London based artist Justine Smith makes sculptures and collages using real banknotes from various countries around the world.
"Paper has always been a primary material in the work of Justine Smith. Her current work is concerned with the concept of money and how it touches almost every aspect of our lives. She is interested in money as a conduit of power and also in the value systems with which we surround it. On a physical level a banknote is just a piece of paper, but it is what a banknote actually represents that is central to Smith’s work. Through her collages, prints and sculptures she examines our relationship with money in a political, moral and social sense, whilst also exploiting the physical beauty of the notes."
Check her website: http://www.justinesmith.net/
Money Sculptures by Justine Smith
Brush-less Paintings by Amy Shackleton
Toronto-based artist Amy Shackleton creates these amazingly detailed paintings entirely without a paintbrush. Instead she just relies on gravity to slowly guide the paint across the canvas.
Maple Leaf Square
“Amy Shackleton paints post-industrial worlds that blur the boundaries between what is urban/rural, real/surreal and concrete/organic. Drawing inspiration from her own global travels and photographs, Shackleton fuses opposing worlds to create her own visions of the future. Shackleton’s technique is calculated yet spontaneous reflecting her urban and natural inspiration. She uses squeeze bottles to apply her paint, then rotates the canvas to manipulate each and every drop. Using natural force of gravity she controls the flow of paint but also allows for unpredictable results.”
Check out the timelapse video at the bottom of the page, that features around 30 hours of work compressed into just two minutes.
Prepare to be amazed @0@!
Mountain Passing
Current Re-vision
City, On The Rocks
Making Waves
Watershed Moment
Around the Bend
Natural Reflex
Heat Wave
Heat of Fusion
Main Stream
Green Underway
Sift Throught The City
Rising Feli-City
Reflecting Back
Terraced City
Check her website for more of her works: http://aimartistry.com/
Coolest Piggy Banks
Meet these cool and creative modern piggy banks that will allow you to save money in style.
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Emergency Money Box
Add coins at your own risk: the money can only be retrieved by smashing the glass.
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Coin Lamp
Coin Lamp is based on the concept of values and reward. It turned on by a coin-operated switch.
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Alarm Clock Piggy Bank
The only way to turn off the alarm is by inserting money!
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FILL’ ER UP™ - saving for a full tank
Put a few coins aside for a rainy day and watch the gauge inch its way upward. Before you know it, you’ll have a full tank!
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Bottle Top Coin Bank
Screw it on to the top of any bottle and watch the counter increase as you save. Sadly, it only counts 1 yen coins.
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Spend/Save Coin Bank
The unpredictable pivoting tray collects, deflects, and randomly deposits coins in either the “save” or “spend” section. It’s a win, win!
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Mini Arcade Coin Bank
This mini-machine is actually a coin bank that encourages you to deposit coins in exchange for games. Every time you drop a coin, you start of a new game.
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Money Rolls Piggy Bank
Let the money roll into your piggy bank. It is more fun.
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Money Savvy Coin Bank
With this one the personal finance education starts at a young age.
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Compulsory Coin Addition Bank
It will wait for you to add coins to it every day. If not, it’ll explode, sending coins all over your desktop. In addition, it will remind you be vibrating and flashing before exploding.
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His/Her Money Bank
I need to buy this one for my husband ;P Even if you put coin in his money piggy bank, it will still drop down to her money piggy bank.
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Coin Counting Bank
It counts every coin that goes through it and sums up your total deposits and displays them on screen.
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Fanny Fart Bank
Put your coin in this bank, and you will get a fart from each penny.
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Cat / Dog Thief Money Bank
This is easily the most clever money bank that I have ever seen. When you put your change on the plate, a cat / dog pops up and takes the money “into safe keeping”.
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Greedy Dog Coin Bank
Place the coin on the plate and see how the greedy dog bites and swallows the coin. Like magic, the coin in the plate is gone.
Pencil Art by Dalton Ghetti
Many artists use pencils to create their works of art, but for Dalton Ghetti uses his pencils as artworks.
Dalton Ghetti started to carved pencils in 1986.
His idea is to bring people’s attention to small things. Small is beautiful. Most of the pencils he uses are found on the streets and sidewalks.
To create his sculpture, he holds the pencil in his hand under a strong light source (table lamp or sunlight) and carves it mostly with a sewing needle and a very sharp, triangular, small, metal blade.
It takes months or sometimes years to complete a sculpture.
Check his website: http://www.daltonmghetti.com/
