Thomas Traxler has got his shit together. Powered by nothing but sunlight and some threads, Thomas Traxler‘s “The idea of a tree project” shows us how objects can grow during the course of a day. His project more or less mimics the way a tree grows and changes shape due to weather conditions. Amazing.

Thomas got exactly the characteristic you need in order to create future communication. The competence of combining art, technology and while caring for the nature into ideas that get noticed.

infosthetics pointed the laser on it!

It’s Sunday evening and I’m spending some time browsing my feeds and maybe finding some last minute stuff for this coming week presentations. Pink Tentacle, one of my favorite blogs that always surprise me with something quirky introduce me to Mr Shohei Otomo – a Japanese manga artist. Shohei’s ballpoint drawings rock!

A Geisha playing Ping Pong with sunglasses makes me go wow

This guy knows how to tweak something into wow by dropping different cultures into the blender and pushing the button. Out comes innovative, provocative yet wonderful pieces of Manga. I’ve posted two more of my favorites below.

Doesn’t look all that healthy. But it’s a rockin’ piece of art

A Geisha with sunglasses and suddenly you turn peoples head around

If you’re into this kinda art you should get your but over to Shohei’s and check out his gallery. It’s in Japanese but if you press that mouse of yours a couple of times you’ll find your way!

Ok, so you’re an artist studying at an art school. It’s time to graduate and you really wan’t some publicity. What do you do?

In Sweden a student named Anna Odell, studying at Konstfack decided to shine a light on how the society handles people that are physical disabled. In her piece of art ‘Okänd, kvinna 2009–349701’ (Swedish) – she staged a repetition of her own psychosis 10 years earlier. When pretending to take here life she got taken care of by the police and placed into compulsory institutional care. What they didn’t know was the fact that she covered the whole thing with a hidden camera for her graduation project. I haven’t really made up my mind if I like the piece of art or not. The fact that she’s been having a real psychosis before makes me think it’s all revenge.

In Amsterdam, Sander Veenhof had another idea for his graduation from the Gerrit Rietveld art academy in Amsterdam. Sander designed an interactive greenhouse in which a bouquet of ‘graduation flowers’ is growing.

Cool project, but get that damn camera fixed!

What’s pretty cool with this project is the fact that the plant need social media attention in order to grow. A greenhouse control system converts all online publicity into plant growth by switching on the grow-lights when someone gives the project some digital attention. Basically – the more people mention his project, blog about it, bookmark it or in any other way influence it’s Google rank – the more the plant grows. So, right now I’m gardening the damn thing but I think Sander and his flower is worth it. Tweet this post and you’ll be making art too.

There was a time when I hated pixel art. It was around 2000 when there wasn’t any need for creating websites with pixel graphics. It mostly felt stupid and took for ages to create something that looked stunning. Some years later adidas used the pixel art above created by Eboy (the Yoda of Pixel art) as their advertisement. Other brands tagged along. For example Coca Cola with the Dublin poster below…

…or Swedish milk company Arla.

Today, pixel art is vintage. I Love it. Seeing a great pixel art piece brings back positive memories, it makes me remember the times back then basically.

adidas Originals, always on top has understood this when they had the same Eboy making an adidas Originals shoe for them.

A side effect of this pixel art thing is that the Internet isn’t fast only in terms of technology. But since technology evolves like a rocket on it’s way to Mars, our way of life do too. I don’t know how old something needs to be before you can officially call it a vintage. A car for example, at least 20 or 30 years? A converse sneaker? 30 years?

Now thanks to the net, there is something called vintage internet technology. Pixel art can definitely be classed vintage. I would like to ad VRML, WAP, Animated GIF’s, Cobalt, IRC chat etc. Feel free to comment if you have ideas about more vintage technologies.

For more pixel art. Have a look at the post over at PSDTuts that made me write this piece.