New Carved Book Landscapes by Guy Laramee

Artist Guy Laramee (previously) has recently completed a number of new sculptural works where he transforms thick tomes into incredible topographical features including mountains, caves, volcanoes, and even water. Many of the works are part of a new project titled Guan Yin, a series of work dedicated to the forces that enable individuals to endure grief and pain, or in his words “the mysterious forces thanks to which we can traverse ordeals.” If you happen to be near Quebec, a number of Laramee’s works are currently on view at Expression gallery in Saint-Hyacinthe through August 12.
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The Thief Who Stole A Dali Then Sent It Back

A brazen art thief recently stole Cartel de Don Juan Tenorio by Salvador Dali, valued at over $150k, from the Venus Over Manhattan Gallery in New York by distracting the guard and walking out with the piece in broad daylight. Then he sent it back. The gallery put the word out about the thief, but didn’t expect to get the work back, until they received an anonymous email saying it had been sent back, and it was delivered to the gallery later that week via Express Mail. Why would someone do such a thing? Your guess is as good as mine…
LINK, Via: Neatorama

Photographer Makes Creative Portraits from Fruits, Vegetables and Flowers

Klaus Enrique Gerdes, a New York City photographer, has created a series of original portraits made exclusively from vegetables, fruits and flowers.

Gerdes told the PDN Gallery that the idea for his organic portraits first came to him while working with leaves. ”While I was photographing a human eye that was peeking out amongst hundreds of leaves, it occurred to me that I could actually utilize leaves to construct portraits or masks.” It just evolved from there and he started using fruits, vegetables and flowers. LINK

Salvador Dalí Photo

It can be discouraging to hear about a major painting selling into a private collection, knowing it will rarely be seen. However it is something to rejoice over when a major painting sells to a museum and can be seen by the public.
The 1934 painting ‘Enigmatic Elements in the Landscape,’ the surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí was sold to the Gala-Salvador Foundation for $11,000,000 US.
“This is a prodigy of a painting, immaculate, intense and just a very good painting. It’s simply marvelous,” the director of Antoni Pitxot said.
It was last exhibited in 1999 in New York City’s Guggenheim Museum. I suggest you get to the Salvador Dali Museum in FIgueras to see it and many other great work by the Maestro.

Salvador Dali Art Gallery

Pond

p0nd, a flash game, offers a wonderful and haunting experience, especially the ending. Now this is art. [Peanut Gallery Games Via: IndieGames], Via: Boingboing

Every Painting in the MoMA on 10 April 2010

"QUOTE" If the subject interests you, I recommend watching full-screen (perhaps muting the repetitive audio). It's too bad there's not a "slow" speed option. LINK, Via: Youtube

Robert Hodgin's Magnetic Sculptures

San Francisco-based artist/coder Robert Hodgin of Flight 404 Blog created some of the most mesmerizing sculptures using magnetized balls and cylinders. They’re part of the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (GAFFTA) exhibition.

That has got to take some mad skillz because I can easily envision the whole thing collapsing into a pile of magnetized blob at the slightest touch.

MAKE Blog has the gallery: Link | Robert’s official webpage

Related: Buckyballs over at the NeatoShop. Via: Neatorama

Wired's robotic spider gallery

Wired.com has a fun gallery of robotic spiders and critters. This one, created by Stanford mechanical engineer Sangbae Kim, was based on a cockroach. It has an aluminum chassis, an electronic motor, and a power-transmission system that allows it to move up to about seven and a half feet per second. Via: Boingboing

A Gallery of Wonderful Rube Goldberg Machines

Rube Goldberg machines! So enjoy Wired’s gallery of nine such setups, including “The Falling Water” — a cocktail-making Rube Goldberg machine by Joseph Herscher. It mixes vodka, lemonade, ice, and a slice of cucumber.

Link, Via: Neatorama, Via: Youtube

Beautiful microscope images

You're looking at a water flea, as captured by Dr. Jan Michels of the University of Kiel, Germany. It's the top-prize winner in the 2009 Olympus BioScapes contest—a competition focused on images taken via microscope. The winners gallery is full of gorgeous pictures in striking, day-glo purples, greens and reds. Worth browsing, for both art and science nerds.

Olympus BioScapes 2009 Winners Gallery || Via: Boingboing

Haiti: Inflatable Hospital photo gallery

A Médecins Sans Frontières inflatable hospital takes shape on a football field in Port-au-Prince. Related Boing Boing interview here. More photos at the LINK.

Previously:

* Haiti: HOWTO set up a plug-and-play hospital - Doctors Without Borders
* Cruise ship docks at private beach in Haiti for barbeque and water ...
* Haiti Earthquake Update: AIDG's Catherine Lainé, live from Haiti ...
* Haiti: News roundup, one week after earthquake
* Haiti, HAARP, and conspiracy theorists
* Haiti: News roundup, new satellite images, tweets from the ground ...
* Haiti: A call to "peoplefinder" site builders - open your data ...
* Haiti Quake: Ned Sublette update, open thread
* Donate $20 to Haiti, get $1481 worth of free RPGs
* Dr. Steve Brule: "For Your Haiti"
* Haiti: Photos from the ground, by AIDG's Catherine Lainé
* Haiti: Update from Doctors Without Borders team in Port-au-Prince ...
* Haiti Earthquake: link roundup, day two
* Haiti's real deal with the devil
* CrisisCamp London: creating solutions for Haiti
* What lessons should Americans take away from the 2010 Haiti ...

Glass Frog

No, it’s not really made of glass, but you can see the heart beating inside this frog, one of 30 new species of creatures found in the highlands of Ecuador. See more of the discoveries in a photo gallery at National Geographic. Link -Via: Metafilter, Via: Neatorama

(image credit: Paul S. Hamilton, RAEI)

Tooth Tattooing

If you’re the sort of person who’s always wanted an image of Amy Winehouse tattooed on your teeth, then I have some good news for you. Heward Dental Lab, a combination tattoo parlor and dental office, can do the job:

Normally this artwork is created on the back teeth, the molars or bicuspids. Most people prefer having it on the cheek side of the tooth, some on the tongue side. Most considered these as some what a white collar tattoo. They are seen only when the person that has one wants to share what they have, by pulling their cheek out so it could be seen. The other advantage to these tattoos is that they can easily be removed in five minutes in the dentist’s office with just a little grinding with a rubber wheel.

Gallery at the link.

Link, Via: DudeCraft | Image: Steve Heward, Via: Neatorama

The All of Everything

A central London exhibition space dedicated to showcasing the creative talents of University of Arts London’s students, The Arts Gallery is soon to fall victim to Crossrail’s controversial new railway project that has already taken the famous London Astoria and other smaller yet equally renowned venues and clubs. Fittingly, the gallery’s final show is a suitably epic affair and the largest, most ambitious yet from former Central Saint Martins graduate, Mike Ballard. The All of Everything features the artist’s almost apocalyptic vision of arts history, the installation encompasses the entire space of the gallery with floors, ceilings and walls depicting all that art has given us, psychedelically fused with Ballard’s archaic vision of all that art will ever give… a truly staggering piece of work that is as thought provoking as it is awe-inspiring. Showing from now until the demolition of the gallery, that is scheduled for some time in February, this is a unique work, displayed in unique circumstances and should not be missed…. LINK

A Gallery Of Early Computers (1940s - 1960s)

We often think of computers as a very modern phenomenon, but there were actually plenty of computers around 50 years ago. They just weren't an everyman commodity, instead limited to goverment and corporate use. And they certainly weren't small.

Some of them had imaginative names like Whirlwind, Colossus and Pegasus, while others were slightly less poetic with names like Z4, AN/FSQ-7 and ENIAC. Here's a gallery of 19 examples of computers from the early days, pioneering efforts that although cutting edge in their day now look lovingly retro.

(Via: Everlasting Blort) Via: The Presurfer

Photos of rotting, abandoned water park at Walt Disney World

Here's a gigantic gallery of the abandoned River Country water park at Walt Disney World, which has been shuttered for years (I last remember playing there in about 1987). The park was supposed to be kind of rustic and homey, and now the faux-weathered appearance has been augmented by actual slime-filled pools and rotting infrastructure. It's simulation become reality!

River Country

(May run out of bandwidth, try Coral cache mirror), Via: Boingboing

The "Click-Out" Art of Michael Johansson

Artist Michael Johansson makes full-sized objects that look like plastic click-out models. The dingy pictured above, entitled “Toys ‘R’ Us”, is a 1:1 scale model made from functional boating equipment and a welded metal frame. Gallery at the link.

Link, Via: DudeCraft, Via: Neatorama | Artist Website | Dingy Project | Photo: Michael Johansson

Junkbots made from old hard-drives

On Wired's Gadget Lab, a gallery of sculptures made from dead hard-drives made by sysadmin Miguel Rivera, including this wonderful junkbot.

Old Hard Drives Get Sculpted Into Cars, Bikes, Robots | Via: Boingboing

Monty Python: 40 Years of Insanity

On October 5 1969 BBC One first broadcast a quirky little show called "Monty Python's Flying Circus." And now, for something completely different, the headlines in this gallery will have absolutely nothing to do with the photos and will instead be quotes from the show. Here's a shot of the boys imitating broadcaster Alan Whicker. LINK

Amazing Albino Animals

Albino Alligator. LINK