好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 36 : Secondhand store, vintage objects in Hong Kong

好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 36 : Secondhand store, vintage objects in Hong Kong
 

嘢冷 :: 嘢冷係一間乜嘢都有嘅夜冷。 

A #second-hand #antiques #deadstock shop G28, no.129 Connaught road west, Sai Ying Pun, HK 

 https://www.facebook.com/pages/%E5%98%A2%E5%86%B7/842035979191385

https://www.google.com.hk/.../data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sb15AzK1...

Emmaus type secondhand store, vintage objects...
Shumshuipo, DaiPo street

Take any object from shops like this, and write a small entry on the object.
Observation, record, connotations, why it was created if it were a mass production object.  If its a singular, unique object, what purpose might it have served.

 

Looks like a pair of pants I made...

好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 35 : Peanut cast playing Dream of Red Chamber

 好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 35 : Peanut cast playing Dream of Red Chamber in Chinese ink painting story book.

http://www.rebeccakean.com/p/b77a045ead686a6de0c0d68372a514e4?hc_location=ufi
Mixed culture, mixed media.  Charming to the tip of your fingers! 

史努比从不说话，有种冷眼旁观的哲人味道，如果它带着它的伙伴们来到古代的中国，吟诗作 对、走马观花、思考狗生又会如何呢？如果他们也住到《红楼梦》中的大观园，作诗结社，观菊赏梅……不是书评君的脑洞太大，一位名叫“寒花”的豆瓣网友已经 把查尔斯·舒尔茨的《花生漫画》搬到了中国古代，搬到了“红楼萌”，情节设计与漫画相关，我们依稀能看到原作中熟悉的故事。古朴的造型搭配诗意的文字，史 努比、史努比的秘书小鸟糊涂塌、主人查理·布朗和他的朋友，史努比的哥哥史派克，一同绘就了属于他们的“花生诗意图”。

Peanuts characters re-enacts Dream of Red Chamber, very charming and the narrative works too.

V gd ink drawings.  V delicate brush strokes.
Just the right amount of children story innocence+ink drawing+dreamlike sequences
I also like the naming of the tableaux.

In fact, Chinese inkpaintings with captions were always slightly "single frame" text and image pictures.
Beautiful!
  Snoopy playing the Nun, Miao-Yu 


Peanuts evening soiree 

好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 34 : see through steel church - beautiful walk in sculpture!

好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 34 : see through steel church - beautiful walk in sculpture! 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/z33be/sets/72157627152438803/show
Step by step how it is made

http://www.dose.com/lists/19422/This-Church-in-Belgium-Was-Brilliantly-Designed-to-Look-Different-From-All-Angles-ab572-0

Belgian architect group, Gijs Van Vaerenbergh, built a church in Belgium, and it's pretty plain...from certain angles.



see through steel walls

好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 33 : vintage photo collage and comments generator

好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 33 : vintage photo collage and comments generator


http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/eugenia-loli-collages
California-based collage artist Eugenia Loli fuses vintage photographs to create fantastically surreal compositions. Her colorful scenes often depict people in strange lands that conjure vivid dreams, where outer space is just outside our window and entire cityscapes are at the bottom of a cave. In essence, they seem to communicate a feeling of wanderlust as subjects experience new places. Loli wasn’t always an artist. She originated in the technology sector, but left it behind in order to make these new, visually-exciting worlds. Her collages start with a “base” image, and it’s used as a way to develop an entire piece. “Most of the time,” she writes, “I try to ‘say’ something important via my art, but other times it’s just about doodling.” Loli sees her work as a still frame of a surreal movie and invites viewers to make up the plot. Phone cases, shower curtains, tote bags, and other products featuring Loli’s collages are all for sale in her various shops.

好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 32 : kitten videos and comments generator

好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 32 : kitten videos and comments generator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFz1jK6sGIU

Life is often like this kitten and baby scene : The kitten tries to get the baby to caress him, but the baby is a new born animal, doesnt know about kitten messages, his job is to suck his thumb

好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 31 : Rube Goldberg Machine

 好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 31 : Rube Goldberg Machine




Rube Goldberg Machine 
There are many variants of the concept, some are more interesting than others. 
The simplest is Domino - but a lot of them are not so interesting.
There are artists created Machines, which transforms ice, vapor, water, different physical aspects of the motion.

Below is a good example of a Machine with enough variant to make it interesting to watch.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E9h5YQNqqE

Zach King

好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 30 : Portrait painting

好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 30 : Portrait painting

The character looking back at the viewer 



Traditional portraiture of people looking a the viewer
http://www.npg.org.uk/

National Portrait Gallery 
Others portraits, from internet::

100 Self Portrait Drawings from 1484 to Today
 http://www.thedrawingsource.com/self-portrait-drawings.html

  

Da Vinci 1512

  

Rosalba Carriera. 1646.

 

Rembrandt van Rijn. 1648.
Self portrait drawing at a window.

 

Hokusai self portrait. 1842. 

 

Egon Schiele. 1912.

 

George Grosz. 1916.

 

Alfred Leslie. 1927.

 

Kathe Kollwitz. 1933.

HHenri Matisse. 1937.enri Matisse. 1937.

Henri Matisse. 1937.

  

Antoni Tapies. 1946.

Cai Guo-Qiang. A subjugated soul (self portrait). 1989.

 Cai Guo-Qiang. 
A subjugated soul (self portrait). 1989.




 

Frank Auerbach. 2001.


 

Anne Harris. 2007.

Jim Dine. Jim Dine. Jim DJii 

Jim Dine 2008ne. 2008.2008.2008.

Kiki Picasso - illustration of Snowden



http://isen.com/blog/archives/2009_05_01_archive.html