THE EM SPACE

Roberto Bernardi appears to be a photographer, but he is not.

Yes, those are paintings. Paintings.

Living in the city that houses the world’s largest art competition, you see a lot of large scale mosiacs made with uncommon materials like legos, pushpins and wine corks…but this probably the coolest. Rubiks cubes! This is made with RUBIKS CUBES!

by Pete Fecteau

(Source: mymodernmet.com)

Video of the Week: How the GRIT image was created for New York Times magazine

I know, I know: “What? What is this! This is a photo, not a video!”

We’ll get to the video in a minute, don’t panic.

I figured it was more important to show you this still image than to show you the video that really doesn’t tell you much from the preview. Why? This image—something that isn’t uncommon to see on photographs—was created with blood, sweat, and tears (AKA: not Photoshop). This was done with painters tape on a real basketball court.

Yeah, now you know why I showed you the photo. See the video of them making it (for proof!) here.

Designer of the Week: Eight Hour Day

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I’ve posted these guys before. I just can’t help it! Their identity system for Manifest is just too good.

Newly discovered planets?

They’re actually photos of the bottom of pans.

Did you ever think you’d find such beauty in the scraped up bottoms of metal cooking pans?

Devour by Christopher Jonassen

(Source: underconsideration.com)

This, ladies and gentlemen, is a pop up shop.

…Not what you’re used to seeing, huh?

It’s the pop up shop for Thierry Mugler creative director and Lady Gaga fashion brainchild Nicola Formichetti. Ah, this makes more sense now, right? If you know anything about the Thierry Mugler brand or Lady Gaga, you know this is definitely right up his alley. It’s breathtaking, crazy imaginative and a bit surreal. The shop, opening in Manhattan shortly, gets its look from thousands of cut and facetted mirrors and was created by Gage / Clemenceau Associates. I am crazy jealous of all of you close enough to be able to see this place, because I can just imagine it’s much more amazing in person.

(Source: fastcodesign.com)

Here’s something to make you say Whoa out loud. Motoi Yamamoto is a Japanese artist who creates little mazes in salt. These intricately made piece of art started about a decade ago when the artist’s sister died from brain cancer. Salt is a symbol of purification and mourning in Japan, so he worked with this medium to create labyrinths—his word for them—symbolizing eternity. It just adds to the beauty of his work.

(Source: fastcodesign.com)

Um.

I was going to make a post about how I would take up backgammon if I had a brightly colored board like this, but the photo at Swiss Miss was too small…so I clicked on the creator’s website…

Anyone know how to get in further?

WARNING: DO NOT ENTER THE WEBSITE IF YOU ARE EPILEPTIC. I AM NOT JOKING.

One word: Whoa.

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Think these are paintings? Look again! (Check out the person’s hands)

Alexa Meade, an installation artist in D.C., paints acrylic on people (and sometimes their surroundings) and throws them into real environments. You’ve all seen living statues. These are just much, much cooler.

I’ve looked at these photos numerous times over the last couple of days and I cannot get over how amazing this looks.

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