Archive for May, 2009

Ginou Choueiri is a Lebanese artist living in Beirut who creates amazing portraits on potatoes. I have no idea how she does it, all I know is I love it! Her installation ‘Las Papas’ consists of hundreds of potato portraits that grow, live, and then eventually decay and die.

“I chose the potato to portray human faces because of the many striking parallels. Not only is their skin porous like ours, but their skin texture and color is very similar, and like us, they come in different sizes, shapes and forms. Potatoes grow, live, and then decay, mirroring the ephemeral existence and fragility of our own human nature.”

Ginou Choueiri

Check out the Dave Grohl portrait on Ginou’s website, it’s ace.
http://ginou.mosaicglobe.com/

Unfortunately this lonely sock couldn’t take it anymore, if only someone had claimed you from the tumble dryer and helped you find your partner maybe this would never have happened.

Check out this amazing FREE streaming music service, you’ll never need itunes again! Spotify has kindly provided the soundtrack (and by soundtrack I mean pretty much any album I feel like listening to) while I spend every available second of the day hard at work on my final major project exploring inclusive design in print (1.5 weeks left). Give it a go though, everyone loves music.

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