Below The Boat

Wood Chart created by the couple Robbie and Kara Johnson from Bellingham, a 'topographic' map of the underwater. Each layers of laser-cut contours are glued together and certain layers are hand-coloured blue to differentiate between land and water.  

quote from belowtheboat webpage :

"The result is stunning. It lifts the surface of the water back like a veil, exposing the often-overlooked, under-explored, awe-inspiring world that lies below. To those familiar with the floor of the ocean or the bed of a lake, it's a beautiful reminder of the deep channels, sharp drop-offs, and mountainous landscapes that are otherwise hidden from view. To the uninitiated, it's wonderfully eye-opening; as though the world has suddenly taken on a fourth dimension. "

I think this is a great idea not just as a nice tangible piece of information but also to allow explorers on boat to know the floor of the water better, especially if exploring to any dangerous spots. Keep up the good work and expand the coverage for the collections, guys !







the creators' favourites (below) :



all images from Below the Boat

Street Art by OaKoAk

OAKOAK

Pen-pusher by day, street art superhero by night, St Etienne sensation OakOak's hilarious, imaginative, irreverent and sometimes a little macabre street work has filled column inches from BBC Brazil to Beijing's biggest daily newspaper. It has sat pretty on the top spot of "The best of ..." at juxtapoz.com for four months. Daubing simple graffiti and paintings on urban features – often the broken ones – OakOak does what street art does best, amuse and inspire people of all ages and demographics by appropriating the city's less appealing elements.

OakOak is a street artist, but he is not a fine artist painting in public. His work, either on the streets of his native St Etienne, France, or made on his travels, is opportunistic and never "authorised". He is completely untrained in art and works full-time in an office. Whilst his favourite artist is Amedeo Modigliani, he cites his main influences as football, comic books, video games and his home town. "I like this city, her atmosphere" OakOak says of Saint Etienne "and I wanted it to look nicer. It was an industrial city with many coal mines; now it's in regeneration and still quite poor. But it's easily travelled by foot with awkward aspects ideal for art. I saw shapes everywhere, and wanted to realise them."

adapted from The outsiders

photo image and more works from OaKoAk website

Impressive stencil and spraypaint art !!

Stumble upon this image... and I am totally impress by the amount of stencil work done by Evol. I almost believe that is just a photoshop work... but is not !! Layers of stencil and spraypaint work, great job done !

Evol is an artist based in Berlin, he is influenced by the overlooked surroundings of the urban landscape which he portrays within his work, he uses a super detailed stencil and spray technique on cardboard, including creases in the cardboard to define the architectural elements in some of the pieces to give it that high level of realism.
(adapted from azurebumble)

for more of Evol's work

Interested in creative arts ?

Bonsai Tree Houses by Takanori Aiba

for those who want to do their model in this way, go ahead...................











For nearly a decade since the late 1970s artist Takanori Aiba worked as a maze illustrator for Japanese fashion magazine POPYE. The following decade he worked as an architect and finally in 2003 decided to merge the two crafts—the design of physical space and the drawing of labyrinths—into these incredibly detailed tiny worlds. Using craft paper, plastic, plaster, acrylic resin, paint and other materials Aiba constructs sprawling miniature communities that wrap around bonsai trees, lighthouses, and amongst the cliffs of nearly vertical islands. I would love to visit every single one of these places, if only I was 6 feet shorter.
See more of Aiba’s work :  http://www.flickr.com/photos/takanoriaiba/


adapted from : http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/02/bonsai-tree-houses-by-takanori-aiba/

Creativity takes no excuses.

making architecture drawing/model with different tool?

Portraits Made Using People as Pixels

http://www.boredpanda.com/people-pixel-portraits-craig-alan/

Leandro Erlich's installation called Bâtiment now on display at Le 104 in Paris looks like so much fun. A gigantic mirror reflects a house which gives visitors the illusion that they can hang off ledges and if kids (or adults) want, they can even get their Spiderman crawl on. Buenos Aires based artist Leandro does brilliant work, I mentioned him in this post and think he is the ultimate artistic illusionist. Watch a little clip here to see how it is done. Amazing.

adapted from http://blackeiffel.blogspot.com/2012/01/installation-art-by-leandro-erlich.html