UP!

This is very cool! National Geographic built a life-size replica of the "house with balloons" from Disney/Pixar's UP!. Not only is it a replica, but it's a functioning replica. The house literally flies! It apparently left the ground for over an hour.

This project will be featured on an upcoming National Geographic Channel series called, How Can it Be Made? The show will premier this fall.

Link to article and video via Gizmodo

Roa Takes on Mexico

Graffiti artist Roa just took a trip to Mexico and some of his works were posted on ekosystem.org. I think Roa is doing some of the slickest stuff right now and he's quickly becoming one of the my favorite artists in the scene.


From ekosystem:
"Roa: "Mexico is just wonderful, wonderful nature and people. I have some credits and people to mention; the whole trip was on invitation of Gonzalo Alvarez from MAMUTT ARTE in collaboration with MUJAM (Roberto), so two organizations from my friends Gonzalo and Roberto. And I painted with Sego and Saner.""

Saner and Sego aren't too shabby themselves. These pieces are amazing!

Google Art Project

And Google does it again. Google street view for museums.

Google Art Project

True Colors

This video is wickedly badass. According to "QuintessenzCreation" (who posted this on Youtube), "Four month exhausting hard work in an abonded area, no sun just artificial light. The final result, a stop motion movie with no digital effects at all, everything is handmade. About 5000 pictures are processed with an average by 15 pictures per second. The music is by Pretty Lights from Denver, Colorado"

No digital effects? Wow.

**Open this on Youtube to view it in HD.

LEGO: The Art Of...

There's some things in life people don't get old for. Things like Slurpees, roller coasters, graphic novels, etc. But the ultimate guilty pleasure for any male adult is LEGOs. They've been around, for what seems like, forever. What Nathan Sawaya has done though, is beyond comprehension. He isn't building race cars or buildings or boats out of his bricks. Sawaya is creating incomprehensible-artistic masterpieces.

His collection is currently touring museums for public display. To read more about him and see some more photos of these incredible works, check out his blog here.