Castles in the sky

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Secret of the ooze

Wicked, hyperrealistic digital paintings of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by Dave Rapoza:

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Barrel time

Using  a ’30 camera array’ – a line of cameras that fire in a rapid, staggered sequence as surfers ride towards and past it – Rip Curl have captured surfers in action in Matrix-style, frozen moments of time:

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Futur noir

Matt Wisniewski is a web developer from New York who makes digital collages from fashion photography. They’ve got a bit of a Blade Runner feel to them, so I’m going to forgive the fact that he calls the project Futur Couture…

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Mental scars

This is a form of body modification called scarification. It involves cutting or branding images into the skin to form permanent, patterned scars on the body.

If this isn’t gross enough for you, here are some more pictures of both the process and the results. The picture of the off-cuts – thick, wet worms of gouged-out human skin and fat – is almost enough to put me off my lunch:

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Solidify

Opening titles of the TOCA ME design conference 08 by DVEIN, Combustion and Alex Trochut:

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Feathered friends

Iain MacArthur is a freelance artist from Swindon whose work mixes fine draughtsmanship with swirling, feathered, tribal patterns:   

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Payable on death

Wicked, laser-cut , dollar bill skull by Scott Campbell:

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Going to ground

Jim Denevan is an artist who specialises in creating large scale drawings, often based on fibonacci sequences and the golden ratio, on impermanent surfaces such as sand or ice.

For this particular work, called Earth, I think, (he just seems to name his art after whatever he’s drawing it in; refreshingly wank-free compared to the usual art pretension), Jim spent two weeks in May 2009 drawing on the bed of a dried up salt lake in Nevada’s Black Rock desert. A drawing 4.6 kilometers in diameter, in fact.

He marked the majority of the pattern freehand, walking with a stick. GPS was then used for the three largest circles, before all the lines were widened to nine metres with a pickup truck and relentless circular driving.

Then, in June, the lake filled up again, erasing the pattern forever:

Any artwork that comes with its own scalable googlemap to properly appreciate it has my vote…

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Face to face

Inspired by Noah Kalina’s famous “Everyday” photo project, Flickr user clickflashwhirr, has taken more than 500 photos of herself in the same pose since 2006.

In turn, that inspired graduate student Tiemen Rapati to generate a composite photo from all 500+ of clickflashwhirr’s portraits by taking the average RGB value of each pixel. He’s including the finished image in his graduate study of the way we preserve digital memories, entitled “Aleph.”

The video below runs through 4.5 years of these photos in 40 seconds:

[lifted almost directly from The Daily What]

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