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The Inception Chair, as the name suggests was inspired by the movie Inception, and it is the work of RSID student Vivian Chiu, and it is actually a series of ten different sized interlocking chairs that can be put together to make one chair. The Inception Chair is designed to mimic the dream within a dream concept from the Inception movie, and the chair is made from ash and it measures 16 inches by 16 inches by 32 inches.

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19 May 2014 07:32:00,post received 0 comments

Sad Portraits of Boxers, Before and After by Nicolai Howalt

141 boxers’ by Danish visual artist and photographer Nicolai Howalt is a series of diptychs portraying boxers before and after their fight. Ranging from young boys to women, the collection of images delineates not only the brutal aftermath of a match but the more subtle changes in the subject’s physiology due to adrenaline, struggle, and the complex emotions that come with victory and loss.

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11 Jun 2014 13:26:00,post received 0 comments

Charming Miniature Architecture by Takanori Aiba

The Japanese art of raising bonsai trees is a beautiful way to infuse greenery into indoor spaces. But artist Takanori Aiba takes the art to a new level with his incredibly intricate series of bonsai castles. The Japanese artist carves miniature masterpieces that weave in and out of the miniature trees, creating cohesive architectural marvels that burst forth with life!

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15 Jun 2014 12:38:00,post received 0 comments

Wow The Edge Effect by Daniel Kukla

IT'S a relatively simple idea – set up a mirror so you can capture the reflection of a dramatic landscape in a single photograph. Photographer Daniel Kukla, from New York, created a spectacular series of artworks called The Edge Effect using the technique. He clamped the mirror onto an easel and placed it in various settings in the Joshua Tree National Park, California.

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21 Jan 2013 11:02:00,post received 0 comments

Touching Photographers: Thomas Mangold

After school and civil service, Thomas Mangold went off to study Visual Communications in Dortmund where he still lives. During these studies, he had the opportunity for an internship at the advertising agency Grey Dusseldorf and also began to receive invites to publish his photographic series in magazines. Around this time, a new professor at the college arranged a one week intensive seminar in Strata 3D.

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11 Apr 2012 13:25:00,post received 0 comments

Funny Imagine Life as Children by Pierrette Diaz

The minds of children are a wondrous thing… I think. I don’t quite remember how it was my mind worked as a child, but it’d better have been wondrous because otherwise I have no explanation for how absolutely insane children act. Either way, Pierrette Diaz did a fantastic job of bringing the world of little kids to adults in an interesting series of paintings that depict the world through a child’s eyes.

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06 Jul 2012 06:10:00,post received 0 comments

Charming Photo by Polixeni Papapetrou

Australian artist Polixeni Papapetrou trends the line between fantasy/theatre, mythology/reality, archetype/play, male/female, child/adult and animal/human. As with all her work the series The Dreamkeepers tells a story that includes her autobiographical relationship with her children, but it also says a lot more about the condition of childhood - its place in our culture and how we react to images of children in photography.

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06 Aug 2012 08:09:00,post received 0 comments

Charming Colored Owl Drawings by John Pusateri

Using pencils, charcoal, and pastels artist John Pusateri creates near photo-realistic drawings of beautifully colored owls. Pusateri currently teaches in the Department of Architecture at Unitec New Zealand and currently has a number of works available through Seed Gallery. See more from this owl series in his portfolio.

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16 Sep 2013 10:00:00,post received 0 comments