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Mysterious but beautiful paper sculptures

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It's so awesome that someone is doing this and remaining anonymous... And yet at the same time so sad.

Reminds me of a documentary on origami called Between the Folds (http://www.greenfusefilms.com/ -- I believe it's on netflix) where they showed people doing the most ridiculous things by just folding paper. So cool.

Netflix link: http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Between_the_Folds/70120179...

It's a great PR move, actually. If the artist now eventually comes forward, he will be instantly famous. Banksy[1] did the same.

Maybe there's something to learn here for startups as well.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy

Not everybody is in it for the fame and the money.

I hope (s)he does become instantly famous. The work is beautiful and poetic. I'm glad that phoboslab posted this and I'm glad that I coincidentally clicked on the story. There is so much ugliness in this world that I will take beauty anywhere I can get it.

I thought I'd seen something similar before, but when I looked it up I realized they're probably different artists: http://briandettmer.com/

Nice to see a wee bit of Scotland on Hacker News.

They look so fragile and beautiful - impressive they were able to get them in and setup without drawing any attention.

Banksy has hung artworks in high profile galleries and museums without being caught or subsequently identified:

http://gothamist.com/2005/03/23/museum_shows_for_banksy.php

He's most likely making use of an S.E.P field http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_Elses_Problem

Nice reference, but your wikipedia link is broken (missing an apostrophe) :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_Else%27s_Problem

Amazing they weren't taken or vandalized TBH.

http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site36/2010/0728...

Beautiful? I don't think you know what the word means...

do you?

Where is this? Scotland? I'm surprised the bomb-squad hasn't been called in to dispose of these items, the security cameras haven't been checked, and the perpetrator hasn't been tracked down and arrested. . .

I guess librarians have enough common sense to distinguish between art and a bomb

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