Æsthetic Circus

© meloncholie, 2010 by sarah illenberger. fine art print, 40 x 60 cm, ed. of 50. courtesy of gestalten. sarah illenberger : 'good weather' exhibition at: gestalten space , berlin from: 18 august — 11 september, 2011 (opening: august 18, 18:00 – 21:00) to coincide with the launch of the the artist's first monograph gestalten space will show a large selection of work by berlin-based visual artist sarah illenberger . © chili con carne, 2008 by sarah illenberger for enroute magazine. fine art print, 70 x 84 cm, ed. of 25. courtesy of gestalten. --- following text from gestalten good weather also presents many of the original crafted objects composed from combining an array of materials such as paper, textile, and stones to mundane everyday items from fruits and rubber bands to car tires. meticulously created with analog handicraft instead of using a computer, sarah illenberger’s richly-detailed work opens up new perspectives on seemingly familiar...

image ©  hayashi natsumi elevating the art of self-portraits to a new level - literally - tokyo-based photographer  hayashi natsumi 's work consists of the artist seemingly floating in midair within conventional settings in and around the japanese city. entitled 'today's levitation', the series is updated daily with new photographs set in a variety of locations from a desolate street to a busy train platform. using the aid of a simple tripod, the self-portraits are taken with a 10-second timer from a distance. all the poses are captured in mid-jump with no aid of a rigging system or photoshop. impossibly relaxed and composed, the floating subject injects a surreal atmosphere to the often normal set, rendering an image devoid of gravity or physics.    to see many more images from the series, click  here  to natsumi's daily blog. image ©  hayashi natsumi image ©  hayashi natsumi image ©  hayashi ...

'gulp' by aardman all images courtesy aardman 'gulp', a short film created by  sumo science  at  aardman , has broken a world record for the 'largest stop-motion animation'. completely shot using a 12-megapixel cellphone camera on a nokia N8, the project was set on 11,000 m2 of sand on south wales' pendine beach. props include a full-scale boat and a rain-jacket clad actor to tell a harrowing episode of a fisherman's time at sea. the short involved a large team that raked and smoothed out patterns on the sand to create a seascape--and the inside of a whale's belly--when viewed from above. shot from a large crane overhead, the images were then compiled to run at 25 frames per second to create the stop-motion effect. make sure to check out the making-up film embedded at the bottom of the page. Gulp. The world's largest stop-motion animation shot on a Nokia N8.  from  Nokia HD  on  Vimeo . camera set up ...

'wastelandscape', an installation by elise morin and clémence eliard created by french artist  elise morin  and architect clémence eliard, 'wastelandscape' overtakes the 'halle d'aubervilliers' of paris's  centquatre  with an undulating landscape composed of 65,000 old CDs, sorted and hand-sewn together into a 500-square meter surface. the piece is on exhibition at the centquatre now through september 10th. in the artists' words: ' made of petroleum, this reflecting slick of CDs forms a still sea of metallic dunes; the artwork's monumental scale reveals the precious aspect of a small daily object. ' 'wastelandscape' is planned for exhibition in multiple locations, transforming each time, before eventually being completely recycled into polycarbonate. the 500-square meter artificial landscape utilizes 65,000 CDs installation view view from above  closer view detail view video view of the exhibition an...

'uffizi', a paper shadowbox sculpture by christina lihan originally trained as an architect, US-based artist  christina lihan  creates elaborate paper relief sculptures, mounted in shadowboxes and ranging from two to six inches deep. as subjects she has taken buildings ranging from the eiffel tower and taj mahal to private residences and american cities. all carefully assembled in detailed layers, the artworks are composed of unpainted, 300lb. coldpress watercolour paper. lihan begins her work by photographing and sketching the site, generally creating scaled charcoal drawings that she then enlarges to the planned size of the finished piece. she lays out the buildings directly over these sketched forms, and cutting out details in place and ultimately assembling all the components into the finished composition. all carving, scoring, cutting, and folding is completed by hand, and lihan admits that, basing her work primarily on its aesthetic effec...