David Airey

Category: Art

  • Rainbows through the Smithsonian with 60 miles of thread

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    This stunning art installation is part of the ongoing Plexus series by Gabriel Dawe. Plexus literally means a network of nerves or blood vessels in the body. The Mexican artist used almost 60 miles of thread in more than 15 hues to create the intricate prisms of colour. “The thread is so thin, that when…

  • Footage of Renoir and Monet painting

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    I’d no idea the two impressionists were filmed. Interesting glimpses of past masters at work.

  • Perpetual black water whirlpool

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    Anish Kapoor’s Descension is the type of thing I can see myself falling into in some kind of meditative state.

  • The craft of neon sign-making

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    Mike Heist has been working in the neon industry in Portland, Oregon for 30 years. A master in his craft, Mike is responsible for the bending of some of the city’s most iconic signage.

  • Food art pairings

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    David Schwen had the idea of making individual Pantone chips out of household objects — sponges, cardboard, and so on. But while finishing off a poster design, he’d taped two Pantone chips together to see how they looked next to one another.

  • Boa Mistura: Luz nas Vielas

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    This street art project by Boa Mistura brightened my day. “The work of Boa Mistura is all about the love of graffiti, colour and life. This group of five Spanish artists is, as the name says, a good mixture. Arkoh, Derko, Pahg, Purone and Rdick have developed their work in different fields, applying both a…

  • Dalton Ghetti, lead sculptor

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    “At school I would carve a friend’s name into the wood of a pencil and then give it to them as a present. Later, when I got into sculpture, I would make these huge pieces from things like wood, but decided I wanted to challenge myself by trying to make things as small as possible.”…

  • Things Organized Neatly

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    Photo by Moochin Photoman. Those are matchsticks, by Claire Fontaine. The contents of a box of Nerds, organised by size. Things Organized Neatly. Via The Crossed Cow.

  • The origami of Sipho Mabona

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    Sipho Mabona, a young artist based in Switzerland, was commissioned by ad agency Nordpol+ Hamburg to design and create the origami models for this stunning five-minute video. It tells the story of the Japanese sports brand ASICS, and won a Grand Prix at the Eurobest, gold at the New York festival, gold at the London…

  • The vortex house of Dan Havel and Dean Ruck

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    Dan Havel and Dean Ruck altered two buildings in the Montrose neighbourhood of Houston, Texas. Here’s an excerpt from the art league press release, written before the project started: “Havel and Ruck will create a large funnel-like vortex beginning from the west wall adjacent to Montrose Blvd. The exterior skin of the houses will be…