Thumbs and Ammo posits the idea: would it be funny to replace guns with thumbs up in stills from movies?
YES!
Nagasaki Tilt-shift Timelapse
Kinectic Sculptures from Laurent Debraux
Artist Laurent Debraux was just at the Kinetica Art Fair in London. Most of his works explore the nearly magical properties of magnets, metal and ferrofluid.
These are just three of the 40+ videos he's uploaded. Outstanding.
Eggshell Art by Nosigner
Nosigner has commercial products made from real eggshells.
Rebirth is a lighting product made from real egg shells.
Hatch is a planter made from real egg shells.
630 AM Series from Robert Weingarten
Anything done in series starts to carry more information (amount, aspect and rate of change), and starts to capture and communicate what can't be seen: time, expectation, duration, rhythm, surprise.
Robert Weingarten's 6:30 AM SERIES documents the mornings of 2003.
From the project page:
"[Robert Weingarten] established a single viewpoint, looking southeast over Santa Monica Bay, from which every photograph in the series would be made with the camera in exactly the same position."
"Each exposure would be made at precisely the same time of day - 6:30 am - measured by one quartz clock. All exposures would be made with the lens focused on infinity and at the same aperture of f/22. Just two variables were allowed into this disciplined scheme: the shutter speed of the lens, which would be adjusted faster or slower depending on the quantity and quality of light available at 6:30 a.m. each day; and, the most variable element of all, changes in the scene that were introduced by the forces of nature."
Astrophotography by Lincoln Harrison
Portraits of Captive Animals
Cally Whitham, a New Zealand-based photographer, snaps animal portraits in her series Captive. Emerging for the darkness, into the light of personality, the photos are moving and revelatory.
Sculptures Made From Suspended Buttons
Augusto Esquivel, Miami-based artist creates 3-dimensional forms by simply attaching buttons to a fishing line, demonstration how “a common object used to create a piece of art becomes transformed into something complicated and intriguing.”
Miniture Worlds of Maico Akiba
Maico Akiba's series, SEKAI (世界), or “world,” wherein she creates miniature worlds on the backs of other animals, reminescent of the Chinese creation-world myth of World Turtle.
Macro Elements
Japan-based photographer R. Tanaka set of macro photos of the periodic table elements reveal the beauty hidden in the tinniest bits of the world.
The Justice League Of Parks and Rec
Giant Balloon Art From Jason Hackenwerth
New York artist Jason Hackenwerth, whose latest piece, Pisces (referencing the myth of Aphrodite and Eros) continues his signature style of organic and biological forms made from latex balloons at the Edinburgh International Science Festival.
NAKED SILHOUETTE ALPHABET [not really SFW]
From Anastasia Mastrakouli project page:
"The photographic series NAKED SILHOUETTE ALPHABET is a latin alphabet art, formed by the naked body and performance of experimental textures that depict the silhouette. In this series the goal is to highlight the dialectical relationship between anatomy and visual arts. Each image displays the way in which the body turns into one illustrative and choreographic communication channel of a message. The body is cut off from its physical nature and is perceived as an imprint. The body shape becomes a letter through a deliberately abstract and other-worldly aesthetic."
A Contraption for Cigars to Play Woodwinds
Contraptions, kinetic sculptures, Rube Goldberg machines... I love this stuff.
Ronald van der Meijs, has brought together two artificial lungs, smokes hand-rolled cigars, and four recorders (a bass flute, alto, tenor, and a soprano) for a sound contraption he calls Play it one more time for me La Ville Fumée in Eindhoven, in the Netherlands, once the European capital of Cigar production.
"In the old days the city was full of cigar smoke. There were lots of mechanical parts, steam, noise, and even whistles to start the work in the old cigar factories," Meijs says. "So this installation is in many ways a metaphor for the cigar production of Eindhoven."
The Aesthetics of the Kinectics of Boats and Flying
Kinetic sculptor Bob Potts explores the motions of flight and the rowing, revealing their grace and beauty.
Unstoppable Students in The Face of Danger
There are a lot of fearless daredevils out there, risking their lives for thrills, publicity or some other unnamed psychic pressure. None of them, not a single one of them have the slightest bit up on these kids who risk their lives and struggle just to show up at school.
As Lao Tzu tells us:
Every step is on the path
Daredevil Poses
Ukranian Mustang Wanted is apparently crazy - the insanity of the situations he actually puts himself in for a good photo - perhaps makes him feel more alive? Not sure. Good shots though.
POTD - Red Ghazal BY AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL
Red Ghazal
I’ve noticed after a few sips of tea, the tip of her tongue, thin and red
with heat, quickens when she describes her cuts and bruises—deep violets and red.
The little girl I baby-sit, hair orange and wild, sits splayed and upside down
on a couch, insists her giant book of dinosaurs is the only one she’ll ever read.
The night before I left him, I could not sleep, my eyes fixed on the freckles
of his shoulder, the glow of the clock, my chest heavy with dread.
Scientists say they’ll force a rabbit to a bird, a jellyfish with a snake, even
though the pairs clearly do not mix. Some things are not meant to be bred.
I almost forgot the weight of a man sitting beside me in bed sheets crumpled
around our waists, both of us with magazines, laughing at the thing he just read.
He was so charming—pointed out planets, ghost galaxies, an ellipsis
of ants on the wall. And when he kissed me goodnight, my neck reddened.
I’m terrible at cards. Friends huddle in for Euchre, Hearts—beg me to play
with them. When it’s obvious I can clearly win with a black card, I select a red.
I throw away my half-finished letters to him in my tiny pink wastebasket, but
my aim is no good. The floor is scattered with fire hazards, declarations unread.
New Stuff
A couple new designs for shirts in STUFF .
Carved Crayon Alphabet
If you are in the Chicago area, artist DIEM CHAU has a show with some witty and fun crayon sculptures.
A-Z: New Carved Pencils and Crayons
Packer Schopf Gallery
April 5th- May 18th
942 W. Lake St.
Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Reception:
Friday, April 5th
5-8pm
Artist Talk:
Saturday, April 6th @ 1pm
From her blog:
I've been wanting to make a set of "Alphabet" crayons for a long time. I've always been drawn to illustrated alphabets. Maybe it's the Fontophile in me, but I find an extreme satisfaction in seeing a well made set of ABC's. I will have 26 sets of carved crayons as well as new carved pencils in an upcoming art show at Packer Schopf Gallery in Chicago. I will also be in Chicago for an artist talk, please come by and say hi!