very beautiful, a wonderful method of applying visual tricks to make it seem like there’s a plethora of fish in a frozen stream… wish I knew where to find something like this to buy.
Wonder how long he had to study gold fish to get this right….
julien berthier: love love sculpture
Love Love from julien berthier on Vimeo.
love love’ is perhaps one of julien berthier’s more unusual sculptural installations. the floating sculpture is made from a large sailboat that has been modified to appear as if it is capsizing. despite its battered appearance the boat is fully functional and able to move around thanks to a built-in motor. to create the piece a 6.5 meter yacht was cut in half and a new keel was added to allow the boat to remain upright in the sinking position. since its construction berthier has taken the boat out on numerous trips inside harbours like canary wharf in london and in normandy, france.
Room In Rome Trailer
‘Room in Rome’ trailer from Spanish Film Festival on Vimeo.
A hotel room in the center of Rome serves as the setting for two young and recently acquainted women to have a physical adventure that touches their very souls.
I need to see this, for obvious reasons.
The world’s smallest stop-motion animation
Professor Fletcher’s invention of the CellScope, which is a Nokia device with a microscope attachment, was the inspiration for a teeny-tiny film created by Sumo Science at Aardman. It stars a 9mm girl called Dot as she struggles through a microscopic world. All the minuscule detail was shot using CellScope technology and a Nokia N8, with its 12 megapixel camera and Carl Zeiss optics.
Surfing the 4th Dimension
Surfing the 4th Dimension from Don Whitaker on Vimeo.
Further experiments in slit-scan style video, sometimes called time slicing. I like to think that this is what you might see if you looked at our world from a spot in the fourth dimension. (^_^)
These clips start as normal video clips that I’ve captured along the Oregon Coast. Then I run ‘em through a script that I wrote in Processing.
The script works by taking a vertical sliver of pixels from the source video, advancing the video one frame, grabbing another sliver of pixels, and so on through the entire source clip.
These slivers are then stacked horizontally to create one frame of the final clip. The animation effect is created by advancing the location of the vertical slice and repeating the stacking process.
So each frame of the final clip represents the change over time of a stationary spot. As the video advances, the spot we are seeing moves through space. Normally as a video advances we move through time, so we’ve sort of swapped the two.
For more info about slit-scan photography and video see: flong.com/texts/lists/slit_scan/
Processing:
Music by Agent Engram
ccmixter.org/people/angentengram
My first slit-scan video, WaveSlice
Frances Bean Cobain’s Art Show
You wouldn’t expect the first art show by the teenage daughter of Courtney Love and the late Kurt Cobain to be middle of the road.
And Frances Bean Cobain does not disappoint. In fact, the images the 17-year-old comes up with in Los Angeles are extremely disturbing.Under the pseudonym Tim Fiddle, Frances Bean’s exhibit of notebook sketches is called Scumf***. No doubt her parents would be proud of the name.
The mostly charcoal drawings depict ghoulish faces and distorted features. Each sketch has accompanying captions, including one that says, ‘Treat Me Like Your Mother Or I’ll Eat the Sun,’ another that reads ‘Goat S****, and a third that says ‘I Don’t Owe You S***’The centrepiece of the exhibit is a portrait of the American punk rock musician G.G. Allin…
Frances Bean wasn’t even two years old when her father, the lead singer of Nirvana, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head in 1994. He was 27.
And her mother, lead singer of the band Hole, briefly lost custody of her daughter in 2003 when she was ordered into rehab after being treated for an accidental prescription drug overdose.
In December 2009, Frances Bean requested and was granted legal emancipation from Courtney, and now chooses to remain under the guardianship of Kurt Cobain’s mother and sister.
Starry Night Scavenger Hunt
Explanation: Did you know that Van Gogh’s painting Starry Night includes Comet Hale-Bopp? Hopefully not, because it doesn’t. But the above image does. Although today’s featured picture may appear at first glance to be a faithful digital reproduction of the original Starry Night, actually it is a modern rendition meant not only to honor one of the most famous paintings of the second millennium, but to act as a scavenger hunt. Can you find, in the above image, a comet, a spiral galaxy, an open star cluster, and a supernova remnant? Too easy? OK, then find, the rings of Supernova 1987A, the Eskimo Nebula, the Crab Nebula, Thor’s Helmet, the Cartwheel Galaxy, and the Ant Nebula. Still too easy? Then please identify any more hidden images not mentioned here — and there are several — on APOD’s main discussion board: Starship Asterisk. Finally, the collagist has graciously hidden APOD’s 10th anniversary Vermeer photomontage to help honor APOD on its 15th anniversary tomorrow.
Shovel Ready
I’m finding all these great little 5-20 minute movies on YouTube, really fun stuff. Some of it is really good too. Does anyone know of any YouTube channels I might be interested in, for short movies (more than just sketches)?
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Hyper-Realistic Acrylic Body Painting
Meade is an installation artist based in the Washington, DC area. Her innovative use of paint on the three dimensional surfaces of found objects, live models, and architectural spaces has been incorporated into a series of installations that create a perceptual shift in how we experience and interpret spatial relationships.
www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/hyperrealistic-acrylic-body
The New Mutants
Sometimes it’s a funny or ironic aspect of the character I want to highlight like Wonder Woman or Emma Frost. Sometimes it’s an intense moment in their continuity I want to underscore (whether it happened on-panel or not) like The New Mutants. And, sometimes, I just want to make them look really cool.
I remember this storyline from the 80′s and it was awesome, but frequently overlooked. Yes, that’s magneto taking over the x-masion. via Super Modern Art Heroes: Interview with Josh Siegel.
“Our Park” A Documentary on Tokyo’s Nike Miyashita Park
Having documented the ongoing struggles of the homeless inhabitants of Tokyo’s Miyashita Park, “Our Park” is a short documentary that takes a further in-depth look into public space. The selling and subsequent purchase of the park by Nike which resulted in its renaming are highlighted. Furthermore, the artistic aspect of the park is brought to light as it serves as a place for many artists to convene and promote their creativity.
Must Watch: Banksy Doc ‘Exit Through the Gift Shop’ Trailer
This looks hilarious. Early Banksy footage FTW!
Some of the Oldest Known Art – Graphic Design
Archaeologists have unearthed 270 pieces of engraved ostrich eggshell dated to around 60,000 years ago from a site called Diepkloof in South Africa’s Western Cape province. The fragments constitute what the researchers say is the “earliest evidence of a graphic tradition among prehistoric hunter-gatherer populations.” As such, the finds help to illuminate the emergence of symbolic representation—a hallmark of modern human behavior.
The Diepkloof artisans favored two patterns. The first motif, which occurs in the older levels at the site, is a hatched band that looks rather like a train track; the second motif, which decorates eggshell pieces from younger levels at the site, consists of a series of deeply engraved parallel lines. (The different colors of the fragments in the image above resulted accidentally from exposure to fire after the the engravings were made and the eggshell broke.) Because some of the fragments show evidence of punctured openings, the team posits that they are the remnants of containers. Recent Kalahari hunter-gatherers and other groups have been known to use the large, sturdy shells of ostrich eggs as flasks for storing water and other liquids…
Scientific American
Little by little, we keep moving back when we think humans became humanity.
Olympic Pictograms Through the Ages
Designer Steven Heller traces the evolution of the tiny symbols for each Olympic sport since their appearance in 1936.
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