Grant Torino

Potholes are annoying and destructive. They can wreck your car’s suspension, distract cyclists and worst of all, running into one can make you spill your latte all over your freshly cleaned suit.

However, like with everything else, some happy do-gooders are making lemons out of lemonade. After Davide Luciano and Claudia Ficca, artists from Montreal, had to pay $600 in car repairs from hitting a pothole; they decided to make potholes the theme for their next photography project.

What happened next was creative, inspiring and will make you look at potholes a little differently from now on. They staged photography around the potholes by creating interesting scenes. Their work has become so popular that they have now photographed potholes in not only Montreal, but New York City and Los Angeles. This is a small sampling of their work.






























Artist Website: mypotholes

Swiss artists Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann take streets, overpasses, soccer fields and other open public spaces and transform them into abstract paintings and a giant scale. It's literally street art. Adding colors to street for them is fun. They have already been doing such work in many places. Have an eye on pictures below and let us know what do you think.




















Source: langbaumann

Buttefly Kids suffer on a disease called Epidermolysis Bullosa (short: EB). Even with the slightest friction this disease can cause painful blisters on the entire body: both externally (skin, eyes, etc.) and internally (such as inside the mouth or in the gastro-intestinal tract). Those with EB are living with permanent pain and undergo daily difficult wound treatment.

DEBRA Austria offers help, counselling and information to those, whose quality of life is significantly limited by this rare disease that has serious consequences and is often very painful.
























Source: staudinger-franke

Canadian artist and designer Tobias Wong died last year at the young age of 35, or more specifically, 13,138 days. In tribute, his friend Frederick McSwain created this immense portrait of Wong entitled Die using 13,138 dice as part of the BrokenOff BrokenOff exhibition at Gallery R’Pure in NYC in memoriam to the artist during NY Design Week. McSwain via Core77:

The idea of a die itself was appropriate—the randomness of life. It felt like [a medium] he would use. Because [Tobias] was a very street-level force, I thought it was appropriate [to install] the portrait on the floor. Its not something I wanted to suspend on the wall; I wanted it to be right there on the floor where you almost interact with it.

The idea of every decision you make and everything you’ve done in your life, defines who you are. All of those days symbolically makes up the image of Tobi.

These are a unique combination of an artist’s sketch and a photograph. Some of the sketches blend in with the photograph and others humorously complement them. In either case they are very amusing and interesting. The artist Ben Heine is simply a genius.

Previous parts:
Pencil versus Camera by Ben Heine - Part 1
Pencil versus Camera by Ben Heine - Part 2