A Wedding Chapel Crocheted Out of Ventilation Pipes

Designed by DUS Architects in collaboration with ‘crochet expert’ Sandy de Lange, this beautiful structure is a six-metre-long, three-metre-high 'dome' that can accommodate 50 people. "The Wedding Chapel" was commisioned by Villa Escamp, the temporary city hall for the Escamp district in The Hague and is crocheted out of two kilometres of flexible white ventilation pipes, creating an intimate space with soft acoustics and beautiful lighting. Couples can actually ‘marry for a day’ there, but the application to use the structure as a full fledged wedding chapel is still pending.

Kenyan Company Turns old Sandals into Colorful Toys

Kenya's Ocean Sole sandal recycling company collects discarded flipflops that were previously polluting waterways and coastlines and transforms them into colorful handmade toy animals. The magic happens through craftsmanship, as talented artisans from local communities earn an income transforming the collected waste into wonderful flipflop creations. The company recycle 400,000 kilos of rubber waste a year and create masterpieces for sale across the world. The recycled flipflop creates awareness of our human footprint.

Classic Recipes Visualized as Precariously Balanced Sculptures

Photographer Karsten Wegener and Italian stylist Elena Mora recently collaborated on a photo series depicting the ingredients necessary to cook various delicious meals, decontructed and organized into precariously balanced arrangements. The project cleverly titled "Ricettario: A Balanced Diet" features four classic dishes: Pizza Margherita, Apple Cake, Minestrone and Salmon.

Dizzying Photographic Collages by Kyungmi Shin

Using layer upon layer of photographs shot near her home and studio in Los Angeles, artist Kyungmi Shin creates architectural patchworks that capture the hustle and bustle of urban life while juxtaposing old and new building into a complex multilayered cityscape. Kyungmi says, "“I wanted to recreate the feeling of enchantment upon encountering the density of signage for the multitude of stores and restaurants as you experience the streets in the city."

London's Iconic Skyline is Recreated Using 2,186 Sugar Cubes

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Museum of London Docklands, artist Chris Naylor recreated London's iconic skyline using 2,186 sugar cubes. Weighing in at 13kg the sugar sculpture was meticulously assembled over a period of three days using a vast supply of sugar cubes, a stanley knife, and a glue gun. "I could spend 15 minutes carving a perfect curve into a cube, only to have it crumble into dust" Naylor told Wired.co.uk. "I must have inhaled my week's supply of sugar in the first afternoon." 

Photographer Creates Tintype Images on Discarded Cans

Arizona-based photographer David Emitt Adams uses a 19th century process known as wet-plate collodion to create tintype images on the surface of discarded tin cans found on the desert floor. The result is an object that has history as an artifact and an image that ties it to its location. David says of his work, "The deserts of the West also have special significance in the history of photography. I have explored this landscape with an awareness of the photographers who have come before me, and this awareness has led me to pay close attention to the traces left behind by others."

Recycled Bicycle Parts Chandeliers Fill an Underpass with Light

For their latest project titled "Ballroom Luminoso", artist Joe O'Connell and Blessing Hancock took over a freeway underpass in San Antonio, Texas and transformed the empty space into site-specific installation featuring six color changing chandeliers crafted from recycled bicycle parts. Each globe contains a custom-designed LED light fixture, which casts sharply detailed overlapping shadows. The chandeliers paint the underpass with complex color patterns and ethereal lighting thereby refashioning the space into a majestic ballroom shadow theater.

The Week-End

Our most popular posts this week featured a colorful installation created from thousands of rolls of tape, meticulously crafted dioramas built inside discarded televisions, a ready to brew calendar made from pressed tea leaves and beautiful photographs documenting the vibrant facades of hotels in Venice.

And from around the Web...

Classic paintings recreated using the faces of modern celebrities.

Dissident artist creates giant map of China from baby formula.

Giant rubber duck deflates in Hong Kong harbor.

Chimpanzee’s photographs set to fetch over $100,000 at auction.

A colorful canopy of paper lanterns. 

A Spectacular Installation Made from Hundreds of Arrows

A collaboration between Polish artist Karina Smigla-Bobinski and German artist Bodo Korsig, "Pfeilschaften" is a site-specific installation consisting of hundreds of arrows darted through the gallery walls and joined together to create a sculptural sphere suspended in space. The installation is part of a group exhibition titled gast.freund.schaft at TUFA in Trier, Germany and will be on display through June 9, 2013.

A Ready to Brew Calendar Made from Pressed Tea Leaves

Designed by Kelle Rebbe for German tea manufacture Hälssen & Lyon, "The Tea Calendar" features 365 days of wafer-thin pages made from pressed tea leaves. Simply tear off one of the square pages and let it brew directly in a cup with hot water.

Urinal Cake Decorations by Carmichael Collective

Today is my birthday, so it seemed fitting to start the day with this hilarious project from the creative folks at Minneapolis-based Carmichael Collective. These delectable creations are actual urinal deodorizer cakes decorated to look like real cakes, including a two-layer strawberry cake, a birthday cake, a wedding cake and cupcake. Enjoy!

Wearable Helmet Sculptures Crafted from Everyday Materials

Influenced by Japanese flower arrangements, called Ikebana, Bermuda-based artist/photographer James Cooper created a series of wearable ‘sculptures’ using materials found in his immediate surroundings. Although the photographs are all staged, the helmets are intentionally kept simple, resembling the creations of a deranged DIY enthusiast. Speaking about the project Peter says, "Helmets are something that are around me all the time in Bermuda, people by law have to wear them on mopeds, so they are a super familiar object. I wanted to take that logical and everyday object and shift it into something more ridiculous and illogical. "

Mysterious Photographs of Gasoline Spills on Road Surfaces

Inspired the play of light caused by refraction and interference on oil, photographer Charles Morgan Smith created a series of images documenting gasoline spills on road surfaces. Titled "Emissio" the project investigates the interrelationship between the everyday and sublime. Many of the compositions are reminiscent of Hubble's classic images of galaxies and nebula. Via his website, "Through his most current work, Smith has used images of the banal and everyday and created a series of ‘astrophotographs’, exploring notions of scale, aesthetics and the limitations of photography and representation."

Artist Creates Miniature Dioramas Inside Discarded Televisions

Repurposing the empty frames of discarded televisions, artist Zhang Xiangxi creates meticulously crafted dioramas inspired by “real life” in present day China. Some of the miniatures closely resemble Zhang's own personal living experiences such as his old workspace in Guangzhou, the workers' dormitory he once lived in and his parent’s sitting room. "When you look at the work from a distance, it seems like the two-dimensional image broadcast on a television." Zhang explains, "It is only when you get closer up to observe it, that the picture becomes three-dimensional."

Facades Of Beach Hotels Photographed by Luigi Bonaventura

Luigi Bonaventura's "Behind the Edge" is a series of photographs documenting the vibrant, eye-catching facades of hotels in Jesolo Beach, a town in Venice, Italy. Photographed in primarily static, symmetrical compositions, the buildings appear as abstract geometric patterns. Luigi says of his work, "The real mission is to show each structure as its Platonic ideal: that is, as the architect imagined it, not as it all too often looks in real life and mixing color encourage your own imagination around the picture."