Friday, November 16, 2012

Momentum

Lovin' it...

Momentum by Alejandro Guijarro

Momentum is an ongoing project by Alejandro Guijarro

The artist travelled to the great quantum mechanics institutions of the world and, using a large-format camera, photographed blackboards as he found them. Momentum displayed the photographs in life-size.
Before he walked into a lecture hall Guijarro had no idea what he might find. He began by recording the blackboard with the minimum of interference. No detail of the lecture hall was included, the blackboard frame was removed and we are left with a surface charged with abstract equations. Effectively these are documents. Yet once removed from their institutional beginnings the meaning evolves. The viewer begins to appreciate the equations for their line and form. Color comes into play and the waves created by the blackboard eraser suggest a vast landscape or galactic setting. The formulas appear to illustrate the worlds of Quantum Mechanics. What began as a precise lecture, a description of the physicist’s thought process, is transformed into a canvas open to any number of possibilities.


Momentum by Alejandro Guijarro
Momentum by Alejandro Guijarro
Momentum by Alejandro Guijarro

Thursday, November 15, 2012

The Legitimization of Curiosity

The fantastic work of Jes Fomsgaard:

Jes Fomsgaard

About his artwork:

--- the drawing is the grammatical foundation of art.
The drawing is where the first ideas are disengaged.
It reveals the formal problem and the observation is taken over by the registration.
Devoid of "color" the sketch remains sober and forms its own order.
- Drawing is like dissecting - a legalization of curiosity.
Perspective cuts and markings the transparent body of the drawing visible.
In this very expressive language, full of information, the relation between the lines - or the lack of it - takes form.
A dialectical language.
The drawing is my analytical tool.
--- the grammatical foundation of art.

Jes Fomsgaard
Jes Fomsgaard
Jes Fomsgaard
Jes Fomsgaard
Jes Fomsgaard

http://www.kunstdk.dk/kunstner/jes_fomsgaard
http://gmw.dk/9/

Via PYTR 75

Monday, November 12, 2012

Planetfall

Sublime photographs from across the solar system, by Michael Benson:

Mimas Over Saturn’s Ring Shadows by Michael Benson
Mimas Over Saturn’s Ring Shadows Cassini, Jan. 18, 2005 , 2011

"Benson takes raw data from NASA and European Space Agency archives and processes it, creating large-format landscapes. He edits, composites, then frequently mosaics, and then finally optimizes these images, producing seamless digital C prints of landscapes beyond direct human experience."

Night Side of Saturn by Michael Benson
Night Side of Saturn Cassini, October 28, 2006

Saturn, Mimas and Tethys by Michael Benson
Saturn, Mimas and Tethys Cassini, July 16, 2005

Mimas Over Saturn by Michael Benson
Mimas Over Saturn Cassini, November 7, 2004

Neptune and Triton by Michael Benson
Neptune and Triton Voyager 2, August 31, 1989

Michael has a new art book Planetfall: New Solar System Visions (Abrams).

Via io9

Friday, November 9, 2012

New York in Black

Awesome photo series by photographer Christophe Jacrot, shot during the blackouts and power shutdowns when Hurricane Sandy hit the city:

New York in Black by Christophe Jacrot
New York in Black by Christophe Jacrot
New York in Black by Christophe Jacrot
New York in Black by Christophe Jacrot
New York in Black by Christophe Jacrot

Check out the rest of the series – New York in Black

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Friday, November 2, 2012

Society6

Finally got my act together and started adding bits to my Society6 page. First print, of many (hopefully):

Hexagon by Martin Isaac on Society6

Also available as a lovely iPhone/iPod skin:

Hexagon iPhone and iPod case on Society6

Look out for more monochromy vs geometry
:)
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