Artist Jan Fabre spent four months (with his 29 assistants) gluing 1.6 Million Buprestidae beetles on the ceiling of the Royal Palace in Brussels to create the Heaven of Delight.
Jan Fabre says he began with smaller projects and surfaces to see what him and his team could come up with and the result is this very unusual ceiling decor.
Since beetles are a non-protected species, it was easy for Jan and his team to gather the jeweled beetles from universities and countries like Thailand where beetles are considered a delicacy.
Bread Torque is a delicious piece of speed, an F1 car replica made out of 22 varieties of bread and a thousand loaves. Every part of the car is edible, probably except the supporting structure that keeps the bread in shape. Built in Singapore.
China's youth are really starting to rebel hard against the system with bands like VoodooKungFu leading the way. Their blend of Chinese traditional musical instruments, heavy guitar riffs and screaming in Mandarin creates a very progressive sound and pushes the envelope of 'Metal' even further. It's so interesting to see how a generation gap between parents and kids can be so far removed from each other. Anyone who is 40 yrs old and above would have been brought up with a mix of Communist and Confucian education, whereas the kids now have the internet as a tool of education.
Go HERE to see an excerpt from the recently released documentary, Global Metal. This clip focuses on China and how its Metal roots were sowed. A very interesting 14 min. Thanks to the beautiful Veggie Heart for all the info and metal inspiration!
Japanese writer, Kress is one of my fave writers from Japan. He represents the SCA crew from the East and MSK from the West. I love his use of typography in his pieces, both large-scale to skateboards...The vid above is when he painted for the Seventh Day Project in LA.
Check out him and his crews excellent work HERE & HERE.
Original silkscreen hand printed by SHOK-1 on heavyweight fine art paper* 20 x 27 inches signed and numbered limited edition of 15 *315gsm Heritage acid-free printmaking paper
Received an email from Shok-1: "To mark the occasion of my 25th year of art, I'm launching a special series of silkscreen prints based on some of my favourite works from the past.
The first print "Urban Decay" is based on a piece from 2001. I've printed them myself from scratch and I'm very pleased with the quality."
See his 'making of' set of pics up on his FLICKR ACCT.
15 hours and a gazillion stop frames later, you have an 8-bit trip. This has been floating around the web for a while now and I completely forgot to post it....here it is for your HD weekend pleasure!
Local River is a home storage unit for fish and greens, designed by Matthieu Lehanneur.
The Locavores appeared in San Francisco in 2005 and define themselves as ‘a group of culinary adventurers who eat foods produced in a radius of 100 miles (160 km) around their city’. By doing so they aim to reduce impact on the environment inherent to the transport of foodstuffs, while ensuring their traceability.
Local River anticipates the growing influence of this group (the word ‘locavore’ made its first appearance in an American dictionary in 2007) by proposing a home storage unit for live freshwater fish combined with a mini vegetable patch. This DIY fish-farm-cum-kitchen-garden is based on the principle of aquaponics coupled with the exchange and interdependence of two living organisms - plants and fish.
The plants extract nutrients from the nitrate-rich dejecta of the fish. In doing so they act as a natural filter that purifies the water and maintains a vital balance for the eco-system in which the fish live. The same technique is used on large-scale pioneer aquaponics/fish-farms, which raise tilapia (a food fish from the Far East) and lettuce planted in trays floating on the surface of ponds.
Local River aims to replace the decorative ‘TV aquarium’ by an equally decorative but also functional ‘refrigerator-aquarium’. In this scenario, fish and greens cohabit for a short time in a home storage unit before being eaten by their keepers, the end-players in an exchange cycle within a controlled ecosystem. [VIA]
Bento is an art form for packing lunches in the Japanese culture. When you think of lunchboxes, you're probably thinking of the old brown paper bag or the cute cartoon character metal or plastic lunchboxes children take to school with them.
The Japanese have taken the act of packing a lunch or meal to a whole different level of sophistication and fun!
What makes them fun is that these boxes come in many creative styles. The compartments can be the same size or different sizes and the Bento Boxes themselves can be made from different materials and they come in many different themes and shapes from kitty shaped hello kitty box to a round shaped lunch box with two layers.
