By Lim Heng Swee. Found on Threadless.

Jim Henson made this film in 1963 for The Bell System. Specifically, it was made for an elite seminar given for business owners, on the then-brand-new topic — Data Communications.

Australian architect and paper artist Horst Kiechle recently constructed this geometric paper torso complete with modular organs including lungs, intestines, kidneys, pancreas, stomach and more. The piece was made for the Science Lab of the International School Nadi, Fiji. Awesome!

Have a look at the whole Flickr set as well as at his webiste:
www.amorphous-constructions.com

Found via www.mymodernmet.com

Found on www.bunnylicious.org

Nevertheless the old-school way of the Man as Industrial Palace was at least a bit more active, not just viewing passively…

The Cosdon Head was one of the first sculptures made by the British artist Dame Barbara Hepworth in the Trewyn studio in St.Ives and she considered it one of her finest works. The two sides of the face are opposites, one flat, one rounded, one eye a simple hollow, the other a flourish of lines drawn with the point of a chisel. These two sides converge into the ridge of the profile to make a single entity which still retains the quality of a natural boulder.

Hepworth took nine weeks to carve the stone. Explaining her carving technique she said:

‘ Brute force has nothing to do with it. It is a question of movement, of rhythm. It is rather like tennis – the movement follows through from the right hand holding the hammer to the left hand holding the chisel. One feels the movement right through the arm.’

More information of the website of the Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery.

It is not only a brand new, environmentally friendly station, but they have also a huge clock running in the entrance hall… an open clockwork with a big pendulum. The project’s name is “La matrice” and that the motor of the clock is a TGV motor.

Wow… this is really nice!

The clock was realised and produced by this company: www.lamatrice-utinam.fr

Found on Who killed Bambi?

Wow… this is creepy, uncanny, weird, and I like it.
Published by the National Film Board of Canada.

Found on Who killed Bambi?

Found on Who killed Bambi?

If you are interested in clockworks – get this book! French photographer Guido Mocafico has made these wonderful pictures published in the book MOVEMENT.

…and there is much more in the book!

All the images are © Guido Modafico

“‘Locomotive’, the most recent addition to the mosaic screen installation in the foyer of Place des Arts, is a fantastical portrayal of a human machine. (…) Human flesh makes up a patchwork of glittering metallic members – which have the luster of new pistons and bolts – engendering a hybrid mass.”

More information here.

István Orosz (born 24 October 1951; Kecskemét) is known for his mathematically inspired works, impossible objects, optical illusions, double-meaning images and anamorphoses.

The only thing I can say is that he seems to work a lot with textured heads… and I like this. For more information it is the best to go to his website.

Also, I am really impressed by his work “Origin of the Beginning”…

Architekton Zeta by Kazimir Malevich, 1926

Found in the book: Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935 by Jean-Louis Cohen and Christina Lodder

You are what you eat
Vegetables as human organs

Reminds me of the International Vegetarian Union.