Most Beautiful Items: May 11 - May 17, 2013
# 2013-05-17 13:20:00, Gizmodo
Another week on the books means another week's worth of beautiful items. From structures made out of salt to Venice's beautiful beachfront facades, here are some of our favorite architecture and design posts from the past seven days.Read more...Watch an Epic Optimus Painting Come To Life In This Amazing Timelapse
# 2013-05-17 06:45:30, Gizmodo
Robert Burden, an artist living in San Francisco, has an affinity for immortalizing his favorite childhood action figures as gigantic oil paintings that makes them seem larger than life. His latest piece, The Autobot, which gives Optimus Prime the glory he so readily deserves, took over 1,000 hours...This Sculpture Would Result From 200 Arrows Hitting One Target
# 2013-05-17 04:42:00, Gizmodo
What would happen if 200 arrows somehow magically hit the same bullseye? Pfeilschaften, an installation by the Polish artist Karina Smigla-Bobinski and her German counterpart, Bodo Korsig, visualizes just that.Read more...What New York City Would Look Like on Other Planets
# 2013-05-16 17:00:00, Gizmodo
The most iconic skyline in the world (or at least in America) would look completely different if it was on another world. On Venus, New York City would be a yellow haze, on Mercury would look glow in the dark, on Mars would make everything rusty and on Uranus and Neptune would totally obliterate the...Water-Activated LED Wall: Sounds Dangerous, Looks Beautiful
# 2013-05-16 10:00:00, Gizmodo
Water and electricity: historically, not a great combo! But Antonin Fourneau, a French artist and engineer, combines both to remarkable ends in his installation, Water Light Graffiti, which landed in New York this week. Read more...An Interview With the Artists Behind the Beastie Boys' Album Artwork
# 2013-05-15 04:26:26, Gizmodo
As part of an upcoming special issue that pays tribute to Adam Yauch—aka MCA—by looking at the visual history of the Beastie Boys, Juxtapoz magazine conducted interviews with the artists behind the group's memorable album art. And while this three-minute highlight doesn't go into as much detail...Watch a Column Emerge From a Block of Marble During an Ocean Voyage
# 2013-05-14 12:40:00, Gizmodo
It can take months for a cargo ship to cross from China to Europe. Over the course of the journey, it’s increasingly common for companies to transform ships into floating factories, where workers take advantage of the long crossing to complete a contract en route.Read more...Inside the Rain Room: Walking Through a Downpour Without Getting Wet
# 2013-05-13 06:52:33, Gizmodo
The first thing you notice about Rain Room, the sure blockbuster installation that opened at MoMA on Friday, is the tropical humidity. The second thing is the sound from hundreds of gallons of water pouring from an artificial ceiling. Finally, after your eyes adjust to the darkness, you actually see...Hypnotizing Lights Look Friendly Until They Trap You
# 2013-05-12 04:00:00, Gizmodo
Isotopes v.2 looks alluring. All those pretty, pulsating lines of light draw people in. Relaxing. But once they get in there, things start to change. The lights become more constant and intense. Basically they put people in a somewhat oppressive light prison. Soooo, probably not relaxing.Read more.....The Coolest Music Visualizer Is Just a Puddle of Water
# 2013-05-11 04:10:00, Gizmodo
Remember when music visualizers were all the rage about fifteen years ago? Or maybe that was just a music visualizer phase I went through alone. Either way, this art installation called "Sonic Water" puts a very literal spin on the concept eschewing any kind of simulation for a real puddle of water...Convenience Food Looks Kinda Gross In Cross-Section
# 2013-05-10 00:14:00, Gizmodo
If you've ever wondered what your pre-prepared food looks like while it's still sat in the tin, these pictures are probably enough to halt your curiosity—because the answer is: kinda gross.Read more...7 Fan-Designed Covers for The Great Gatsby That Rival the Original
# 2013-05-07 06:00:00, Gizmodo
F. Scott Fitzgerald was still writing The Great Gatsby when he saw artist Francis Cugat's original cover treatment. He apparently loved it so much he told his publisher not to show it to anyone else because he wrote it into the book. You know the one? The obscured face on a cobalt background overloo...What Abstract Art Would Look Like in Real Life
# 2013-05-06 16:49:00, Gizmodo
Fantastic artist Flora Borsi, who once hilariously photoshopped herself into old pictures, imagines a world where abstract art models are actually real people. Like if the features and characteristics that were exaggerated in classic art pieces actually existed.Read more...This Kinect-Powered Installation Makes Humans Into Monsters
# 2013-05-03 03:46:00, Gizmodo
In this video installation by artist Bego M. Santiago, participants are projected onto little boxes through a Kinect like inhabitants of a small city. They react in terror when a visitor enters the room, because that person towers over them like Godzilla or King Kong. Read more...Here's How To Get Your Dick In a Museum
# 2013-05-01 07:18:00, Gizmodo
Your dick just might be the next star of the art world, and this month is its chance to make its artistic debut. You just have to sext a photo to artist Karen Finley to use in her upcoming installation "Sext Me if You Can" at New York City's New Museum.Read more...Restoring a Pollock With X-Rays and Ultraviolet Light
# 2013-05-01 06:25:00, Gizmodo
In 1998, almost fifty years after Jackson Pollock painted "One: Number 31," the curators at MoMA realized the painting was looking a little... grimy.Read more...No Camera Was Used To Create These Unbelievable Photos of Rain
# 2013-05-01 04:44:58, Gizmodo
Rain isn't the weather condition that photographers generally hope for. But if you knew how to take marvelous pictures like this, you would be doing rain dances on the reg.Read more...“Snoopy Japanesque” Exhibition – Japanese traditional craftspeople in collaborative Snoopy works...
# 2013-04-30 17:15:33, Akihabara News
An art exhibition called “Snoopy Japanesque” is now being held until May 6 in the Matsuya Ginza department store in Tokyo. It was planned by Japanese painter, Yoshiteru Otani, who used to be called a genius by “Peanuts” creator, Charles Schulz, and was a good friend of his. More than 40 Ja...Peep These Beautiful Sculptures of Electronics Encased in Resin
# 2013-04-30 10:40:00, Gizmodo
Amy Brener describes her sculptures as “totemic structures that resemble artifacts of an imagined future.” Read more...These Minimalist Cards Are Almost Too Pretty to Play With
# 2013-04-30 00:49:00, Gizmodo
Sometimes it's not what you include but what you exclude that matters—which is the idea behind this beautiful pack of playing cards by designer Joe Doucet.Read more...Lovely Mom Draws Awesome Pictures on Napkins for Her Son's Lunch
# 2013-04-29 17:00:00, Gizmodo
If you didn't know, Mother's day is a few weeks away (May 12th this year) so it's a pretty good idea to tell your Mom you love her. Though you should do that everyday! Especially if you're the sons of amazing Nina Levy. She turns regular ol' lunch napkins into wonderful pieces of art. Just look at t...Arbitrary iPad Swipes and Taps Make Accidental Art
# 2013-04-29 08:00:00, Gizmodo
When you check your email, when you play Temple Run, when you're selecting a song to listen to, you're making art. You just don't know it. In a series called Invisible Hieroglyphics, artists Andre Woolery and Victor AbiJaoudi highlight those hidden masterpieces you don't even mean to make. Read more...Put The History of Time In Context With a Click of Your Mouse
# 2013-04-29 07:04:06, Gizmodo
There's nothing to spice up your Monday like getting a feel for how insignificant of a speck you are in the grand scheme of the universe. Here Is Today does just that, but in such a pretty, minimalist way that you won't even mind.Read more...Wait Wait, Music Boxes Can Be Awesome Starships?!
# 2013-04-27 11:30:00, Gizmodo
Spinning ballerinas? Please. But give me a music box that's actually a bitchin' starship and maybe I'll change my tune. Enter the MusicMachine, the music box all music boxes should aspire to be. MoreUncover gives your MacBook's lid a new, Apple-less kind of glow
# 2013-04-27 10:06:00, Engadget
Etsy stickers adorning your MacBook's lid, oft making a cute play on the presence of that glowing Apple? That's so 2012. Uncover, a Dutch company showcasing its talents here at The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam this week, has crafted a new method of customizing one's MacBook lid. And, perhaps...These Award-Winning Vines Are Everything a Six Second Film Should Be
# 2013-04-27 09:30:00, Gizmodo
Vines aren't exactly a new from of high art or anything. But while poorly edited Vine's of your friends' cats doing nothing are probably what you see most often, there are some pretty good ones, with a bit more meat to 'em. These Tribeca Vine Competition winners are a pretty good sample. They're so...Magnetic Field Art Will Make You Miss Your Old CRT Display
# 2013-04-27 04:30:25, Gizmodo
Remember how awesome it was to hold up a magnet to an old CRT display, and then watch it degauss in a colorful, rainbow seizure? Well you probably don't have any CRTs on hand anymore, but German artist Carsten Nicolai has an installation that makes use of those same magnetic deformations, and it's ...The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Ubermensch 2009 (NSFW)
# 2013-04-26 18:00:00, Gizmodo
Have you ever seen something so stupendously strange, so uncannily odd that your brain was like, "Forget this mess, I'm out"? No? Great, then this will be a new experience for you. MoreUsing Rotten Bicycles to Strengthen Compound Fence
# 2013-04-26 13:23:39, M.I.C. Gadget
Bicycles are seen hung up along the 200 meter long fence of a residential compound in Shenyang city in northeast China. The 60 bicycles are not used to perform a bicycle art work, but a last-ditch move of the property management company to strengthen the surrounding fence for security concern. Some ...Watch This Bread City Fall Into Actual Decay
# 2013-04-26 02:54:43, Gizmodo
People talk about cities falling into decay all the time, but it's usually metaphoric. Not so with this cityscape made of bread—which moulds and crumbles before your eyes. More
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