September 15, 2007

Cool Recent Art, Pt. 2

• Portrait of the Artists as Minifigs: the Young Woz & Jobs Lego set. [Via]  (For a little Apple/MS balance, the weirdos commenting about Bloods & Crips might enjoy Bill Gates thug life; the splayed fingers really make the shot.)
• Also comprised of small blocks are these unusual mosaics:
  • Albanian artist Saimir Strati creates huge portraits using nails and toothpicks. Check out the making of his 880-pound Leonardo nail mosaic on his site.  [Via]
  • 19-year-old David Alvarez has depicted Ray Charles using 2,000 Post-Its.
  • David Litwin depicts Stephen Colbert using Rubik’s Cubes.  Here he talks about the project. [Via]
• Slightly visually related: Frustrated that Google Maps wouldn’t flag the Royal College of Art, Robert Sollis created the "Google Carpet" to get the job done. [Via]
• Nicholas Kolyas creates lovely, minimalist cut paper and currency cities. [Via]
• Like Nicholas, Kako Ueda works in paper.  The beautifully detailed Memento Mori looks to have crawled out of Donnie Darko’s subconscious–or possibly a Gnarls Barkley video. [Via]
• Jason Bruges Studio’s Wind to Light –a system of 500 mini wind turbines–beautifully "explore[s] the power of the wind in the city, visualising it as an ephemeral cloud of light." [Via]