Posts Tagged ‘art’

Magical ‘Childs Own’ Paper to Plush

April 26, 2012

Any one who knows me, knows that I hate plush toys, I really truly dislike them, they are great for children under the age of ‘loves Barbie’ after that I am sure they become disease infested dust collecting, dog toys, that are terribly slippery when placed on polished timber flooring in ones house.

That being said, I am always rather partial to children’s idea being forced into reality especially their crazy little drawings of different creatures and people. Whilst they push you to the limits of what’s annoying/humorous/tiring/hygienic, that also push their own little imaginations into the unthinkable.

Some of the faces and drawing our little team members have doen are pretty cool and I have found a website that turns such drawings into very cool plush toys!

Child’s Own Studio is an amazing website/craft artist who puts children’s crazy/amazing drawings into beautiful handmade plush toys.

Each one a perfect recreation as it passes from imagination into plush toy existence. On the Child’s Own Studio Website, there is also some very cool accompanying stories from the children that make the original drawings.

As per the site, Child’s Own Studio is described like this by the site.

“Child’s Own Studio is a place where your child and a craft artist, together, can create a keepsake to be cherished for a lifetime”

all so cool, my favourite is “Steggy off to school”

I know this is not the first of this kind of idea. I remember seeing child’s art being recreate by adults some time ago, but the fact the Child’s Own Studio turns them into cool plush dolls for the child to keep, I think is very cool.

Please goo and check out the site, or the Flickr

I love the annotation to explain the computer. Totally cool.

 

 

Helena Perez Garcia : Interview & New Art

April 4, 2012
A while back we featured some works by Helena Perez Garcia, and liked them so much that we contacted her for our brisk interview. She was quiet happy to contribute to our humble site and here are the results. Please check out her website – it, itself, is an amazing piece of design and illustration.

 
Interview (email) with Helena Perez-Garcia, April 1st 2012.

Panda: Your art is amazingly visually and mentally inspiring, what inspires your work?
Helena: Lately, I’ve been very inspired by literature. I always have next to me a notebook to write down quotes or ideas that cross my mind while reading. I also find inspiration in art and cinema.
Panda: Behind the art, how do you unwind, or is that part of the process?
Helena: For me it is very important to unwind when I am stuck. In that case I stand up and do something different, like going for a walk, hanging out with friends or going to the cinema. Those activities are really part of the process, because lots of ideas usually come to my mind while doing so.

Panda:  If you could have an intimate dinner with any 4 living people who would they be? What would you guys eat and drink?

Helena: That’s a difficult question, because most of the people I admire are dead. If I had to choose I would say Jarvis Cocker, Barbara Kruger, Stefan Sagmeister and Paula Scher, I bet they have very interesting things to tell about the art and design world! I would have a vegetable lasagna, ice tea and anything with chocolate.

Panda: What music are you listening to at the moment?, what was your first musical memory?

Helena: At the moment I am listening to the last albums by Lykke Li and Death Cab for Cutie, and also to Niños Mutantes. My first musical memories are the lullabies my mother sang to me when I was a kid. I also remember the cassettes of spanish songwriters that my parents played in the car while heading to our holiday destinations.
Panda: Finally, is there any art or design medium that you have never used that you would love to?
Helena: There are so many different techniques I would love to try! Like engraving, silk screen printing, embroidery, collage… 


Included with Helena’s responses were some beautiful art works to feature here on Pandainabattlesuit! Enjoi!






Thanks so much for the candid  responses to our interview questions!


Although they are not probing they give a good insight into the differences of the artists we feature and the fact that these great artists/designers/architects support our site by participating is very rewarding!


Amazing Illustration – Helena Perez Garcia *swoon*

February 9, 2012

These are just some of the amazing illustrations doing the rounds on the interwebs, getting the artist Helena Perez Garcia well deserved kudos, you can see a lot more of her work over here at her website.

I will further feature some of her work after contacting her shortly, but these few pictures, just capture how truly amazing an illustrator and artist she is.

Hope you enjoy. I have to say my particular favourite is the wizard of oz parody.

These works by Helena are really eye catching, and I think I would like most of them on a t Shirt.

I imagine this is how my young daughters imagine their clothing is made.

i would definitely vote for him, such a sharp dresser.

Typical clinical waiting room, not as scary without the bellowing fire.

A good example of how my head feels most of the time, and perhaps Mrs Panda.

Why Not for Adults?

January 19, 2012

Just the other day to treat ourselves we ventured to Wagamama’ s on Lime Street (Cockle Bay) in Sydney.  We frequent here a bit, it is like the McDonalds’  of Ramen/Japan fusion restaurants. Yep sure it is not the best Ramen/Chicken Katsu in the World, or even in Sydney I love you Gunshara*Whispers* But it certainly is tasty and the Moyashi Soba is great, big, and great, and the curry sauce for the katsu is also delicious.

However, this is not a food review, although it turned into one right there, about eleven words ago.

Mrs Panda raised a really good point. As we were seated, with team Turtle Small Fries’ they gave the kids colouring in paper, with cool pictures to colour and a whole jar of crayons.

“I don’t know why they don’t give these to adults”, she stated

Why don’t they give these to adults?

Probably the best question asked of 2012 already looking like a contender for the whole year.

I would definitely frequent a cafe/restaurant if they supplied paper and pencils/crayons/pens for your creative delight.  It would definitely be a great way to decorate. When you are at dinner, sure the conversation is good, and the company is great, so why not also have a little bit of creative fun.

It raises the question. Why?, or more so when?, do humans deem it fit not to be eligible for crayons and colouring in pictures of princesses and pirates. When we are 15 and too cool for anything other than Nintendo DS’ I am sure I would still like to draw my boyfriend/girlfriends name in a pretty heart, perhaps inspired by the latest art work on my favourite bands CD, and leave it on the table to display my love for them as a protest against the ‘man’ for not letting me buy the latest Dream on Dreamer CD.

Perhaps when we reach 25 we are too interested in our twitter TL (timeline) or our our face book TL to be creative. Perhaps this is why we are obsessed with social media, because all the iphoneography and funny status updates, is our way of being creative.

I was overjoyed to colour in and ‘doodle’ all over the menus and place mats at Wagamama’s. Why, I even helped the children draw a little.

I think if restaurants offered this to adults, they would love it. I am sure there is some restaurants already doing it that I don’t know about,  but also keep in mind, I don’t want to have to order a triple shot soya chino, with fair trade dust sprinkled on the top. Just to draw my version of batman crossed with a whale shark.

It is hard not to stray onto the topic of where do we lose our youth, some people never lose it, but in a way that just makes them 30 year old fuck ups.

I wish I could definitely say I still have mine, at the beating centre of my chest like some sort of freedom power source akin to Iron Man’s failing nuclear powered heart.

But I am ‘serious’ now, a dad, I like tech and sneakers, but trampolining has turned into something kids do, and pushing someone on the swings, although fun is now one of my functions.

Please restaurants, re introduce adult colouring in. Mrs Panda is full of great ideas, please utilise them.

Children’s Art

January 14, 2012

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Every time I sit here doing craft with either one of the turtles smallfries’ I love the honesty that come out.

Today we made a card for a friend.
A three year old wanting to give a four year old friend a card. if that isn’t the cuties thing you’ve heard all week you’re not trying.

Children don’t care about messing about resources and table space. The floor counts for table space too so if any extra room is needed a slight adjustment is made.

They will literally glue whatever the fuck they want where ever the fuck they want. Colours don’t matter continuity doesn’t matter, and where the glue gets put definitely doesn’t matter.

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I love it. As laborious as doing ‘craft’ is every minute of every time we do craft is a insight into my little turtles’ minds.

They just only want to make the person it is intended for happy. That is all.

Heart craft.

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And eating glue.

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Attention to detail is in the butterfly.

New About Pandainabattlesuit Page

January 13, 2012

This is it, I have written it as a post then made it a page, should you guys wish to refer any friends here, and they say – “well what’s it really all about? “- “who is this pandainabattlesuit?”

You can now refer them to the infromations links, and the about page.

which looks like this

Whilst it may look personal and intimate, this website site is a cleverly put together collection of personal and anecdotal experiences and reviews, of  ’non-hipster’, ‘psuedo geek’, and ‘nerd tech’ parents’ every day lives.

Included are stories from self indulgent me, stories from friends, experiences, product reviews, design high-lights, and very poorly recreated re-enactments of every days happenings, carefully constructed in Microsoft paint.

Oh and of course, features of stories from my favourite websites, and blogs from around the world.

Whilst traffic is small I do appreciate my reader ship,  and welcome any feedback, or cookies/cakes you wish to send me.

Please enjoy, take the humour or opinion with a grain or 500 of salt.

Thank you for reading, as I realise this is truly a form of Narcissism.

Kind Regards,

Luke

@pandabattlemode

I hope this is helpful. Probably not, but I figured I should provide some background.

Seen Tell [Wow really Bad Pun for Sawtell]

January 10, 2012

First of all anyone not following @OMGthatsPunny you haven’t lived.

 

Up until recently I had the always welcome opportunity to avoid any travel to any small town especially ones with those junk shops disguised as antique shops.

 

After we had the children travelling to a select 2 of these such towns became mandatory.

 

 

 

With both grand parents living in the north coast area of Coffs Harbour, we started to frequent the little village/town of Sawtell. Which over the past 3-5 years has really perked up as a boutique/trendy strip with relaxed little cafes and most importantly THE two following shops.

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Everytime we travel to the north coast, my wallet trembles. Not because of the price but because of the sheer variety of dare I say it ‘uber- cool’ stuff that both ‘Boutique‘ and ‘CoCo39‘ have in stock. The need for shops like this to exist in Sydney without the exorbitant prices that Sydney insists on charging is high.

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[how good is the wine stashed in the picnic bag, just for a real example]

I am sure that Sydney would have shops like this, (there is a few in Newtown and the like) but in Sawtell they subtract the pretentiousness and the wank factor and really concentrate on the right amount of chic to hipster appeal.

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So in short the next time you visit Sawtell, or Coffs Harbour, or indeed Boambee East, don’t forget to go and invest all of your money in these two shops. You won’t regret in, Swallows printed on things until your heart is content, and metal robots for boys, until you can robot no more.

 

I have not left these shops without wanting to download the music playing once yet.

and some great pics from inside and outside my personal fav – ‘Boutique

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[Great mobile for any new arrivals scheduled for 2012]

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[All jewellery and nick knacks displayed are beautiful]

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[One of the many cool tin toys]

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[yet another overcrowded but cosy beautiful display]

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[Oh the robots}

 

Thanks to the great shop owners too for not being wankers about me taking pictures of the insides of their shops!

Coco39's Site

1st Ave Boutique's Site

 

First Avenue is very pretty any time of year.

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[one of the many Cafe's - food is great]

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Curiouser and curiouser

December 22, 2011

Some ideas are pretty fresh. Hand made things are pretty much always fresh unless your Nan is making you the same scarf this Christmas that she has done for the past 15 years.

That is not so fresh.

But putting a handmade spin on tech and design has always had me interested.

Check out this project from Lauren Manning & Camile Wei-Hsin Lin

Over at
The Curiosity Project

The have made these terribly nice to look at hand made QR code posters.

I love when some one comes up with an idea that is not only visually pleasing but has the angle of art and design mixed with tech.

I think that this is why I like Apple products.

These are three posters I stole* from their website. (*by stole I mean borrow forever)

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The Curiosity Project has many awesome links and articles updated daily and is truly excellent reading. It gives many daily inspirations,  some of which I will do up coming posts about.

I will also follow up shortly with a high speed chase, to get some words and thoughts from one of our favorite artists Nanami Cowdroy.

Bit of a segway but hey. It’s the day before holidays and our work network is down, oh and it is still raining in December in Australia. Can’t wait for the meteorologist visionaries to start with their prophecy about how a cow from Whittenoon is causing Saturn to line up with a dog from Glen Rowin causing unprecedented cold waves throughout NSW only.

A nice place to be for any occassion. [via Design-Milk]

December 16, 2011

[via Design-Milk]

 

I can’t help it. I cannot stop reading Design Milks Webpage ever. I do blame them however for constantly breaking what ever christian commandment lust is.

 

Or seven deadly sin or anti goat coveting law ….you get the picture.

 

 

Just want to share where I would like to be with my family this christmas, and easter, and monday thruogh sunday for the rest of my life.

This abode is just exquisite.

 

There you go. I said it. Exquisite.

 

I have not posted about apartment or house for a while but wow.

 

Back the fuck up people this is just the ensuite. Wait for the main bath. Take a breath have a cupcake and then scroll down.

Switchable opaque glass for privacy. Ahhh yepper.

As per Design-Milks article. The actual fitting for the water spout is inserted into the ceiling so the basin’s water alights from the roof and drizzles onto your dainty hands below. cleansing the world with it and possible contributing to world peace – can every one see where I am going with this, this apartment is amazing.

 

Amazing Shutter and Multi Surface Street Art

December 13, 2011

Multi surface street art, creates amazing 3d medusa

walking by gives you a giant, anatomical change up!

more via Web Urbanist


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