I’m well on my way to reclaiming rainbows with Rainbow Glitter, so how about I share the Space-Mountain-future-is-here-now iPhone wallpapers I make with the world?

I’m going for the retro-90’s pre-gradient web design vibe, check it out–

Pixtual

Savini, an artist from Rome, has created these playful sculptures from bubble gum.  The human subjects are  more dark alley than uncanny valley; the animals, particularly the bear and crocodile, hit the mark.  The gallery says:

“Also for those born in the sixties as Maurizio Savini and I, chewing-gum reaches in the mind‘s meanders at a tie with childhood and adolescence, and a light pressure of a future still to be built and dreamt and the slaughterhouse of personal and collective memories of the past which is gone, no one knows where when and with whom.“

I wasn’t around for the evidently LSD-laced chewing gum they had 60’s, but I still like these.

A few more of his pieces follow. (more…)

So, 30-40 years after the severe psychedelic patterns and colors of mod went out of style, and 30 years after the dense shag carpets and wood paneling of the 70’s, I’ve seen some great stuff that combines the feel of the two recently.  Damien Hirst from 2007:

If you can’t tell, those are (real) butterflies.  Onto the less sadistic, macramé from 2008:

As I mentioned about gradients recently, I like that dense patterns/textures are around.  It’d be pointless for these higher resolution screens to exist if there wasn’t more information-per-square-inch to have them display.  Speaking of high resolution displays….this is what 10 million pixels looks like:

Coming to a living room near you in about 10 years.