The series Broken Houses by Ofra Lapid, is based on photographs of abandoned structures neglected by man and destroyed by the weather. The photographs are found on the internet and used to create small scale models. Afterward the models are photographed again, omitted from their background and placed in gray.

found at acidolatte

A few months ago, Nicolas Sassoon made an architectural proposal for the online art collective Computers Club. I already liked it back then, but he produced and released an altered version, in just black and white, for ”STREET SHOW: The Things Between US”. Watch it in HD!
Soundtrack by Sara Ludy.

Michael Kukla made these amazing sculptures. He wants to create organic surfaces by drilling and grinding out cellular-like structures in marble or plywood slabs. Very impressive work.

found at Sojamo

Google Melon is Marco Cadioli‘s latest video piece. Lately he’s using Google Earth to create some very interesting work. Make sure to check it out.

Here’re 2 screenshots from 2 variations.

found at Triangulation Blog

Design Office Takebayashi Scroggin made this massimal with 20,000 zip ties. A massimal?

Massimals are 1:1 design objects that serve as prototypes to examine how physical form can engage the public realm. These constructs are mass abstractions of animal forms fabricated in systematic fashion from one material. The suggestive forms and their specific arrangement imply docile behavior similar to animals in a petting zoo augmenting the way visitors approach and engage built form.

Okay, but this is still a very impressive project.

found at designboom weblog via this is colossal

Open Box I & II are optical illusions made by Krystina Naylor for a specific location. Would love to have one.

found at It’s Nice That

I just love Nicolas Sassoon his animated gif style. The rotating 3D objects with their pattern shading … truly nice. His created “Island Study” for a benefit compilation for Japan.

Profiles is a project by Israeli-based designer Idan Friedman. He embosses portraits on aluminium throw-away trays. Beautiful work!

found at It’s Nice That

“3 Dreams of Black” is a new interactive film directed by Chris Milk for the song “Black” by ROME, a music project by Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi featuring Jack White & Norah Jones. The project is a Chrome Experiment that showcases some of the latest web technologies like WebGL in modern browsers like Google Chrome.
Not only can you interact with video, you can also add your own items to the dream or see what others have build. For those of you who want to know the technical details: this page will keep you busy for a while. The model view and the demos are just as impressive.
Aaron Koblin was the creative director of this project and Mr.doob the technical director and of course a bunch of really talented people. You might also want to check out “The Wilderness Downtown“, a project with many people who were also involved in this one.
It’s been a long time since I’ve been that blown away by a web technology. So if you have the latest version of Google Chrome installed and a pretty decent graphicscard, go ahead and be …

I really like this 3D ASCII Animated GIF. It appeared in an article about making 3D GIFs from 2D source on weekly ascii. If anyone know who’s the creator, please let me know.

found at Rhizome