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Tokyo City Symphony
The 10 year celebration theme for Roppongi Hills is “LOVE TOKYO.” We will be starting a movement here from Roppongi Hills to transform Tokyo into a more attractive and exciting “world-class city.” We are opening a 10th anniversary website in which users can experience 3D projection mapping on a miniature model of the city of Tokyo at a 1:1000 scale.
Participants can enjoy various motifs of the city: “Futuristic City,” “Rock City,” and a traditional Japanese “Beauty of Nature” motif by pressing the keys on a keyboard, as if playing the piano. Exploit the possibilities and make Tokyo more dynamic and exciting.
Street Art
Peeta, also known as Manuel Di Rita, is a graffiti artist since 1993 currently living in Venice. He is a member of the EAD crew (Padova, Italy), FX and RWK crews (New York City) and has participated in graffiti jams and Meeting of Styles events in Europe and the Americas. His work explores the potential of sculptural lettering, both in painting and in sculpture.
Official Website : Peeta
Flickr : peeta_ead
“Snake” stop motion animation
3D chalk art by Chris Carlson. Drawn on a cyclorama wall with soft pastel chalk.
Li Hongbo
Pure White paper…
Even for a book editor and designer, Li Hongbo has an unusual attachment to paper. “I love it and collect it,” he says. He also does increasingly audacious experiments with it. The installation Paper (2010) began when Li Hongbo bought one of the “honeycomb” paper balls used for festive decorations in China and took it apart to see how it was made. “I realised it’s really quite simple,” he says. “Yet the flexibility in terms of shape and properties is amazing.” His take on this craft tradition is indeed amazing, and it is made entirely of common paper. With the help of an assistant, Li Hongbo stuck more than 30,000 sheets together with carefully placed stripes of glue to form what look like two large blocks of balsa wood. Using an electric saw, he carved these stacks into identical human figures. One he leaves intact, except for a toppled head; the other is stretched out like a vast accordion, its torso and limbs looping around the gallery space like a gigantic Slinky toy. Many visitors find it hard to believe that it ever looked anything like its upright twin. The artist hopes the work will awaken viewers to what captivates his own imagination: “the endless possibilities of paper.”
Hyperrealism paintings
Hyperrealism is a genre of painting and sculpture resembling a high-resolution photograph. Hyperrealism is considered an advancement of Photorealism by the methods used to create the resulting paintings or sculptures. The term is primarily applied to an independent art movement and art style in the United States and Europe that has developed since the early 2000′s.
Joongwon Jeong
Blog : Joongwon Jeong
Deviantart : ~JW-Jeong
Roberto Vergati Santos
Imagine if one day capitalism reaches the point, where the big brands starts to sponsor the superheroes. How would this influence their images?
Behance : versa
Judge Dredd
Judge, Jury & Executioner! A film showing a massive graffiti art mural tribute of Judge Dredd by Soulful Creative on the side of a warehouse near Heathrow airport, London. Soulful Creative artists Koze and Onion have created their own ‘little’ tribute to the great man himself and the 2000AD artist Simon Bisley, by painting a 60 sqm graffiti art piece designed around a graphic novel page spread. We hope that we have done them justice!
