The Remake Project

For the past few weeks Booooooom has been running an art contest called the Remake Project. The contest invited people to create modern interpretations of iconic artworks including paintings, photography, and sculpture. Submissions ended last week and the entries have been narrowed down to just 10 finalists. Brush up on your art history and check out the submissions here.

It's No Biggie

It's No Biggie is a clever little Tumblr created by illustrator Thoka Maer, aka Lisette Berndt. Maer describes her work as "a satirical comment about our daily life obstacles in for of looping gif animation."

Four Eyes

I’m in love with these stunning drypoint prints by Düsseldorf-based artist Angie Hoffmeister. Drypoint is a printmaking technique in the intaglio family where images are etched onto a plate using a sharp metal or diamond point. You can see much more of her work here.

Ice Cube Reps the Eameses

Ice Cube himself has created a nice little black and white video about the city of angels featuring none other than Charles and Ray Eames. Made for “Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980,” the video shows Ice Cube marveling at the Eameses' resourcefulness. “They were doing mash-ups before mash-ups even existed,” he says of the couple’s early prefab Case Study House, which was constructed from off-the-shelf parts. Check out the New York Times article here and the true gem, the full length video, here.

Carl Kylberg

Carl Kylberg (1878–1952) was an important and controversial figure in twentieth-century Swedish art. Some of his fantstic sketches that were recently unearthed at an auction house date back to 1906. Kylberg broke through late, made his debut as a painter in 1919 with the February group at Liljevalchs. He became known to a wider public by the age of 50, but continued to be controversial as an artist. More info here.

Personalized Publishing

As the digital vs. print debate continues, London based design agency Berg has developed a new product that utilizes the best of both worlds - The Little Printer. The bite sized printer essentially prints a customized daily snapshot of your digital world. Things included in your sales receipt sized print-out may include major news stories alongside Facebook updates from your friends, your daily ‘To Do’ lists, Sudoku and more. Check out The Little Printer in action here. Available 2012.

Tree Lines

Welsh-born artist and photographer Zander Olsen is slowly wrapping the UK’s woodland in white material. "Tree, line", Olsen says, is “an ongoing series of constructed photographs rooted in the forest”. Another one of those 'simple idea - amazing execution' things. Wish I'd thought of it! (via It's Nice That)

Literary Organisms

Protein recently sat down with Stefanie Posavec to chat about her handmade data visualizations. Interestingly, she doesn't use any code when creating her diagrams and instead works with a mere pencil and paper to begin. Posavec has taken a deep look into diagramming many of her favorite novels (like Jack Kerouac's On The Road) and recently co-created an iPhone app based on her diagrams called MyFry. Check out more inside the video here.

Macro Kingdom

Macro Kingdom III, created by Clemens Wirth, takes a look into the scaled down infinite nature of various microcosms. To pull it off, Wirth toyed around with liquid nitrogen, dry ice, and various objects / liquids that he preceded to freeze and shatter. The sounds were created from found objects and perfected by Radium Audio. Check out the final piece here and the making of the sounds here. :)