Animation Food

Watch: An Animated Zoetrope Cake Inspired by Tim Burton

Master of the edible zoetrope Alexandre Dubosc just released his latest confectionery animation, a grizzly chocolate cake inspired by the films of Tim Burton.

Animation

Life in 873 Images: A Stop Motion Film Made with Stock Photography

BBDO Brazil and director Cisma just released this fantastically clever stop motion video that tells the story of life “from love to bingo” for client Getty Images by winnowing through their exhaustive library of some 38 million images. The one minute clip took six months to research and animate. (via quipsologies)

Art

Rain: A Glass Raindrop Installation by Stacee Kalmanovsky

Rain is a 2005 installation of suspended glass water droplets by Chicago artist Stacee Kalmanovsky. She really found a perfect spot to install this, right below the giant sky lights. I bet the refraction of sunlight onto the floor and surrounding walls was gorgeous. (via behance)

Art Design

No Globes: A Smog-Filled Snow Globe that Highlights Climate Change

This limited edition snow globe titled No Globes was designed by UK firm Dorothy to protest the construction of several dirty coal-fired power stations in 2009. Instead of the idyllic miniature scene usually found inside a snow globe with an accompanying plume of white powder, Dorothy constructed a power plant spewing a disconcerting cloud of black particles.

Art

Thread & Nail Portraits by Pamela Campagna

Pamela Campagna (previously) just sent over some fantastic new portraits using her painstaking method of drawing with carefully placed nails and wrapped thread.

Art

Cut Paper Correspondence by Annie Vought

Oakland-based artist Annie Vought (previously here and here) has completed several new structural paper works created by carefully cutting handwritten text out of large sheets of paper. Of her work Vought says:

The handwriting and the lines support the structure of the cut paper, keeping it strong and sculptural, despite its apparent fragility. In these paper cutouts, I focus on the text, structure, and emotion of the letter in an elaborate investigation into the properties of writing and expression. Penmanship, word choice, and spelling all contribute to possible narratives about who that person is and what they are like. my recreating the letters is an extended concentration on peoples’ inner lives and the ways they express their thoughts through writing.

You can learn much more about these new works over on designboom and in her recent interview over on In the Make. Vought currently has work at a recently extended group show titled In Other Words at Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco.