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Friday Nights, tape on glass, by Max Zorn

The Daily What:

Max Zorn, a self-taught Dutch street artist, uses only translucent packing tape and a mere scalpel to create intricately layered portraits on Plexiglas, which he then hangs on public street lights — you know, for best viewing.

To promote his street art, Zorn has launched a project called Let’s Stick Together, which lets fans sign up to receive their own pieces of tape art, provided they promise to post them publicly.

His gallery can be found here.

(via Max Zorn, hat tip The Daily What)

Artist Bryan Nash Gill makes ink prints using rescued wood.  He has a book titled Woodcut that showcases these prints. 

WSJ:

Red Ash Heartwood. The heartwood is the central nonliving part of the trunk with the densest and hardest wood. This is a full bleed print of the center of the Ash block–the annual ringed radiate form the tree’s first year at the center to the edges of the paper.

(via WSJ)

kottke:

Last week, graffiti “artist” Kidult painted the word ART in pink paint all over the Marc Jacobs store in Soho. The store’s staff cleaned it up, but not before snapping a photo of it and dubbing it Art by Art Jacobs. And then, in an awesome twist, Marc Jacobs put the photo on a tshirt and offered it for sale: $689 or $9 less if you want it signed by the “artist”. The Observer’s Foster Kamer has the story.

photo credit:  @MarcJacobsIntl  

(via kottke)

Artist Bryan Nash Gill makes ink prints using rescued wood.  He has a book titled Woodcut that showcases these prints. 

This print is from a locust tree.  You can see the beginning of a branch on the right.

(via WSJ)

My favorite part is the red in the lower left.

zucherman:

Another painting from my New York series, disappointed people holding on to guardrails.

Zachary Johnson

A portrait of Taiwanese pop star Jay Chou drawn using coffee cup rings, by Hong Yi, a.k.a. “Red Hong”.  She’s known for using unconventional materials in her work.

(via Core77)

WOMEN MAKING TRADITIONAL ART Rajasthan, India, November 2010

photo credit:  Chetan Soni/MadhyaPradesh, India

(via Boston.com)

780 Layer Dip Type by Griffin Glaze

The letters are formed from 30 layers of paper.

(via Quipsologies)

Sean Avery uses broken CDs to create animal sculptures.

Click through to see more.

(via Colossal and The Daily What)

Toothyman by Nikita Nomerz

Quipsologies:

Russian street artist Nikita Nomerz creates some pretty cool effects using architectural elements on his face wall paintings.

(via Quipsologies and Nomerz: The living wall)

It’s a neat interactive sculpture in Times Square, special for Valentine’s Day.

Core77:

A BIG red heart pulses with glowing light in a grove of glass rods. A single person can activate the beating heart, but joining hands with others will make the heart beat even faster to create a brightly burning heart. 

Hosted by New York City’s Times Square Alliance.

Designed and in built in collaboration between Bjarke Ingels’ BIG, fabricators FLATCUT and media design firm Local Projects.

(via Core77)

Man, Sarah Esteje sure knows how to wield a pen.

According to GOOD, her weapon of choice is the Classic BIC pen.

You can see more on her tumblr.

(via ABADIDABOU Sarah Esteje and GOOD)

Sin titulo 2 by Pedro Campos

It’s an OIL PAINTING on CANVAS.  I don’t even understand.  (He’s really good at this.)

(via Quipsologies)

Anamorphic street art!

(via The Daily What)