Quill or be quilled

Intricate quilled paper anatomy pieces by Sarah Yakawonis. They remind me of Lisa Nilsson’s beautiful filigrees of CT scans:

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Sweets are bad for you

Yaaay! It’s time for another round of ‘cool things done by hateful people’… a.k.a. where I find work I like, only to end up wanting to punch the artist in the genitals when they drown it in pretension .

Yup, it’s Fun with Artist’s Statements! This week’s winner is Ashkan Honarvar for his Faces series, where he recreates horrific war wounds with confectionery…

Ashkan says his work, “constitutes a search for a universal representation of the evil latent in every human, providing an opportunity for reflection. His aesthetic dissection has an intriguing macabre nature, which opens the images to interpretation.”

And I say he’s a tosser.

It’s fairly shocking imagery, and the fact that it’s supposedly based on war wounds make me a bit uncomfortable, but it definitely stops you in your tracks:

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He’s not angry

 Hercules confuses a stage direction on how to read his line, with it being part of the line itself:

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Burning ring of fire

This is pretty awesome – strategically placed fans turn a campfire into a raging  flame tornado:

(For those short of attention, it really kicks off at 1:45)

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Fabulously evil

After the superheroes, the villains…

Scott Scheidly’s portraits are “a series of ‘fabulous’ depictions of tyrants, dictators and popes.” I’m not really sure what the message is, but the execution – frame and all – is delightful:

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The squeegee Gotham needs

As part of their contract, hospital window washers at the Evelina Children’s Hospital in London dress up as superheroes to clean the hospital’s windows.

For both the bedridden, very ill children and for the window washers themselves, these visits are reportedly the highlight of their week:

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Plastic beach

As part of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) an enormous outdoor installation of fish was constructed using discarded plastic bottles on Botafogo beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil:

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Put my stag in a box

I love the cross-section/edge of a fishtank feel these paintings by Josh Keyes:

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Hot to trot

Hot Wheels have a history of doing fantastic ambient advertising, taking the Hot Wheels track into real life, but this is really awesomely pushing the limits…

At 2012 X Games in Los Angeles, Tanner Foust and Greg Tracy broke a Guinness World Record by simultaneously driving race cars through a life size (66 foot tall) Hot Wheels Double Dare Loop:

Foust and Tracy hit 52 mph in the track and experienced approximately 7Gs going through the loop.

“That was pretty hardcore: the 7 Gs … I almost felt my chin hit my lap, I think, in the loop,” Foust said after finishing the stunt in the Team Yellow car. “I felt like I was in a toy.”

To avoid passing out from the force of seven times gravity, Foust’s strategy was to “grunt, tighten your core and try to make your eyeballs and veins pop out.”

Gnarly.

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Lean on me

Paul Octavious’s  Lean With It series is quite similar to Romain Laurent’s Tilt images I posted previously, but with the addition of precariously angled trees. A sweet idea and nicely executed:

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