Gina

German street artist Boris Hoppek does some pretty cool art pieces and installations; he paints with a whimsical, fun style.  He also does some really, really weird installations. If you go looking, you’ll find pictures of waves of smiling faces hugging and laughing, or a checkerboard tiled walkway with a piece of poop on every alternating square…lots and lots of poop. He also seems to have a love for a character of his that is loosely based on “black face,” so I think you can understand that when I say that the installation after the jump is NSFW, it’s honestly really not safe for work. His minimal comic art style is often either inspiring or sexual in nature (he’s a master of disparity), but that’s nothing all that new and surprising in the world of street art installations. Hoppek took the shape of the structure he was working on, matched it with the form and grace of female anatomy and a very large photo realistic print, with some surprising results for the passerby. (We promise there’s no poop after the jump.)

Snowboarding videos are usually exciting, adrenaline loaded clips packed to the gills with fantastic stunts- that’s all well and good, but I was massively impressed when I saw this L.E.D snowboarding video showcasing William Hughes in an electric snowsuit. Shot with slow motion footage, the crisp white glow of thousands of L.E.D.s shimmers through powder as his board carves a swathe through the trees on a pitch black mountainside. Instead of wild flips and blazing speed, the entire video is a haunting vision of a solitary beacon illuminating the slopes in a sea of perfect darkness.