Jon Todd‘s art is chaotic and colorful but every piece seems to have purpose. Borrowing from many styles Todd has truly crafted something very special and very much his own. His technique of layering allows for the final product to be quite interesting indeed. Add to that his dedication to framing each piece with rescued and refinished frames, there is no part of Jon Todd’s art that is not eye catching.
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Geoff Lilleman‘s and Minivegas‘ joint efforts have generated the three-dimensional web GL interactive music video Waxflatter. Awesome tune by Fabrizio Greco. A very intelligent and beautifully constructed intersection of visuals, audio, and viewer involvement. view more ★
Hailing out of Poland, Justyna Neryng was featured back in July 2010, and it’s about time that we brought her back for a second look! Neryng is currently based out of Brighton & Hove, UK.
The best way to describe Japanese artist Mika Aoki’s physical body and shapes of her sculptures are like bacterial specimens going through an epidemic outbreak. At the same time, evolving and incorporating itself on cars, mutated bottles, syringes, and laboratory test tubes. In the end, her sculptures are beautiful, unusually universally perceived, and executed in abstract forms.
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Elena // Eлeна, is the latest feature from powerhouse Russian filmmaker Andrei Zvygaintsev that chillingly recontextualizes the phrase “family first.” A slow-burn of a crime thriller that corners its female protagonist into executing a plan of deceit, love, and betrayal. view more ★
Takeshi Suga is a Japanese photographer who has been working out of the UK for a number of years now, but is currently back in his home country shooting away. Suga carefully utilizes light and color in his work to carefully conjure up dream-like images that evoke feelings of “nostalgia, sentimentality, euphoria, and loneliness.”
Angela Grossman is a Canadian artist who uses photographs, discarded materials, and paint to create intricate collages, graphic and gripping, with a forceful social narrative.
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Kim Hee-Soo is a collage artist based out of South Korea.
“For some time, I have been fascinated with the idea of the collective whole: the idea that all things are comprised of collective parts. This idea can be seen everywhere. The mountains, water and wind together compose the earth, yet. The earth is just a part of the universe. This idea of parts forming the collective organism has always amazed me…”
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Justin Cherry‘s work is the stuff of dreams, of nightmares and of everything in between. It is mystical and fantastic. It draws you in with an eerie sense that you’ve passed into a place that is haunted, but it’s so tempting to keep going. Drawing on lore and myth for inspiration Justin crafts his art from the land of Southern California. Read his words and go deeper:
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Kangmin Kim‘s impressive blend of animation and stop motion, along with his exceptional collaborative work with frequent partner-in-design-crime Seulhwa Eum, leaves my eyes begging for more. Their latest entry entitled 38-39°C regales the hypnotic memories of one Korean man’s trip to a local bathhouse. view more ★
Henrique Oliveira is the man! Mr. Oliveira was featured back in February 2011 and made it onto our EK TOP 100 of 2011. Based out of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Oliveira creates amazingly huge “dimensional” wall sculptural/installation pieces out of hundreds of pieces of wood and PVC pipes…so beautiful and yet grotesquely intrusive.
Matt Wisniewski makes crazy amazing digital photo collages. Featured back in November, his latest work is is equally mesmerizing…
Rafael Neff’s photo series is based off of some the most beautiful libraries around the world. Many of the libraries shown resembles the infamous and inspirational Sistane Chapel by the Great Master Michelangelo. Credit to the photographer Rafael Neff for capturing them in such a manner, and to the firms that designed them.
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J.A. Bayona‘s (Juan Antonio Bayona) 2007 horror flick The Orphanage // El Orfanato was a very refreshing and impressive debut for the Spanish film director. His second major feature The Impossible // Lo Imposible, will also be Bayona’s first English-dominated project about a family’s survival in the aftermath of a catastrophic tsunami (based on a true story). Judging from current teasers, Bayona’s expertise in controlling emotional atmosphere has not let up at all. view more ★
Check it out! This is the official music video animated by Dmitry Zakharov for Max Cooper’s new track, “MICRON”, on the Traum Schallplatten album. Who’s ready for a nice Sunday morning trip-out? I’m always ready.
William Miller is a new york photographer whose ruined polaroid series is gorgeous – the kind of gorgeous that will steal your breath away and knock you over the head with it until your vision goes blurs around the edges into the sublime.
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Tom Sachs is a London based sculptor, best known for his elaborate recreations of various Modern icons, all of them masterpieces of engineering and design of one kind or another. With a modern contemporary approach, his creations vary from NASA machinery, alcohol suitcase to a Chanel guillotine.
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Charles De Meyer‘s latest music video for Raveyards‘ Remember single took me by a bit of surprise. Enough to have to re-watch it again right after the first playback. Maybe it’s just me… Either way, very cool VFX-infected MV, very cool tune. view more ★
I did it again with this post! Once in a while, I’ll come across an artist, and I just can’t help myself in loading the post with a crap-ton of images (25 to be exact) of their work. Well in today’s case, Signe Vilstrup is a photographer who is currently based out of Denmark, however splits his time between Copenhagen, Paris, and Milan. Vilstrup mainly shoots fashion photography, and has worked for numerous clients, such as Dansk Magazine, Elle, Grazia, L´Express Style, Stiletto, Tush, Vanity Fair, and V Magazine among many others. Please enjoy because it’s obvious that I did!
Shary Boyle is a fine artist based out of Toronto, Canada. Majority of the figurines are sculpted through porcelain. Her series is full of conceptual fantasies, soaring with imagination. I’m not quite sure if the artist ever tried developing character concepts with Disney or Studio Ghibli but with the amount of talent she summons, she’d be a great value for such companies, respectively.
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These are the images and words of Valentin Fischer, a painter from Stuttgart, Germany. He has worked in a number of capacities as a freelance illustrator but recently gave that up to become an Interface Designer. Read on to step into his mind for a little while.
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