CLIP the 3D Printer inspired by T2

CEO & Co-Founder of Carbon3D and CLIP, a new 3D printing machine, Joseph DeSimone and his colleagues constructed.  The printer was first inspired by the film Terminator 2 and specifically the T-1000 that could regenerate into any form, from a puddle of melted material.  This technology has substantial improvements on the typical 3D printing tech out there, 1st, it is 25 to 100 times faster (DeSimone is confident it could reach 1000 times faster as the printer is refined).  2nd smooth no more ridges on the finished sculpture, like on the ones that we see now.  This system uses a combination of three main components UV light, Oxygen and Resin (more in the video below).  We have included 3 videos on examples of what can be built at this stage, the fourth one is a ten minute speech where DeSimone explains the beautiful elegance in which his machine works.

Vertical Farms for a new Agricultural Revolution

Mr Jack Ng from Sky Greens based in Singapore, has built the first low carbon hydraulic driven vertical farm, to grow sustainable and cheap vegetables for the island nation's use.  Because the the arable land is so scarce in Singapore, radical rethinking has had to take place.  It is estimated that Singaporeans only grow 7% of their vegetables, the rest is imported from all around the world.  Because of its position in-respect of the equator. the nation has a stable warm and sunny climate all year around and during monsoon season the climate control enclosed structure, protects from the force and quantity of rain that comes down during that period.  These are the promises this type of farming makes: High yield, quality, flexibility, low energy and water use and little maintenance.  We will go into more detail below with the video and more information.

Intricate and Detailed Ink Maze Drawings

Russian native and based in London Marija Tiurina's day job, consists of working as a games artist, during her spare time working on her illustration, character art and graphic design portfolio.  The part of her work we are going to have a look at today is a collaboration with Saatchi & Saatchi ME, for their latest advertising campaign, a drink that is supposed to make going to sleep easier.  Even though a hand drawn drawing might take longer to complete and is more difficult to alter, Tiurina was really happy they allowed her to express her creativity.  It took her a couple of months to complete them. The 3 drawing's themes centre around: plane, camping and home interior.

Illustrations with Scratchboard Drawings

French Canadian Illustrator Nico Delort draws these magnificent illustrations using inks or the scratchboard. (this is how wikipedia describes it: Scraperboard or scratchboard refers to both a medium, and an illustrative technique using sharp knives and tools for etching into a thin layer of white China clay that is coated with black India ink.)  Given the quality of his work it is not surprising he has clients like, Blizzard Ent. - Games Workshop/The Black Library - Quirk Books - Tor.com - Solaris Books - Lucasfilm - Penguin Books - Mondo.

Surreal Paintings - Balance of Mind and Heart

Talented surreal Digital Painter Christian Schloevery, skilfully tones down the digital part making his art look like it was painted on canvas.  In his art, he covers many different themes, that mostly centre around feelings, dreams and aspirations.  He uses his paintings as a seed leaving it to the viewer to germinate and grow into a story personal to them.  Enjoy...

Optical Illusions Body Painting

Recent winner of Skin Wars (a body painting show), Natalie Fletcher uses people's bodies as her canvas.  We think that all of her works displayed today are Optical Illusions, as they try and blend the person with their backgrounds, except for the first 4, that do not rely on a background to trick the eye.  We have included below a Video that tells you a bit more of how Fletcher got into body painting and the direction her career is taking now.

Digital Origami Animal Art

If you like Origami, Animals and digital art, this is the post for you, Russian digital artist & designer, Maxim Shkret morphs animals like bears foxes lions horses etc. into looking like paper origami sculptures. Enjoy...

Architecture in House Plants Bouquets

Very creative Sculptor James Grashow creates, carved bouquets with Victorian houses and famous cityscapes.  The theme of these beautifully intricate and colourful looking sculptures symbolize, in Grashow's words "The word Houseplant is a perfect metaphor for the fragile relationship between nature and man".  These are the cities covered by this project: Atlanta Bouquet, NYU Bouquet, Telluride Bouquet, Brooklyn Bouquet, Manhattan Bouquet, Assorted Bouquets.  We have added animations to show all of the close ups for each sculpture.

Architecture in The Silo Tiny House

Gruene Homestead Inn is a delightful B&B located in New Braunfels, Texas.  When they retired, Innkeepers Ed and Billie Miles, fell in love with this New Braunfels and decided to create a B&B on their 8 acre homestead using local buildings, that they purchased and transported to their land.  The buildings range from the 1850's to the early 1900's.  So far they have 10 buildings with 22 guest units that can accommodate 61 guests.  We have decided to concentrate on one of their buildings, The Silo, more information below.

Illustrations and Drawings from Oehlers' World

Beautiful Illustrations by British Illustrator and Sculptor Adam Oehlers.  The Lovely proportions of his subjects and the character they exude, with incredible expressions, is what sets them aside from most, they are not always happy and joyful, just like life itself.  Oehlers says that "I like to think that all of my images and sculptures belong to the same little universe. Built by the stories of each of the characters that inhabit it".  Enjoy the travel through and stay in the world of Oehlers...

Steampunk Sculptures Wonderland

Van Halen Co. is a lovely little vintage shop, based in the Netherlands, that sells all kind of curiosities and Steampunk items.  We have brought to you, a few below.  Beautiful hats, jewellery, bags, Furbys and containers that have had the Steampuk treatment and have come out on the other side, more impressive, thanks to their unique look.

Realism in Manipulated Photographs

Anil Saxena is a very talented Indian artist with a background in Graphic Design and CGI.  Today, we are showcasing some of his marvellous work.  Saxena is different form other Photo Manipulators, as he publishes the components he used to construct the final image and in some cases GIF animations of the process.  This will hopefully inspire you to try. We finish with a quote by Saxena "If the image is a success but my work goes unnoticed, I'm doing my job well".

3D Interactive Paintings in Art Museum

Art in Paradise (Chiang Mai Thailand) is a 3D interactive museum, thanks to the 3D feature of their paintings, visitors can form part of the art, photographing themselves in it.  Originally created by Korean Jang Kyu Suk, with the help of 14 artists, the museum holds more than 130 paintings.  We think that there are two more venues that are opening in Pataya and Bangkok.  The museum has six different zones: Underwater world, Wildlife, Classic Art, Eastern Architecture, Ancient Egypt and Surreal Art.

A Journey Through the Surreal World in Paintings

Some of the best Artwork, is produced because of real and deep feelings from the Artist, Olivier Lamboray is one of them.  Themes recurring in his acrylic on canvas paintings, are the love and fascination for travel, that started when he was a child and lived next to an airport, he spent time imagining people going to all sorts of places, getting into all sots of adventures.  The others, are the breakaway architecture that melds into the background, symbolising the breakaway of the façades that adorn our lives and then there is his faithful dog. 

Carbon Positive Sustainable Architecture

Prefabricated buildings with a carbon positive (The house produces more power / electricity than it uses) footprint by ArchiBlox. The images above and below show the building unveiled in Australia.  The section below shows a bit more about how the system works.  The double glazing and south facing sun room, act as a buffer, trapping the heat that is removed by the ventilations system.  This barrier keeps the bedroom /s and the living room cool.  At the end of the page you can find the 4 different types of homes they offer, including prices and sizes.

Mastering Art in Eclectic Drawings

Very eclectic Art by Croatian Artist and Tattooer Dino Tomic aka (AtomiccircuS) we are bringing you only a small part of his work, as he is a very prolific Artist.  With a love for art and tattoing, he continues to make and sell conventional art to subsidise his income as a tattooer until his day job becomes well known enough for it, to take over.  We have divided Tomic's works in groups, by subject and by and mode of art.  Enjoy...

Architectural Drawings of Historic Buildings

Łukasz Gać is a Polish Architect and Illustrator, he teaches and co-owns DOMIN Poznan school of design.  They specialise in various drawing subject and watercolours.  We have chosen to cover their Architectural Drawings in this post.  Beautiful Pencil and Ink drawings mostly based in and around Poznan, which is located in the centre-west of Poland.  Enjoy this drawing walkabout, of the historic buildings of this beautiful town.

Miniature Edible Food in Kawaii Style

This post is set around miniature food that you can eat and the Kawaii style, from a post on digg.  As defined in wikipedia,  Kawaii = lovable, cute or adorable, it is the quality of cuteness in the context of Japanese culture.  These characteristics are sought after around the world, but none more than in Japan.  Originally videos were shown of people pretending to cook with small foods and utensils, like in the last video below.  Now a Danish and a Japanese YouTubers have filmed themselves cooking real miniature foods with real and small utensils, have a look at the videos they are amazing...

Celebrity Portraits Animated Drawings

Today we are bringing you the work of Argentinian Graphic Designer Nestor Canavarro.  Amongst his vast repertoire of work, we have chosen his celebrity portraits.  We have put together into GIF animations, 3 of his wip (work in progress) drawings.  We hope that seeing the de-constructed drawings, you will be able to pick up some hints on how to draw and colour-in or shade, to better your technique.  We hope you like this, enjoy...

Writing in 3D Typography Animations

German Graphic Designer and Co-Founder of Kollektiv Kjosk, Florian Schommer, brings us these brilliant examples of animated Typography.  His newly formed company is trying to bring something new and fresh to the illustration market.  They specialise in fields like music, fashion and art. Their slogan is "Let’s stop monotony!".  Please give the animations some time to get started.  The top image is the only one that does not animate.

The Art of Skateboarding Made into Sculpture

Haroshi, a self-taught Japanese artist, with a love of skateboarding, found a way of combining his two passions.  In his art, he makes good use of broken skateboard to recycle them and upcycle them into art.  In all his sculptures he doesn't try and hide, rather, he enhances the details that point to the origin of the material he is using.  If you look at them closely you will see the laminated boards that go into constructing the skateboard.  Some times he leaves the sculpture open or not perfectly smooth so that we can see how the sculpture was put together.  His sculptures cover a varied field of interests, with a varied amount of subjects, we have paired them so that you can see them from different angles and not miss any of the details.

Painting Art in Surreal Abstraction

Artist Franziskus Pfleghart puts himself in different parts if his art, it is a mixture of his experiences, his likes, his religious beliefs and his hopes.   As the best of surreal paintings do, Pfleghart's art makes us think, taking in all the details he has leaves for us in the paintings, like breadcrumbs, to guide us to the meaning of the piece.  The beauty of these paintings is that they can take different people on very different journeys depending on our life experiences.   See where it takes you...

Architecture Tiny Tree House in Hawaii built for $11,000

Kristie Wolfe defines herself , amongst most things, as a I'm a Tiny House Builder and a Dress Maker.  Wolfe originally started with a mobile tiny home, then saw this plot of land for sale in Hawaii for $8,000 on craigslist, which she bought unseen and built this 230ft² 21m² house with her mother over the space of 2 months, working from early morning to night.  A further $4,000 was spent for flights truck rental and food for the 2 months.  The house is self sufficient and off the grid.  It produces electricity from solar panels to power LED lights, laptop and charging the phone.   Wolfe collects rain water that is purified and used for drinking and washing, a propane heater to heat up the water.  The video below, is 23 minutes long and for some, might feel like an eternity but, it is very well edited with a lot of information and a walk-through all of the features of this home, with a description of the method of construction showing, amongst everything else, how to use items in a way they were not designed for.

Your Animal Friend on an Oil Painting

Splendid Beast, is an internet company that, for a fee, will take a photograph of your favourite pet and make an oil painting out of it.  The beauty is, that you can put it in many different backgrounds they offer, or you can have your custom one, as long as you give them the reference.  It is a pity that so far, only cats and dogs have been requested, there are so many different types of pets out there...  8 weeks is how long they say it will take to immortalise you favourite friend on canvas, lovely idea, well done.

Animal Photographs of Surreal Art

Chris Bennett has had a varied background starting off as a Mechanical Engineer, then went back to school to study Graphic Design, he migrated from the UK to the German Alps where he lives with his wife and children.  As a house husband with various part time jobs he started creating art to occupy his free time and give his mind the artistic outlet it needed to express.  He takes his camera out with him all the time managing to build up a catalogue of images, the bases to create his surreal photographs.  He says that sometimes he starts off with an idea and other times it just happens organically. Enjoy...

Recycled and Upcycled Steampunk Sculptures

Arturas Tamasauskas is a Lithuanian Artist that likes to get bits an pieces of discarded items like, watches cutlery, shells, car parts, piping and many many more... recycling and upcycling them to make these lovely little sculptures.  Where most people would see a piece of junk that should either go into the recycle pile or the bin, Tamasauskas sees a part to his newest sculpture.  By all accounts birds are the sculptures he most likes to represent due to their particular physiology.  See if you can identify all of the components that form these imaginative sculptures, it is amazing when you really look at the detail.

Expression of Love for the Art Of Painting

Belarusian Born Artist Leonid Afremov loves to paint and has done so since a young age.  He loves producing art so much that he paints every day, as that is what makes him happy.  He has tried different painting techniques but has found his fit with the palette knife with oil on canvas.  As well as showing you a small collection of his beautifully mesmerising paintings, we have included 2 videos, Afremov has made.  The fist one is quite short and after seeing a fast step by step rendition of his painting technique, he actually animates the finished painting.  In the second one, a longer video, you can see and appreciate more of how he creates his art.  Enjoy...

Micro Architecture and the cost of Living

Beijing vagabond, this is what immigrants in the city are called.  People that do not have a permanent residence, are poor and are in low paid jobs.  Dai Haifei, 24 graduated from collage, is now working in an Architectural Firm and built himself this small habitation for less than $1,000 Height 6.5 feet (2m) - Length 10 feet (3m) - Width 6.5 feet (2m).  He tried to rent in a very crowded house but ran out of money, his new home does not allow him to save much, but something is better than nothing and it is a lot better, he says that it is in his home town.  His tiny home was woven with bamboo and held in place with nails. Beyond the bamboo, there are layers of insulation and waterproofing. Most of the thermal insulation, (that turns out not to be much) is provided by sacks stuffed with sawdust and grass seed. In the spring, will grow making the home more visually acceptable.  Solar panes on the outside provide some electricity.  More information below.  Via sina If you like this have a look at "Architecture and the underground Rat Tribe Inhabitants"

Expressive Surreal Photographs for Daydreaming

French Philosophy Teacher and Photographer Julie de Waroquier creates these incredibly expressive and surreal images full of meanings.  Fascinating images together with fitting titles, really help tell a story, behind each and every picture below.  Many of us have very different backgrounds and experiences, making sure that these pictures will have different messages and evoke different memories in us.  de Waroquier does a fantastic job in bringing us pictures that make us think and daydream.

CoeLux Natural Illusion - Sky and Sun in a Led Light

CoeLux is an amazing system based on nano technology, that is meant to trick your eyes and your brain into thinking that it looking at a skylight with the sun and sky inside. This Led Light can be used for any space that does not have access to natural lighting or, is in a country where the sun in small supply.  Principal uses include: shopping malls, stores, offices, fitness centres, hotels, museums, hospitals, underground system / Metro.  We left housing last because, although the system costs about $61,000 to buy and $7,600 to install and would be out of the reach of most, it wouldn't be out of the reach of multi million dollar houses or buildings.

How To Draw Hyper Realistic Drawings

Thanks to Ambro Jordi aka (AmBr0) our selections of how to draw... continues.  We will put the links to the other posts below this section.  Jordi has kindly uploaded time lapse videos of some of his drawings.  They are quite sped up but it will give you an insight on how to draw and shade skin colour and texture, fur, feathers, hair, both in Black & White and Colour.  In the links below you will be able to see the various artists techniques and the way they approach their drawings.  We have also added, after the videos, more drawings of celebrities, executed by AmBr0.