Thumbs and Ammo posits the idea: would it be funny to replace guns with thumbs up in stills from movies?
YES!
Putty Made of Magnetic Stuff Makes for Some Trippy Putty
Magnetic putty is a lot like ferrofluids (Trippy Watercolor and Ferrofluid Photos July 5, 2012): magnetic particles suspended in a mixture. In the case of magnetic putty, it's thicker: you can mold and shape it with your hands and it will maintain its form.
But put it near a magnet, and look at it come to life. A bit creepy. Totally trippy.
Kinectic Art: Vibrating Rope Reveals the Spectrum
Paul Friedlander, a British artist and physicist, creates these pieces light and motion by rapidly rotating a piece of string through white light. The rope, invisible to the human eye while vibrating so quickly, reveals otherwise invisible bands of color.
Friedlander:
"I decided to focus on kinetic art: a subject in which I could bring together my divided background and combine my knowledge of physics with my love of light. In 1983, at London's ICA, I exhibited the first sculptures to use chromastrobic light, a discovery I had made the previous year. Chromastrobic light changes color faster than the eye can see, causing the appearance of rapidly moving forms to mutate in the most remarkable ways."
ARCHICULTURE: A Film Articulating the Way Architecture Education Can and Does Work
I began my higher education as an architecture student, in love with the notion that form and beauty and structure, human experience, behavior of the materials of the world can all be invoked in a single set of decisions. Still in love with it, apparently: not just the product of architecture, but the process.
Here is the trailer for Archiculture, a film premiering in a few weeks out here in Southern California at the Newport Beach Film Festival.
And, whenever I am given the chance, I like to again share the amazing 6-part BBC documentary from Stewart Brand's book How Buildings Learn. I have watched the whole series scores of times and never get tired of it.
Slo-Mo Video of a Lethal Snake Biting a Water Balloon
From the BBC EARTH youtube page:
"A viper's strike is captured in slow motion, showing how awesome it is. Great HD clip from Deadly 60 series 2, hosted by Steve Backshall."
New Zealand in Gorgeous Timelapse
New Zealand sure is pretty...
Equipped with Canon 5D Mark II, photographer Bevan Percival brings us this absolutely gorgeous landscape timelapse of the country.
Old Photos of China
The Library of Congress has a putting extensive collection of photos of China and Chinese migrants from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Thread and Nail Portraits by Kumi Yamashita
Artist Kumi Yamashita made this portrait from ONE length of thread wrapped aroung a series of nails. She also mead Mother #2, a panel of black denim with threads carefully cut from the fabric to form an image.
Stunning Night Sky Photos from Aaron Groen
Aaron Groen (and his GREAT 500px portfolio: http://500px.com/AaronGroen), Souix Falls based photographer, has an outstanding collection of photos of the night sky.
PSY's new video: Gentleman
The uber-mega-pop star continues his satirical ways with Gentleman.
Layers of Cut Paper Create Unfathomable Forms
Paper artist Charles Clary lays strata after strata of carefully cut paper to create these organic 3-dimensional forms.
From the artist: “I use paper to create a world of fiction that challenges the viewer to suspend disbelief and venture into my fabricated reality. By layering paper I am able to build intriguing land formations that mimic viral colonies and concentric sound waves. These strange landmasses contaminate and infect the surfaces they inhabit transforming the space into something suitable for their gestation. Towers of paper and color jut into the viewer’s space inviting playful interactions between the viewer and this conceived world. These constructions question the notion of microbial outbreaks and their similarity to the visual representation of sound waves, transforming them into something more playful and inviting.”
Sun Light Sculptures from James Nizam
Artist James Nizam precisely cut the exterior of the house, employed small mounted mirrors on ball joints, and studied the summer sun's movement to create these light sculpture and capture these normal exposure images.
Crisp Photos of Liquid Art
German photographer Markus Reugels has developed a process that lets him capture these stunning, vibrant and sharp photos of splashes of colored liquid.
Arcade Games Animated in Post-It Notes
From the project video:
"This stop motion tribute to my 2 favorite old school arcade games is based on actual recorded game footage. The recordings were printed out, one frame at a time, and transferred by hand to various walls around my office floor using thousands of Post-It Notes. The process consumed weekends and holidays for the past 11 months. Changing background scenery was masked out and replaced with 1 consistent frame throughout the animation, producing an eerie stillness amid the moving images on the walls."
Animals Having Or Becoming Dinner
The circle of life makes for some dramatic photos, from some fantastic photographers...
Photo by @ao_356
Snow on Cherry Blossoms in Nagano
A recent snowfall in Nagano Prefecture gave photographers a the rare opportunity to capture the play between these symbols of winter and spring. Here photos from Twitter users:
DEFRAGMENTADOS by YAGO PARTAL
These photo manipulations from Barcelona-based photographer Yago Partal (his Zoo Fashion was another project of his we loved) are part of his series called “Defragmentados”.
Layers of Resin used to Paint incredibly life-like animals in 3D by Keng Lye
Alive Without Breath over on deviantART by Singapore-based artist
Keng Lye presents these life-like animal sculptures of of paint and resin, a technique we've seen before. Here Lye also uses painted pieces for the elements breaking through the surface of the "water."
How to Backflip a Mountain Bike
We've seen Casey before (almost exactly a year ago). Always a pleasure. And Happy Birthday!
