Random Art

One of the things I love most about this world is randomly encountering individuals creating art.  I'm sitting in bed checking email and a friend sends a short story. I'm walking in DC and come across paperclip bikestands


It adds such a sense of wonder and magic to the world.   A lot of the art I find randomly come from the ever so random internet.  The following bits have all been around for a while, but I post them here because the artists aren't working in a  medium most of us would expect to see lying in museums or darkened basements.

I'm not sure if I'd call it art or animation, but Kseniya Simonova does some funky things with sand:



And while many people make shadow puppets, Raymond Crowe brings them to life and makes them sing Louis Armstrong. If only Frankenstein had gone that route....


On the streets of New York, Josh Allen Harris does some awesome and creepy things with trashbags.



And speaking of creepy, self-proclaimed kinetic scultor Theo Jansen makes these creatures that move with the wind. They're so cool, I have to post a couple of links

Here's a TED Talk which goes into greater detail as to how they're made.


All in all, these folk are out there making magic and art because they just can't help themselves. I think the world would be a much more interesting place if more people shaped reality from their dreams instead of the other way around.