“The city of Madurai in the South Eastern Indian state of Tamil Nadu is one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world and has been a functioning metropolis for over two thousand years. At its heart lies something extraordinary – a temple to the Hindu Goddess Parvati and her husband consort, Shiva. The vast temple complex is guarded by ten gateway towers, known as gopuram. The tallest of the ten is the south tower which was built in 1559 and stands over 170 feet tall. The most antique is the eastern tower which dates back to 1216 built several centuries before Columbus sailed away to discover a faraway land.” w/ photos

“Ghost of a Dream is the collaboration of sculptor Lauren Was and painter Adam Eckstrom. Focusing on installation, sculpture, and collage, the married couple have had numerous solo and group shows around the world, and they’ve been featured in Art Forum, Whitewall magazine, The Independent, and Time Out New York, to name a few. A few months ago we met up with them and got a chance to explore their works in progress, look at the variety of materials they use (like old lottery tickets), and hear how they came to develop the pieces that first formed their partnership.” — VICE

“Bradley Hart uses the packaging material as a canvas for his photo-realistic paintings, by injecting every bubble with acrylic paint. It’s a painstaking process, because not only does he have to get every color just right to create the desired effect, but he also has to surgically remove all the dripped paint from the backside of the material. As the Canadian artist explains on his website ‘the exchange between paint and the air inside the bubble displaces one of the two elements. As the paint is injected into a bubble, the excess drips down the back of the piece.’ So, after he completes one of his amazing artworks, he has to remove all the drippings from the backside of the plastic.” w/ photos

“Jennings started his Tree Spirits project in 1982, as a hobby. Looking for a way to kill time around the house, the artist armed himself with a few hand tools and began exercising his artistic talents on a tree in his backyard. ‘I had too much time and too little money,’ Keith remembers about the beginnings as a tree carver, but his works impressed the community to such a degree that he was later commissioned to release the inner spirits of 20 other trees around Saint Simmons Island, off the Georgia coast. Although it has long been said that the faces he sculpts into the trees are meant to represent the sailors who drowned on ships made from trees from the island, Keith Jennings dismisses the rumor. ‘The trees do it all,’ he says. ‘I don’t have that much to do with it. The wood speaks to you, ya know?’ Each of his intriguing artworks are created entirely according to the tree they’re carved into. ‘I like the way they age as they. The bark starts rolling over the edges and gives each one a spooky, eerie appearance,” the artist says.” w/ photos

“Svetlana Kolosova has always had a thing for the arts, but taking care of her four children and focusing on household chores left her little time to focus on her passion. She lacked the time and concentration to work on complex oil paintings, so at one point she decided to combine her work around the house with her love for art. She replaced oil paints with watercolors and inspired by the wonderful stories she read to her children when they were little, she started painting fairy tale-inspired artworks on the most convenient canvas she could think of – her left palm. A tribute to the stories that fascinated so many young minds throughout the ages, Svetlana Kolosova’s magical palm painting series may be ephemeral in nature, but they manage to bring back such wonderful memories…” w/ photos

“Artist Chris Carlson creates an awesome chalk stop motion of everyone’s favorite childhood game: Tetris!” — AweMeChannel

“A 5,000-pixel shimmering LED sphere, illuminated sculptures built from fluorescent fishing line, sound-reactive glowing fashion, and a projection-mapped ‘fallen star’ sculpture are just a few examples of the light art we explored at Kinetica Art Fair 2013.”

“There is only one thing better than interactive art, in my opinion: interactive art that lights up. Blessing Hancock and Joe O’Connell, an artistic duo based in Tuscon, Arizona have recently given the students of Texas State University a very large toy with which to play. As well as being a serious piece of art with an equally serious message it looks like great fun too. Fish Bellies as the installation has been christened is created from a series of bolted acrylic sheets sculpted together to form a large biomorphic form.” w/ photos

“A crankable LED music box, a curtain of glass beads that light up with touch, and a helmet that makes you ‘more like Buddha’ are only a few examples of the tangible artworks media artist Jin-Yo Mok dreams up. Find out his non-secretive approach to his technological masterpieces in the video above.” — TheCreatorsProject

“Crystallography, molecular structures, cosmology — three things that aren’t usually associated with designing a chair or a house, but these scientific subjects are what architects and designers Aranda\Lasch mine to create their modular designs that emulate the infinite.” — TheCreatorsProject