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Emil Alzamora’s distorted human figures appear to melt, morph, and defy gravity

Artist Emil Alzamora explores the human body through his figurative sculptures that distort, inflate, elongate, and deconstruct physical forms in order to reveal emotional situations and narratives. Alzamora works with a variety of materials including bronze, gypsum, concrete, and other ceramic materials to create pieces with smooth, almost non-descript surfaces to instead draw attention to shape and scale. You can see more of his work on Facebook and on Instagram. (via Dark Silence in Suburbia)

Frenetic Spray-painted Birds by ‘L7m’

Here’s a collection of murals and canvases from street artist L7m, who paints interpretations of birds that morph from realistic into more abstract strokes of spray paint and explosions of color. Included here are a number of pieces from Spain, Portugal, and his native Brazil over the last few months.

3D Typographic Inspirations

It has become a trend in anamorphic work with typography, giving a 3D effect. This type of work has been seeing out there and it’s nice to knowledge some of them. Below the impressive work of Lex Wilson, who employs his talent to his work in illustration of typography.

 

Image Manipulations by Martin Grohs

One of those things that you keep thinking about (when you are a design or art director) is “How in name of the God, this guy did this?” And since I started working with advertising, doing manipulations using Photoshop is one of the majors things among the creative community.  Check some of those works (by Martin Grohs).

A Towering Turtle of Discarded Industrial Junk Welded by Ono Gaf

Indonesian artist Ono Gaf works primarily with metallic junk reclaimed from a trash heap to create his animalistic sculptures. His most recent piece is this giant turtle containing hundreds of individual metal components like car parts, tools, bike parts, instruments, springs, and tractor rotors. You can read a bit more about Gaf over on the Jakarta Post, and see more of this turtle in this set of photos by Gina Sanderson. (via Steampunk Tendencies)

Custom Engraved Rolling Pins Imprint Patterns into Cookie Dough

Psychogeographies: 3D Collages Encased in Layers of Glass by Dustin Yellin

Psychogeography is the act of exploring an urban environment with an emphasis on curiosity and drifting. Or, more colloquially put, a “toy box full of playful, inventive strategies for exploring cities.” For the Brooklyn-based artist Dustin Yellin, his toy box is full of everything he finds on the street—flowers, leaves, bugs, and even dead rats, which are then composed into three-dimensional collages and sealed behind resin.

In his most recent series “Psychogeographies,” Yellin uses multiple layers of glass, each covered in detailed imagery, to create a single intricate, three-dimensional collage with a mix of magazine cut-outs and acrylic paint. When pressed to describe what he does, Yellin struggles, but not with a lack of words. Here is an excerpt from a mini-essay “concerning the difficulty of saying something about what I do.”

The hero of the elderly by Andreas Englund

The Swedish artist Andreas Englund has created a series of works photo-realistic and very original. It depicts a superhero seniors who always wanted to do his job despite the weight of the years catching up. A good dose of humor, beautiful staging and especially a souçi the impressive detail: this is the winning combination.

The Oasis of Aboukir green wall by Patrick Blanc

Patrick Blanc, the inventor of green walls, has completed a vertical garden with waves of 7600 plants on the end of a block in Paris.

L’Oasis D’Aboukir  (the Oasis of Aboukir) is a 25-metre-high green wall by botanist and researcher Patrick Blanc , which covers a building facade in the second arrondissement of the city.

The wall features plants from 237 different species and appears to grow up the facade in diagonal waves. It was planted in the spring and covers the previously raw concrete facade on the corner of Aboukir Street and Petits Carreaux street.