twenty sixteen

Hey guys, what's up? Since I've been checking in so much this week (ha! Well, comparatively), I thought I'd catch you up on what's been happening round these parts in the beginning of 2016. By all accounts it's been a shitty year so far in world news, and we find the joy we can in the everyday.

At the start of the year we ventured to Kelly Tarlton's aquarium...

We made pals with manta ray, found Nemo and needless to say - had a blast. Before long we went to see the French spectacle Carabosse, Garden of Fire at the Auckland Domain....

This little girl in white cotton dress danced her heart away to these ethereal musicians playing a mix of French techno and Maori taonga

The Auckland Museum made sure she put on a real show that night.

That brings us to around April. Next up - families on both sides visit, Argentinian and English...

Crafted Cornershop

This is on another level! Lucy Sparrow has created the Cornershop in London where every item is made of felt. But everything. With the help of Kickstarter campaign, the artist spent eight months hand stitching 4,000 drug store items before opening. Chewing gum, ice lollies, milk cartons, sticks of butter, tampons and cigarette packs were all faithfully recreated in felt. Lucy has since sold out of every item in store, and the cornershop is closed until further notice. 

via Honestly WTF

goldfish salvation

Colossal is a goldmine (ah, pun!) of wonders, and this artist / sculptor of goldfish is right up there at the top. Riusuke Fukahori paints onto a layer of resin, before pouring a layer on top and painting again, repeating this until a detailed 3D image is built up. I'm sure Fukahori isn't the first person to think of this - it's certainly a popular technique in photography right now - but I think it's very effective, and extremely well executed here. The depth and quality is amazing, and that embedded pourer in the first image adds such realism, he fooled me into thinking it was a photo at first!

See photos of Fukahori's work for his Goldfish Salvation exhibition at the ICN Gallery in London, shot by Dominic Alves here.

palette

A random installation by Anouk Kruithof, via Dazed & Confused









I think I may have posted work by Hannah Davis before? As I'm too lazy to dig through the archives, lets say I did because I know I have her collaborative blog Between Here and Mountains booked. The series Last Light, and Somewhere Around Here, remind me a lot of my own childhood spent exploring the forests around my home. This set via Booooooom!

gerhard mayer

Gerhard Mayer explores his interest in quantum physics through the use of wood and plaster.

via notcot

boom!

Jeff consistently kills it on his blog booooooom! and I've especially been loving what he's posting lately. Here are some artists' works Jeff shared that inspire me.

Meongbeom Kim, South Korea

Yasuhiro Sakurai, Tokyo

Yosuke Goda

Baptiste Debomburg

Swampy - I've been aware of this guy's work since he was featured on FecalFace a few years back. He's a drifter, railcar jumper and grafitti artist who photographs his friends and fellow wanderers. I'm not sure if he is Mike Brodie, aka The Polaroid Kidd who rocked the scene in 2008 at the age of 21 with his images that feature the same people and places as Swampy's (pretty sure I blogged about him but I can't find him in the archives). Unfortunately it looks like Brodie's old website has gone, so I'm gonna have to get to the bottom of this.

touch wood

Genius. A small wooden ball plays the whole of Bach's Cantata 147 by rolling down a xylophone track created and placed in a forest, using only the force of gravity. This smart piece of advertising created by Morihiro Harano of Drill Inc. is for the new NTT Domoco Touch Wood SH-08C phone.

via Colossal