Repost from designsponge:
korean artist yeondoo jung decided to bring children’s drawings to life in a series of photographs called “wonderland“. after collecting more than 1,000 drawings from south korean children between the ages of 5 and 7 he narrowed the drawings down to a small selection of favorites and staged full-scale photoshoots designed to bring each drawing to life.
link on designsponge with more pictures
I absolutely love this. It makes me want to draw again and throw caution to the wind - a practice that has escaped me since design school 
I love the creative minds of children. In a related story, a favorite blog of mine: Heading East has many posts about the author’s children and the lovely things that their minds create.
Its a tunnel! Its a house! Its a tunnel! Its a house!
Isn’t it great how creativity kicks in when times running out. Take for example this incredible and beautiful installation by artists Dan Havel and Dean Ruck a few months before this house was to be demolished…. I’m guessing they saw any opportunity to do something freaking crazy cool to a space that was going to be destroyed and turned this old house into a trippy wooden warp zone!
Here
I’m reposting from Core77:
Designed for the “locavore,” Local River, created by Mathieu Lehanneur and Anthony van den Bossche is a home storage unit for fish and greens. This DIY fish-farm-cum-kitchen-garden is based on the exchange and
interdependence of two living organisms - plants and fish.
Here’s the dirty stuff:
The plants extract nutrients from the nitrate-rich dejecta of the fish. In doing so they act as a natural filter that purifies the water and maintains a vital balance for the eco-system in which the fish live. The same technique is used on large-scale pioneer aquaponics/fish-farms, which raise tilapia (a food fish from the Far East) and lettuce planted in trays floating on the surface of ponds.
Simply put, now you can have your fish, lettuce, and eat ‘em too! The ultimate goal of Local River is not just decorative, but functional too — serving as an aquarium/refrigerator it allows fish and greens to cohabit until …..um…..dinner time rolls around.
On view at Artists Space from 25 April to 21 June 2008.
Check out more pix here.
Nicholas Jones’ Background:
I come from a fine art sculpture background, studying from 1995- 1997 at the VCA. For the majority of my course, I made work from the expected media such as bronze, aluminium, clay, wood etc…, but when I got to my final semester, I started experimenting with books and found paper as a potential sculptural material. One of my lecturers, Elizabeth Presa had been working with folded books, wax and mixed media and these were media I empathised with. The more I read about deconstructivist theory as expounded by Jacques Derrida and the Baroque and the Double Fold, by Deleuze and Guattari, the more I started to feel that my chosen medium had relevance. The idea of divesting a book of its utilitarianism and forcing it into the realm of the surreal and futile was confounding and enticing at the same moment. Books become objectified rather than useful and beautiful, rather than taken for granted. The Japanese theory of Wabi Sabi also inspires me greatly and the notion that nothing is perfect holds a great deal of weight.
aaaand the best part: The Artist Studio shot
Read an interview with the artist
Contact Nicholas: bibliopath@excite.com
Brian Dettmer’s Book Autopsies are infinitely beautiful. I wish I could see them in person!
