Art & Photography

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.)

With technology advancing and changing more quickly every day, we’re seeing more and more of our childhood gadgets becoming obsolete than any other generation. Future Fossils is an awesome series of unique, hand made cement sculptures that show our cast off tech toys after thousands of years of disuse…crumbling, stained antiquities unearthed in some space aged archeological dig. Even though a lot of these materials wouldn’t truly fossilize, the idea of holding a perfectly proportioned stone like replica of one of these items would be eerie, to say the least. Plus, there’s always the novelty of using your one of a kind, designer fossilized Atari joystick as a paperweight, fish tank accessory or super effective bludgeon. Check out the full series of Future Fossils 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.

It’s been a long time since I’ve played a game on a Nintendo console for any length of time, but I still have fond memories of playing my SNES to death as a teenager. Many of my favorite characters come from Nintendo (and in the case of Mega Man, Capcom), and artist Jed Henry has beautifully re-created each of them in the Japanese Ukiyo-e style of yesteryear.

If the style of these Nintendo characters looks at all familiar, it’s probably because you’ve seen it before. Japanese woodblock printing and

I’m not usually the one who writes about watches, because frankly… I think they’re mostly useless these days. I have my cell phone, thank you very much. Having said that, I absolutely love seeing old advertising, especially if it’s created by the Japanese.

I’m sure we can all agree that Japan is a place full of wacky antics, and even crazier gadgets, and this set of

Tape, be it scotch tape, packing tape, or duct tape, is a major part of our day to day life here on planet earth. We use it when we paint our walls, we use it to pack boxes, and we even use it to fix leaking pipes. What surprises me is that despite the many uses we’ve found for the stuff, artwork isn’t really one of them.

Sure, we use it to mask out sections of a painting every now and again, but surely we can do better than that, right? Of course we can, or at least one of us anyway. You see, there’s a gentleman by the name Max Zorn (is that your real name?) whom – using only brown packing tape, a scalpel, and Plexiglas – creates