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Origami Artist Sipho Mabona Will Attempt to Fold a Life-Sized Elephant from a Single Piece of Paper

Swiss origami master Sipho Mabona (previously) plans to fold a massive life-sized elephant from a specially produced 2,500 square foot (125 sqm) sheet of paper at the Art Museum in Beromünster, Switzerland. TitledWhite Elephant, the artist is currently raising funds for the endeavor through Indiegogo so he can fund the production of paper and hopefully film the project in a timelapse video similar to the animation above. Mabona is offering a number of rewards such as origami instructions and original folded pieces including his famous koi and swallows.

Learn more about White Elephant over on Indiegogo.

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Flynn Cameron Jones

Bliss|ssilB, 2013 

Paper Sculpture

420mm x 297mm 

The hang for my recent college unit. The piece above draws inspiration directly from the digital landscape. Creating a work that directly appropriates the represented landscape of the computer. National Geographic photographer Charles O’Rear originally took the image that I have appropriated for this piece in 1996, using a medium format camera. Soon after the image was taken Windows bought the rights to use it as the default background for their XP operating system. Named ‘Bliss’ the picture is now thought to be one of the most viewed images of all time, according to reports online over a billion people have seen it. The image represents new medias ability to take from the physical world and reshape material identity. Sampling ‘Bliss’ to create a paper sculpture that makes the same transition from a physical state, to a new digital individuality that the former landscape had also undergone.

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Lunetta - Sawdust

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Albuquerque Balloon Festival Timelapse

Shot and edited by Joel Schat at the 2013 Balloon Festival in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

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Spencer Tunick Spencer Tunick stages scenes in which the battle of nature against culture is played out against various backdrops, from civic center to desert sandstorm, man and woman are returned to a preindustrial, pre-everything state of existence.  Tunick has traveled the globe to create these still and video images of multiple nude figures in public settings. Organizing groups from a handful of participants to tens of thousands, all volunteers, is often logistically daunting; the subsequent images transcend ordinary categories and meld sculpture and performance in a new genre. http://www.spencertunick.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx560Owokw

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Melting Ice Cream Truck, Sculpture by the Sea 2006, Art by Glue Society, Photo by The Glue Society(x)

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Sølve Sundsbø by Digital Light Ltd

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Newspaper Pages Cut Like Embroidered Lace by Myriam Dion

Armed with a scalpel and latest edition of Le Devoir or the International Harold Tribune, Canadian artist Myriam Dion cuts rich textural patterns remeniscent of emroidered lacework right into the pages newspapers. Major design elements and photographs from the pages are often left intact or otherwise incorporated into her paper cuts, creating a strange element of harmony, as if the paper was always intended to look like this. It’s also amazing to consider that each tiny cut is made by hand, and yet more negative space is left behind than actual paper.

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Pangaea

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Ultimate Geek Selection, Nicolas Beaujouan

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Vertical Emptiness: Crystallized Tree Branches Dripping with Strands of Hot Glue by Yasuaki Onishi

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Wind Portal by Najla El Zein at the V&A

London Design Festival 2013: Lebanese designer Najla El Zein has installed 5000 spinning paper windmills in a doorway at the V&A museumin London.

Each of the spinning windmills in the Wind Portal by Najla El Zein was folded by hand and attached to upright plastic tubes with custom-made 3D-printed clips.

A computer programme by Maurice Asso of Hilights controls which poles release air and when, causing ripples of movement across the installation, while lighting overhead is programmed to alternately brighten and dim as though breathing.

"Our intervention focuses on the transition between two spaces, an inside and outside space," El Zein told Dezeen. "The proximity of the installation with visitors means they can go through it, touch it, stand there and interact with it."

Studio team: Najla El Zein, Dina Mahmoud, Sara Moundalek, Sarah Naim Lighting designer and automation: Maurice Asso, Hilights

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two islands' award winning mark's house complete in michigan

London-based firm two islands won the international flat lot competition held by the flint public art project and AIA flint chapter to design a temporary pavilion in an empty parking area of downtown flint, michigan. ‘mark’s house’ represents abandonment, loss and the importance of shelter. it is designed to raise awareness of the demolishing of thousands of houses after foreclosures forced many families out of town, and the city’s continued efforts in revitalization. raised a storey above the ground, the 4,000 pound (1,814 kg) structure is designed to withstand 90 mph winds. the tudor-style dwelling cantilevers on top of a mirrored pedestal, and is coated in a 5 mm reflective mylar skin, which makes it blend in with its surroundings, as if it had disappeared. this finish changes with the weather conditions, stretching or wrinkling with varying amounts of moisture in the air. the transitions create a visually intriuging display. underneath the floating building, a ceiling sports 882 lightboxes personalized with hundreds of faces and photos of over 90 global kickstarter supporters. a platform below creates a place to host community events, the first of which was the flint art walk.

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PICASSO // LIGHT DRAWINGS

In 1949, Picasso was visited by Gjon Mili, a photographer for LIFE magazine. Mili, a “technical prodigy and lighting innovator” brought with him an electric light that fascinated and delighted Picasso. The result of this collaboration are these light drawings. Disappearing as quickly as they were created, yet captured on film for future generations to enjoy. 

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High Speed Flower Explosions by Martin Klimas

The life of a flower usually ends in slow, inglorious decay as petals wilt and succombs to the cycle of life, but these flowers shot by German photographer Martin Klimas go out with a bang.