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Sky Art: Thomas Lamadieu Illustrates in the Sky Between Buildings

Sky Art: Thomas Lamadieu Illustrates in the Sky Between Buildings sky illustration

For anyone who has lived or visited a narrow courtyard wrapped in buildings it can sometimes be a claustrophobic space with the sky limited in all directions, but the strange geometric gaps formed by the surrounding architecture are often fun to photograph. For instance art director Lisa Rienermann (scroll right) became famous for her award-winning alphabet formed from letters spotted in the space between buildings. However French artist Thomas Lamadieu instead used the constraints as inspiration for his imaginative illustration series Sky Art, where the artist drew within the narrow confines of rooftops and tiny slices of sky to create some pretty wild imagery. It would be fun to see different artists interpretations of the exact same spot. (via my modern met)

By Christopher on April 15, 2013 • illustration sky

Trees Photographed by Grant Simon Rogers

I love this pair of photos by London-based photographer Grant Simon Rogers who only recently picked up his camera after a nearly 20 year hiatus. Weren’t we lucky. And what on earth?

The High Wheel

The High Wheel surreal sky people manipulated carnival

High Wheel is a fun video project by Maider Lopez where he effectively removes the main structure of a ferris wheel by using chroma key (the same concept as using green screen, except in this instance kind of in reverse). Made for the OK Center for Contemporary Art. (via lustik, i heart my art)

By Christopher on August 27, 2011 • carnival manipulated people sky surreal

Joeri Bosma

Joeri Bosma water sky portraits people optical illusion

This shot from photographer Joeri Bosma caught my eye. He’s based out of the Netherlands and his work reminds me somewhat of Nicholas Max and Egor Shapovalov.

By Christopher on August 12, 2011 • optical illusion people portraits sky water

LED Moon Light by Nosigner

LED Moon Light by Nosigner sky moon lighting

Inspired by the recent “Supermoon”, product and graphic designer Nosigner (Eisuke Tachikawa) has designed an LED-embedded moon light using actual 3D topographical data taken from the lunar orbiter Kaguya. I can only hope that such a lovely, hypnotizing object will one day be made for sale. (via spoon and tamago)

By Christopher on June 28, 2011 • lighting moon sky

Kite Hill

Kite Hill sky outdoors kids Chicago

Shot by Paul Octavious (previously) at the Kids & Kites Festival at Montrose Harbor. Fun fact: I was out and about with Colossal Junior on this day, though it doesn’t look like we made a cameo. This is about four blocks from headquarters. It always amazes me how beautiful Paul makes our neighborhood look, or perhaps sometimes I just fail to see the beauty in it, though this was indeed a glorious day.

By Christopher on May 10, 2011 • Chicago kids outdoors sky

Bernd Edgar Wichmann

Bernd Edgar Wichmann sky nature landscapes airplanes

Just discovered the work of German photographer Bernd Edgar Wichmann. His portfolio is chalk-full of accomplished commercial work for dozens of brands, agencies, and magazines, but it’s his landscape work shown above that’s truly inspiring to me. It’s as if his camera is hovering in the sky above the images he shoots. (via beware)