Jeff Burnette from Joe Blow Glassworks in Vancouver, Canada likes to create hand blown colored glass ray gun concepts. These are blown and manipulated hot glass objects. A transparent color is picked up on the pipe, and then clear glass is gathered on top. The piece is then blown out and shaped to the desired form.Continue reading “Ray Guns from Hand Blown Glass”
Category Archives: Art / Posters
Graffiti Artist Banksy Unmasked?
He is perhaps the most famous, or infamous, artist alive. To some a genius, to others a vandal. Always controversial, he inspires admiration and provokes outrage in equal measure. Since Banksy made his name with his trademark stencil-style ‘guerrilla’ art in public spaces – on walls in London, Brighton, Bristol and even on the WestContinue reading “Graffiti Artist Banksy Unmasked?”
BMW Kinetic Sculpture
One particularly stunning highlight from the 125 exhibits packed into the newly-renovated BMW Welt in Munich is a mechatronic installation by ART+COM, the Berlin-based interactive media company. The project uses 714 metal balls that are individually suspended one barely visible strings, creating an seemingly weightless, amorphous mass. Each ball lowers and retracts independently, which allowsContinue reading “BMW Kinetic Sculpture”
LEGO Artist Building Big
LEGO Artist Nathan Sawaya talks to CNN’s Shanon Cook about his latest projects and celebrity clients. Click here for the video.
Bad Asses By Mark Todd
Mark Todd graduated with honors from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California in 1993. He then moved to New York City, working with clients such as Mtv, Coca-Cola, Sony Music, The New Yorker and The MTA. In 2003, he moved back to southern California with his wife and fellow artist, Esther Pearl WatsonContinue reading “Bad Asses By Mark Todd”
Original Comic Book Art Appreciates
Comic-book collectors like their numbers. They know that the first issue of X-Men, which introduced Marvel’s mutant superheroes, was published in 1963 and had a cover price of 12 cents. They also know that today a copy of that issue, in near mint condition, is worth $16,500. (Parents, take note.) And while the market forContinue reading “Original Comic Book Art Appreciates”