A Shattered-Glass Dog And Other Amazing Photos From This Week
By Shaunacy Ferro and Colin Lecher, Popular Science, 8 February 2013.
By Shaunacy Ferro and Colin Lecher, Popular Science, 8 February 2013.
This week's most amazing images include a shattered-glass dog, robot elephants, and a 42-wheel BMW concept designed by a 4-year-old.
1. Ice As Art
Credit: Nick Cobbing/Greenpeace via It's Nice That
ScanLAB, a team of technicians who scan places and objects in 3-D, mapped ice in the Arctic for their newest project, Frozen Relic. Check out all of the models from the project here.
2. Every Photo Ever
Credit: Jeff Thompson via Co.Design
Don't worry about photographing a masterpiece: this art project project will eventually make it, anyway. How? Artist Jeff Thompson's project rapidly creates images with differences only visible on the pixel level; in, uh, a lot of years, it'll eventually make an amazing image. Heck, it'll make the Mona Lisa, too. Read about it over at Co.Design.
3. Shattered-Glass Dog
Credit: Marta Klonowska via Colossal
Polish artist Marta Klonowska makes life-size animals, like this not-so-cuddly dog, out of precisely broken shards of glass.
4. An Amazing Maze
A Japanese custodian spent 7 years making this mind-blowing maze. That's long time, but, wow. Maybe it was worth it.
5. Ice-People
Credit: Nele Azevedo via designboom
As a tribute to the victims of the Titanic, Brazilian artist Néle Azevedo made these ice-people. They were placed in Belfast, Ireland (where the Titanic was built), and they melt over time. [More at designboom]
6. A Storm From Space
Credit: NASA via Wired
A crazy snowstorm is making its way to New England tonight, threatening to dump at least a foot of snow everywhere from New York and Maine. Like everything, it looks way cooler from space. [More at Wired and Live Science]
7. Robotic Animals
Credit: Courtesy Noam Dover and Michal Cederbaum via designboom
Israeli director Amit Drori collaborated with the art/design team of Noam Drover and Michal Bederbaum to make robotic animals for Savanna, a theatre production shown recently at London's Barbican performing arts centre. Audience members got to interact with the automated animals - an elephant, birds, a giant moth, and more - after the show.
"In this piece man masters nature, creates it, operates and manipulates it," the artist's statement explains. "In return, the landscape and the animals that inhabit it reflect a mirror image of human thought and emotion."
8. Starry Eyed
Credit: Vik Muniz via Visual News
Brazilian-born, Brooklyn-based artist Vik Muniz uses pages torn from magazines to recreate classic paintings. See how many faces you can find hidden in the sky. [More at Visual News]
9. The Sleep Of The Beloved
Credit: Paul Schneggenberger via Explore
German photographer Paul Schneggenberger uses a long exposure to capture all the movements of sleeping couples between midnight and 6 a.m. See more of the collection on his website.
10. Filament Mind
Credit: Teton County Library
The Teton County Library's public art piece Filament Mind contains more than 5 miles of fibre optic cables, each responding to a call number in the Dewey Decimal System. Whenever anyone at a Wyoming public library performs a catalogue search from a computer, the cable lights up. Suggested items in the search show up yellow, while anything the user clicks on turns blue. [More at Teton County Library]
11. BMW 4219Eli
Credit: BMW via Jalopnik
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