forget your towel

if your lucky enough to be in brisbane, australia in the near future, make sure you stop by the museum of modern art for a visual treat, this is brilliant.

this is the fake pool by argentinian artist leandro erlich, known for creating illusion like installations this beauty was conceived roughly 12 years ago and has been doing the rounds at various galleries all over the world since 2001, i have no idea how i have only just heard about it!

here's a link to leandros website where there is some incredible work, please check it out

olly moss - star wars reimagined

he's only gone and done it again

olly moss has redesigned the original trilogy of star wars posters and has once again created something incredible, it would appear this man can do no wrong; take a look at these beauties.

when handling something as cherished and adored as the star wars franchise, it would be very easy for some people to tear into olly for whatever reason, but it would appear that these posters are loved by star wars fans and non star wars fans the world over.

"It was so intimidating!" olly told Wired.com in an e-mail interview. "There is such a wealth of greatStar Wars art out there already, from paid professionals and from enthusiastic fans. I suppose my main aim was to make a set of Star Wars posters that were a little different from what people are used to seeing from the franchise, but still retained that essential Star Wars feel. I started by re-watching the original movies with a sketchbook on my lap, and just sort of went from there."

400 of each of these posters have been officially printed and were on sale for $50 each, however the only place you'll probably find these now - if you're lucky - is ebay. if you find any please let me know, i'd probably sell a lung to get hold of these.

feel free to check out the rest of olly's awesome work at his website here
follow him on twitter here
follow his tumblr here

"If you're as big a nerd as I am, you just can't say no to Star Wars"

 Olly Moss

dalton ghetti's micro sculptures

following on from last weeks what do you do with... toilet roll tubes, i thought i would take this opportunity to post another, so here goes, what do you do with... a pencil when you have used it so much that you cant actually use it to write anymore, well dalton ghetti has come up with a simply beautiful use for these pencil case lurkers.

each sculpture is intricately crafted with such precision, i wouldn't like to see the amount of pencils that are almost there and then they break. the detail on these micro sculptures is just incredible even down to etching wording into the final shape, shown above in the saw and below in the button

there is a quick and easy explanation to this, that he uses massive pencils but i don't think this is the case, feast your eyes on these few beauties

unfortunately other than articles about this project / hobby / obsession i couldn't find that much more about this brazilian
artist so if you know any more information give me a shout. till the next time, cheers

creative rolls

ever wondered what to do with the empty cardboard tube of a toilet roll? chances are if you older then 10 you usually throw them away or put the in a hamster cage, either way not making full use of what could be. french artist anastassia elias pondered over that very same predicament and come up with a brilliant solution. take a look at these little beauties

the title of this particular project is paper cuts, which leads me to believe that she slices the tube open, as you can see above and then cuts the fine detail out of either the same tube and folds them up or a different tube and sticks them in, which ever way its done it impressive as hell, i cant see a cut mark or a glue mark anywhere, good work anastassia.

i don't want to include them all here as that would give you an excuse not to go the anastassia's site which can be found here, so make sure you toddle over there and take a look, she has plenty of other good stuff over there too. her site is in french but google translate should be able to help you out with that, enjoy. oh here's one more to wet your appetite further. brilliant

my 100 cardboards

just a textually short post today, but on rich with images of something that was just too good to not post, short because after some time searching the vast internets, i couldnt find anything more on the artist than his name and location. so here is the "my 100 cardboards" exhibition by german artist berni valenta. berni has created 100 faces using mostly what seems to be old carboard boxes, some paint and some markers. each different each with its own personality, some you will recognise, some you wont, but you should enjoy them all.

i like to think that these little guys adorn each and every wall in berni's house, but i dont think thats the case. but in anycase i think youll agree these are very cool, here is a link to the artist behance site and heres and link to his flickr account.

how many can you name? which are your favourites? if you can find out any more information on the artist please let me know, until that timelets just enjoy them, i think my favourite might be the stormtrooper, the lego man or the smoking gorilla.