Leaving a trail of art to be found

Artist Kirsty Hall has been making a piece of art to fit in a jar everyday. On her 365jars site, she is documenting them as well as where she goes out and leaves them each day. They are numbered, and she is hoping people will find them, come to the site and register that they have found them.

It’s a simple idea, but takes a lot of dedication. Esp since the places she puts them have some kind of relationship to the jar. Not to mention it gets harder and harder to come up with new ideas and new places as times goes on. Or maybe not, maybe a project like this releases all sorts more creativity?

Books, books, or more books

Reinier de Jongh has designed a bookcase that starts as a sculpture, and expands to create a little space or even more for a lot of space for books. In my space, it would be expanded out all the way, but it’s a nice concept to think of the possibility of only using a small part for utilitarian purposes and the rest for art.

Keys!

There is a story on the Scouting New York blog about a locksmith who covered the front of his building with keys. Thousands of them. Click over and see the details, the patterns are really intricate and interesting.

Monkey made out of flip-flops

I would love to be walking in a park and happen upon this monkey. I’ve never really understood why flip flops are so popular, I’ve never found them to be comfortable. This seems like a better use for them. Except for the being made out of plastic part.  I also like the flopped monkey being made out of flip flops part of the installation

Paintings with a Collage Aesthetic by Sarah Winkler

I found Sarah Winkler featured on the Citra-solv Facebook page. I’m not exactly sure how they are done, they look like they are assembled from various papers. The site descriptions indicate they are painted. Given they are pretty big, it’s more likely paint. Perhaps she sketches in paper first, then works from those sketches?

Sculpted portraits from phone books

I used to have a thing for phone books. When I arrived in a new location, I would often spend some time reading the local phone book to help me get my bearings. I think it was a low tech internet-like thing. I even had phone books from other locations I visited. Now that I have the web, I no longer have any use for phone books, and toss them in recycle right away. Seems such a waste. So it was great to find Alex Queral using them to make portraits.

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Wave Triptychs

Stunning wave paintings by Ran Ortner. (if you hover over the icon to the far left, you can see more images and video about the artist and his work.) Or visit his website.

Maps from Typography

Axis Maps has created maps of Boston and Chicago from type.

Map created with type

From the blog Design Taxi, On These Maps and Rivers and Roads are Set in Type

Paper Mapcuts by Karen M O’Keefe

Paper Mapcut

Also from Design Taxi, Maps Like You’ve Never Seen.

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Dreams and Visions: Photography by Tricia McKellar

Wanderlust

Here are some lovely digitally altered photographs. Prints from this collection, Departure Series are on sale right now.  One of the things I really like about the series is how Tricia has embraced the utility lines and made them an interesting part of the images.

She’s on twitter @triciamckellar

Photography by Cole Rise

One Would

I like the contrast between the moody landscape and the movement of the man in the photo. There are lots more on Cole Rise’s site.

He’s on twitter @colerise

Multicolr Search Lab

Color based search for flickr

Here’s an interesting way to find creative commons images on flickr. You can pick up to 10 colors to find images that include them. The Multicolr tool is just one of the visual search tools created by Idee Labs.

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Incredible stitched portraits by Cayce Zavaglia

My art degree is in textiles, and really it is my first love of media. The main reason I’m not working with it now is I have a cat who I adore that compulsively eats threads. After several surgeries, I decided to paint for a while.

Cayce’s portraits would be incredible if they were painted or drawn. But they are stitched! By hand. Just spectacular.

Cayce Zavaglia portrait

Jason Ballman interactive painting

Jason Baalman created an interesting 10 minute video showing a much longer collaboration between four artists working on one image over the internet. It’s fascinating to watch how the image changed, and the incredible range of imagery that emerges.

Colored pencils as art!

I love seeing art supplies. When I have the space, I like to leave my colored pencils and paints laid out where I can be inspired by the colors. Fellismo is releasing 500 colors of pencils as a subscription, 25 pencils a month for 20 months. Swoon!

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