{"id":12484,"date":"2007-09-15T15:25:21","date_gmt":"2007-09-15T15:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/09\/cool-recent-art-pt-2.html"},"modified":"2007-09-15T15:25:21","modified_gmt":"2007-09-15T15:25:21","slug":"cool_recent_art_pt_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/15\/cool_recent_art_pt_2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool Recent Art, Pt. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><em>Portrait of the Artists as Minifigs<\/em>: the <a href=\"http:\/\/podbrix.com\/massmail-8-27.htm\">Young Woz &amp; Jobs<\/a> Lego set. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/08\/27\/steve-jobs-and-steve.html\">Via<\/a>]&#160; (For a little Apple\/MS balance, the weirdos commenting about <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2007\/04\/do_bloods_crips.html\">Bloods &amp; Crips<\/a> might enjoy <a href=\"http:\/\/funbytebitstop.wordpress.com\/2007\/07\/10\/thug-life-bitch\/\">Bill Gates thug life<\/a>; the splayed fingers really make the shot.)<\/li>\n<li>Also comprised of small blocks are these unusual mosaics:\n<ul>\n<li>Albanian artist Saimir Strati creates huge portraits using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makezine.com\/blog\/archive\/2007\/08\/toothpick_and_nail_art.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890\">nails and toothpicks<\/a>.&#160;Check out the making of his 880-pound Leonardo nail mosaic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mosaicart-sast.com\/record.php\">on his site<\/a>.&#160; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/object_culture\/nail_and_toothpick_art_7199.asp\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>19-year-old David Alvarez has depicted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/US\/08\/29\/irpt.post.it.art\/index.html?eref=rss_topstories\">Ray Charles using 2,000 Post-Its.<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>David Litwin depicts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/55244424%40N00\/sets\/72157600796558833\/\">Stephen Colbert using Rubik&#8217;s Cubes<\/a>.&#160; Here he <a href=\"http:\/\/bigblog.typepad.com\/bigfix_the_relay\/2007\/08\/the-colbert-cub.html\">talks about the project<\/a>.  [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/08\/10\/stephen_colbert_port.html\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Slightly visually related: Frustrated that Google Maps wouldn&#8217;t flag the Royal College of Art, Robert Sollis created the &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertsollis.com\/page\/pages\/google\/google.html\">Google Carpet<\/a>&quot; to get the job done. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/object_culture\/google_carpet_by_robert_sollis_6609.asp\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Nicholas Kolyas creates lovely, minimalist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickolya.net\/project\/its-only-a-paper-world\/\">cut paper<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickolya.net\/projects\/money-makes-the-world-go-round\/\">currency<\/a> cities. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/object_culture\/nicholas_kolyas_cutpaper_and_cutcurrency_cities_7003.asp\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Like Nicholas, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kakoueda.com\/\">Kako Ueda<\/a>  works in paper.&#160; The beautifully detailed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kakoueda.com\/live\/video_popup.php?filename=nyfaMEMENTOMORI.jpg&amp;width=0&amp;gallery=true&amp;id=40&amp;height=0\">Memento Mori<\/a> looks to have crawled out of Donnie Darko&#8217;s subconscious&#8211;or possibly a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blind.com\/reel_pop.html?QT=GnarlsBarkley_Crazy_color.mov&amp;tag=gnarlsTag.gif\">Gnarls Barkley video<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/08\/31\/kako-uedas-cut-paper.html\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Jason Bruges Studio&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/onedotzero.com\/windtolight\/\">Wind to Light<\/a> &#8211;a system of 500 mini wind turbines&#8211;beautifully &quot;explore[s] the power of the wind in the city, visualising it as an ephemeral cloud of light.&quot; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/object_culture\/wind_to_light_by_jason_bruges_studio_6880.asp\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portrait of the Artists as Minifigs: the Young Woz &amp; Jobs Lego set. [Via]&#160; (For a little Apple\/MS balance, the weirdos commenting about Bloods &amp; Crips might enjoy Bill Gates thug life; the splayed fingers really make the shot.) 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