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In 2009, an iron-rich dust storm 300 miles wide and 600 miles long moved across Australia, bathing Sydney in an eerie red hue. Lasting three days, the storm was the worst in the state of New South Wales in nearly 70 years.
ROCKET TRAIN – On a foggy day, a train transports a Soyuz rocket to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, October 29, 2000. (NASA)
Cape Schmidt sits at the northeasternmost corner of Siberia, a place that is by definition remote. But even by that measure, this former Soviet airbase is particularly desolate, a place so devoid of light and color that every photo Andrey Shapran made there appears to be black and white.
SEE MORE: Explore an eerie Soviet base at the edge of the world.
I really am worried about Admiral Akbar. Last night, I saw him drinking alone at Chez Albert. He’d had quite a bit.
Sárospatak, Hungary Bodrog Department Store, built by architect Makovecz Imre in 1969.
RSS Pale Blue Dot – a LEGO spaceship by rpeschetz http://flic.kr/p/NkbVaj
Interior of Christuskirche (1956-59) in Bochum, Germany, by Dieter Oesterlen
TOKYO IN WINTER SIR CARMA
Stefan Morrell Concept Artist
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OLYMPUS 35 SP × FUJIFILM SUPERIA PREMIUM 400 by oi (oichanahcio) Via Flickr: OLYMPUS 35 SP × FUJIFILM SUPERIA PREMIUM 400
Over the city. Done in hexels2 and retouched in photoshop.Took me around 4 hours for this one.
Docking station | Tumblr
XYRITE
ThornBoy.
Artworks by Paul Chadeisson
Paul.chadeisson.fr
LinkeedIn
#OCTOBIT, day 1 Theme: Gameboy
Top to bottom:
Bruno Moraes a.k.a. @bbrunomoraes
Richard Schmidbauer
Ricardo Juchem a.k.a. @ricardojuchem
Keana Almario a.k.a. @kishifishy
Diogo ‘Djinn’ Soares a.k.a. @dsgifs
Manuel Alejandro Vergara a.k.a. @beargara-art
Novel Varius ‘Novpixel’ Rizal
Hendry ‘Iceztiq’ Roesly a.k.a. @hendryroeslyart
Steven Lefcourt a.k.a. @hiddennaturedesign
Iñaki Diaz Acedo
Guestblogging: Yarn Bombing
The bay windows at Pixel Art Academy are vast and give a panorama from your studio over Retropolis. What’s that? You move towards the glass wall to take a closer look … the park, something’s different, are the trees changing for fall/ autumn? You scramble to put your glasses on to get a better idea, the trees look to be dressed for a carnival with all the colours of the rainbow. What’s going on? You log-in to a local news forum for an answer and are informed that the trees have been yarn-bombed!
If you haven’t come across it, yarn-bombing is where graffiti and crafts combine to make a wonderful art form. The point of it is to use yarn/wool/string/old tape ribbon to cover something like a tree or a statue, bridges are popular targets and if you search for ‘yarn-bombing phone box’ you get some delightful results!
Below are some yarn bombs that one day inspire you to create your own.
Magda Sayeg is credited as being the first yarn-bombing artist after they covered the handle to their shop. So… it seems a good starting point:
This picture is from Sussex St and Kent St, Sydney and taken by Project Jam.
Other Magda Sayeg. This picture is from Kent Ave, New York and taken by Eddie O.
Moving on. Urban Cross-Stitch use chain link fence to put their design on (for more designs and a how-to guide see here).
Aida Gomez in the project ‘Home is where the heart is’.
If you have been making granny squares for your pixel art realisation projects and have a few spare, this is one idea to use them:
This was a record breaking attempt to make the largest blanket, it’s not your average yarn bomb, Helsinki Cathedral in Finland.
And another inspirational picture without a reference by artist or photographer (I’m sorry):
It’s such a great idea, covering paving blocks in yarn to make up patterns (until it rains and makes it unsafe to walk on but it could look amazing over a whole area) or even a warning for people as to do this the block must be loose first.
Yarn bombing brings colour and vibrancy into overlooked places but may not be legal in every case! Yarn Bombing is also known as Yarn-storning, Yarn Graffiti (if you are looking for more information about it). Also see Urban Cross-Stitch.
Having seen some pictures you now have a better idea of why the trees are dolled up. You decide to take a walk in the park to get a closer look.
Guestblogging: LEGO Portraits
It wasn’t a surprise that Burra’s field trip to go look at LEGO portraits filled up quickly. You’re going to have to see your friends’ pictures and hope it runs again soon.
LEGO has been going since forever … well … 1940’s.
In its most basic form it’s rectangular blocks that squeeze together until you want them apart again. It’s more than that! With these little blocks you can create whole worlds that at the end of the day can simply be pulled apart. There are no wrong answers here.
LEGO themselves used portraits as part of an advertisement campaign created by Geometry Global agency:
Nathan Sawaya is an artist that specializes in large scale LEGO models (he does other sculptures too).
These faces are nearly two meters tall making them very detailed (photo: Jonathan Liu, Wired)
This is Sawaya’s signature piece and is life size. This picture and more from Art of the Brick can be found at The Avant Guardian.
To quote Sawaya himself, “Dreams are built one brick at a time.”
At a recent Bricks in Time exhibit at Rheged, Penrith, built by Bright Bricks, LEGO portraits came in two extremes of a large scale roman style chap and this fun self portrait from the kids corner. Both great.
Breaking pixel rules a bit, Marco Pece combines LEGO backgrounds and Mini-figures to recreate artworks. There are more of his LEGO art on Flickr.
If you need more blog posts featuring LEGO on Retronator:
LEGO Scumm Bar from Monkey Island
Isometric pixel art LEGO heart
The LEGO Story short
Alter Lego history of Retronator
Infinite LEGO contraption
There’s always a taller building…