Friday, March 28, 2014
Cube Transformation
Manfred Mohr is considered a pioneer of digital art. After discovering Prof. Max Bense’s information aesthetics in the early 1960’s, Mohr’s artistic thinking was radically changed. Within a few years, his art transformed from abstract expressionism to computer generated algorithmic geometry. Encouraged by the computer music composer Pierre Barbaud whom he met in 1967, Mohr programmed his first computer drawings in 1969.
Youtube channel here
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Typhoon HUD
BAE Systems Eurofighter Typhoon integrated Helmet Mounted Display (HMD).
"All those bumps on the back of the helmet are IR LED tracking lights. A three-sensor system above the pilot's head follows the orientation of the LEDs, understanding it as the angle and direction the pilot is looking. Both the plane's exterior sensors and weapon systems follow the pilot's gaze in real-time, allowing him to spot, track, lock onto, and fire upon incoming fighter craft and missiles using just his eyes and a few voice commands."
Via ianclaridge.net
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Turbulence
Experiment by Dr. Woohoo in a series that explores the relationship between a robot + a artist with the objective of enhancing what is creatively possible by combining the strengths of each, while using watercolors as the natural media.
Via prosthetic knowledge
Via prosthetic knowledge
Friday, March 21, 2014
Utzon's Orange
Loving these drawings of Sydney Opera House :
Credit: Yellow Book/New South Wales Government State Records
Via Ryan Panos
Credit: Yellow Book/New South Wales Government State Records
Via Ryan Panos
Tetrahedral Kites
If only there were more flying machines like this...
Bell’s Tetrahedral Kites | Socks Studio
Between 1895 and 1910 famous inventor Alexander Graham Bell worked on the construction of kites, designing, building and testing flying structures by himself. His main aim was to build kites powered by an engine able to let man fly, strong but light enough to not collapse from his own weight. After experimenting with several shapes (boxes, triangles, hexagons), Bell perfected kites made up of several small tetrahedral cells which showed an incredible strength even if built with ultra-light wooden sticks. As Bell explained "It is not simply braced in two directions in space like a triangle, but in three directions like a solid".
Popular Science Monthly/Volume 64/December 1903 - The Tetrahedral Kites of Dr Alexander Graham Bell
Little Shining Man cubic kite derived from Bell's tetrahedral kite
Via Ryan Panos
Bell’s Tetrahedral Kites | Socks Studio
Between 1895 and 1910 famous inventor Alexander Graham Bell worked on the construction of kites, designing, building and testing flying structures by himself. His main aim was to build kites powered by an engine able to let man fly, strong but light enough to not collapse from his own weight. After experimenting with several shapes (boxes, triangles, hexagons), Bell perfected kites made up of several small tetrahedral cells which showed an incredible strength even if built with ultra-light wooden sticks. As Bell explained "It is not simply braced in two directions in space like a triangle, but in three directions like a solid".
Popular Science Monthly/Volume 64/December 1903 - The Tetrahedral Kites of Dr Alexander Graham Bell
Little Shining Man cubic kite derived from Bell's tetrahedral kite
Via Ryan Panos
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Man and Ground
There is a constant presence in man’s life. The presence of ground
Ground is curved
Ground is fluid
Ground is surface
Ground receives man’s shadow
Ground receives man’s body.
Man knows ground through building Building is dialogue; a story that lives in work. Ground asks questions to building Building demands answers from ground
Architecture is language.
Man and Ground | Anna Pietrzak
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
True Detective
Loving the main title sequence for HBO's True Detective, by Antibody :
Making of article on Art of the Title: artofthetitle.com/title/true-detective
Making of article on Art of the Title: artofthetitle.com/title/true-detective
Monday, March 17, 2014
Cénotaphe à Newton
Proposal for a cenotaph (a monument to someone buried elsewhere) for the English scientist Isaac Newton, by visionary French neoclassical architect Étienne-Louis Boullée
Cosmic Geometry
“Imagine stepping inside the center of a diamond and staring at the sun"
The dazzling mirror mosaic works of Iranian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian
(and) some of her intriguing drawings...
Cosmic Geometry: The Life and Work of Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian
Via Synaptic Stimuli
Friday, March 14, 2014
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Rocher
"The Sun is its father, the moon its mother, the wind hath carried it in its belly, the earth is its nurse."
– from Isaac Newton's translation of the Tabula Smaragdina
Rock drawings by Sylvain Levier:
Via PYTR
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Prisca Theologia
All You Can Feel
"Since the 1950s, we in the western world have increasingly come to understand our most intimate desires and experiences, as the products of a so-called “chemical self”. We are able to explain moods, angers, and diseases both physiological and psychological through an imbalance of substances in the body. All of this, of course, takes place against the backdrop of a constantly shifting legal and political climate regarding the regulation of different types of mood altering substances. What all these substances actually look like when their essence is visually depicted?
Sarah Schönfeld squeezed drops of various legal and illegal liquid drug mixtures onto negative film which had already been exposed. Each drop altered the coating of the film. Much like the effect of some of these substances on humans, this can be a lengthy process – sometimes one that can barely be stopped. She then enlarged these negatives including the chemical reaction of the particular drug, to sizes of up to 160 x 200cm. All of the substances behaved very differently: the shapes and colors that appeared showed unique characteristics and revealed unique internal universes. Schönfeld explores the possibilities of photography at the frontiers of what can be visually portrayed– the interface between representation and reality""
”All you can feel”, Artist book published by Kerber Verlag.
Friday, March 7, 2014
Black Space
By Shuji Tanase - I can't find much more info in the interweb about this series (Black Space)... since any reference is dominated by Pinterest or tumblr with only the images.
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