The Cannon Act

Weegee (Arthur Fellig), 1899-1968.

Michael Bierut on Clients

This is a video all designers should watch...



It's a presentation by Michael Bierut, partner at Pentagram Design in New York, on the topic of clients. Good clients, bad clients, keeping good ones, getting rid of bad ones, etc.

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Rock of Ages

I’ve been a fan of Edward Burtynsky’s work for some time now, and did a post about his work a little while back. Burtynsky was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet in 2009 and after coming across his work on there recently I think another post is in order.



From Burtynsky's artist statement:

The concept of the landscape as architecture has become, for me, an act of imagination. I remember looking at buildings made of stone, and thinking, there has to be an interesting landscape somewhere out there, because these stones had to have been taken out of the quarry one block at a time. I had never seen a dimensional quarry, but I envisioned an inverted cubed architecture on the side of a hill. I went in search of it, and when I had it on my ground glass I knew that I had arrived. It's an organic architecture created by our pursuit of raw materials. Open-pit mines, funnelling down, were to me like inverted pyramids. Photographing quarries was a deliberate act of going out to try to find something in the world that would match the kinds of forms that were in my imagination but unseen in real life — the idea of inverted skyscrapers.

From the Prix Pictet vision:

The ecosystems we depend on appear to face resource demands already beyond their capacity. As governments try urgently to stimulate growth, a central question remains. Can the earth’s complex living systems sustain the future consumption patterns of another three billion people in the world’s population by 2050?

Or are we making the transition, as the Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen has suggested, to a point where the face of the earth – its soil, its waters, its groves, its hollows – is no longer natural, but bears the terminal scars of man’s intervention.

Zygote Has Landed

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Pluto

The most detailed view to date of the entire surface of the dwarf planet Pluto as constructed from multiple NASA Hubble Space Telescope photographs taken from 2002 to 2003 and released on Thursday.
M. Buie (Southwest Research Institute) / NASA / ESA / Reuters

Splitting the Atom

Director : Edouard Salier
Commissioner : Svana Gisla
Production : Scream Park, Paris
Executive Producer : Anne Lifshitz
Post Production : Digital District
Post producer : David Danesi
CGI: Jean Lamoureux, Rémi Gamiette, Kevin Monthureux, Jimmy Cavé
Art & Compositing : Julien Michel, Xavier Reyé.
Flame: Christophe Richard

Drift

I drift, half awake, half asleep. Moving through the city I recall but have never been to.



Drift is short movie made by Theo Tagholm using a digital stills camera to create the stop motion animation.

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