Toby Ng - The World of 100
Have you ever asked yourself, what would the World look like as a small community of 100 people? Probably not. However, it is something to think about, as the reality would be startling - as much as you’d think so, the village would only have 7 computers, and only 1 person in the World Village would be educated at University level.
These facts are something that designer Toby Ng has thought about very carefully, and turned the results of his findings into a series of twenty infographics depicting ‘The World of 100’. Although aesthetically beautiful, with sharp lines and bold, vibrant colours, these infographics are often horrifying.
The posters look as though they have come straight out of a children’s book; is this to mirror the naivety of those that are most likely to be looking at them on their computers?
“Look, this is the World we are living in.”
- Toby Ng
bon appetit - food lover’s cleanse!
planning on doing this in the summer at some point. not a fan of most cleanses… but this one looks like one I can get behind.
Van Gogh - (make-up by me.)
No photoshop or other editing involved. It is make-up on my face, and acrylic paint on my clothes.
I’m a little scared but so amazed
(Source: abighell)
Somebody tried to stump this squid by putting it in front of a background that its camouflage mechanisms could never hope to imitate…
So it turned itself transparent.
Bitchin’.
Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller alternating roles in Danny Boyle’s Frankenstein.
#thisstupidgifsettookmehourstosyncsoyoubetterappreciateit
By Diana Al-Hadid, both of these individual sculptures have an aura of mystique about them, both seemingly pieces of impossible architectural prowess, both could easily have been constructed in another world. I don’t quite know what it is I am looking at, which works very much in their favour.
Using various everyday objects and back light, Azerbaijani artist Rashad Alakbarov creates mind-blowing shadow paintings.
By Gregory Euclide, these ideas about world building and construction have been appealing to me lately, you don’t get much better than this. I’ve seen the idea of a painting pouring from the frame before, but never anything quite so elaborate! The area of the sculpture to the left where it is being built back up is stupendous, the stilts just make it.
He has some gripping images of the construction and development of the whole thing on his Flickr, too good not to see.
Dear Stranger, by Shizuka Yokomizo
For this 1998-2000 series of portraits, photographer Shizuka Yokomizo left several anonymous letters on the doorsteps of random ground floor apartments that read:
“Dear Stranger,
I am an artist working on a photographic project which involves people I do not know…. I would like to take a photograph of you standing in your front room from the street in the evening.”
The letter specified a certain ten-minute period during which the artist would approach, take the picture, and slip back into the darkness. She would only reveal her identity once her subjects received a print and contact information (so that they could let her know if they objected to their portrait being exhibited).
Yokomizo made sure that when the photos were taken, the light would be too dark outside to see her — it would only allow her subjects to see their own reflections in the window they were looking out of.
absolutely breathtaking
I’m not usually one for marble sculptures, or sculpting in general, but Bernini is a genius. He makes marble look alive.
