Some mind bending sculpture from New York based Kumi Yamashita. The few that are included here that are also made from scrap metal and various junk were part of a collaboration with Tim Noble + Sue Webster. Also, check out the video at the end of the post for some shots of one of Kumi’s sculptures in actions. It’s saying “My name is Sylvia.”

Also, I’ve taken the plunge and setup a Tumblr! Shock and awe. It’s way more freeform than the regular blog. If you’re on tumblr, follow me over at http://unstage.tumblr.com and I’ll be sure to follow you back. Peace!

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If ever there arises a need for currency on the moon, there’s a design for that.

Part of me hopes that if there is a base on the moon, there wouldn’t be a need for currency,
but that’s just me. A limited number are available from the designer. One of the cooler
concepts I’ve seen in a while.

Designed by Vladislav Novikov-Barkovsky.

More after the cut!
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Amongst other things, the iPad has introduced musicians and artists alike to a whole new tool to use in creating. Few of these tools have the unbelievable sexiness of this concept app from interactive developer Jonas Eriksson, a native of Sweden and an award winning interactive designer and developer. Sadly, this is only a concept right now (he’s looking for a developer to help him make it a real product!); however, hopefully with a little exposure (hint hint), this lady can go from fantasy to reality. Feast your eyes on the retro synth glory below the cut. You can see more of his amazing work here and here.

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I haven’t encountered many 20-year old’s with this much talent; however, Evgenij Soloviev (pronounced like Eugene Soloview, according to his site) from Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia would qualify. Digital surrealism is one of those mediums that is both very saturated with mediocre work and quickly growing due to the relatively low cost of the tools needed. His stuff totally stands out from the crowd.

You can check out more of his incredibly cool work after the cut.

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HTML5 is slowly becoming the development tool of choice for all types of web, graphic, and interactive designers and will likely dominate the Internet in the next 3 – 5 years. If you have some time, check out the interactive HTML5 playground of interactive designer Hakim El Hattab who, in his spare time, manages to has out some pretty amazing game-like HTML5 experiments.

While a few of them are actual games, the rest are very nifty experiments with this like generative music and particle play. See some more shots after the cut or jump to all 9 or so by clicking right here. Happy Friday!

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Kim Asendorf is an amazingly talented conceptual and digital artist. This series of pixel sorted images take digitize landscape photographs and, I’m assuming using specialized software, sorts the pixels. The final image is taken by the artist at some point during (maybe in the middle of) the process. To see how this works, you can check out an animated GIF of the process here. See 9 more of these after the cut.

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Some fantastic comic art from Serbian-born and Germany-based illustrator Marko Djurdjevic (who is, thankfully, doing covers for Marvel these days.) You’d never guess that he’s only 31. Most of these are copyrighted by Marvel. If you like his work, you can also find more of it on marvel.com and in the Marvel Wikia.

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