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Colossal
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An art and design blog.
#1671 in All , #23 in Art

Stacked Book Sculptures by Jonathan Callan

British artist Jonathan Callan creates impressive organic figures using books that are curled, wrapped, and folded together using screws. My eyes get lost in the shapes formed by the layered pages, I...

4 h ago

Diego Stocco: Music from Nature

A new video tonight from musician Diego Stocco (previously) wherein he samples audio from trees played with a bow, bark, coconuts, bees, almonds, orange peels, rice and other natural objects to creat...

15 h ago 1 person likes this

Brock Davis Plays with his Food

I never tire of seeing what Minneapolis designer Brock Davis decides to do with his food. From his famous broccoli house to his gummy bear skin rug and the fantastic rice krispyhenge, he never seems ...

1 day ago 6 people like this

Colorful Portraits, Hands, and Figures Painted by David Agenjo

I just stumbled onto these beautiful acrylic paintings by David Agenjo who is a self-taught artist born in Madrid but living and working in London. He has a number of prints and several original work...

1 day ago 7 people like this

Watch: A High-Speed Journey Across a Miniature Earth

In this fascinating short video titled Chemin Vert, Rome-based artist Giacomo Miceli takes you on a fascinating road trip through a warped version of Earth known as a polargraphic projection, that sp...

2 days ago

Stunning Photographs of the New Zealand and Australian Coast

In the course of normal blogging I probably encounter hundreds of landscape photographs in a week, maybe even in a day. Many of them are truly wonderful technical achievements or perhaps they capture...

2 days ago 7 people like this

[Sponsor] Ten Dollar Fonts

Ten Dollar Fonts is a fresh new online store that helps designers sell their fonts to the masses for an accessible price of $10. Offering greater exposure to designers and an amazing product for shop...

2 days ago

Delightful Paper Pop-Ups by Jenny Chen

Portland-based designer and art director Mengyu Chen is currently working on a new comic book and has mocked up some experimental pop-ups of her own design. The ideas and execution are really quite s...

4 days ago 10 people like this

Hyper-realistic Painting by Omar Ortiz

A beautiful hyper-realistic painting by artist Omar Ortiz (nsfw). Such an incredible use of paint to create depth of focus and the reflection of light on skin. (via cosas cool)

4 days ago 8 people like this

New Crochet Portraits and a Stop-Motion Video by Jo Hamilton

Portland artist Jo Hamilton (previously) has a number of new crocheted portraits up on her website including a recently shot stop-motion video detailing the progress of a piece that’s one party...

5 days ago 5 people like this

London in Puddles

For the past few weeks photographer Gavin Hammond has been capturing the beauty of London’s architecture and people as reflected in puddles. You can see much more over on My Modern Met and Flic...

6 days ago 10 people like this

Reggie Watts Disorients You in the Most Entertaining Way

Mental health break. This recent TED talk by comedian and musician Reggie Watts is completely out of left field. Watts mixes music, language, comedy, satire and at times plain gibberish to create a 1...

6 days ago 2 people like this

High Speed Liquid Flowers Photographed by Jack Long

At a quick glance these colorful photographs by Milwaukee-based photographed Jack Long might pass as some kind of strange exotic flowers, but a squint of the eyes later reveals they are actually high...

6 days ago 6 people like this

Ballerina by Banksy

Banksy recently updated his website with a number of new works that have been making the rounds the last day or so. My favorite new artwork is this simple piece depicting a spray-painted ballerina de...

6 days ago 6 people like this

Rainbow Origami Street Art by Mademoiselle Maurice

Some fresh new street art out of Paris today by french artist Mademoiselle Maurice who creates stunning geometric figures on urban surfaces using rainbows of folded origami figures. If you like this,...

25 may 12 5 people like this

Watch: An Animated Zoetrope Cake Inspired by Tim Burton

Master of the edible zoetrope Alexandre Dubosc (previously), just released his latest confectionery animation, a grizzly chocolate cake inspired by the films of Tim Burton. There’s a making-of ...

25 may 12 2 people like this

First Contact

There’s nothing like the awe of a child encountering a new life form, but in this fantastic shot by Christopher Wright of CMGW Photography it looks like the feeling radiating from this enormous...

25 may 12 6 people like this

Life in 873 Images: A Stop Motion Film Made with Stock Photography

BBDO Brazil and director Cisma just released this fantastically clever stop motion video that tells the story of life “from love to bingo” for client Getty Images by winnowing through the...

24 may 12 6 people like this

Rain: A Glass Raindrop Installation by Stacee Kalmanovsky

Rain is a 2005 installation of suspended glass water droplets by Chicago artist Stacee Kalmanovsky. She really found a perfect spot to install this, right below the giant sky lights. I bet the refrac...

24 may 12 4 people like this

No Globes: A Smog-Filled Snow Globe that Highlights Climate Change

This limited edition snow globe titled No Globes was designed by UK firm Dorothy to protest the construction of several dirty coal-fired power stations in 2009. Instead of the idyllic miniature scene...

24 may 12 2 people like this

Cat Vs. Mantis

Just a phenomenal capture by Michigan photographer Brooke Pennington. I love how brave the little mantis looks in the face of the pending kitty smack down. There’s a lesson to be learned here, ...

24 may 12 1 person likes this

New Thread & Nail Portraits by Pamela Campagna

Pamela Campagna of L-able (previously) just sent me some fantastic new portraits using her painstaking method of drawing with carefully placed nails and wrapped thread. I love this series just as muc...

22 may 12 4 people like this

[Sponsor] The Avant/Garde Diaries: “Taking Chances”

The Avant/Garde Diaries is a digital portrait magazine that invites leading creatives to talk about the cutting edge of art, design, fashion, music and film. In each digital portrait, featured diaris...

22 may 12

New Cut Paper Correspondence by Annie Vought

Oakland-based artist Annie Vought (previously here and here) has completed several new structural paper works created by carefully cutting handwritten text out of large sheets of paper. Of her work V...

22 may 12 10 people like this

Masks and Heads Made from Moveable Type and Steel Hardware by Dale Dunning

Palimpsest. Aluminum. 27 x 18 x 9 inches Redacted 1/1. Aluminum. 27 x 18 x 9 inches. Soritical Maze 1/1. Steel. 28 x 17 x 11 inches. Constellation 1/1. Steel. 26 x 28 x 18 inches. Just last week Colo...

21 may 12 1 person likes this

Neon Text Installations by Lee Jung

Photographer Lee Jung lives and works in Seoul, South Korea where she created and photographed this gorgeous series of text-based light installations. Jung had work on display at the Hong Kong Intern...

21 may 12 10 people like this

New Skull Made of Typewriter Parts by Jeremy Mayer

Artist Jeremy Mayer (previously) recently completed a new sculpture titled Skull I made from vintage typewriter parts. As with all of his assemblages the skull was created without use of welding or a...

21 may 12

The Land Art of Sylvain Meyer

New to me, these wonderful land art installations by French artist Sylvain Meyer who modifies wooded areas and landscapes to create various impermanent patterns, sculptures, and textures. Everything ...

19 may 12 2 people like this

Exquisite Papercraft Stop Motion Video for Ödland

I was absolutely floored watching this enchanting stop motion video directed by Vincent Pianina and Lorenzo Papace for a song called Østersøen that was also written, composed, and recorded by Papace ...

18 may 12 4 people like this

Photographic Collages Suspended in Plexiglas

Auckland-based artist Peter Madden gleans found images from old encyclopedias, back issues of National Geographic, and nature books to create his dense and nearly psychedelic collages suspended in pe...

17 may 12 8 people like this

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