Bart Hess

Bart Hess (1984) is a Dutch designer that creaters surrealistic work. He explores several fields combining materials in studies, animation and photography.
If you know Barts work you will immediately recognize his work. He has a very personal and reconazible signature.

With his fascination for the human body and the manipulation of it, Hess pushes the boundaries of the textile design profession: his designs transcend the craft, as Hess chooses to extend them via other media such as film, photography and animation. His futuristic materials and textures blur the boundary between textile and skin, human and new species.

With his work Hess has obtained an independent position in the world of fashion, design and art. His list of international collaborations and clients include prestigious names such as Lady Gaga, Lucy McRae, Palais de Tokyo and Nick Knight.

Bart Hess has worked several times with Iris Van Herpen, one of my favorite designers to create textiles for her fashion-collections. These textiles clearly show the vast amount of handcraft.


Source: www.barthess.nl 

My favorite pieces:























Extraordinary Gentlemen



























This video, Echo is a must-see!: http://barthess.nl/portfolio/echo/

This piece of the mutant line

Check out his website and his Tumblr: www.barthess.nl  - http://barthess.tumblr.com/

Kyle J Thompson

This is such a beautiful story about a shy photographer!
Kyle started to get interested in photography, to bad that his anxiety prevented him to work/ even talk to people. Well to bad, I'm glad it happened because another great photographer was born.
He is only 21 years old, even almost as old as I am. This guy didn't had any formal education in photography, some people are just born with a unique talent. He is fascinationed by abandoned houses and empty forests. He is very good in shooting self portret (by himself!!!). On the moment he is living in his car and driving around the us/ canada to make a photobook, so I hope it will be finished soon that I can take a look in it..

''Surreal conceptual art''

Interesting questions and answers.

Anonymous: can you talk about meaning behind some of your work?Kyle: Yeah for sure, I think my earlier work was definitely more of a coping mechanism. Pure emotional discharge, kind of going off at shitty things that happened to me when I was a kid. The idea of growing up fast and lost childhood is a common motif in my work; sometimes very general, and sometimes based on specific events. I kind of would hold onto these moments and use them creatively, but lately I’ve been feeling really good. I’ve been letting go and allowing myself to be happier. I’m working on a new series based of memories and the way the mind distorts them. A lot of stuff is more simple; I grew up on horror movies and use that as an influence often. Or shooting very limited portraits (ex: only legs, arms etc) and trying to tell a story. I don’t know. I kind of rambled so haa..

Anonymous: Have you ever had a shoot that didn't work out at all? If so, how do you "deal", so to speak, with it?

Kyle: All the time, I think most of my photos don’t work out how I want them to. Ill either figure out what’s wrong with it, revise and try again, or just ditch the idea.

Anonymous: If you could tear down a structure or build one, which would you choose? And why?

Kyle: i would put an abandoned house in the forest and live there.

Anonymous: Who takes the self-portraits of you?

Kyle: Me.  I use a tripod and a remote timer

Anonymous: How do you do a portrait like that in the woods? It's wonderful.

Kyle: Thanks! I had him stand in a light beam and turned the shutter speed way faster so the part of his face that was in the sun was normally exposed and the backround was way underexposed (hence, black)

Source:http://kylejthompson.tumblr.com/

Paul Cadden - Hyperrealistic drawer

"Intensify the normal."

Paul Cadden is a hyperrealistic drawer, every drawing takes him around 46 weeks to make.
But you can not see the difference between a picture and his work. 

He makes beautiful art and I keep on wondering how is he doing it. 

He creates the illusion of a reality which in fact either does not exist or cannot be seen by the human eye. 
This is one of my favorite piece and I think his most famous one;

After - Pencil on recycled cartridge paper 

And more at;

http://www.paulcadden.com/