Mike Leavitt - Cardboard Sneakers

 

Mike Leavitt dropped out of  Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute of Art as a freshman with a 4.0 GPA in 1997. Since then he has been gaining notice from art lovers of all sorts. Spanning a range of historical subjects from Van Gogh to Tupac, Leavitt has stop-motion animated the articulating figures into movie shorts. The figurative format also shifted to include custom wedding cake toppers, now a lucrative side-project. His “Hip Hopjects” are nostalgic throw-backs to ’80’s ephemera, with classic shoes, tapedecks, and other accoutrements replicated to exact specifications with cardboard, brown paper bag, and other such trash found in the street. Check out some of his work after the jump.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

via: Intuition Kitchen Productions