16s3d: Bestioles, opinions & pétitions

A good studio for an artist is a very important place. Our creative studios might sometimes look like a pile of rubbish or a mixed-up room, but this is where great creations are born!

Established photographer Sandro Miller, together with long time friend and Hollywood legend John Malkovich, created a witty project called “Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich: Homage to photographic masters.” As the title suggests, the creative duo's photo series reimagines the world‘s most iconic portraits with Malkovich as the main subject instead.

In 1942, the owner of one Parisian apartment left her home for Southern France, trying to escape a Nazi raid. Although she never returned to the apartment, she kept paying the rent until her death at the age of 91. Interestingly, the owner of the apartment was the granddaughter of Marthe de Florian - a true Parisian gem of her time, a socialite and an actress with many admirers lining up at her door.

Eric Standley's brilliant and one-of-a-kind form of laser-cut paper art imitates the intricate patterns of Gothic and Islamic architecture to create mind-bendingly complex and beautiful mandala-like artworks.

English sculptor Matthew Simmonds carves architectural marble and stone sculptures that look like minimized pieces of classical architectural monuments- especially sacred ones. “The sculptures give the viewer a different perspective on space. They look different from every viewpoint. You long to be in them, and they seem almost more meaningful for that,

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the largest art museum in the U.S. and one of the most important museums in the world, just digitally released a collection of almost 400,000 pictures of works in its collection online.

Industry is all cold steel and masculinity. That's why Cal Lane likes to take her blowtorch to such rigid objects and creates lace patterns.

On a pu le constater: le fameux tableau de Courbet représentant un sexe de femme n’a plus rien d’érotique. De même que la laïcité a été détournée de sa fonction première pour devenir une injonction...

"When linguists talk about the historical relationship between languages, they use a tree metaphor. An ancient source (say, Indo-European) has various branches (e.g., Romance, Germanic), which themselves have branches (West Germanic, North Germanic), which feed into specific languages (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian).  Minna Sundberg, creator of the webcomic Stand Still. Stay Silent, a story set in a lushly imagined post-apocalyptic Nordic world, has drawn the antidote to the boring linguistic tree diagram."

Spanish artist Jaime Sanjuan Ocabo uses his iPad to create these beautiful finger paintings. It is quite difficultto believe that these highly realistic paintings are made using only an iPad.

Australia-based photographer Steve Axford loves to travel to the remotest corners of the earth, capturing the lives of people, animals, and most importantly, fungi. His fascinating photographs of the diverse world of fungi seem to picture a fantastic expedition to some distant alien world.