If it was up to us, all the best design in the world would be posted within the Parfois Portfolio… But… its not up to us. Stumbling the web we often bump into things worth sharing. The world wide web is so full off great things that will never end up in our portfolio, but which we want the world to see. For this we created our blog. At this moment there 4 of us blogging on a regular basis.Work, studies and social life makes that there are weeks with a lot of posts, and weeks without. But we’ll do our best in bringing you the nicest shit on a acceptable basis.
It’s been a while, but everybody was enjoying their holidays! Here we go again;
Anders krisar is a Swedish artist currently based in Stockholm, his work deals with a variety of subjects including the human body. In his recent body of work, krisar has concentrated on photography and sculptures, especially modified faces and body parts. In this series of piece you can see how he takes realistic casts of the torso, arms or face and modifies them in ways that lend them a surreal quality. There is the basket weaving of skin in ‘cuirass’ a commentary on leather goods, and ‘the birth of us (boy)’a young man’s torso with hand prints firmly embedded in the skin. >> Read more
A few days ago, I was very pleased to discover Gilberto Esparza, a mexican artist, which is interested in making robots that interact with the enviroment. His last project, Plantas Nomadas, is a robot that works with the help of microorganisms and contaminated river water. The key for this process is the microbial fuel cells. According to wikipedia : “A microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a bio-electrochemilcal system that drives a current by mimicking bacterial interactions found in nature.[...] A microbial fuel cell is a device that converts chemical energy to electrical energy by the catalytic reaction of microorganisms.” Summing up, Plantas Nomadas is a self-sufficient robot that can walk to the river and drink contaminated water. Through a microbial fuel cell proccess, the produced energy feeds the robot and make it able to walk, while the surplus helps the plants to grow. A great interaction between technology and life cycle. >> Read more
Simplicity is the best . At Design Reactor, a Berlin based office, they understand this concept very well. Probably allot of you had great ideas like this one time or the other, but these guy’s actually produce them. Very innovative, humoristic and nicely designed. I love them.
At read more some other projects by Design Reactor.
Mathieu Lehanneur is a fantastic designer, inventor,.. and lots more. His work varies from interior designs to pils and robots. His designs are functional and flawless a great merge between aesthetics and concept. In this post I’ve tried to compile his most famous designs. On the first look they probably don’t say anything, on his website u can find the explanations. But maybe u can find it out by just looking at the visual images themselves.
Michael Marcovici is an amazing guy who had an extraordinary life so far. He quit school when he was 17 and started his first own company in the finance field, he sold his first business when he was 23, he started a side business on eBay that eventually became the world’s largest power-selling enterprise on eBay with a turnover of 30 million euro’s a year. U really have to read his biography on his website. His artwork is conceptual and loaded with political and sociological meanings. Also his interests in finances and technology is visible in his works. Interesting guy, worth checking. >> Read more
Everybody knows photoshop, its a way to digitally modify pictures. This is something that’s very useful and almost impossible to do yourself. But nobody ever died trying. This is an image that has been circulating the web quite some time and nobody really knows who’s image it is. On this¬†flickr¬†page are some more pictures. The origin and the concept behind it are a riddle according to¬†Wired,¬†they assume it was a promotional campaign for Photoshop¬†on the Indonesian market.
Draw bots are everywhere these day’s and the generic art scene gains popularity to. I’ve always been a big fan of these things and last year I’ve spend a lot of time researching this phenomena. This research resulted in a series of robots (what else?). In 7 months time I’ve made 6 different robots and installations. Every new robot or installation was an evolution of the previous, with this one at the end of the line. This robot reads simple algorithms loops them and creates patterns by doing so. An algorithm can be, move forward for 2 seconds and rotate 78 degrees, if we loop this we generate a certain pattern. The more difficult the algorithm, the more complex the pattern. This video we made at the Antwerp Astonauts exhibition last month.
A while back I saw a lecture with Theo Jansen. As an engineer/artist he makes organic, moving creatures. He releases his sculptures on the beach where they, driven by air, can walk around freely. They are fitted with ingeniously designed sensores that warn the sculpture when he contacts the water, and let him walk the other way as soon as he does. In the same lecture he speaks about his next step, to let his sculptures live autonomously the beach and he hopes that thew will develop to creatures that can withstand storms by hiding in the dunes. Very inspiring work, more info at strandbeest.com.
The next artist we undress here at the Parfois Blog is Jean Shin. Jean was born in Seoul, South Korea. She lives and works in New York City. I think its a bit strange that I don’t see her work appear in other websites and blogs. If you look at her work, you notice there is a message in it. Her installations are mostly build with all kind of leftovers. With which she creates her own world. She does this not only with installations, but also with photography, video, prints and sculptures. Read on for Jean Shin’s full story.
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