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Dollar Broom

Dollar Broom sculpture money home currency

A new piece by currency artist Mark Wagner that redefines dirty meaning of dirty money. (via julien foulatier)

Mark Mawson: Aqueous Fluoreau

Mark Mawson: Aqueous Fluoreau water studio ink color

Photographer Mark Mawson has published a wonderful series of fourteen new underwater ink photographs entitled Aqueous Fluoreau. The images are stunning not only for their vibrant colors but their almost sculptural appearance. His previous projects from the same family, Aqueous and Aqueous II are also incredible and worth your time. If you liked this, also check out the work of Alberto Seveso. (via behance)

By Christopher on December 6, 2011 • color ink studio water

A Czech Merry-Go-Round

A Czech Merry Go Round swings stunts Prague performance art

Though I lived not too far from here in Prague a few years ago, we never quite got around to enjoying the thrill of suspending ourselves from a rotating billboard, though I admit it looks pretty damn fun. Maybe next time. This particular stunt was the handy work of Vojtěch Fröhlich, Ondřej Mladý, January Šimánek, and Vladimír Turner, and if you liked this you’ll also like the Double Happiness Billboard Swingset. (via rebel:art)

By Christopher on December 6, 2011 • performance art Prague stunts swings

Weapons of Mass Creation

Weapons of Mass Creation war screen printing posters and prints

Justin Kamerer aka Angryblue re-released two of his great Weapons of Mass Creation prints with cooking and art themes and added a new one: Music. The three screenprints have editions of 150 and will sell out pretty quick so head over to his shop. (via omg posters)

By Christopher on December 6, 2011 • posters and prints screen printing war

Miguel Endara Draws a Portrait of His Father Using 3.2 Million Dots

Miguel Endara Draws a Portrait of His Father Using 3.2 Million Dots stippling portraits pointillism drawing

Wow. Starting with a goofy portrait of his father’s photocopied face artist Miquel Endara embarked on an ambitious stipple drawing, using 3.2 million dots from assorted Micron pens to recreate the image on paper. Watch the wonderfully shot video above condensing 210 hours of drawing to see how he did it and also check out his website where he has a zoomable high-res version of the image. I have a terrible feeling my dad is going to ask me for a portrait using 3.3 million dots. (via stellar)

By Christopher on December 5, 2011 • drawing pointillism portraits stippling

Drypoint Prints by Angie Hoffmeister

Drypoint Prints by Angie Hoffmeister printmaking people faces dry point

I’m in love with these stunning drypoint prints by Düsseldorf-based artist Angie Hoffmeister. Drypoint is a printmaking technique in the intaglio family where images are etched onto a plate using a sharp metal or diamond point. Give anything some extra eyes and I’m usually a fan, but there’s also something about using a more traditional and laborious printmaking technique to make such intriguing imagery that I really respect. You can see much more of her work here. (via)

By Christopher on December 5, 2011 • dry point faces people printmaking

Making the Invisible Visible

Making the Invisible Visible street art optical illusion installation faces

For a second year, street art collective Mentalgassi has partnered with Amnesty International and Wieden + Kennedy creative team Lisa Jelliffe and Kirsten Rutherford to help highlight some of the year’s most prominent human rights abuse cases playing out around the world. Via Unurth:

This year the German street art collective have created work that appears in 26 sites across Wales, Ireland, Germany and Denmark. The 6 individuals highlighted in this year’s work include Fatima Hussein Badi, who faces the death penalty in Yemen after an unfair trial, Jabbar Savalan, who is in prison in Azerbaijan for his peaceful anti-government activism (including comments he made on Facebook), and Natalia Estemirova, a Russian human rights activist whose murder has not been brought to justice.

Mentalgassi transformed large portaits of each individual into segmented strips that are applied to the slats of fences. At first the images aren’t readily visible and only come into focus suddenly from extreme angles, reinforcing the campaign’s theme, ‘making the invisible visible‘. (via unurth)