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The artist Tessa Farmer creates magical worlds ruled by minuscule fairy skeletons, who are not just mischievous but downright evil. Her striking sculptures, which are made from insects, animal taxidermy, and plant roots, depict narratives that are no doubt dark and infused with maliciousness, yet their savagery is, for Farmer, an expression of a raw survival instinct inherent in us all. We met her in London while she was preparing an exhibit for Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art and spoke with her about her process, why she isn’t interested in beauty, and what materials she can find on eBay these days—or in a canal by her house for that matter. tessafarmer.com/

A time capsule of Goethe's intuition on the roles and manifestations of colors in our lives.

Color is an essential part of how we experience the world, both biologically and culturally. One of the earliest formal explorations of color theory came from an unlikely source -- the German poet, artist, and politician Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who in 1810 published Theory of Colours (public library; public domain), his treatise on the nature, function, and psychology of colors. Though the work was dismissed by a large portion of the scientific community, it remained of intense interest to a cohort of prominent philosophers and physicists, including Arthur Schopenhauer, Kurt Gödel, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

One of Goethe's most radical points was a refutation of Newton's ideas about the color spectrum, suggesting instead that darkness is an active ingredient rather than the mere passive absence of light.

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A Collaborative Animation Platform, From Chris Milk, Aaron Koblin, And Google

A community of amateur and professional artists are using Google-developed animation tools to create stream-of-consciousness videos.

http://www.exquisiteforest.com/
This Exquisite Forest is an online collaborative art experiment presented by Google and Tate Modern. The project lets users create short animations that build off one another as they explore a specific theme. It can be accessed via the website exquisiteforest.com and through a physical installation at Tate Modern (http://www.tate.org.uk/) from July 23, 2012.

Established by Thomas Heatherwick in 1994, Heatherwick studio is recognized for its work in architecture, urban infrastructure, sculpture, furniture design and strategic thinking. Team members come from disciplinary backgrounds that include architecture, product design, model making, fabrication, landscape design, fine art and curation......

Watch "A future more beautiful?"
Architect Thomas Heatherwick shows five recent projects featuring ingenious bio-inspired designs. Some are remakes of the ordinary: a bus, a bridge, a power station … And one is an extraordinary pavilion, the Seed Cathedral, a celebration of growth and light.

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para promocionar nuestra nueva tipografía cassannet, inspirada en los tipos de letra utilizados por cassandre, hemos hecho un pequeño homenaje recreando en carne y hueso el famoso tríptico “dubo, dubon, dubonnet”.
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to promote our new typeface cassannet, based on the style of lettering seen on cassandre posters, we’ve recreated on flesh and blood the famous triptych “dubo, dubon, dubonnet”.
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© “broken hearted melody” by sarah vaughan (1959).

“Using a process that could be the new definition of meticulous, Korean sculptor Seung Mo Park creates giant ephemeral portraits by cutting layer after layer of wire mesh. Each work begins with a photograph which is superimposed over layers of wire with a projector, then using a subtractive technique Park slowly snips away areas of mesh.”

"I spent some time in the States last month and before the trip, I thought I'd do a portrait of a recognisable American in memory of my trip to the States. I was there to attend the EG Conference where I was invited as one of the speakers. I'll blog about that experience soon - it was amaaazing - and here's my mum's post about it on her blog.

I've been working on portraits of Chinese figures so far because I'm living in China and I thought it'd be a great way to learn more about the culture and people here through researching about them and utilising local materials to go about my art projects.

I was going to ask friends on Facebook to suggest a American I should paint - then I thought - hold on - Why not the creator (or co-creator!) of Facebook himself?! And what if I played around with the words 'Face' and 'Book'? ...oh wow...was I being PUNNY?!

I liked the idea but didn't know how to go about using books for the portrait. But inspiration came to me one day as I was working on some facade systems in HASSELL, the architecture company that I work for."

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see more here: http://idekumiko.posterous.com/snow-and-salt

From a tactical perspective, two very different art installations -- but both exquisite in their own right. Each artist uses materials found in nature to demonstrate how temporary can still be beautiful.

The focus of Chrissy Angliker’s painting style lies in creating a balanced relationship between the controllable and the uncontrollable. Paint drips from every deliberate brush stroke, challenging it. By contrasting form and free-falling dribble, she seeks to illustrate the duality in life between our best-laid plans and the host of chaotic shit that can befall them.