Saturday, January 28, 2012

Anthropomorphobia

From What is Next Nature?

"Anthropomorphobia is the fear of recognizing human characteristics in non-human objects. The term is a hybrid of two Greek-derived words: ‘anthropomorphic’ means ‘of human form’ and ‘phobia’ means ‘fear’.

Its symptoms are irrational panic attacks, disdain, revulsion, and confusion over things that change what it means to be human: plastic surgery, robots, and intelligent animals. Will anthropomorphobia eventually become public disease number one?"

Read more about this 'theme' at NextNature.net »

Every Time I Know



Every Time I Know by Vadim Smakhtin

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Corridors of Power

Luca Zanier's series, Corridors of Power, aims to portray political spaces in a fresh and surprising manner:

Luca Zanier - Corridors of Power

"Most are familiar with a parliamentary hall from the perspective of the spectators tribune, however only a few have seen the space from the physical vantage point of the Chairperson. It is my general interest in policy that inspired me.

This project should show where the important decisions taken by a few people are made. To get the permissions for taking pictures is hard work."

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Luca Zanier • Fotograf

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Supermoon

Want!

LED Moon Light by Nosigner
LED Moon Light by Nosigner
LED Moon Light by Nosigner

LED Moon Light by Nosigner
Inspired by the recent “Supermoon”, product and graphic designer Nosigner (Eisuke Tachikawa) has designed an LED-embedded moon light using actual 3D topographical data taken from the lunar orbiter Kaguya.

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Forbidden Moon

Senryū by Monocle

Despite youthful dreams
I’ll never set foot
on your dead grey soil.


Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1969
Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1969


Ólafur Arnalds - Raein

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Network

Very effective data visualization animation by Michael Rigley:



"Information technology has become a ubiquitous presence. By visualizing the processes that underlie our interactions with this technology we can trace what happens to the information we feed into the network."

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Pattern Play

Paintings by Jennifer Seymour:

Jennifer Seymour - Pattern Play

"My artwork documents the beauty of the urban landscape. The city is at equal times serene and chaotic; beautiful in complexity, surprising in intensity. Inspired by observing, wandering, imagining and remembering, these paintings are records of my travels and thoughts. I am fascinated by a reflected view and the intersection of inside and out. The city is always changing, always renewing itself and this persisting fascination remains the focus of my art.

My work begins with photographs I've collected and lived with over time. The photographs are altered and transposed into what becomes a personal view of the city that surrounds me. Photographs are then transferred to maple paneling, becoming a departure point. Charcoal, pastel and thin layers of acrylic glaze find their wayinto the work, altering and enriching the composition. The work is sanded and glazed in successive layers creating a surface which becomes as much a consideration as the subject itself.
"

Jennifer Seymour - Resonance Jennifer Seymour - Skywalker Jennifer Seymour - City Lights

Via PYTR 75

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Stellar Landscapes

Thomas Ruff's appropriated imagery of space:

Thomas Ruff

I reckon this is the song to go with the images - Roly Porter / Caladan:



"Ruff's 'Cassini' series was influenced by a selection of images found on NASA's public website. The result of a four-year space programme on the part of NASA, exploring Saturn and its outer rings, Ruff has transformed the raw black-and-white prints with interjections of saturated colour."

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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Megalomania

Film project by Jonathan Gales, for his Masters in architecture at the Bartlett, UCL - "fanciful drawings of construction sites" using film, animation, music and photography:



"Megalomania perceives the city in total construction. The built environment is explored as a labyrinth of architecture that is either unfinished, incomplete or broken. Megalomania is a response to the state of infrastructure and capital, evolving the appearance of progress into the sublime."

Megalomania by Jonathan Gales Megalomania by Jonathan Gales
Megalomania by Jonathan Gales

More animation stills and information about the project at thoughtsnotthoughts.blogspot.com

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Arrakis

Haunting, cinematic track (you'd hope so being called 'Arrakis') from Roly Porter:

Roy Porter - Aftertime

Hyllie Water Tower

Great series of photographs of... errr... a water tower (although it is a particularly good example of a water tower), by the awesome Danish photographer Kim Høltermand:

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Monday, January 2, 2012

The Topographic Projections and Implied Geometries Series

Awesome photos from Jim Sanborn‘s “The Topographic Projections and Implied Geometries Series”

Jim Sanborn - Kilkee County Claire, Ireland, 1997

"These images were produced by direct, large format, light projection. The projector, powered by a mobile generator, was moved from site to site. All of the pieces were photographed at night using long exposures. On moonless nights, the landscape was lit with searchlights. The landforms themselves are quite large, requiring the projector and camera to be, on average, 1/2 mile away from the subject landscape."

Jim Sanborn - Bandon, Oregon II, 1997 Jim Horse Valley, Utah IV, 1995 Jim Sanborn - Cainville, Utah, 1995 Jim Sanborn - Rough Rock, Arizona, 1996

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Sandwell District

Been enjoying the Sandwell District album. Especially liking Falling the Same Way:

Sandwell District

Via Matt Lyon (aka C86)

Towers

Towers

Not sure what this sculpture is but it's just off of Salisbury Road at the back of the Hong Kong Cultural Centre. We set the camera on a timer facing up with the fisheye lens... and tried to escape it's 180º view!

Pillars

Little Shining Man

Made from over 23,000 individual components, the “Little Shining Man” is kite conceived by Heather Peak and Ivan Morison, in collaboration with architectural designer Sash Reading and fabrication design studio Queen and Crawford:



It features 1700 3D printed connectors, carbon fibre rods and cubenfibre aerospace fabric, a man-made composite that's normally found in the sails of racing yachts.

Little Shining Man Little Shining Man

Via today and tomorrow
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