428 // MSN1 / Bird

…it doesn’t make any sense, but it is kind of cute:

427 // MA-P / Mel Furukawa

This animation is based on an illustration by Mel Furukawa. I came across this image quite a while ago and just now had the time to animate it…

…and here is the illustration:

Found here.

426 // MSN1 / Nikolai Lutohin

These “surrealistic, sci-fi-sh, serigraphic and absolutely amazing” illustrations are by Nikolai Lutohin. The Russian artist Lutohin was born in Yugoslavia and did many illustrations for issues of the science magazine Galaksija in the 70s and 80s.

More information here and here.

425 // MSN1 / Open Minded

A concept by Yoan Capote, “a young Cuban artist who came to international notice in the 2001 Havana Biennale. He creates paradoxical images with political and psychological overtones. In sculptures and beautifully crafted academic drawings (all 2004), he merges human organs with inanimate objects, rearranges the human body and reinvents the purposes of everyday things. (…) Capote’s work is both thought-provoking and humorous. He brings to mind the absurdist impossibilities of Rene Magritte, overlaid with a sense of nostalgia for physical experience in an increasingly digital world.’”

424 // MA-P / Erasure Poetry

First of all I thought this is a kind of machine-language-like poem by Man Ray, but then I read an article about it – describing this piece as a form of art/literature called “erasure poetry“. Interesting – especially as I hated to work with poems in school… so I should have known about this technique 12 years ago. And nevertheless it looks to me like a computer was writing a poem – whoch is a nice idea as well:

Source: http://meinekleinefabrik.blogspot.de/

 

423 // MSN1 / Piñata Anatomy

Okay… it is not about man or machine… but this one is just nicely done:
The Piñata Anatomy

Have you never wondered what the inside of a piñata looked like?

Found here via Who killed Bambi?

422 // MSN1 / Zero 7

My brother showed me this nice record cover by Zero 7 from 2004. Creative heads indeed… Cheers, Paul!