finding cain

I was looking at this new commercial for Hewlett-Packard's Sprout when I realized it's directed by the same guy who shot the 2009 film Where the Wild Things Are .     The 60-second ad, created by 180 LA and directed by Lance Acord, is a beautiful story of creativity lost and found. Early scenes show Jane as an imaginative child and teenager, but her artistry gets worn down as she tries to cope with the demands of adulthood. Her creative spark is reignited when she sees her daughter decorating a doll—and the two begin various tasks on Sprout.    For the unfamiliar, Sprout is an all-in-one PC with a touch-sensitive mat that acts as a second screen, and an overhead projector/camera that can scan 2D and 3D objects. You can even use a stylus to draw on the mat and move scanned images around.    It's truly innovative. The only thing that you could say is conventional is the desktop running on a fourth-generation Intel Core i7 processor, with 1 TB ...

Kidlat De Guia is a photographer and filmmaker who lives and works in the Philippines. He is best known for a body of work that mixes different media as well as traditional with contemporary art-making techniques. The selected images in this post were part of his Woven into Being exhibition, which took place a fews weeks ago at the Galeria Duemila in Pasay City. This series of portraits deals with the idea of blending modern photography with the indigenous art of weaving to produce geometric tapestries with tile-like look. Working with his stock of photos taken during trips and fieldwork around the Philippines, Kidlat creates double vistas through the cutting, splicing, and weaving of the pictures. The results are rivetingly composite and texturized layers of photographic images that disclose an alternate reality.

When was the last time you bought a weird-shaped fruit or veggie? A disfigured eggplant, a gnarled carrot, a hideous orange, or a deformed apple? You probably have a hard time remembering because growers usually throw out any misshapen produce, since grocery stores only want flawless (or almost flawless) crops. If there are lumps, bruises, or other deformities, retailers are likely to reject them. To raise awareness against food waste, Marcel Paris introduced a brilliant ad campaign called the Inglorious Fruits and Vegetables . The agency created these posters for Intermarche, France's third largest supermarket chain, to inform people that though these foods might by ugly, they are as good as any others. [h/t: Design You Trust ]

Bloggers and Pinterest users are going crazy over this multi-colored tree that can bear 40 different types of stone fruit—including varieties of peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines and cherries.    The edible art project was conceived by Sam Van Aken , an award-winning sculptor and art professor at Syracuse University, using an ancient method called chip grafting. The technique involves cutting a section of a branch and inserting a bud from a desired fruit tree, taping the wound until it's able to produce on its own. The whole process is described in the video below.    "The idea came from a fascination with the process of grafting. When I'd seen it done as a child it was Dr. Seuss and Frankenstein and just about everything fantastic," Van Aken told the National Geographic.    The 42-year-old artist, who created his first Tree of 40 Fruit back in 2008, explains on his website that he chose to stop at forty because it is a symbol of "the infinite...

Ladies and gentlemen, meet James Chapman. Physics Phd student, Youtuber , funny Tweeter and talented illustrator . He's got a broad portfolio of work, but I'm especially drawn to his Celebrity Anagrams . Here are some of my favorites:

Twin Cities-based art director and illustrator Josh Lynch has created a series of illustrations that features Marvel's superheroes and villains reimagined as cute dogs. It's really funny to see canine versions of Thor, Cyclops Doctor Octopus, The Incredible Hulk, and more. I especially love the Mr. Fantastic dachshund pictured above. You can see more of Josh's artwork  here . [h/t: Dorkly ]

I love flickr as much as I love Swedish massage. It is so easy to discover so many beautiful photographs, inspiring videos, and stunning pieces of art. Colombian visual artist Juan Fernando Escobar has an impressive collection of paintings and drawings on his flickr page , and I'm quite ashamed to say I only discovered his work recently. According to his profile, Escobar's work "explores the possibilities of painting and drawing as a media to build images that allows references identification of art history and the evocation of situations around them. This way it gives rise to a series of signaling that review the events of the aesthetic experience and blurs the boundaries between art and artistic mediation." Below are some of my favorites.