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Screen printing with an Inkjet printer!

Exquisite Papercraft Stop Motion Video for Ödland

DELTA HEAVY - Get By

Stop-motion, classic boardgames, and dubstep. Never thought those would all combine to make this lovely video.

(Source: thisiscolossal.com)

Photos from Astronaut Paolo Nespoli

Came across these lovely photos from European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli’s MagISStra mission to the International Space Station.

Follow Paolo on Twitter to get updates from space: www.twitter.com/astro_paolo

1. Paris, 2. Grand Canyon, 3. Mount Vesuvius

The Elevated Envelope - Tara Bliven

A couple months ago I signed up for the Elevated Envelope, an “ongoing artistic pen pal project,” led by Tara Bliven and “designed to bring back the fun of checking the mail.” I was so excited when I accidentally came across this, as I’ve done random gift exchanges through blogs before and had this project in the back of my mind that I was itching to complete.

I was born and raised in a suburb of Minneapolis, and I’ve always been a city girl at heart. After landing a graphic design job in northwest Saint Paul, I needed to shorten my commute from the suburbs and made my move into the city of Minneapolis. Uptown, a commercial district in southwestern Minneapolis, became my new home. Even though I had spent most of my teenage and early adult years exploring the city, I was now seeing the beautiful skyline every day, on my drive to and from work — and this is how my inspiration for the Elevated Envelope developed.

After receiving my contacts for this project (and adding a couple of my own), I started researching the cities they lived in or the (bigger) cities they lived by. I started with collecting aesthetic images of those cities, and used those to design line drawings in Illustrator. Keeping my hand-sewing idea in mind, I created line drawings that would, at best, be only one continuous line, while some have 2-3 continuous lines to include all the details that make their city unique. After printing those out and hand-cutting all my envelopes (all 14 of them), I overlaid each print on each envelope and punched every corner of the line drawing with a thumb tack (I know, there is probably a better way to do this). After my thumbs turned black and blue from the hand labor, I strung embroidery thread through every design to complete the envelope. 

I intended for each of the recipients to decide what they wanted to do with their envelope — keep them, use them as art, or to give them as a gift — and I didn’t want them to get ruined in the process of getting to them. In order to protect them, I paired the hand-sewn envelopes with a clear, cellophane envelope. After writing letters for each of them and printing address labels, I lined each label with neon pink washi tape and sealed those suckers shut. Even though they’re off and sent through the mail, I thoroughly enjoyed taking part in this whimsical project, where any idea to connect with others was welcome. 

Filmmakers Casey Neistat and Max Joseph take the money Nike gave them to shoot a commercial and decide to use it to travel around the world instead.

(Source: moneyisnotimportant.com)

Water Inkn - BDDP Unlimited and Solidarites International

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Origami Stop Motion Video by Sipho Mabona

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Notes & Nonsense on Society6!

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Full Circle by Callum Cooper

London/Melbourne-based artist and filmmaker Callum Cooper creates bizarre sculptures with embedded cameras meant to capture video from pretty astounding angles. His Full Circle piece creates the illusion of a jumprope that shifts space and time on every jump. 

(Source: thisiscolossal.com)