Light paintings have been around for years, people create long exposures and paint their own picture using LED’s, flashlights and other illuminating tools. There are numerous amounts of videos out now showing light animations that would blow your mind. Plus I love some stop animation as you already know.
Advertisement is key to getting the word out about your business and what better way to place your mark on a billboard or automobile. Now-a-days you see company cars driving around with vinyl stickers advertising their business, or buses driving around in cities with ads plastered across the sides. Looking around the web I found a great ad for the Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark.
The concept and artistry creates the illusion of this giant snake squeezing the life out of the bus which would have any pedestrian standing in awe at the site of it.
Created by Packsaddlled Y&R and an artistic director Peder Schack.
Kids Love Peace was created by ICY And SOT from Iran, Tabriz using 6 layers of stencils, giving the piece and extremely lifelike feel to it. I’ve seen a few stencil art works and I am impressed by the precision and detail in each stencil which makes it look like someone did this freehand.
I was checking out Wooster Collective the other day and saw some extremely interesting and funny street paintings (literally artwork done on the streets). This artist goes by the name Roadsworth uses the world as his canvas, some people hate it because they say it’s destroying private and government property, but some people love it, I for one am one that enjoys his work. To come up with a number of different ways to attract attention to the surrounding roads in an artistic and new way is great to see, and he does just that. He distorts things we see every day and makes them intriguing things to stop and really pay attention to, such as crosswalk lines, stop signs :cough: I usually don’t see these for some reason. Roadsworth brings life to all these things as you can see in some of the images below.
I was intrigued by an article/video I found at Wooster Collective ‘EyeWriter Source Code Released To The Public’. At first by the title I thought it was a company trying to create a new way of laziness, having people accomplish writing, drawing and other handheld pen to paper tasks. But in fact this EyeWriter started out as a means for ALS patients to express themselves since they are incapable of physically doing so.
“Members of Free Art and Technology (FAT), OpenFrameworks, the Graffiti Research Lab, and The Ebeling Group communities have teamed-up with a legendary LA graffiti writer, publisher and activist, named Tony Quan, aka TEMPTONE. Tony was diagnosed with ALS in 2003, a disease which has left him almost completely physically paralyzed… except for his eyes. This international team is working together to create a low-cost, open source eye-tracking system that will allow ALS patients to draw using just their eyes. The long-term goal is to create a professional/social network of software developers, hardware hackers, urban projection artists and ALS patients from around the world who are using local materials and open source research to creatively connect and make eye art.” – EyeWriter.org
To learn more about Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) please visit ALS Association
