Skull of Books

Canadian artist Maskull Lasserre has finally found a use for all those obsolete computing books that have been collecting dust worldwide. His newest work-in-progress is called Incarnate (Three Degrees of Certainty II) and as you can see, it is a near perfect rendition of a human skull popping out from a stack of outdated computer manuals.








Via: Thisiscolossal

Anatomy in Nature by Juan Gatti

The Argentinean artist Juan Gatti is generally known as a commercial photographer and graphic designer, often collaborating with film director Pedro Almodovar. His less known work includes anatomy drawings of human body in combination with the taxonomy of plans and of exotic animals. In his images there are wind-blown flowers, dragonflies, birds, and always the dazzling beauty of the human body.


















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Predator-Like Sculptures by Rob Mulholland

Scottish artist Rob Mulholland created a series of these sculptures out of mirrored Perspex (or acrylic glass). It has been called the Predator effect after the 1987 film where an alien life form seamlessly blends into its background.










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City Carved From Potatoes

Peter Root, 33, spent three weeks in Istanbul, Turkey, making homes, office blocks and places of worship from a staggering 176lbs of spuds using a kitchen knife and bicycle repair kit.

Details include TV aerials, hundreds of windows on tower blocks and the crescent moon of Islam on mosques.














Via: The Sun

Streaming Books Installations by Alycia Martin

The Spain-based artist Alicia Martin's sculptural installation at Casa de America, Madrid depicts a cavalcade of books streaming out of the side of a building. The whirlwind of literature defies gravity and draws attention with its grandeur size. There have been three site-specific installations, thus far, of the massive sculptural works in this series known as Biografias, translated as Biographies, that each feature approximately 5,000 books sprawled out around and atop one another.


















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Funny Street Art Of OaKoAk

Some of the best street art has humor built into it. With a highly aware set of eyes, French street artist, OaKoAk, takes otherwise boring objects like hand rails, street signs and potholes and creates a narrative around them to make funny and interesting works of art. They are simple statements done very well.