24.6.09

LIFE-SIZED LEGO CELLO




Via: likecool
The new Lego work by Nathan Sawaya, Cello.Text from the Artist:"I built a cello out of LEGO. It is the actual size of a non-LEGO cello. It also sounds different from a non-LEGO cello. Here's the YouTube video that everyone is talking about of me creating the cello brick by brick."

ALICE IN WONDERLAND: FIRST LOOK






Directed by Tim Burton.Starring: Johnny Depp & Anne Hathaway.
Via: usatoday

Text Via USA Today: hose who have grown curiouser and curiouser about what the offbeat reinventor of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory might conjure up in his version of Alice in Wonderland can feast their eyes on this array of concept art and publicity images, due to hang in movie theaters this week to promote the March 5, 2010, release."It has been Burton-ized" is how producer Richard Zanuck describes the director's vision of the Lewis Carroll classic. Many elements are familiar, from the enigmatic Caterpillar (Alan Rickman) to the fierce Jabberwock (Christopher Lee). But none has been presented in this sort of visually surreal fashion."We finished shooting in December after only 40 days," Zanuck says. Now the live action is being merged with CG animation and motion-capture creatures, and then transferred into 3-D.The traditional tale has been freshened with a blast of girl power, courtesy of writer Linda Woolverton (Beauty and the Beast). Alice, 17, attends a party at a Victorian estate only to find she is about to be proposed to in front of hundreds of snooty society types. Off she runs, following a white rabbit into a hole and ending up in Wonderland, a place she visited 10 years before yet doesn't remember.Among those who welcome her back is the Mad Hatter, a part tailor-made for Johnny Depp as he collaborates with Burton for the seventh time. "This character is off his rocker," Zanuck says.Aussie actress Mia Wasikowska, 19, best known for HBO's In Treatment, has the coveted title role. "There is something real, honest and sincere about her," Zanuck says. "She's not a typical Hollywood starlet."There is the usual Burton-esque ghoulishness (Helena Bonham Carter's Red Queen, whose favorite retort is "Off with their heads," has a moat filled with bobbing noggins), but Zanuck assures most kids can handle it. "The book itself is pretty dark," he notes. "This is for little people and people who read it when they were little 50 years ago."

DUSHI





Via: todayandtomorrow
Dushi is the title of the solo show of Florentijn Hofman at Galerie West in The Hague (The Netherlands). He supersized stuffed animals so that they complete lose their function and feeling.

DISPOSABLE TECHNOLOGY






By artist Kylebean.
Via: kylebean
A response to our sonsumre relationship with technology and obsolescence.

CHEWING GUM SCULPTURES





Chewing in Venice, by Simone Decker.
Via: booooooom