Art & Photography

Here is a collection of some very cool felting art by Zoe Williams who is currently based in Seattle, WA but originally hails from New Orleans. Zoe works with a dry felting technique called needling felting. The needle felting process uses special barbed needles instead of heat and water in the production of wool felt. This technique was originally used in industrial felting machines in which thousands of these needles are used simultaneously to produce felt sheets.

Needle felting by hand is extremely slow and a painstaking process and Zoe uses only a single needle for her pieces except the earliest stage of each piece. All of her art work strictly uses wool with the exception of finishing touches such as glass eyes, beads, feathers, and the wood used for frames on some of the pieces.

I’m fascinated by sculptural representation of the human body, and I’m also pretty distracted by glowing neon lights. There are actually two amazing sculptors combining these interests into awesome neon glass bodies: Jessica Lloyd-Jones and Eric Franklin. Both these anatomical wizards create their sculptures by hand, blowing borosilicate glass and filling it with inert neon and xenon gases.  Franklin has created a full skeleton called Embodiment, and LLoyd-Jones has an entire bevy of organs in her Anatomical Neon series to fill it out. Check after the jump for a full set of incredible photos.

I know what you’re thinking… photo manipulations are a dime a dozen. It’s true, but every so often they’re both well executed and introduce an interesting concept, or at least something visually unique. This falls into the latter category, with a small collection of “invisible bicycles” by artist Zhao Huasen.

They’re bicycles, and they’re floating, and the effect actually looks quite convincing. The photos actually kind of remind me of an experience that I had while riding down the Swiss Alps, which involved a long strip of

Since mankind first sprouted legs and walked on land, people have been creating art in some form or another. Over the centuries, that art has evolved. Today, people can create just about anything they imagine, and the tools continue to improve with the likes of 3D printing and other technologies as yet unimaginable.

But there’s something to be said for the classic mediums, and it seems that even with something as ancient as pencil drawings, modern artists can create incredibly beautiful, life like renderings of just about anything.

As a child of the 80s, shows like Ghostbusters, Ninja Turtles, Thunder Cats and yes, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe were my bread and butter. I had the toys, I watched the shows, and I longed to be just like the characters. Well, except for maybe Crang in Ninja Turtles…

It’s been a long time since I’ve thought about any of these shows in any serious way (not that I ever really did – they’re pretty goofy), but recently I saw a collection of artwork by a fellow named Gerald Parel that I just had to share with you. Based on He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, and painted in what I’m going to call a