Hua Tunan (画图男) is a rising artist in China. With a name that roughly translates to "Painter Man", and by combining traditional Chinese art elements with a brash pop of color and culture, Hua is grabbing attention in a lot of circles, including Volvo (see below):
This June 2012 Volvo Switzerland turned Zurich Main Station into an open street art studio for the second time. Seven Chinese artists were painting, spraying and restyling the new Volvo V60 Plug-in Hybrid. At this extraordinary art event they expressed their interpretation of tomorrow's sustainable mobility, while also giving an exciting insight into China's contemporary art scene.
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"Between 1922 and 1932, Soviet architects enjoyed one of the most fruitful decades of the century. Commissions were plentiful (some called it the “golden season”), and architects had amazing freedom to experiment with new ideas about how Socialism expressed itself at home and in the workplace. That all came to a severe halt in 1932, when Stalin consolidated Russia’s architects into one centralized, neoclassical school."
Chicago’s Graham Foundation hosts a new exhibit, The Lost Vanguard, collecting the images of Richard Pare, a photographer who sniffed out the fragments of this lost school of architecture in the fallen Soviet Union. More than 15,000 shots have been exhibited at MoMA and published in Lost Vanguard: Russian Modernist Architecture 1922-1932.
A extended focus was put on the work of Konstantin Melnikov, his personal home--a cerebral, elegant cylinder punctured with diamond-shaped windows-- a favorite subject.
Richard Pare comments on Russian architect Konstantin Melnikov's house in Moscow. He made these comments in April of 2009 during the exhibition The Lost Vanguard, held at Lumiere in Atlanta Georgia. The exhibition was first shown at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, 2007. All color images of the Melnikov house are photographs by Richard Pare ©, and are available for purchase. Please contact Lumiere with all inquires, info@lumieregallery.net, or 404-261-6100. Photo and Model credit: Konstantin Melnikov’s Soviet Pavilion at the Paris International Exhibition of Decorative Arts 1925 Model reconstruction by Henry Milner
Def Summer Promo - Shot entirely on the Phantom Camera by Daryl Habraken and Hamish Trott at phantomeffect.com Directed by Gilda Kirkpatrick and Leighton Dyer at Rascals.co.nz Edited by Shane Lin Starring Toby Locke and Brett Band at def.co.nz
Being able to see all the time and movement details is one of the benefits of filming with an amazing Phantom HD camera. It makes this skateboarding downright magical.
Once upon a time, in almost every city, many rivers flowed. Why did they disappear? How? And could we see them again? This documentary tries to find answers by meeting visionary urban thinkers, activists and artists from around the world. Written & Directed by Caroline Bâcle Produced by Katarina Soukup Catbird Films, Inc (Montreal, Canada) http://facebook.com/LostRiversDoc
Here is a trailer for what looks like a fascinating exploration of the relationship between urban centers and the rivers that once supported them.
"Once upon a time, in almost every city, many rivers flowed. Why did they disappear? How? And could we see them again? This documentary tries to find answers by meeting visionary urban thinkers, activists and artists from around the world."
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A collection of portraits taken in India by Irish photographer Kevin Goss-Ross.
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Lush Game of Thrones painted portraits
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I have mixed feelings about laying a speech from Bobby Kennedy over this beautiful timelapse treatment of NYC. It IS stirring and inspiring. My feelings about the music are NOT mixed.
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The Ancient Silk Road
Much like Pandora uses an analytical approach to mapping your tastes to their music offering, the new Art focused site Art.sy aims to map your taste in art to its art offerings.
"Art.sy’s goal is to expose as many people as possible to art. Currently, our growing collection comprises 17,000+ artworks by 3,000+ artists from leading galleries, museums, private collections, foundations, and artist estates. Art.sy works with 300+ of the world’s leading galleries, museums, private collections, foundations, and artist estates from New York to London, Paris to Shanghai, Johannesburg to São Paulo."
“It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.” – Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The Atlantic, “Literature as an Art,” 1867
“Mr. Scott Fitzgerald deserves a good shaking. Here is an unmistakable talent unashamed of making itself a motley to the view. The Great Gatsby is an absurd story, whether considered as romance, melodrama, or plain record of New York high life.” — L.P Hartley, The Saturday Review, 1925
“Mr. Melville is evidently trying to ascertain how far the public will consent to be imposed upon. He is gauging, at once, our gullibilty and our patience. Having written one or two passable extravagancies, he has considered himself privileged to produce as many more as he pleases, increasingly exaggerated and increasingly dull…. In bombast, in caricature, in rhetorical artifice — generally as clumsy as it is ineffectual — and in low attempts at humor, each one of his volumes has been an advance among its predecessors…. Mr. Melville never writes naturally. His sentiment is forced, his wit is forced, and his enthusiasm is forced. And in his attempts to display to the utmost extent his powers of “fine writing,” he has succeeded, we think, beyond his most sanguine expectations… We have no intention of quoting any passages just now from Moby-Dick. The London journals, we understand, “have bestowed upon the work many flattering notices,” and we should be loth to combat such high authority. But if there are any of our readers who wish to find examples of bad rhetoric, involved syntax, stilted sentiment and incoherent English, we will take the liberty of recommending to them this precious volume of Mr. Melville’s.” — New York United States Magazine and Democratic Review, 1852
“[American Psycho] is ”throughout numbingly boring, and for much of the time deeply and extremely disgusting. Not interesting-disgusting, but disgusting-disgusting: sickening, cheaply sensationalist, pointless except as a way of earning its author some money and notoriety.” — Andrew Motion, The Observer, 1991
On Where the Wild Things Are: “The plan and technique of the illustrations are superb. … But they may well prove frightening, accompanied as they are by a pointless and confusing story.” — Publisher’s Weekly, 1963
Chris Northey shot these timelapses along the ancient Silk Road from China to Uzbekistan. Beijing and Xi'an in China, Turpan and Kashgar. Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Bukhara and Samarkand.
Read MoreThe OFFICIAL TRAILER for 2012 Sundance Award-Winning film "Chasing Ice," opening in theaters starting November 2012. In the spring of 2005, National Geographic photographer James Balog headed to the Arctic on a tricky assignment: to capture images to help tell the story of the Earth's changing climate.
From PetaPixel:
In the spring of 2005, National Geographic photographer James Balog headed to the Arctic on a tricky assignment: to capture images to help tell the story of the Earth’s changing climate.
[...] Chasing Ice is the story of one man’s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of our changing planet. Within months of that first trip to Iceland, the photographer conceived the boldest expedition of his life: The Extreme Ice Survey. With a band of young adventurers in tow, Balog began deploying revolutionary time-lapse cameras across the brutal Arctic to capture a multi-year record of the world’s changing glaciers.
[...] It takes years for Balog to see the fruits of his labor. His hauntingly beautiful videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate. Chasing Ice depicts a photographer trying to deliver evidence and hope to our carbon-powered planet.
There is something about these Composites by Patrick Winfield, (made up of individual instant photographs) that feel a lot like memory, shifting slightly with your gaze, fitting all together, the same and different. Lovely.
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From Brain Pickings coverage of The Moral Molecule: The Source of Love and Prosperity:
"Stories are powerful because they transport us into other people’s worlds but, in doing that, they change the way our brains work and potentially change our brain chemistry — and that’s what it means to be a social creature."
Max is a seven-year-old deaf boy growing up in the 1960s. One day he goes on a school trip to the zoo, where he sees a lion for the first time. A feeling begins to grow inside him that will change his life forever. Directed by Alois Di Leo (http://blog.aloisdileo.com/) more info: http://blog.theboywhowantedtobealion.com/
Animation has certainly shown itself to be capable of rich imagination and subtle expression (もののけ姫 (Princess Mononoke), for example) . This short animation from Alois Di Leo is moving and amazing:
"Max is a seven-year-old deaf boy growing up in the 1960s. One day he goes on a school trip to the zoo, where he sees a lion for the first time. A feeling begins to grow inside him that will change his life forever."
www.joannalurie.com La vie de deux personnages, qui se suivent au delà des murs. The life of two characters who follow each other beyond the walls.
Created by the talented Joanne Lurie, in a street-animation style reminiscent of the legendary film Muto by Blu. joannalurie.com.
Truly outstanding, each frame has the same characters, in a different moment, on a different wall about Paris.
“I think the ultimate motivation is to continue enjoying something that has already finished. Lostalgia…. On the other hand is a research about how information visualization can be used to tell stories,” Ortiz, the creator of the visualization tells us. “That idea (infoviz as storytelling tool) is not new at all, but in this project the use of storytelling is much more obvious because it’s actually a story re-telling (with summit in the view mode called 'reenactment’).”
View the Project: LOSTALGIA
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Born of Angolan renaissance in the Information Age, Kuduro, which means 'Hard Ass,' is the cultural expression of a new international and post-war generation. Os Kuduristas, a global initiative designed to introduce Kuduro internationally, is bringing Kuduro's powerful form of expression to Paris, Amsterdam and New York through interactive events and programs in September and October, 2012.
Kuduro is a music, dance and fashion culture emerging from an Angolan sub-culture.
Os Kuduristas is a global program launching in Paris, Amsterdam and Stockholm this September 2012 to promote and raise awareness of Kuduro.
A documentary about Bboy Dyzee (Supernaturalz) and the OUR Judging system. Featuring Dyzee, Born, Focus, Power Serge, Epic, Tich, Omac, Pedro, Janice, Moo and Bill. For CHINESE subtitle go here: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzg0NzQ0MDE2.htmlBBOY 日本語字幕あり Directing and Script: Hiski Hämäläinen Filming.
Meet OUR Bboys is a documentary by Hiski Hämäläinen exploring the controversial OUR Judging System and Bboying today through the eyes of Dyzee,Born, Focus.
2012 Buffalo Bill DownHill, Dude totally tackles a deer!!!
Both deer and skateboarder were okay thankfully.
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Music, lyrics and video editing by Jon Kaplan and Al Kaplan (Conan the Barbarian: The Musical, Off-Broadway's Silence! The Musical). Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jon-and-Al-Kaplan/225331334162084 Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/JonandAl Liam Neeson cannot escape "Neeson Season" in "Liam Neeson: The Musical." Featuring Al Kaplan as Liam Neeson. http://www.jonandal.com http://www.jonandal.tumblr.com
Truly outstanding.
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Rob Kesseler is a British professor and photographer with an acute interest in the microscopic details of exotic flora. Right at the edge where science breaks through into art, these images have had their colors modified to allow for structural differences to be visible, but result in stunning images on their own.
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