Hasta La Motion!

DISCLAIMER: This photographic image of the “Foretoken” must not be mistaken for Hokusai’s The Great Wave of Kanagawa. It’s almost better. Ikeda Manabu, is a Tokyo based artist armed with an imagination and talent for crafting details and prowess, bestowed from the art gods themselves. Within the tight confinement of his canvases, each square inch of space tells unique miniature narratives weaved together for a much broader epic story. To get a better idea of these fabled details, make the jump for close ups of this awe-inspiring piece.

Spencer Tunick has seen more nipples in a day than the boom mic guy at Jenna Jameson’s record breaking serial bangathon. His work captures the abstractions of the human form in massive structures to create a new organic view of life and the environment. These installations are voluntary based with his biggest one yet in Mexico city, with about 18,000 naked people free ballin’ it. Make the jump to see more nudies in mass.

The next time you see your art snob friends ask them to say ” ‘A Picture of the Blessed Lion Who Stares at Death” will be at “Picture of Fate: I Am But a Fisherman Who Angles in the Darkness of His Mind’ show”, five times fast. The word jumbled title is the one-piece art exhibit by famed Louis Vuitton supported artist, Takashi Murakami. His stuff is so good, words can’t describe this singular work. Check out the art behemoth before it leaves the island on the 24th of this month at the Gagosian Gallery.

Remember that scene in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, when Harry decides to crush his opponent in an epic match of chess?! And shit is exploding and the chess pieces were large enough for Harry to piggyback them? Well, at Trafalgar Square in London, there’s an even craftier looking giant chess set sans the explosion and threat of death.  Artist-designer Jaime (pronounced Hi-may) Hayón was commissioned by the London Design Festival to create an interactive art piece at the square. Crafted in ceramic and on-top of a mosaic glass chess board, “The Tournament” is almost better than the Elixir of Life.

Sam Winston is an English bloke who probably grew up eating Alpha-bits cereal for breakfast, tea-time, lunch and dinner. He’s also your new favorite writer for those who “read” picture books. Obsessed over the language and the syntax of storytelling, he’ll sculpt the words of a book into a visual story you’ll never have to skim through again.