Watch Jellyfish In A Warehouse

British artists Walter Hugo and Zoniel have chosen both an unusual venue and subject matter for their most recent work: A glowing tank full of jellyfish, hidden away in an abandoned building in Liverpool. It’s almost performance art as it can be seen only in the evening when the shutters are raised to reveal the jellyfish floating behind a steel door. They are using the translucent marine animals to display what they call ““entrancing expressions of beauty.” The project, titled “The Physical Possibility of Inspiring Imagination in the Mind of Somebody Living,” is on display now. London-based Gazelli Art House supports the installation, and as part of the project they are live streaming a video from within the jellyfish tank, see more here.

Painting By Keystroke

From the “why-didn’t-I-think-of-that” files, painter Tyree Callahan from Washington has modified a 1937 Underwood Standard typewriter, replacing the letters and keys with color pads and hued labels to create a functional “painting” device called the Chromatic Typewriter. Clever, all you need to add is patience and imagination.

Buddha Is In The Trees

Using projected Buddhist images, French photographer Clément Briend has created these wonderful images in Cambodia. Mere trees have been transformed into large glowing incarnations of Buddhist mythology. According to Briend: “Cambodian culture is deeply rooted in a spirituality – marked by a belief in genii and fantasy creatures. In a dark cityscape, night reveals the presence of divine creatures on trees and subsequently makes them alive and real. Such nocturnal visions allow us to grasp the way magic profoundly influences how Cambodian people perceive the world.”

Etching from 3D Gun vs Death Statistics

This 2D etching was generated by a computer that mashed schematics of the now infamous 3D-printed gun called the Liberater with the statistics from the number of people killed by handguns across the world. Is it strict data visualization? Or is it abstract art? It’s something in-between, says Jeremy Mende who filtered the gun’s blueprints through a computer algorithm. The etchings tell the story of not just the object, but the object and its real-life consequence.

Getting Creative With Those Nasty Potholes

Photographer Davide Luciano along with his wife and fellow photographer/food stylist Claudia Ficca shot this scene as part of a series entitled “MyPotholes,” photographed in the streets of New York City, Los Angeles, Toronto, and Montreal. After hitting an enormous pothole while visiting their hometown of Montreal, they couldn’t stop thinking about it–not how to fix it, but how to turn it and other potholes into a photography project. “We shot the scenes during uninterrupted traffic; sometimes we needed to get out of the way, and other times drivers would go around us.” says David. Without permits it was shoot and run, but you wouldn’t think it with their elaborate scenes including a guy eating pasta from a pothole in NYC to a scene straight out of Baywatch. Enjoy all 18 here: http://www.mypotholes.com/

Modern Day Mermaids

Born in Prague, London-based photographer Hana Vojakova’s latest project involves photographing mermaids in what might be their natural habitats today, you know, like if they weren’t mythical creatures. Photos were taken around the world, see more from this “Milk & Sea” project on her site here.

Hot and Spicy Noodle Sculpture

New Zealand-based artist Seung Yul Oh sees art in a bowl of tasty noodles. Using epoxy resin, silicone, steel, and aluminum, the noodles extend from the bowl up to 12 feet in the air. See more on DesignBoom

From the Miami Arts Fairs, Peter Dreher’s Glass

Artist Peter Dreher sought a simple, recognisable and familiar subject for his painting, a subject that had no purpose other than being a pretext for painting. So in 1972 he painted his first glass, anonymously resting on a table and illuminated by a cold artificial light. It would be the first in a long series entitled Day by Day Good Day,from 1974 onwards painting that same common glass over and over again, in the same conditions, in the same position and from the same perspective. He painted it and repainted it dozens of times every year, just as he continues to do today, forty years later, in the same medium of oil on canvas and true to its actual dimensions.

Kick Your Selfie Up a Notch – 3D!

Some say that 2013 is year of the “selfie” with the rise of Instagram and other popular social media apps, but what if you could print your selfie with a 3D printer? Designer Lorna Barnshaw is creating a series of self-portrait sculptures using 3-D scanning apps and printers using her face as the subject matter. In her words she is “generating and materializing a digital representation of myself as though anchoring my digital existence in the physical world.”

Sculpture Made From 8080 Colored Pencils

For the Centennial celebration at the University of Minnesota School of Architecture, the students took 5 days to assemble this sculpture based on a data algorithm containing – you guessed it – a hundred years of historical moments at the school, including leadership tenures, buildings it has occupied, and the colleges it has belonged to. It took 8080 colored pencils. Quite the achievement!