Scandalous Bags

In an attempt to make using plastic bags a less appealing option – creative agency Mother, have designed a carrier bag that will make you think twice about whether you really need one.

Available in four styles (robber, junkie, sex addict and terrorist) the bags force you to consider whether the stares and judgement of the general public are a price worth paying for a plastic bag.

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Jill Greenberg

We are all familiar with the expression “…like taking candy from a baby”, but I don’t think we have ever seen it happen. Photographer, Jill Greenberg had no issues with teasing her child subjects with candy and then photographing their reactions after she takes the candy away. The photo series called “End Times” captures raw emotion, but has caused some controversy for Jill. although Greenberg admits that the series is a tad cruel, the parents that signed their kids up should be the ones in question.

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Life In Five Seconds

While reductionism in science might be a terrible idea, graphic reductionism in pop culture can be a source of endless delight. Milan-based creative agency H-57 has released an entire book titled Life in Five Seconds, applying an irreverent aesthetic to everything from cult movies to the biographies of historical figures.

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Mattias Adolfsson

Mattias Adolfsson’s intricate, detailed drawings create mini-worlds that are both playful and curious. He has stacks of Moleskines filled with robots, self pilotting airplanes, aliens, dinosaurs and steampunk-esque machines covered with thousands of switches, tubes and dials that would take days to flip through. Luckily a condensed version, a book of his sketchbook drawings has been published by Sanatorium Förlag.

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Shugo Tokumaru

The orchestral song “Katachi” from Japanese singer/songwriter Shugo Tokumaru has recently been given a whimsical video treatment. Coinciding with the release of his album In Focus?, the stop-motion video sees numerous cardboard cut-outs employed and makes for a surreal and colorful journey chock full of universally relatable silhouettes.

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Shinichi Maruyama

Shinichi Maruyama’s ‘Nude’ photo series is a study of movement, the capture of motion with high speed photography. Maruyama is well known for his studies of liquid in motion and in this series he takes the nude and introduces the passage of time.

These images are not so much about the body rather it is about the capacity to move, to create beautiful forms through movement. It is about dance and our capacity for movement through space.

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12-Foot-Tall Guinness Pint

Some 20 artists contributed sketches for the giant Guinness pint sculpture, which is almost totem-pole-like and will sit at the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin for all to worship. The wood carving measures 12′ tall and weighs in at a whopping 2 tons.  In recent years, Guinness has done a fair bit of self-mythologizing—now it’s just going ahead and building monuments to itself.

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Wind Map

 

An invisible, ancient source of energy surrounds us—energy that powered the first explorations of the world, and that may be a key to the future. Wind Map is a personal art project, not associated with any company, that shows the delicate tracery of wind flowing over the US. It is especially interesting to see the patterns as Hurricane Isaac passes over Louisiana.

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This Exquisite Forest

This Exquisite Forest is an online collaborative art project that lets users create short animations that build off one another as they explore a specific theme. The result is a collection of branching narratives resembling trees.The project was conceived by Chris Milk and Aaron Koblin, and produced by Google and Tate. It makes extensive use of Google Chrome’s HTML5 and JavaScript support, as well as Google App Engine and Google Cloud Storage.

A physical installation is located in the collection galleries on Level 3 at Tate Modern, and will be open for approximately 6 months beginning on July 23, 2012.

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Jason Freeny & Legos

Artist and toy sculptor Jason Freeny creates delightfully morbid dissections of toys and other pop culture characters, most famously Super Mario and the Stay-Puft Marshmellow Man. His most recent creation is this triptych of three 18″ tall lego men who have been cut to reveal their mysterious, Lego anatomy. Freeny acquires actual 18″ novelty toys sold by Lego and then creates the organs and bones using sculpted foam.

Thanks to Joe Koufman for today’s fodder.