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These three-dimensional lifelike goldfish pieces are made of layers of hand-painted resin by Japanese artist, Riusuke Fukahori for an exhibit called “Goldfish Salvation.” The photos (and video below) make them look pretty incredible, but I imagine the illusion is even more impressive in person. See additional photos here. Here is a video Fukahori crafting some of the pieces pictured above:
[via This Is Colossal]
Artist Michael Neff collected discarded Christmas trees from the neighborhood and hanged them from the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway near the intersection of Metropolitan Avenue and N. 6th Street in Williamsburg. On his Flickr page, Neff explained, ”I have been intending to do an installation piece using the discarded Christmas trees for a number of years now. They begin to crowd the sidewalks of New York City as soon as the day after Christmas and have always felt a bit sad to me.” We see these trees on the street all the time in our neighborhood and tend to agree that the post holiday blues are at least somewhat accentuated by the number of dead trees lining the sidewalks. The aftermath of tradition. It’s good to see that someone is finding new ways of recycling them and their meaning. For the full effect, check out the video below to see the trees swaying in the wind.
This piece, titled “tennis-halfpipe,” is by German artist Frank Kunert. It’s one of his series of “Small Worlds,” which he fashions as 3-D models and then photographs. Each appears as a complex scene from a different surrealistic film and each tells it’s own satirical story. Below is an image of Kunert constructing another of his pieces, titled “Upwards.” You can see his other Small Worlds photos here. Each is pretty amazing and I look forward to seeing more from Kunert down the line. Also, we know how much fun it is to sculpt big ideas into miniature, so we have a certain respect for others who share our appreciation.
This animated short film is directed by Sean Mullen for Giant Creative animation studio. It depicts two artists having canvas envy, with each attempting to one-up the other while painting a sunset. Without giving too much away, it results in an inadvertant collaboration. Sometimes collaboration is by careful cooperation; other times it is by beautiful accident. This video’s theme indirectly reminds me of a recent referential game of catch between Jailbreak Collective collaborator Jason Freeny and the artist Ron English. Stay tuned for more about Jason Freeny as we gear up to release his exciting CAPSL designs in the new year.
This giant flying sculpture, titled “Little Shining Man,” was conceived by Heather and Ivan Morrison as part of a collaboration with Sash Reading. Queen and Crawford fabricated and hand assembled the 23,000 individual components, consisting of carbon fiber rods, 6,000 3-D printed joints, and Cuben Fiber. Check the video below to see it gracefully take flight. Three Cubes Colliding from Jimandtonic on Vimeo.
These eccentric looking chairs were created by Tarazi Design Studio by filling a female mannequin with cement and dropping it repeatedly on a perforated metal trapezoid until it formed the shape of a chair. Each drop created a different indentation, which would, in turn, make each chair entirely unique. This is a fun sort of intuitive, but traditionally reverse, design. Rather than making a chair to look like the generally accepted image of a chair and have a person retroactively test to see how it fit, it’s making a a chair by pushing a person-shaped-thing into a material that contours to the body. It would be nice to see other industries pick up on this proactive ergonomic concept. If so, perhaps someone could make ear buds that actually comfortably fit a person’s ears, for instance.
[via Design Taxi] Now here’s an idea: take a Jet Ski, reroute the pump jet through a hose, channel the hose into a jet pack, strap it on your feet and arms and take off like a human dolphin. Apparently someone read one too many Iron Man comics or watched The Rocketeer and lightning eventually struck. “Why can’t we do that with water?” This seems like the essential idea behind French company Zapata Racing‘s Flyboard. Even the pros in the video don’t make it seem easy to control, but it still looks like one hell of a fun ride.
Like many, I harbor a great deal of nostalgia for Cup Noodles, which is likely why I was so enthralled when I found this robot Cup Noodle timer designed for the 40th Anniversary Cup Noodle Expo and opening of the Cup Noodle Museum in September. Now if I can only get a hold of one…and let Jason Freeny have some fun with it. 
[via Laughing Squid]
This stuffed kitten in a jar sold by Think Geek is based on the satirical Bonsai Kitten website from the early 2000s. The original website gave instructions on how to grow your kitten in a jar to shape it (like one might shape a bonsai tree through tying and trimming). Now all we need are stuffed versions of the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus and the Flying Spaghetti Monster and we’ll have a series. Any ideas of other internet memes that could be toys? [via Think Geek]
Jailbreak Toys collaborator, Jason Freeny, has been posting step-by-step updates on his Facebook page on this project for the last several weeks. Today, it looks like he’s finished. It looks great and reminds us of how excited we are to release the product we’re working on with him.
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