Art Photography - Lee Eunyeol, Gana Art Space

Eye candy for a Monday morning. These lovlies are by photographer Lee Eunyeol and being featured currently at the Gana Art Space in Seoul. The collection is titled "Starry Night" appropriately enough.

I love these not just because they have an ethereal fairy-like quality to them, but they bring out elements in the landscape that you wouldn't notice in falling light.

Another project I would do with big piles of money: a night lighting garden. How wonderful would something like that be? Grab a glass of wine and wander through a beautifully lit garden at night. Sigh.

"Starry Night" - Lee Eunyeol, Photographer

"Starry Night" - Lee Eunyeol, Photographer

"Starry Night" - Lee Eunyeol, Photographer

"Starry Night" - Lee Eunyeol, Photographer

"Starry Night" - Lee Eunyeol, Photographer

Printable Houses

Being a fan of organic architecture, I can't even begin to describe how I reacted to the idea of Printable Houses. To say my eyes lit up and I began to jitter like a caffeine addict standing outside of a closed Starbucks would be an understatement.

If you can do this:

Creative use of concrete by Loughborough University

What sort of other amazing things can you build? Can we finally move past boring boxes?

If the above isn't making your imagination dance, watch the video below:

Just in case the possibilities still aren't jumping out at you:

Printable Wall Surface

Pacific Portal - James Hubbell, Artist

With a little over a month away from the annual Open House of Hubbell Studios in Julian, I'm going to feature a lot of James Hubbell here and cap it all off with pictures from the event on June 17, 2012.

Today...a funny story. I was visiting friends in San Diego a few months ago and we happened to take a drive out to Shelter Island, where I'd never been. As we drove down the only road on Shelter Island, I saw a piece of large sculpture and said to my companions "that HAS to be a James Hubbell. It just has to be."

Sure enough, it was the Pacific Portal, one of a number of Pacific Rim Parks that Hubbell has been involved with.

I guess it is a tribute to the power that James Hubbell's work holds over me that I can recognize the work at a glance, anywhere....

Pacific Portal (Shelter Island, San Diego) - James Hubbell, Artist

Pacific Portal (Shelter Island, San Diego) - James Hubbell, Artist

Pacific Portal (Shelter Island, San Diego) - James Hubbell, Artist 

Pacific Portal (Shelter Island, San Diego) - James Hubbell, Artist

"Pacific Spirit" (Shelter Island, San Diego) - James Hubbell, Artist 

Rain Bow Gate - Tonkin Liu

Since I featured the Singing Ringing Tree recently, let's see what else has been cooking in the workshop of architects Tonkin Liu, shall we?

The Rain Bow Gate integrates prisms to create rainbows from captured light, the location (Burnley) is noted for rainfall and the sculpture was name for Rain and for the the lovely aftereffect of rainbows.

Public art is very divisive for me, I find myself underwhelmed with things that offer no sensory experience. Art should do more than just sit there. It should fill the senses and transport the viewer to a changed place. I like museums, but art that you can experience has more impact for me than great works behind glass and velvet ropes.

Rain Bow Gate - Tonkin Liu, Architects

Rain Bow Gate - Tonkin Liu, Architects

Rain Bow Gate - Tonkin Liu, Architects

Singing Ringing Tree - Musical Sculpture

More Earth Day specials of lovely things that interact with nature to make art...

This wind-powered sound sculpture was created by architects Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu and installed in Lancashire, England. It creates these lovely sounds in the wind that you can hear in the video below. One thing I found interesting was the scale of the build, in the pictures the Singing Ringing Tree looks HUGE but the video shows it with people next to it and it's much smaller than it appears.

Singing Ringing Tree - Tonkin Liu Architects

Singing Ringing Tree - Tonkin Liu Architects

Recycled Bottle Art by Aurora Robson, Artist

Earth Day is coming up and it's time to get in the spirit!

Aurora Robson has interrupted the waste stream in a beautiful way by taking collected plastic bottles and turning them into art.

Lovely and stunning art.

Her use of color is a little too pastel for my taste (I likes my colors big and bold) but it also gives the pieces a sense of delicacy and fragility - not unlike our own ecosystem at times.

Go recycle something.

Plastic Bottle Art by Aurora Robson

Plastic Bottle Art by Aurora Robson

Plastic Bottle Art by Aurora Robson

Plastic Bottle Art by Aurora Robson

Wisteria Tunnel - Kawachi Fuji Gardens, Japan

When this popped up in my feed the other day I rushed to show it to a friend in the landscaping business and it sparked a 20 minute discussion of the pros/cons of Wisteria for home landscaping.

I covet Wisteria vines but jeesh you need a lot of space and a nuclear bunker support system for the weight and I already have a massive bougainvillea vine about to swallow my yard & house.

So, bask in the loveliness of what you can do with Wisteria in the landscape when you have lots of room and structural support.

Wisteria Tunnel - Kawachi Fuji Gardens, in Kitakyushu, Japan

Wisteria Tunnel - Kawachi Fuji Gardens, in Kitakyushu, Japan

Wisteria Tunnel - Kawachi Fuji Gardens, in Kitakyushu, Japan

Wisteria Tunnel - Kawachi Fuji Gardens, in Kitakyushu, Japan

Wisteria Tunnel - Kawachi Fuji Gardens, in Kitakyushu, Japan

Original images found here.