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San Francisco-based artist Liz Hickok works in photography, video, sculpture, and installation. She has made a name for herself in the art world by receating famous cityscapes, skylines, and landmarks using wiggly, jiggly Jell-O. 

“I create glowing, jellied scale models of urban sites, transforming ordinary physical surroundings into something unexpected and ephemeral. Lit from below, the molded shapes of the city blur into a jewel-like mosaic of luminous color and volume… While the translucent beauty of the compositions first seduces the viewer, their fragility quickly becomes a metaphor for the transitory nature of human artifacts.

I have always been interested in architectural scale models of cities, and how photography can play with the viewer’s sense of scale, blurring differences between the real city and the constructed one. Once I began building my own model cities out of Jell-O I found that the jiggly, iconic childhood dessert is not only perishable, but also uncontrollable. Each time I take a picture of one of my cityscapes any building may begin to sweat or even liquefy, taking on a new persona.

Liz Hickok will be showing work at The Emerald Tablet in San Francisco from October 20th to November 18th as part of a group exhibition entitled A.D.D..

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September 1, 1902 — Georges Méliès’ A Trip to the Moon premieres in France.

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Using resin, recycled keyboard keys and cables, Nuremberg, Germany-based artist Babis Cloud (aka Babis Panagiotidis), created this awesome rocking horse sculpture, entitled Hedonism(y) Trojaner. The piece appears to be representative of the myriad hazards of excessive reliance on the internet, but it’s also just pretty magnificent to behold.

“Recreated of hundreds of buttons, the essences of communication, Babis’s sculpture is pointing out an unpleasant truth. The internet itself, not only its viruses deserves the term ‘Trojan’. We are looking for information via internet, we share it and pass some on, voluntary or involuntary. We define ourselves by Facebook profiles, find our jobs online, buy teddy bears or google side effects of viagra. The internet as a medium, humans stuck with their hedonism.”

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Oki Sato - Like Walking Through an Illustration

Oki Sato from Japanese design firm, Nendo, created unique black and white illustrations within the installations at the Nendo Solo show in Taiwan. The concept was to make visitors feel as if they were walking through an illustration.

The exhibition will be divided into two rooms – one with black drawings on white and the other with white on black. The walls of the second room will be curved as though visitors are walking through the image in a fish-eye lens.

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Raúl Guerra – An Eclectic-Mutilayered Traditional Artist

This week’s featured artist is not African but has great interest in African people(s) and culture. Raúl Guerra refers to himself as an eclectic-multilayered traditional artist in possession of a computer, which he uses to keep in touch with the ever-evolving digital world.

Born in the Spanish province of Málaga, Ronda, he spends most of his time drawing, painting, designing, and creating new love/light-formulas. For him, art pertains to every important aspect of his life.

Raúl wasn’t able to isolate the type of art he does but says: “it all coincides with and lies within my perpetual search for extreme beauty as a personal idea. That is, not just the edges of beauty as a concept, but the essence of beauty itself. Therefore yes, Africanized artworks, Fantasy stuff, Realism, children books are the areas my work shows most interest.”

Rise Africa interviewed Raúl to explore his digital art world on his “African Woman Series” creations and here is what he had to say…

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Zoology is the branch of biology that relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct.

Japanese artist Iori Tomita transforms the scientific technique of preserving and dyeing organisms into an awesome art form with a breathtaking series entitled New World Transparent Specimens.

Tomita’s creation process is both painstaking and time-consuming. After first preserving the animals in formaldehyde, he then removes the scales and skin. Next he soaks the creatures in a stain that dyes the cartilage blue. Tomita uses a digestive enzyme called trypsin, along with a host of other chemicals, to break down the proteins and muscles, halting the process just at the moment they become transparent. The bones are stained with red dye, and the specimen is preserved in a jar of glycerin. From start to finish, the entire production takes about five months to a year.

“People may look at my specimens as an academic material, a piece of art, or even an entrance to philosophy,” says Tomita. “There is no limitation to how you interpret their meaning. I hope you will find my work as a ‘lens’ to project a new image, a new world that you’ve never seen before.”

Visit My Modern Metropolis and Iori Tomita’s website to view more images of his awesome work.

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Human Biology is an interdisciplinary area of study that examines humans through the influences and interplay of many diverse fields including genetics, physiology, ecology, and evolution. Evolution is the change in the inherited characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.

This incredibly awesome stop-motion street art video, entitled Big Bang Big Boom, depicts “an unscientific point of view on the beginning and evolution of life … and how it could probably end.” This epic depiction of the entire evolutionary process was created by Blu, an Italian street artist known for creating ambitious large-scale projects, such as this one.

Watch a larger version here.

And if you enjoy this creative presentation of the evolutionary process, check out our Evolving Darwin Play Set, a set of figures depicting human evolution from fish-man to a modern day Homo sapien in the form of Charles Darwin.

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Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through space and time, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.

Caleb Charland is an artist who beautifully blends physics and photography utilizing everyday objects:

“By transforming everyday household objects into unexpected experiences, he makes us appreciate multiple disciplines; art, science and photography. In addition, his work evokes that sense of curiosity that often lays dormant in us as adults. While looking at his photos, you can’t help but marvel at the scientific laws that govern us and, at the same time, feel as though Charland’s somehow cheated them.”

Pictured here are Break Beat with Sparkler and Metronome (top) and Fibonacci’s Pendulumn (bottom), an elegant blending of physics and mathematics in the form of a beautiful Fibonacci Spiral.

“The break beat in Break Beat with Sparkler and Metronome is the result of blocking the lens briefly with my hand as the sparkler burned while pendulating in the metronome. The gaps in the light trails were the moments where my hand was in front of the lens…60 BPMs.”

By the way, all of Caleb’s images are created in-camera, on a flatbed scanner, or in the darkroom. Nothing is created or added digitally. 

Check out Caleb’s website to view more of his awesome images.

[via My Modern Metropolis]