A little while ago I blogged about Peter Root’s cityscape staple art after seeing it on Fubiz. Now, after exploring more of the Fubiz archives I’ve fond some more staples art that I think I might enjoy even more.

It took the French artist, Baptiste Debombourg, 75 hours and 35,000 staples to create the pieces and you can see loads more of his awesome installations on his website.

I can imagine using this technique to make a nice TV, Print or Guerilla campaign for a stationary brand or chain like Rymans (or Staples of course!). I can see a stop motion TV spot with quirky music and an artwork or logo being created with staples in this technique. 

The making of Ephemicropolis from Peter Root on Vimeo.

Just found these cool drawings from Ben Heine on the Daily Obsessional blog and thought that they were well worth sharing. I’m surprised I haven’t seen this technique used in some ads for an art shop or something. I think it’s a bit of a shame about the blatant Photoshop work though, I’d prefer if it was a little more subtle and realistic or if the pictures were actually being held up in front of those views.

I saw this an instantly thought it was awesome… it’s a freaking vending machine for spray paint! Then I looked at the awful, awful dub in the bottom picture and realised that it would make walls look like shit. Check out more of Graffomat for yourself here or on Fubiz if you speak a little Français.

Awesome art work from Erika Iris Simmons using cassette tapes. She’s got loads more awesome stuff using other recycled materials on her flickr profile. I love seeing art work using old or disused materials and have always thought there’s something quite nice and vintage about cassette tapes. Check out my previous post about cassette tape art too

Thanks to Fubiz for pointing me in this artists direction.

Came across this cool art made from pencils by Jennifer Maestre. I’d like to pick one up and see what I can draw with it. I bet it filling in a colouring book without crossing the lines would be well hard.

Images are from a very bored Panda.

FUCK FUCK FUCK!!! I just wrote a whole god damned blog post about these stupid fucking skate decks and didn’t arsing press save! Fucking hell I’m an idiot. So here’s a shortened version (because I can’t be bothered with writing out the whole bloody thing again) of what I wrote before…

The other day I found these old boards in my house from when I used to skate about 5 years ago (do you like my spotty socks?). I remember wanting to keep them because I was going to paint them all up good and turn them into book shelves to fix onto the wall.

I never actually got round to doing that and as these one’s are so chipped, worn and scratched I probably never will. I might do it in the future with nice new decks and do them properly to go in a nice house. Also, I might put my trucks onto that Element board as it’s still in pretty good condition and I want to get back into skating because I miss it and because I want to keep fit.

I just had a look around for some ideas for skateboard designs and found these awesome ones by Space Invader, an awesome tile street artist. I was recently reminded about Space Invaders awesomeness when I went to see Banksy’s film ‘Exit Through The Gift Shop’ at a secret screening in a tunnel underneath Waterloo Station.

Anyway, so what you’ve learned from this blog post is three things…

- Space Invader is awesome

- I’m going to get RAD at skating again

- I have spotty socks

There, well done. You can get back to whatever it was you were doing before, but happier than when you were doing it before.

thedailywhat:

Amazing Ad Campaign of the Day: To creatively demonstrate their sound engineering capabilities, GGRP Sound sent out a mess of cardboard record players — designed by GREY of Canada — to creative directors across North America.

The cardboard record player is exactly what it sounds like: A record player made from corrugated cardboard:

Once assembled, a record can be spun on the player with a pencil. The vibrations go through the needle and are amplified in the cardboard material.

I don’t know much, but I do know this: Every single last record should come wrapped inside a cardboard record player.

[adsoftheworld.]

On my lunch break the other day I walked round the corner from my work to Alphabet and on my way I noticed this great big mass of hair cascading down from the first floor window of a neighbouring building. It flowed diagonally across the building and re-entered the building via the front door.

When I walked over to get a better look I peered in through the window to see a shop window filled with a mass web of hair, darting from one side of the room to another. I expected it to be a pop up art gallery but there was no one inside and the door was locked.

Then suddenly as I peered through the window, with my nose pressed against the glass, a smiling face appeared behind the door! A tall, doll-, adams looking woman ushered us in and we were welcomed in to see a range of pieces and a film in the basement.

I’ll try to share a URL or at least a name for the artist amongst my pile of flyers and leaflets I seem to have collected recently.

It’s not particularly new but I like the creativity behind making the music differently.