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Vietnam native artist Diem Chau meticulously carves crayolas into tiny totem-like sculptures. Inspired by the folk art era when no material went to waste, each of these fragile little figures takes about 3-4 hours to complete.
Check out dozens of ‘Storytelling Crayons’ at her website.
“Al Dente” is an animated short film with beautiful colours and opera-like music about a tiny street girl searching food and making a scary discovery about a knife-wielding chef. Made in 2007 as graduation project by three students from French computer animation school Supinfocom Valenciennes.
New Limited Edition of Storm Trooper Hoodies by Marc Ecko. The front zips all the way up to make the hoodie look like a mask. It’s a bit pricey but any die-hard Star Wars fan will have to resist not to buy it. They also have a nice Bobba Fett version.
Check out the rest of the collection.
Soop is a design company making imaginative tableware products.
‘Ready Meals’ is a fun series of seven 10” plates (one for each day of the week) featuring outline drawings that suggest typical english breakfast meals you should eat - such as sausage, beans and mash or beans on toast.
Oktapodi is an impressive 3D short animated film about a pair of octopus lovers ripped apart and how they have to overcome adversity to reunite.
Not only the plot is quite entertaining as the best shorts from Pixar but the story takes place in Santorini, Greece, a beautiful eye-filling setting. Created as a graduation project by the students of the renowned french school Gobelins.
‘Dumped’ is a fun series of portraits by Meg Wachter that captures people’s expressions at the exact moment a food or liquid was ‘dumped’ over their heads.
I have seen the pictures before but not the video. Watching in motion is also fantastic because it shows how genuine their reactions are. You can watch the entire process: the wait for the dumping and their reactions to it, whether it is shock, disgust or delight, each resulting frame is amazing because they are real and all of them are truly having a good time.
Dumped! from Meg Wachter on Vimeo.
Precious Things by Sarah Chilton is a series of curious looking jewelry in which tiny objects are encased in resin.
Each of these eccentric pieces has been individually hand-made and can also be personally customized by the customer.
Things We Think About Before Sleep is a video created by Trollback+Co designers that illustrates their last thoughts before sleeping.
Not only it’s a great concept for an engaging video but it’s also an amazing sample of their work and their wide variety of styles.
Nicole Kenney and Ks Rives asked several participants to complete the sentence, “Before I die I want to…” and write their response on their polaroid portraits.
This is a question we certainly got ourselves thinking about a few times, but it gets a bit more official when you take a picture and write it down.
‘Dust’ is a collection of handmade wood furniture by craftsman Vincent Thomas Leman.
Whimsical and beautiful, the line of unsual shaped, bright colored, fun looking, warped bookshelves, cabinets and end tables look like they were taken straight out of the distorted worlds of Alice in Wonderland or from the Doctor Seuss universe.
Stranger a Day is a fascinating photo project by Roark Johnson. As the project title suggests, he spent a year photographing a complete stranger each day. The resulting 365 portraits are quite compelling.
It was hard to pick only nine photos to illustrate this post because they’re all so interesting. Go check them for yourself.
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