-
Recent Posts
- A new Whale Museum (The Whale), where whales can be observed from a walkable roof, will open in Norway in 2027
- Turtles when a job requires exactly 0 turtles.
- The continents of the world are different depending on where you were taught them
- Mickey Revenaugh (@mickeyrevenaugh.bsky.social) | Paradiso
- @fravery.bsky.social | Porcelain Petals. Mitsue Butler
- Bridport33 (@bridport33.bsky.social) | Bristol…
- The Forest Man of India.
- Persian Scissor that’s Shaped Like a Bird. It’s over 300 Years Old.
Archives
Categories
Tag Archives: creatives
Presenting Gil Bruvel’s “Corso Zundert,” a Documentary About the World’s Largest Flower Parade | Colossal
Premiering on Colossal, CORSO ZUNDERT is a film about the people of Zundert — a village in the South of Holland — who collaborate to create extravagant, flower-covered floats on a monumental scale for “the largest corso in the world.” … Continue reading
Posted in Festivals
Tagged Art, Carnaval, Carnival, creatives, flower festival, Holland
Leave a comment
Towering Charcoal Portraits of Women by Clio Newton | Colossal
Swiss artist Clio Newton has been hard at work on a series of larger-than-life portraits of women portrayed entirely with compressed charcoal. The towering drawings can reach nearly 8 feet tall and capture near photographic detail of her subject’s faces, … Continue reading
Elegant Flameworked Glass Sculptures by Eunsuh Choi | Colossal
Like a house of cards or a precariously stacked pile of pick-up sticks, it’s a marvel to stare at Eunsuh Choi’s glass sculptures and wonder how each object doesn’t collapse under its own weight. One of the central themes of … Continue reading
Angular Geometry: Colorful Daily GIFs from the Mind of Tyler Haywood | Colossal
Over four years ago, designer Tyler Haywood started posting GIFs on Tumblr under the name Angular Geometry. Haywood liked the process so much, he’s never stopped posting, creating a new custom GIF for his blog every single day. The GIFs … Continue reading
MIT Developed a Fabric That Can Fold Into Origami-Like Shapes When Inflated | Colossal
MIT Media Lab’s Tangible Media Group has created a system to fold materials into various origami shapes when inflated, turning specifically designed paper, plastic, and fabric into representations of swans, helixes, or other 3D figures with minimal human interaction. The project, … Continue reading
Posted in Design
Tagged Art, creatives, Culture, design, infrastructure, Life, Technology
Leave a comment
Visual Sounds of the Amazon: Digital Lifeforms that Respond to Audio Recorded in the Amazon Rainforest | Colossal
Australian artist Andy Thomas (previously here and here) presents his first installment of Visual Sounds of the Amazon, a responsive artwork that alters its visual shape based on audio Thomas collected from the Amazon rainforest. The animation sequence is one that … Continue reading
Posted in Art
Tagged animation, Art, Australian, comparison, creatives, Culture, Life, nature, rhythm, South America
Leave a comment
How stone poses became a surreal project – BBC News
What started as a whim seven years ago has become a major project for a London-based photographer. Source: How stone poses became a surreal project – BBC News
Posted in Art
Tagged Art, construction, creatives, Culture, nature, photography, Technology, UK
Leave a comment
A Secret Work Studio Suspended Below a Highway Overpass by Fernando Abellanas | Colossal
Spanish furniture designer Fernando Abellanas has carved out a new creative home in a section of Valencia that isn’t the typical artist neighborhood: he’s built a studio affixed to a highway underpass. The workspace is complete with a desk and chair, as … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged Art, comparison, construction, creatives, Culture, Technology
Leave a comment
Origami Animals Bound Across Walls in Murals by ‘Annatomix’ | Colossal
Annatomix, a self-taught painter from Birmingham UK, creates geometric, origami-inspired animals on everyday materials of all sizes. Bumblebees and rabbits take shape on small surfaces like discarded paper bags and wood scraps, while foxes and peregrine falcons scale the sides … Continue reading
Posted in Street Art
Tagged Art, creatives, Culture, Festival, Street Art, UK, Urban
Leave a comment
Islands Digitally Composed From Images of Abandoned Sites by Fabio Araujo | Colossal
Brazilian designer Fabio Araujo digitally composes images of abandoned sites to create undesirable islands, small patches of earth ripped up from long neglected corners of civilization. The series, Abandoned Places, exists both as image and video as Araujo animates discrete … Continue reading
Posted in Art
Tagged Art, Brasil, Brazil, brazilian style, comparison, construction, creatives, Culture, infrastructure, rhythm, sculpture, Urban
Leave a comment
Giant Dabs of Thick Oil Paint Captured as Hyperrealist Colored Pencil Drawings | Colossal
Australian artist Cj Hendry (previously) tricks the eye with her hyper-realistic drawings, works that recreate the appearance of thick swabs of brightly colored paint. To achieve the dimensionality and sheen of fresh oil paint she layers dry pigment atop colored … Continue reading
Posted in Art
Tagged Art, comparison, creatives, Culture, Life, nature, photorealism, rhythm, sculpture
Leave a comment
Unusual Selfies by Izumi Miyazaki
These ongoing self-portraits by Japanese photographer Izumi Miyazaki are somewhat surreal and not the usual selfies you see on the internet. Source: Unusual Selfies by Izumi Miyazaki
