This astounding hi-def pano of Mars was taken by the Mars Rover Opportunity in July of this year.
4 - Blue - Dolphins up close
5 - Stunning St. Petersburg Timelapse
Other than its connection to Dostoyevsky and Coatzee, St. Petersburg has never registered high on my travel lists. This video just moved it up more than a few spots.
5 of the (roughly) 3,500 things I've learned these last two years
The very first 5 things post was two years ago today (August 11, 2010 in case you are interested). In that time we've met an incredible set of people, been priviledged enough to work with some of the most talented photographers and video folk. Thank you. For your talent, intelligence, support, encouragement and interest. All the best things are in front of us.
(McFadden Creative; DevereauChumrau.com; Aren't We Clever Productions; SethSherman.com; SouloVisual; Gabriel Hernandez Photos)
Here are the 5 most visited links from all of the posts we've made.
1. Star Wars Paintings
(from April 3, 2011)
2. Cinemagraphs
(from June 12, 2011)
3. Photoshopped Celebrity Body Art
(from June 26, 2011)
4. History of the World According to Wikipedia in 100 Seconds
(from March 21, 2011)
5. Abandoned Buildings of Paris
1 - Kinetic Toy Reactivated with Light
Just awesome. Tokyo art student Yasutoki Kariya created this sculpture/toy as part of his senior thesis exhibition at Musashino Art University.
2 - Photo-Palimpsestual Trees Look Like Impressionist Paintings
This isn't the first photo project where multiple images of the same subject are overlayed in a palimpsest - images bleeding through one another. (see the gorgeous composite self-portrait ).
These trees are stunning and are so remarkably like a painting. I want to see the same technique applied to lots of other things: cars, elephants, sailboats. Yeah.
3 - The Flying Baby
The flying baby is back. This is the second project I've seen from photographer Rachel Hulin.
4 - Upside-down Underwater Synchronized Swimmers
Such a simple little trick, but does entirely reorient the whole view.
5 - Journey Through Iceland
Iceland has long be on my list. And this timelapse piece by Henry Jun Lee Wah just moved it up a few slots.
1 - Gears, Watches, and Keys
Mosaics don't often hold the place of honor in the halls of visual arts. It is a craft often, a technique. These mosaics made of mechanical parts from Laura Harris seem to play with the relationship between technique and vision, material guiding subject and subject selecting material.
2 - Ball
3 - Water Light Graffiti
Water Light Graffiti system in Paris is the work of Artist Antonin Fourneau. Moisture sensitive panels activate a huge grid of LEDs.
4 - A CGI Artist's Impressively Imaginative Reel
CGI, like most other techniques, can be used to either great effect or as a poor substitute for vision and imagination.
VFX artist Samm Hodges of Animal VFX shows how amazing it can be in his 2012 reel.
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5 - Belly: Wildly Imaginative Animated Short
Created in 2011 for Julia Pott's theses at London’s Royal Colloge of Art, Belly was an official selection at this year’s Sundance film festival.
1 - Stop-Motion Batman: Dark Nightfall
Derek Kwok and Henri Wong of Parabucks in Hong Kong used the incredible Hottoys action figures to make this stunning stunning stop-motion short.
2 - The Beauty of a Ballet Theatre and Company
When Dina Johnson and her husband moved to Serbia, it was a "leaving it all behind" move. But she quickly found something to use her impressive publishing industry experience on. She approached the National Theater in Belgrade, proposing to do a portrait project, to result in a photo book.
That photo book is called The Unseen Beauty.
"The main thing was to actually make their portraits, to show how gracious and glamorous they are. Most of them did not have their professional photos taken for many years and I wanted to correct this mistake. I felt so good seeing how happy they were when they saw The Unseen Beauty book. I still get very emotional when I think about it." - Dina Johnson
3 - Alien Nickels
We've seen hobo nickels before with their amazing skulls and whatnot. These alien head nickels... yeah, let's start a petition to get these to be legal tender, yeah?
Robert Rauschenberg
381 Lafayette Street
NYC
1968
Photo: Henri Cartier-Bresson
4 - Artists in their Studios
Action Jackson Pollock
The Springs, Long Island, New York
1950
Photo: Rudy Burckhardt
It's an interesting thing: the site where something creative happened. Was the place, a la ancient Delphi, the source of inspiration? Or did the sheer act of creation leave an aura, a faint scent of genius that we all can inhale in hopes of it seeping into our own desperate attempts to pull something from non-existence into existence.
William De Kooning
85 Fourth Avenue
NYC
1952
Photo: Kay Bell Reynal
In a lot of ways it's similar to visiting a reliquary to be able to touch (or at least see) the finger of a saint. Half in desire to see for ourselves and half in the hopes of being infected by the seeds of a greater existence.
I would imagine for painters it would be different. It would be a bit of cross-temporal visual conversation: shop talk.
Are there artists studios you'd most like to see (either in person or in photos)?
Marky Mark Rothko
West 53rd Street
NYC
1952
Photo: Kay Bell Reynal
Andrew Warhola
231 East 47th Street
NYC
Photo: Ugo Mulas
(Assistants Philip Fagan and Gerard Malanga
are the goofs in the background.)
5 - TRON-Inspired CHEMICAL BROTHERS' VELODROME INTRO
The Tron-inspired CGI video for the Chemical Brother‘s Velodrome, created by Crystal CG, is played in London's Olympic Velodrome before each session.
2 - Pushpin Portraits
All work © Eric Daigh http://daigh.com/
Based in Michigan, portraitist Eric Daigh uses pushpins on a large format create these stunning and unique portraits.
