Organ Donor Toys by David Foox

Posted on Sep 7, 2011

Organ Donor vinyl toys by David Foox are back in stock! These little guy are becoming quite rare so grab a few while you can. $15 each at the Street Anatomy store. David created these vinyls in order to promote organ donation.

All ORGAN DONORS come individually boxed in a blind box concept—meaning, it is a surprise as to which ORGAN DONOR you will receive! Some are more rare than others (Black Market Kidneys, Pickled Liver, etc) and all come wearing the vinyl hospital gown with the butt cheeks showing.

via : Street Anatomy

Newcastle : San Diego Art Installations

Posted on Aug 16, 2011

Using only a single light source and thousands of real-life Newcastle Brown Ale bottle caps, two well-known New York shadow artists have partnered with Newcastle to bring to life a 128 square foot shadow sculpture. Check out the video above to see how the shadow art was created.

Crazy Car

Posted on Jul 5, 2011

“In Da Car” is a project by Two Russian photographers, Ashot Gevorkyan and Yaryshev Evgeny, who created some awesome scenarios that might happen in a car, including two cities, four cars, and more than 30 participants.

Art Coffee

Posted on Jun 11, 2011

Scott Fife : Cardboard Sculptures

Posted on Jun 6, 2011

Scott Fife has been exhibiting his sculptures and drawings since 1976 in galleries in Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles and Vancouver, BC and in museums including the Frye Museum (Seattle), the Tacoma Art Museum, the Boise Art Museum, the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (Spokane).

His work was included in the 2008 Art on Paper Biennial at the Weatherspoon Museum of Art in Greensboro, NC. The Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, Montana hosted a solo show of his work in the winter of 2010, and one of his sculptures was included in the Seattle Art Museum exhibition “Kurt” in the spring of 2010. His work has been written about in the Winter 2010 issue of “Sculpture Review” magazine. His current solo show, Bear Season, is at Platform through July 2, 2011. Scott lives and works in Seattle.

Sculpted larger than life in cool grey archival cardboard and assembled with screws and carpenter’s glue, Fife utilizes his architechtural understanding of form and his aesthetic as a fine artist to build up a likeness that is undeniable yet not simply a objective representation. Scott captures a sense of strength as well as weakness in the individuality of each of these subjects.

source : http://www.platformgallery.com/artist_pages/Fife/Fife_main.html

Tiny apartment transforms into 24 rooms

Posted on May 16, 2011

Small spaces can be incredible ones in the hands of those who know what they’re doing.

From a professional organizer’s 90-square-foot space in New York to an eco-friendly Cube, we’ve seen some fascinating uses of barely-there spaces. Gary Chang’s Hong Kong apartment takes space-innovation to an entirely new level. Chang, the architect behind Edge Design Institute in Hong Kong, transfigured his 344-square-foot apartment into what he calls the “Domestic Transformer.”

For three years now, Chang has been living large in his tiny apartment. His custom space can be configured into 24 unique room combinations, thanks to a strategic series of sliding panels and walls. Watch the stunning transformations below.

The renovation took place in 2008, but Chang has called the small space home since he was 14. Chang, his parents and his three younger sisters squeezed into the apartment — then divided into tiny rooms — and still managed to share it with a tenant. In those days, Chang slept on a sofa bed in the hallway. Chang stayed when his family moved out in 1988. He purchased the place for just $45,000 (USD) and has renovated the apartment four times since.

The most recent renovation took a year and cost just over $218,000. He hopes his innovative designs will help improve domestic life in densely-populated Hong Kong. The shortage of space — caused by a population boom between 2003 and 2007 — has contributed to an increase in stress. “People feel trapped,” Change told The New York Times. “We have to find ways to live together in very small spaces.” The architect aims to see his ideas implemented in multi-unit buildings, encouraging developers to check out his tiny abode. He chronicled his apartment’s many changes in his book, “My 32m2 Apartment, a 30 Year Transformation.”