Making something out of nothing

We've all made art out of cardboard pieces at some point in our life, but it was probably in elementary school and it probably just looked like a heap of poo. But what this crew has done to some simple pieces of cardboard is magic. This is such a cool new idea this guy had, to make all those different items out of something we just normally throw away as a society. To make something as cool as a guitar that Fender can claim as authentic and original is amazing. This is low technology material but high in detail and musicality. Talk about reduce reuse and recycle! He could make a whole company from this idea and create amazing consumer items basically from trash! 

Somerset

Upon visiting the Somerset UK site, I found that there is an exhibition in Barcelona called Big Bang Data. It explores the world of multimedia and the web, where artists take on the challenge of creating art out of this. 
I think this installation is a very futuristic and foward thinking way of creating art. We make all this data all the time without knowing it, and these digital artists have found a way to make it beautiful and artistic.
"Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data. Explore how the datafied world affects us all through the work of artists, designers, innovators and thinkers." 

Projection Mapping

I think projection mapping is a revolutionary idea added to the art world. There are thousands of possibilities with what to do. This one I found from http://www.drawlight.net/projection-mapping-eng/ is in expo Milan, and immerses the viewer into a completely underwater world to create a 360° immersive projection aiming to simulate a slow descent into the abysses. It comes alive every fifteen minutes with an amazing and unique show dedicate to the sea and its depths. It's one of the most beautiful things I've seen.

Temple

I love movies, especially sci fi and fantasy. I look all the time for new trailers and teasers of upcoming movies, which is how I found this little gem. We watched blade runner in class, and this seems like a similar setting and time period. Just from the little snippet we get from the teaser, I see a decent amount of cool and new technology that is suggested to be in the near future. I think it's movies like this that give tech companies and visionaries the ideas to move forward with some of the technology they see. I will definitely be seeing this movie 

Edit: found out this already released so am now going to watch

James Jean

I stumbled across this artist while browsing, and I'm already impressed and mesmerized.
 http://hypebeast.com/2015/12/james-jean-apple-pencil-art
I'm always amazed at these types of artist who can just create art out of thin air. I love his style and color usage. To make a digital image look like a colored pencil drawing is just beyond talented in my opinion. Sooner or later digital art is going to take over and become the most widely utilized form and media. Eventually paint will become obsolete. 

FFVII

Square Enix is coming out with a remake of one of the best video games of all time: Final Fantasy 7.
They released the teaser earlier this year at E3, the biggest conference for video game announcements. Now why remake it you ask? Well it was one of the highest grossing games of the 90's and has one of the largest followings of any franchise in the gaming world. Final fantasy is an immersive, ever changing world that at that back in the day was a huge leap towards the future of gaming. It was originally released in 1997 and quickly became a consumer favorite. Now I was only 2 at that time but around 2003 when I got a PlayStation 2, I came across Final Fantasy 10. That is my favorite game of all time, so now that I've heard how in the gaming community there is such an excitement for the 7 remake that I may just have to see what all the hubbub is about. It's amazing to see how far game and programming engines have come since 1997. The first vid is the remake trailer, the 2nd is the original version.

Speedy Graphito

I clicked on this in the syllabus honestly because it had a funny name. But I should have guessed it was all graffiti art. I think this as a style or respectable art form has grown greatly in a short amount of time. Pre 2000 it was seen as vandalism and tasteless. But now people are creating whole art shows out of graffiti that can really be quite beautiful. Yes they're still being strewn about on buildings all over the world, but now the public is giving notoriety and fame to some of these artists. I enjoyed looking through this site at the different styles and uniqueness of the pieces. I'll put below some of my favorites.