A great year is about to come to an end and we’d like to thank you for all the loving support, your feedback, your criticism, thank you to all the amazing creatives who contributed to our blog and especially to our readers for making all this possible. We hope to start into an even more amazing year 2014, we can’t wait to put new ideas into practice and hopefully surprise you with some fresh and exciting content. To wrap it up, we decided to present the best blogpost of the Year 2013 that you guys clicked the most. Enjoy.
10. Hate Mail
London-based artist, Mr. Bingo, is an eternal naughty schoolboy who arouse our interest in May 2013. One drunken night he tweeted: ‘I will send an offensive postcard to the first person to reply to this message’ and thus, a new Internet art project, called Hate Mail, was born. The response was overwhelming, so he opened a service on his website, where strangers could pay for an anonymous offensive postcard. A great project and our number 10 in the ranking of the best blogpost 2013.
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9. Matchstick Sculptures
It was in September when visual artists and twin brothers Ryan and Trevor Oakes convinced us with their sculptures made of thousands of matchsticks. The Colorado born New York based artists first form was a small grid of matchsticks which curved in two directions to become a portion of the surface of a sphere. After that, they set out on building an entire dome, starting with a ring of matches on a table surface upon which additional rings were stacked.
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8. Hyperrealistic selfies by Eloy Morales
Our number eight in the ranking for the best blogpost of the year is Spanish painter Eloy Morales who creates mesmerizing photorealistic and hyperrealistic oil paintings of himself. He says, thats it’s not simply all about the details, but the constant valuation of tones, the tonal transition and avoiding abrupt cuts.
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7. Alexander Kent
Alexander Kent is a London based photographer shooting modern still life. In his studio in Bethnal Green, East London he makes his sets and experiments with all kinds of things. He loves to explore the idea of ‘Boundaries’, like the idea of light crossing the boundary from ‘light’ to a ‘physical’ presence, in the form of paint or a physical object crossing from being physical to a drawing for a short while. Love his works and he is well-deserved our number 7.
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6. Mother + Daughter
In August 2013, Carra Sykes made a splash with her ‘Mother and Daughter’ photography and we received quite a few inquiries from magazines and interviewers all over the world who wanted to get in touch with the young photographer. ‘Mother + Daughter’ has kind of become a personal study of Carra and her mother’s relationship and physical traits. A lovely project and our number 6 in the ranking.
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5. Zack Seckler
Photographer Zack Seckler made it to the top 5 with his pictures, that play with our expectations. He is often focussing on absurd clichés that seem surreal at times, yet totally plausible. The New York based artist states, that people view life through their own lens. Though he enjoys refocusing that lens by putting an uncommon twist on common experiences.
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4. Nido
The one and only architecture topic that made it to the Top 10 blogposts of the Year. Located in the beautiful Finnish archipelago of Sipoo, lies ‘Nido’, a small cabin built by twenty-two year old Robin Falck. With the help of a local carpenter Falck built the whole hut with his own hands and created a small two-story hut with a small lounge/living room at the bottom and bed as well as a small storage place on the top floor in only two and a half weeks time. The result is a cabin made of local wood and material that fuses with its environment perfectly.
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3. A due colori
We made it to the finalists and our third place was taken by Italian artist Alberto Seveso who created the series ‘A due colori’, experimenting with high-speed photography while trying to find a new way to make something beautiful using ink and water. Loving to play with colors and tones, this series embodies the concept of stopping time through ink in the image.
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2. Anonymous Confessions
Silver goes to ‘Anonymous Confessions’, a public art project by american artist Candy Chang that invites people to anonymously share their confessions and see the confessions of people around them in the heart of the Las Vegas strip. By the end of the exhibition, over 1,500 confessions were displayed on the walls. It’s about sex, love, or fears of dying alone. The project seeks to create a cathartic sanctuary for a temporary community and help us see we are not alone in our quirks, experiences, and struggles as we try to lead fulfilling lives.
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1. Anamorphic Sculptures
The most popular blogpost of the Year comes from London-based artist Jonty Hurwitz who created ‘Anamorphic Sculptures’ which only reveal themselves once facing a reflective cylinder. Each of his sculptures is a study on the physics of how we perceive space and is the stroke of over 1 billion calculations and algorithms.
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