent loan to the City.
Because urban art can be both useful and interactive.
(Source: Laughing Squid)
A short documentary of a passionate Japanese sword making master
What craftsmanship and tradition are all about.
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Dan Tague uses creative folding to make bold statements out of dollar bills.
Live Free or Die — Dollar Bills Folded into Statements
via Boooooom
How to tie a tie
Angry Birds lunch by Martinha. =) It seems mothers nowadays motivate their kids to eat differently to when I was a kid… And there are plenty more online!
BT Road to London 2012 Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery
From July 25 to September 25, 2011
Real art which seems fake. At first it might seem like a normal painting but it’s not.
The artist actually paints model’s bodies (talk about body-painting!!) but the models don’t just become a canvas but also the subject.
Really impressive and inventive.
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Ok, one more place for my To Visit list…
Underwater Sculpture Park, Grenada
Photograph by Jason deClaires Taylor
Underwater Sculpture Park in Grenada, West Indies
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso (via rentharrypotter)
After seeing how tilt-shift photography could make real world scenes appear like miniature models, Serena Malyon, a third-year art student, decided to simulate the effect on Van Gogh’s famous paintings. Using Photoshop, she manipulated the light and adjusted the focus to make us see these paintings in ways we could have never imagined.
Amazingly, nothing in these paintings was changed, added or removed.
Via Phillip G.
