Andy Uprock is a street artist who's been creating pieces using plastic cups stuck in chain link fence. He often uses 2,000+ cups in his installations which later he recycles. The idea of using cups came to him from his childhood. His friends always used to stuff drink bottles into the fence while they were playing soccer. It was a chat with a fellow artist and friend about doing art on fences that sparked the memory. Andy's been circling the globe recently creating work in Barcelona, London, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. Alphabeta in Greenpoint Brooklyn hosted a cuprocking exhibition last week.
Andy Uprock's website can be found here. It contains a gallery and a collection of videos. Here's a video of Andy Uprock cuprocking at the Oxford Art Factory.
AfricaAmi Rhinocerous
- How adorable is that little white rhinocerous on the right? The rhino is part of a new AfricAmi series from PlanetJune. There's also an elephant and a hippopotamus. You can buy the patterns in the
PlanetJune store.
All three animals are about 6″ long when worked in bulky weight yarn with a G/4.5mm hook, or you can use worsted weight yarn and an E hook to end up with miniature versions like the baby elephants below:
Artist Nathan Lee Creates Art From Taco Bell Napkins
- Artist Nathan Lee always grabs an extra supply of napkins when he orders food from Taco Bell because he uses Taco Bell's acid and bleach free napkins for his art. Nathan creates some pretty impressive tree-like sculptures using a wire-frame and the napkins for his paper mache. Here's the video from MSNBC.
Squint Limited has a page on their website showing several sofas, chairs and other pieces of furniture that they have upholstered using colorful fabrics. It isn't everyone's style but you can't argue that the furniture isn't incredibly colorful!
Squint was started by Lisa Whatmough, a former Sculptor and Painter, in East London at the beginning of 2005. Her initial desire was to showcase the antique textiles she had been collecting and found that a fusion of period furniture and fabrics made for unexpected one off pieces.
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How adorable is that little white rhinocerous on the right? The rhino is part of a new 