We already had an extremely popular post here on En Derin.com”>En Derin.com about En Derin.com/amazing-3d-sidewalk-art/”>Amazing 3D Sidewalk Art by Julian Beever who is an English chalk artist. This time we are going to share some of madonnara’s 3D pavement art.
“A professional street painter or madonnara, Tracy Lee Stum is a fine artist committed to creating spectacular modern masterpieces that transform, captivate and inspire.”
She is best known for her 3D street paintings, also called anamorphic or pavement chalk art.
“3D Anamorphic Street Paintings are illusionary 2-dimensional images that appear to become 3-dimensional when viewed from a fixed point through a camera lens.”
“Tracy has been creating these types of chalk art images since she first started street painting and continues to challenge herself through this manner of visual expression.”
– excerpts from her website.
She has traveled the world to be a featured artist in many festivals and events, and she currently holds the Guinness World Record for the largest street painting by an individual, which she completed in 2006.
Tracy Lee Strum was kind enough to give us an exclusive permission to use her photos on En Derin.com and share them with you. Now let the art talk for itself!
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If you like these don’t forget to check En Derin.com/amazing-3d-sidewalk-art/”>Amazing 3D Sidewalk Art by another chalk artist Julian Beever.
P.S. : Tracy’s photos from this post are copyrighted. Her website: TracyLeeStum.com
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No En Derin.com/2008/07/26/clever-living-room-furniture-couches-sofascoffee-tables/”>living room would be complete without its centerpiece: the coffee table. As a focus for family, friends, football and fun, the coffee table can’t be beat… but it CAN be OFFbeat, as these 15 creative coffee table designs show so well.
Noguchi Throws Down the Coaster
(images via: Classic Design and Noguchi Museum Store)
It’s hard to say what the first piece of furniture worthy of the name “coffee table” was or where it was conceived but for most of us the term brings up an image of the iconic Noguchi coffee table. First produced in 1944 in association with the Herman Miller company, Isamu Noguchi’s tour de force is a simple, organic, ultimately pleasing design that set the bar for urban cool.
Bring On the Coffee Cats
(images via: Retro To Go, Roomgoods and ProductWiki)
Noguchi’s very basic coffee table design has inspired numerous copies – or should we say homages? – over the last 60-odd years. The Moebius, Butterfly and Cross tables are all undeniably interesting but at the same time face a frustrating conundrum: how does one improve a superb minimalist design whose signature feature is its simple magnificence?
Domino Theory
(images via: SIDD and Design Spotter)
This dynamic coffee table design from Canada’s SIDD Fine Woodworking makes you think for a moment before setting down your mug o’ java. Better use a coaster before you do – each Domino is constructed by a single SIDD craftsman over a period of six weeks and bears the artisan’s signature on the underside.
Tune Up Your Room
(images via: Rowean Design and Walyou)
Any successful living room suggests a sense of peace and harmony to the user, and the latter quality is best expressed by the Fender Stratocaster coffee table from Fender Custom Furniture of Portland, Oregon. Solid maple construction is custom stained to evoke the warm, vintage look of Fender’s famous Stratocasters; enhanced by chrome plated tuning pegs and silk screened graphics. FCF has enjoyed great response with the Strat table and will be following it up with a coffee table based on the rockin’ Telecaster.
I Sea What You Did There…
(images via: Nerd Approved and Everything Nautical)
What’s up, dock? The Nautical Rowing Dory Coffee Table from Everything Nautical, of course. The 48-inch long table features detachable oars – for those REALLY rainy days, one assumes – and a fitted glass top that nestles just within the gunwales. A genuinely thoughtful design, the Nautical Dory includes a pair of removable shelves that allow you to set the table on end and use it as a bookshelf or, even better, a maritime curio case for your seashells & scrimshaw.
The Age of Aquariums
(images via: Gizmodo Germany and Shirley Aquatics)
Sticking with our nautical theme, it’s not really a surprise there are aquarium coffee tables… what IS odd is that there are so many. Perhaps it’s the way watching fish swim can be so relaxing; maybe having water in front of you can make one thirsty. No problems there, unless of course watching fish in front of you makes you hungry… and drive your cat crazy.
Take Me to Your Melitta
(images via: Seanmichaelragan.com)
Geek furniture doesn’t get much more geeky than the ZAP coffee table, a one-off, home made Space Invaders tribute from Sean Ragan of Austin, Texas. Layered with handmade Mexican Talavera tiles in cobalt blue and lemon yellow, the 38 by 51 inch table cost Ragan about $415 in materials – which he kindly posts spreadsheet-style for anyone who’s contemplating a similar project. Ragan is offering the table for sale so if your games room (what geeks call a living room) needs that finishing touch, you know who to call.
Save Space, Sit on a Table
(images via: Design Milk)
From Space Invaders to space savers: the hand-crafted Futaba coffee table unfolds into a stylish loveseat when unexpected guests arrive… from the Delta Quadrant. If it was just a little larger (or you were a little shorter), the Futaba could double as a sofa bed. Sleeping on your coffee table? It’s more likely than you think.
The Periodic Coffee Table of the Elements
(images via: Designboom and Element Displays)
There’s nothing worse than a geek with a sense of humor, unless it’s a geek with no sense of humor. In any case, the Periodic Table of the Elements would even make ol’ Mendeleev himself crack a smile, until he read the price tag ($8,550). Pricey or not, it’s a table… of the elements… get it? Not exactly a thigh-slapper but if you’re going to make a joke, at least carry it through to the end and that’s exactly what Element Displays has done. All of the elements are sealed into clear acrylic blocks and set into a 4-ft. wide burred oak table. Built-in lighting illuminates the blocks and the more reactive elements are sealed in inert Argon gas or mineral oil. There appear to be quite a few blocks labeled with the “radioactive” symbol, so unless you want your coffee re-heated for you we suggest using a lead coaster.
ROSIE says, Touch-a Touch-a Touch-a Touch Me!
(images via: Engadget and Savant)
The world’s first interactive coffee table costs a cool $35,000 but like all new technology, the price should fall as the ROSIE Coffee Table Touchpanel Controller begins to fly off the shelves and into America’s homes. Featuring an Apple OS-X based operating system and an Intel processor, the ROSIE coffee table is really too good to rest coffee mugs on… and besides, spill-proofing the screen has been one of the biggest issues the Savant design team had to deal with. Isn’t this what Microsoft’s highly touted Surface table was supposed to do?
Godzilla’s iPhone, or Your Coffee Table?
(images via: iLounge and SlipperyBrick)
Not everyone has 35 grand to blow on a coffee table these days, but that doesn’t mean one must do without. Take the iPhone coffee table, crafted by iLounge readers Tuan Nguyen, Ken Thomas and associates from corrugate cardboard glued together with white glue. It’s not interactive but it does include a set of iPhone icon coasters coffee-sipping guests can use to rest their mugs on. The table doesn’t have an iPhone dock, unfortunately, but as it’s just a design concept made of cardboard perhaps that might be asking a bit much.
Coffee, Tea or Napalm?
(images via: Motoart)
Please return your Motoart coffee tables to the upright position… which would be a different position from the ones these genuine recycled aircraft parts assumed in their previous lives aboard F-4 Phantom fighters, Boeing 707 jetliners and B-52 Stratofortress bombers. Seriously, a coffee table made from chromed Phantom afterburner cans? That lights up at night with red LEDs? You know you want one.
The Coffee Table Book Lamp Table
(images via: Robot Nine)
Takeshi Ishiguro’s Book of Lights is the ultimate coffee table book – it’s a table top and reading light all in one. Granted, the three .06 watt LEDs don’t hold a candle to, well, a candle but this is one design project that favors form instead of function. Anyway, anyone who can combine a working lamp with a pop-up book deserves kudos in my, er, book.
Kramer’s Coffee Table Book
(images via: SONY Style and Press The Buttons)
No collection of coffee tables should be without Cosmo Kramer’s “coffee table book that turns into a coffee table”, as demonstrated by the hipster dufus himself on a very special Live with Regis and Kathie Lee. SONY liked the concept so much they employed the theme to package their 32-DVD Complete Series of Seinfeld set. This may be the only one of Kramer’s crazy concepts to ever reach fruition – on TV or in real life.
The Coffin Table
(images via: WebEcoist)
All good things must come to an end, and that includes you – whether you’ve been good or not. Prepare for the day you shuffle off this mortal coil with the Biodegradable Coffin coffee table from Halfway House Design. Designed by Charles Constantine of the Pratt Institute – we’re assuming that’s a school – the eco-friendly, biodegradable pine wood Memento coffee table will stylishly store books, games, wine… and one day, you.
Who has not wanted a one-of-a-kind home to call their own? Some people, however, take this desire to extremes most of us would never go to – even if we could afford it. From houses shaped like shells and flying saucers to structures made entirely of steel or lofted up into the trees, here are eight of the most unique, unusual and amazing homes on the planet.
With images so colorful, clean and incomprehensibly curved it would be easy to believe these photographs were forged – constructed on the desktop of some insanely creative designer. However, this spectacular shell house design by Arquitectura Organica is a virtual wonderland of visual collages, each room curving organically into the next.
Each creatively unique house by Bart Prince tells a story of the site, surroundings and the client for which it was made. As much an artist as an architect, Prince defies convention as a designer who is very difficult to pin down to any particular style or consistent approach.
The cleverly abstract Klein Bottle House by McBrides Charles Ryan is as much a puzzle set or experiment as it is a work of unique architecture. The jagged, piecemeal approach to the exterior is carried throughout the interior of the home as well – each room part of an impossible-to-define whole.
Tree houses have come a long way since we were young. There are modern tree house designers around the world but few are as impressive as Baumraum, a group that constructs highly complex modern homes that are virtually independent and sustainable for actual living.
Continuing the tree house theme, this house is almost like a tree itself – its living spaces lofted high above the forest floor and on level with the canopy above. Designed by Robert Harvey Oshatz, the curved form of the structure flows into and out of the surrounding tree cover with amazing grace and visual fluidity – connecting it with the living world that encircles it.
There are more than two ways to use trees as the inspiration for amazing architecture. This desert house set in Australia by Undercurrent employs leaf-like roof panels that create an interesting form for the structure itself but also connect it with the extensive planted world around it.
Architect John Lautner was well known for breaking convention in all kinds of ways, creating buildings that have been immortalized by movies and structures that have stood the test of time in their engineering and aesthetics. He, too, has used nature as a foil for his work – notably bringing rocks right into the living rooms of some of his designs.
The life’s work of one amazing architect is at once a work of engineering genius and astonishing artistic talent. Constructed of tons of layered and curving pieces of steel, each curve of this one-of-a-kind house by Robert Bruno is unique and custom-crafted in this winding architectural wonderland and the views are to die for.
Most furniture designers put function over form, but why not have both? Mundane items like tables, bookcases and lounge chairs take a turn for the strange and surprising in these 15 incredibly artistic En Derin.com/2009/01/04/modern-furniture-furnishing-fixture-designs/ “>furniture designs, including benches with tentacles, tables with galloping legs, dressers that seem to be in the process of exploding and chairs that are as much fine art as a place to sit.
Tables Inspired by Galloping Horses
(images via: DesignBoom)
With serpentine legs that resemble nothing so much as octopus tentacles, the ‘r.n.i.’ series of tables by Chul An Kwak is actually inspired by images of running horses. Sculpted from wood, these designs offer the same sort of flat surface you’d see in a conventional table but with legs that seem kinetic and alive.
Gravity Lounger
(images via: Varier Furniture)
The Gravity Lounger by Varier Furniture has an unconventional design, but it certainly looks comfortable. The makers claim that sitting in this chair is “probably the closest you’ll ever get to zero gravity”, reclining to the point where you feel almost weightless. It can also be positioned upright to work at a desk.
Woodloops Maze Bookcase
(images via: Inhabitat)
The Maze Bookcase by Woodloops offers an entertaining, eco-friendly way to store and display books and décor. The designer says that Woodloops furniture, made of FSC-certified wood, ““covey our original views to common behaviors, weaving known circumstances into new and curious concepts”.
Recycled Metal Alien Table
(images via: Slash Gear)
You probably wouldn’t find this in a museum curator’s home, but it’s amazingly artistic all the same. This Alien-inspired table is supported by a sculpture made almost entirely from recycled materials like spoons, wrenches and car parts. The makers of this unique piece also create tables and chairs inspired by Star Wars, and you can have one of your own for $150 and $4,500.
Tentacle Bench
(images via: CWG Design)
The Tentacle Bench by Carpenter’s Wood Gallery seems to have a mind of its own, with curvilinear wooden slats collapsing into a pile to one side of the bench and then traveling up the wall like ivy.
‘In the Woods’ Balanced Stacks of Found Chairs
(images via: Dezeen)
‘In the Woods’, a project by British artist Karen Ryan, is really more art installation than functioning furniture, but it’s quite striking and it’s got a message, too. Ryan says the project, which was made using found chairs, is “a reaction to the ever increasing consumer mountain of design and design waste. The struggle that I have with my conscience at the irrelevance of creating yet another one-off design object against a global backdrop of poverty, violence and greed remains a permanent dilemma in my creative process.”
A Stool for a Man’s Jewels
(images via: TrendHunter)
If you’re in the habit of lounging around reading newspapers while in the nude – and a man – perhaps this stool is just what you’ve been dreaming of. It’s ergonomically designed to fit the, uh, male form perfectly. It’s just a prototype for now, though, so unfortunately you’ll have to wait a bit to get one of your own.
Ghostly ‘Slow White’ Tree Branch Furniture
(images via: Dezeen)
Dutch designer Bo Reudler created the ‘Slow White’ series of furniture as a sort of protest against the controlled way in which nature is usually presented in design. Reudler rejected the process of using a computer to design furniture, instead setting out to gather branches that could be transformed with his own two hands into tables, chairs and bookcases that have retained their connection to nature.
Loopy Lounger
(images via: Opulent Items)
It’s a bit loopy, but the bent-wood ‘Artistic 4 Chaise’ fits the curves of your body within its unusual design. Handmade from British Oak, this lounger will certainly be a conversation piece in any home or outdoor area if you’ve got $6,500 to drop on it.
Compelling Bookshelves Made of Twigs and Found Boxes
(images via: Dornob)
Like Bo Reudler’s ‘Slow White’ collection, these bookcases by Peter Marigold are inspired by the natural forms of wood, but they take the concept of using found objects a bit further. The shelves are made from remnant boxes and packing materials, and the way the branches extend beyond the top shelf gives the sense that they’re still growing.
‘Trap’ Beds
(images via: Dornob)
Would you want to sleep under a bed canopy that looks like it was designed to trap you? These playful designs were created for an annual hotel art installation, and the one on the right turns the safety and comfort of a bed into something sort of unsettling. At left is a design that accomplishes the opposite, with a nest-inspired design that seems welcoming and safe.
Artistic Meta-Bench
(images via: Kraud)
Benches don’t have to be bland and boring. This unusual, artistic design by Yvonne Fehling and Jennie Peiz features a long and narrow stretch of wood that seems to have swallowed a number of wooden chairs. The resulting composition allows face-to-face conversation as well as isolation from the rest of the people seated on the bench, and the fact that the wood grain is aligned on every piece gives it a cohesive look that tones down a bit of the chaos.
Calypso Multi-Function Seating
(images via: Device Daily)
Bizarre yet beautiful, this futuristic-looking piece of furniture aims to provide a number of functions while maintaining the streamlined look of modern design. It’s a love seat, a couch, a chair and a table. Folding wooden supports provide a platform for your notebook computer, the chairs can be flipped to sit side-by-side or to face each other and the whole thing can be folded flat into a coffee table when not in use.
Wacky, Imaginative Kids’ Furniture
(images via: Straight Line Designs)
Why shouldn’t kids’ furniture be just as imaginative as children themselves? Straight Line Designs creates whimsical furniture that looks like something out of a Tim Burton movie. From tables and clocks that look like they’re about to spring to life to melting dressers and tin-can benches, these remarkable pieces are ideal for the young or young at heart.
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These incredible En Derin.com/2009/03/23/radical-retrofuture-rides-12-never-produced-vehicles/”>concept aircraft push the envelope of what was – and is – possible, though often the envelopes have pushed back enough to ensure they never went into full production. The only thing these visionary designs will lift is our imaginations but in that respect they succeed… brilliantly.
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flightless Machines
(images via: DK Images, Wapedia and 1940 Air Terminal Museum)
Flying machine concepts have been leaping off the drawing board even before the Wright Brothers took to the air over a century ago, though with a certain amount of trial and error shaping the aeronautical learning curve. The selection above leans more towards error, highlighted by Horatio Phillips’ 1904 Multiplane which looked less like an airplane than a motorized venetian blind.
Flights of Fancy
(images via: Century of Flight and Quirao)
The First World War saw rapid development of the airplane, both as small fast fighters and increasingly large bombers. The proven safety of flying also spurred the emerging passenger airline industry and a number of unusual concepts were drawn up. Perhaps the most advanced for its era was the Junkers J-1000, a futuristic flying wing that must have seemed like a starship to the world of 1924! Dr. Hugo Junkers had been contemplating flying wing design concepts since 1910 and the humongous J-1000 was their ultimate expression: 26 cabins in the wing to hold up to 100 passengers in total, plus a crew of 10 and fuel for 10 hours of continuous flight.
Weird War Weapons
(images via: Prototypes.com and Antics Online)
Much has been made of fantastic Nazi secret weapons and how they could have changed the result of World War II had they been introduced earlier, and in quantity. It’s a legitimate theory – some of the advanced concept airplanes, jets and rockets were unlike anything the Allies had even seen. Some, like the Me-262 jet fighter and the Me-163 Komet rocket interceptor actually did enter combat in the late stages of the war; above are some others that never progressed past the prototype stage – thankfully. From above top: the bizarre Focke-Wulf Triebflugel, the Lippisch DM-1 and the Horten Flying Wing.
(image via: Luft46 Models)
One of the most interesting of the many odd Luftwaffe concepts was the scissor-winged Messerschmitt P-1109. The twin-jet powered fighter featured a pair of swiveling wings that were positioned perpendicular for slow takeoffs and gradually swiveled to enable very high cruising speeds.
The Amerika Bomber
(images via: David Myhra c/o Luft46)
Perhaps the most frightening of all the German prototype “wunder weapons” was Dr. Eugen Sänger’s Amerika Bomber. Amazingly, Sanger worked out all of the main fundamentals of what was essentially the world’s first space plane before the war even began. The sleek, 90 ft long plane known as the Silverfish was to be powered by a liquid-fueled rocket engine that would lift it at least 90 miles in altitude. It would then continue at speeds up to 13,724 mph, “skipping” in and out of the atmosphere until it arrived over its target – where an 8,000 lb. bomb would be dropped – and on to a space-shuttle style gliding landing nearly 15,000 miles from its takeoff point. The above rendering shows the Amerika Bomber over Chicago (center) and New York City (bottom). Chilling, no?
Son of Amerika Bomber
(images via: Dark Roasted Blend, WW2 Aircraft.net and Australian Air League)
Today’s cutting edge designs for future passenger planes show a startling resemblance to some of the more ambitious German Amerika Bomber concepts, a testament to the farsightedness of their design. From above top, the Horten XVIIIB, the SAX-40 and the Boeing X-48B blended wing-body.
The Flying Ram
(images via: WW2 In Color)
As World War II progressed, the United States also scrambled to put the most advanced aircraft possible into the unfriendly skies over Europe and the Pacific. A number of decidedly strange aircraft made it as far as the prototype stage before cooler heads prevailed. One of the strangest was the Northrop XP-79B, known as The Flying Ram because, well, that’s what it was intended to do. Made of (extremely flammable) magnesium with steel armor plate on the leading edges of the wings, the XP-79B was powered by two jet engines and the pilot was expected to operate the plate while lying flat on his front! The XP-79B was canceled after a disastrous September 12, 1945 test flight at Muroc Dry Lake, California in which the plane crashed and the pilot was killed.
The Flying Reactor
(images via: Scientific American and Alex Arkhipau c/o Fine Art America)
The NB-36H Crusader looked much like a standard B-36 Peacemaker bomber when it first took to the air in 1955 but looks, in this case, very much deceive. On the inside, layers of lead insulation in the cockpit and thick yellow-tinted glass served to provide the crew protection… from any radiation emitted from the nuclear reactor in the converted bomb bay! The NB-36H may not have been nuclear-powered but if testing proved the concept feasible, the term “atomic bomber” would have taken on a whole new meaning. Supposedly, the Air Force was so paranoid about a possible crash of the NB-36H, chase planes carried a paratrooper squad who would jump if necessary and secure the crash site.
Broken Arrow
(images via: Aviation Artists and Arrows to the Moon)
As a Canadian, I have a soft spot for the Avro Arrow even though the program was canceled a year after I was born. In a way, the Arrow represents something quintessentially Canadian: a sense of great potential cruelly snatched from our grasp – with the blame landing on our American neighbors. As for the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow itself, it was an advanced interceptor that outclassed most existing fighter jets of the time. The sudden cancellation of the Arrow program on
February 20, 1959 caused 50,000 workers at the main Avro plant and at outside suppliers to lose their jobs. The five Avro Arrows that were produced were ordered scrapped along with all parts, tooling and paperwork associated with the project. Canada’s aircraft industry never recovered from the loss but the Avro Arrow lives on in the hearts of Canadians.
Canada’s Flying Saucer
(images via: Virtually Strange and Laesieworks)
The Arrow debacle has a little known postscript: Avro’s small Special Projects Group soldiered on for several more years with funding provided by the USAF. Their work involved creating workable “flying saucers” of various sizes and styles. The smallest was the VZ-9-AV Avrocar, designed to be a flying jeep, while larger saucers like the WS-606A were to operate at altitudes up to 100,000 feet at up to 3.5 times the speed of sound!
Let’s Get Personal
(images via: NCAM and Southeast SATS Lab)
If you think small aircraft like traffic-patrol Cessnas and corporate jets have looked pretty much the same for the past few decades, take a gander at what’s to come: computer designed, ultra fuel efficient light planes and jets are about to enter your personal airspace. Government agencies are involved in developing some of these intriguing concepts, one example being the Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS) program from NASA and it’s FAA partners. One audacious concept is a pane with flexible “smart wings” that change their shape to match optimal flying conditions.
Airbus Or Bussed
(images via: Flug Review)
Europe’s Airbus Industries is aggressively pursuing a host of odd-looking concept airliners that employ unusual wing and engine configurations. These rad mods aren’t just for show – benefits include lower fuel consumption, reduced noise and the ability to carry bulky hydrogen tanks. Oh the humanity!
Circular Reasoning
(images via: Wapedia and Above Top Secret)
Lockheed’s loopy design concept from the early 1980s resembles the classic poster for the movie “Airplane!” but closed-wing aircraft are no joke – the concept has been explored since the early days of powered flight. Theories suggest closed-wing aircraft would eliminate drag induced by wingtip vortices: a circular wing HAS no tips. Producing a practical airplane around the concept, however, has been so far elusive.
The VERY Wild Blue Yonder
(images via: Dark Roasted Blend)
Looking up is looking good thanks to designers like Luigi Colani. Still active at the age of 81, Colani has been perfecting the art of biodynamic design as applied to the mechanics of modern life. The airplane concepts above illustrate Colani’s deft grasp of organic form that still respects the requirements of practical engineering.
What may be most amazing about these brilliant concept planes is that even though their designs have to conform to the laws of nature if they’re going to get off the ground, it’s still possible to create flying objects of matchless beauty… says a lot about the inherent beauty of Nature itself.
Graffiti, Street-Art, Urban-Art; with nearly 20,000 years of cultural evolution behind it, it’s still art by any other name and nothing seems able to stem its phenomenal popularity. We’ve come a long way from the simple cave-paintings of our ancient past, and the amazing diversity of today’s graffiti has shown an enviable mating of resilience and adaptability. The once-simple idea of drawing on a nearby public wall has become something truly extraordinary in a world increasingly walled-off and walled-in. Art’s most public legacy has definitely reached maturity.
Not So Simple
(images via folkloreproject, abstractgraffiti, phunk)
Far from the simple scribbles of “John was here,” or “We’ll miss you, Tommy,” modern graffiti now incorporates distinctive themes and heavy use of personalized style in even the most basic signatures. These can range from the ultra-minimalist tags shown in the uppermost images above, or in full-detail. In either case, as the smaller tags seem to swarm the objects they present themselves upon, a full canvas eventually develops.
Worth a Thousand Words
(images via Hanzo, Blek le Rat, En Derin.com/”>Matthew Rogers)
It was only inevitable that script would be replaced by images, and in the world of graffiti and street-art those images stand out from their surroundings with exceptional contrast. The advent of illustrated graffiti was arguably responsible for the single largest boost in followers among the general populace, as the general style of writing is nearly completely illegible to the untrained eye. Pictures in graffiti allow for a clearer, more poignant message to come across from the artist. While some of these pieces tend to be for the mere fun of it, many are political in nature and aim to make a statement to be seen by any and all who pass by.
The Age of Surrealism
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Just beyond the thin dividing line between image and reality lay some of these works; graffiti art so lifelike, each in its own indescribable way, that it’s hard to imagine it’s only a wall. They can include exquisite stencil-work, which though simple manage to remain haunting, and mind-blowingly detailed pieces of exhibition art set to brick or cinder block. Examples above include those of Connor Harrington, of Cork, Ireland, and graffiti artist The Mac, well known in the San Francisco Bay Area. This an art-form that has been maturing over not just centuries but the entire span of human history; so long as people gather together to live in cities, beautiful art will manifest as graffiti, regardless of what we may be calling it at the time.
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Since before the Italians had the word “Graffiti,” and in fact, before there were any Italians, people have been leaving their marks on walls. These people weren’t viewed as criminals, nor were they likely seen as artists, but they could be hailed as forebears of modern journalism. Before there was recorded history, there were recorded events, and recorded moments. As culture has evolved over the millenia, so has art, and what we leave behind tells a story for those who follow.
The Infancy of Art
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At the site of the one of the world’s oldest art exhibits, at Lascaux, France, we can see Man’s early success at Wall-Art. Drawn nearly 20,000 years ago, this work still makes us stop walking and take notice; something all Graffiti artists strive to accomplish today. The early artists who created the works in these caves couldn’t possibly have known what they had become a part of, and the legacy they left behind, though lost for countless centuries, would be discovered again and treasured beyond all others. Their work is our birthright.
The Formative Years
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Once Man discovered his ability to modify his surroundings, art began to cover cave-walls and rocks all over the world. Even so, despite Man’s penchant for progress, graffiti was slow to evolve during its first several thousand years of its early existence. While amazing displays in their own right, it would still be ages before the human qualities of humor, lust, and rivalry begin to work their way into the budding art-world.
Awareness
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It wasn’t until the dawn of the Age of Reason that art finally began to manifest the utmost qualities of human culture. Soon baudy, humorous, insulting, and downright lewd behavior could be found on every surface in the civilized world. When archaeologists unearthed the ruins of Pompeii, they were thrilled to find Roman graffiti perfectly preserved under the ash. They were delighted to then find themselves laughing, as they roughly translated what they found to be such vulgar messages as “I screwed the barmaid,” and “Celadus the Thracier makes the girls moan!” Particularly impressive was the trend-settingly creative “LUCIUS PINXIT,” or “Lucius painted this.” Meanwhile, on the other side of the globe, the streets of ancient China were so completely inundated with graffiti that the walls themselves could hardly be seen at all.
Adolescence
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It seems true of any subject in any era, that with time comes comfort and with comfort comes complacency. The Dark Age’s affects were not limited to daily life, education, research and freedom. Art and its front-line manifestation of the urban populace, graffiti, suffered as well; during this period it seems as though people simply stopped trying. Graffiti degraded to simply marking names over other artists’ work, usually in foreign countries freshly invaded. The occasional, humorously lewd depiction of sexual escapades could be found from time to time, such as the above drawing from a castle in Bulgaria, but for the most part graffiti as we know it today lay dormant throughout the period. It would be another 200 years before the first semblance of modern Street-Art would begin to appear.
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If all high school, college and university campuses looked like this, attendance rates would skyrocket. Some may argue that it’s what’s inside that’s important, but there’s no reason for school buildings to be bland, boring boxes. From a big open high school where students lounge on big pillows all day to a university building created by Frank Gehry, these 15 incredible campus building designs may just inspire a whole new generation of innovative architects.
Ørestad High School, Copenhagen
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Looking at this campus in the new Copenhagen suburb of Ørestad, it’s hard to imagine not wanting to go to school. Ørestad College – the Danish equivalent to a high school – has an open, modern design with colorful transparent glass shades that liven up its boxy exterior and rotate automatically with the sun. The interior is full of swirling staircases and platforms upon which students lounge on big orange pillows.
Green Roof Art School in Singapore
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One of the most amazing green roofs in the world is at the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. From a distance, you can barely even tell that the 5-story structure is a building, it blends in so well with its environment. A plethora of glass walls allow plenty of natural light to illuminate the interior, and the grassy roof is used as a meeting space for students. The green roof also insulates the building, cools the surrounding air and harvests rainwater for landscape irrigation.
Modern High School #9 in Central LA
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It looks more like an avant garde art museum design, but this uber-contemporary building by the Austrian design firm Coop Himmelb(l)au in Central Los Angeles is actually a public high school. High School #9 for the visual and performing arts holds 1,800 students and features an interior theatre that can seat 1,000.
Gehry-Designed Stata Center at MIT
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The Stata Center for Computer, Information and Intelligence Sciences at MIT was designed by renowned architect Frank Gehry, and it shows. The lively building features Gehry’s signature adventurous, surrealist style with tilting towers, unusually angled walls and whimsical shapes. The building houses classrooms, research facilities, fitness facilities, a childcare center and a large auditorium.
New York University’s Department of Philosophy Interior
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You would never guess, looking at the elegant yet unremarkable historic exterior of NYU’s Department of Philosophy, what was housed inside. Designed by Steven Holl Architects, the renovated interior features white walls and a seemingly complex set of stairs edged with perforated railings that cast interesting patterns of light around the building. The light effect changes according to the seasons and time of day.
Victorian College of the Arts School of Drama
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Most of the buildings that make up the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia are stately and historic. Then, you come across the façade of the School of Drama, designed by Castles Stephenson + Turner Pty Ltd / Edmond & Corrigan. The unique, colorful design makes it clear that this is a place of creativity.
Arcadia University’s Grey Towers Castle
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In contrast to the many modern school designs featured here is the Grey Towers Castle of Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania. The castle was built starting in 1893 as the estate of William Welsh Harrison, and was acquired by the university in 1929. The castle is rumored to have secret passages behind the fireplaces as well as a series of underground tunnels built to connect the main house to stables and outbuildings. It now contains various offices, including that of the President, as well as student residences.
Oppenheim’s Miami-Dade College Campus
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The concept for Miami-Dade College on Biscayne Boulevard in downtown Miami would add a lot of reflective shimmer and interest to the city’s skyline. Designed by Oppenheim Architects, the glittering glass and steel tower has an unusual shape with an interior grassy corridor. It’s projected to be completed in 2012.
Concrete and Glass Gateway Building at MICA
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The Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) has long been known for its eclectic mix of buildings, and its newest one is definitely a head-turner. The Gateway building, which sits on the edge of the campus, successfully met the challenge of difficult site constraints and wide-ranging functions. The drum-shaped building with an interior landscaped courtyard houses a lobby/gallery, theater, career center, café, student residences and artist studios.
Bold, Contemporary Metzo College in the Netherlands
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The new Metzo College, located in Doetinchem, a City in the East of the Netherlands, is a compact pyramid-shaped building with a scooped-out core containing gardens. Designed to leave as much open space around it as possible, the 6-story building functions as a vocational school as well as public sport facilities.
Henning Larsen University Campus Concept in Kolding, Denmark
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The Danish firm Henning Larsen won a competition for a university campus in Kolding, Denmark with this airy, open concept design along the Østerbrogade river. It features an exterior screen that is meant to allow sunlight to pass through to the banks of the river and is situated in a triangular fashion rather than parallel to the river. It will contain a large, open atrium, public café, offices and classrooms.
Napier University’s Futuristic Lecture Theater
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The amorphic design of Napier University’s lecture theater has earned it nicknames like the Napier Egg and the Bike Light. The oval lecture theatre, which buts up to the historic 19th century university building, features one wall made entirely of glass.
Rafael Arozarena High School, La Orotava, Spain
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Rafael Arozarena High School is located near the historic town center of La Orotava, Spain and blends in perfectly with its surroundings, which include city buildings and farming terraces. Designed by AMP Arquitectos, the school’s concrete exterior has been softened with a degraded wash of different tones which create a smooth transition between the urban city and the rural farmland.
Bikuben Student Residence, University of Copenhagen
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Called the ‘student residence of the future’, the Bikuben residence building at the University of Copenhagen certainly is unlike any other student residence hall. Concrete, metal and the glass of the windows create a sort of monochromatic mosaic effect punctuated with bright shocks of orange paint. Within the building, the residences and the common rooms are connected in a double spiral surrounding an atrium.
Jubilee Campus, University of Nottingham
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A former bicycle factory site has been transformed beautifully into an academic park for 2,500 students. Wood, steel and glass buildings sit on the edge of a tranquil man-made lake, and a colonnade on the front of the building forms the pedestrian route through the site. Restaurants, shops and atria are on the bottom level, while faculty rooms take up the upper levels. The campus’ most notable buildings are the circular Learning Resource Center and conical lecture halls.
Vehicle cutaways are a very special kind of art that lays bare a driving machine’s inner workings for prying eyes to see… without all the messy prying with crowbars and such.
Ghosts, Phantoms and Skeletons, Oh My!
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Producing cutaway illustrations isn’t all fun & games – it also serves a vital need for companies trying to present their product or service in the best possible light. Automotive illustrators Beau Daniels and Alan Daniels specialize in what they call “cutaway, ghosted and phantom view illustrations, of automobiles, vehicle systems and automotive products.”
An Exotic Exposed
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Not many will have a chance to see a The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 up close & personal so this bold cutaway offers a rare chance to get inside the rare and beautiful exotic. The Veyron’s massive 1,001 horsepower sixteen-cylinder engine is rendered all the more intimidating by the use of cutaway effects.
Zooming In, Under the Skin
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Cutaways also assist in highlighting some certain system – electrical wiring, fuel lines, even the sound system’s snake-nest of wiring. In the image above, it’s GM’s OnStar system that’s put in proper perspective. With futuristic electronic systems like OnStar, seeing is believing. A nicely done cutaway brings the desired system into focus while showing how it relates to the rest of the vehicle.
Nothing Like the Real Thing
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There are always situations that call for a cutaway that’s literally cut away. Auto show displays, for example, are intended to get the message across to large numbers of visitors who check out the exhibit in person, not via their computer screens. It can be very effective, though no doubt very painful – not to the magnificent Audi R8 shown above, but for anyone who appreciates this stunning automobile.
X-Ray, R-Rated
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Audi lovers who prefer their cutaways to be computer generated would much prefer the image above, a classic cutaway of the German automaker’s design and engineering tour de force.
Slow Draw Wins the Race
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When creating cutaways of classic cars, sometimes the traditional method of portrayal works best. So thinks Japanese master Yoshihiro Inomoto whose technique shines in this intricately detailed drawing of a 1951 BRM Type 15 race car. The Black & white color scheme is perfectly suited to the vintage racer and Inomoto does it true justice with this undoubtedly time-consuming tribute.
Showing Tech with Technicolor
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On the other hand, the modern cutaways of GM’s German Opel brand practically scream with vivid color, all the better to contrast the various technical systems inside the company’s cars. Studio Parsons worked up these exquisite cutaways that, as much as Yoshihiro Inomoto’s monotone drawings, are works of art in their own right.
Mini Cuts to the Max
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The new Mini also uses color in the above cutaway, this time to highlight its safety structure (in orange). Complementary to Mini’s “fun” image, the rest of the car is depicted in rainbow hues that, while not keyed to individual components, make the composition as a whole much easier on the eyes.
Microbus Under the Microscope
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Volkswagen has often used cutaway illustrations in its ads as they show off the space-saving design of the company’s products – especially the iconic Type 2 Microbus. VW was perhaps the first foreign automaker to seriously impact the North American car market; mainly shrugged off by the Big Three then, VW today stands an excellent chance of outliving its former big brothers.
Sub Structures
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Cars aren’t the only vehicles featured in cutaway drawings though they’re by far the most popular. Military vehicles on land, sea and air come in a close second. Above are cutaway framed art depicting some of the submarines of the Second World War and the years after. From the top above are a German type VII-C U-Boat, the USS Balao, the USS Lafayette (lower left) and the USS Tench (lower right).
A Titanic Loss
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The RMS Titanic is not only the most famous ship to sink, it’s also one of the most popular subjects for cutaway illustrations even going back to the 1920s. Cutaways were also used by competing shipping lines, such as the Cunard Line’s RMS Aquitania shown above right.
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Part of the fascination people have always had for the Titanic involves how an “unsinkable” ship could sink, and why the loss of life was so tragically high. Cutaway drawings reveal the ship’s inner structure and showcase the advance system of waterproof bulkheads that, sadly, was not quite advanced enough.
Complex Cutaway Craftsmanship
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As complex and detailed cutaway designs are when viewed in book or on screen, just imagine how they’d look rendered in 3D. Young C. Park did; then he decided to make it happen.
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The 76-year-old former dentist from Hawaii has devoted countless hours towards recreating some of America’s best-known WW2 fighter planes in hand crafted aluminum, and as a bonus he’s designed them as full or partial cutaways! The Vought F4U Corsair fighter above (which took over 3 years to make) is cutaway on one side, accurately displaying its mechanics in miniature.
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Park also crafted the P51-D Mustang fighter above. Cut away on one side, it features many moving parts, including the canopy, and shows off its 50-cal machine guns complete with bullets set into belts just like those in the actual warbird.
China Opens Up
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Space, the final frontier… and cutaways help the earthbound understand just what those billions and billions (of dollars) are paying for. Less cynically – and in the case of the Chinese Shenzhou spacecraft above – they serve to show off a space-faring nation’s newfound mastery of the most complex systems known to mankind.
USA’s Uppermost Uppercut
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NASA’s history is one illustrated with cutaway drawings; the topmost of which shows clearly just how small and cramped the early 1960s Mercury program space capsules were.
Inner Space in Outer Space
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And what of the future? Cutaways then, now and in times to come will help us understand what makes our vehicles run, float, fly, and set off on five-year missions to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before… Cut!
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Technology has advanced throughout the years at an extraordinary pace, a pace that can only be matched by the rate of “the last model’s” obsolescence. How often do we stop to think about the fate of these once-beloved, now defunct relics? A growing trend in the art world is to do just that; gifted artists around the globe have produced some truly amazing works of art by utilizing the very technology that we let fall into disuse every day.
Friendly Giant
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Towering at nearly 23 feet, this three-ton European megalith of technological refuse, the WEEE Man, is literally a monument to the machinery of our recent past. Designed to be almost too human, this marvel stands as a politico-ecological statement against improper disposal of our most ubiquitous everyday appliances. His teeth are computer-mice. His brain-pan is filled with ancient computer hardware, and most striking of all, his eyes, old washing machine doors.
A Not-So-Friendly Face
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Images of demons may get conjured up when looking at this piece of robot-art by Jeremy Meyer, who builds his sculptures out of nothing but typewriters. While this grinning bot may seem scary, his bedfellows are practically lifelike. You can find more of Jeremy’s stunning work at his gallery in La Jolla, CA, at his equally smooth Web site, or right here at En Derin.com/2009/03/21/En Derin-artist-showcase-pt1/”>En Derin. It’s interesting to note that when building these works, Jeremy uses neither welding nor glue to assist in the process.
A Strange Bridge to Nature
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Not all techno-sculpture is based on humans. Ann P. Smith dedicates her time to creating robotic animals and insects out of nearly any piece of gadgetry she can put to use. Ann’s creations often feature pose-able joints, and somehow seem to portray a sunny disposition! Her owl may even remind you of a certain favorite stop-motion character from Clash of the Titans. However, Ann doesn’t stop there. She goes as far as to recreate the object of many a child’s imagination, with extraordinary detail. Ann’s art is not kept behind lock and key from the public. She builds and sells her pieces on a regular basis, and you can find more of her work at her Web site.
The Steampunk Angle
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Any discussion of obsolete technology would be incomplete these days without mention of Steampunk art. In and of itself, Steampunk idealism is based upon the concept of resurrecting long since dead technology and ways of seeing technology. There is a deep-rooted fascination with all things of the Steam Era, and these run congruently with a startlingly adaptive fashion-sense. Jewelry such as the necklace pictured above is becoming increasingly common, as the popularity of this beautiful and captivating form of practical art grows. This particular piece was made out of nothing but old watch parts.
Folk Art In Any Century
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Artist D. Young creates 21st century folk art in the old fashion, but with a decidedly modern twist. Burned out or faulted electronics, once reliquated to the bin under the workbench, are now becoming tiny robot charms. Directly compared to the corn husk dolls of early America; popular among children, these tiny figures are carrying on a legacy spanning not decades but full centuries. These little treasures are sold online at obviousfront’s etsy store.
An Extinct Medium
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Though the cassette tape died long ago in the hearts and minds of the entire 90’s generation, they remain today as a beacon of nostalgia, and as art. More and more aesthetic applications for these simple pieces of recording media are surfacing as time goes on; first as fashion-art, and more recently, incredibly creative exhibits. An artist going by the moniker iri5 has made waves with her artwork depicting much-loved (and often deceased) celebrities and famous musicians using nothing but the actual tape out of a cassette or film reel. As if this were not enough on its own, her attention to detail is astounding, as is shown above with her instantly recognizable depiction of the legendary Jimi Hendrix. More of her remarkable work can be found in iri5’s Flicker collection.
Functionally Fashionable
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They say a designer has done their job when form meets function. Twenty-nine year old Joao Sabino has surpassed simple design and created art in his Keybags. The first word that may come to mind with this may be “geeky,” but meant in only the most affectionately possible way. Old keyboards rarely get a chance to live on as anything more than garbage in a landfill, and Joao has shown one more legitimately amazing use for something so easily overlooked. Similarly, when a computer is designed to be as pleasing to the eye as to productivity, it’s a shame to let the artistic efforts of those designers to waste. An artist going by the name pixelthis created this functioning clock out of the side of an old Mac G4. As simple as it may be, this stylish clock is art with a purpose.
When Voices Fade
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Even old cellphones can be beautifully repurposed. This gorgeous precision display by artist Rob Pettit consists of 5,000 cellphones destined for the landfill. Rob’s early work utilized more traditional mediums; however, in his more recent works he has relied heavily on used and discarded wireless and cellular telephones to make his mark.
Greener Pastures
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Old circuit-boards have found their way into homes as bookmarks and key-chains for years, but these most basic of uses cannot come close to this. Canadian sculptor Pierre I. Brunet created the above “Geek’s Palette,” proving silicon can be more than a stamped surface. Below, Grace Grothous stunned viewers with her “Uncharted Terrain.” Looking from afar, what appear to be buildings on a detailed topographic map are actually the original circuits for the boards used in this work.
From Classic, to Vintage, to Abstract
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The Mona Lisa needs no introduction, save for the fact that she is rendered in circuitboards at this exhibit in Beijing. This is possibly as unique as the original painting; it is a masterpiece in its own right. Benton, the happy robot, can trace his lineage back to an old trolley fare box. What looks to be an enormous Faberge egg is in fact a circuit-board sculpture placed as street-art near Stanford University. This genre of art isn’t going anywhere, and we can expect to see much more in the years to come.
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