Thumbs and Ammo posits the idea: would it be funny to replace guns with thumbs up in stills from movies?
YES!
Carved Photos - Photographic Palimpsest
German artist Michel Lamoller, in his series “tautochronos," cuts up prints from multiple photos of the same place at different times. These tauto ('same') chronos ('time') artifacts are like palimpsests erupting through the layers into a time and space disruption.
Downtown LA by Quadcopter
Downtown Los Angeles is one of those things seen either from a distance, or from in the middle of it. Filmmaker Ian Wood gives us this stylish quadcopter-eyed view.
With DTLA's fascinating architectural and art history, drawing contributions from lots of different times and points of view, this is a visual feast.
The World of Cellphone Etiquette
I want to have some business cards printed that say "You're doing it wrong" to hand out to etiquette offenders.
Master Potters Show Us How It's Done
This video filmed by the American Museum of Ceramic Art focuses on five ceramic masters from Icheon at work in their studios.
Blue & White Porcelain Busts by Ah Xian
Blue & White Porcelain is a favorite decorative motif of Song Dynasty China and is probably why we refer to porcelain dinnerware as China. Here, Chinese artist Ah Xian brings some of that in a cheeky way to these lifelike human busts, leading to an uncanny marriage of the modern and the traditional.
The Naked and the Nude - Expressive Photos by Danny Eastwood
Photographer Danny Eastwood:
"Playing with water, reflections and refraction I was again looking to blur the lines of perception."
5 things I learned July 22 - Quotes, Poems, Favorites, Videos and Flashbacks
“Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.”
Poems by Louise Glück
Favorites
Featured
Top Videos
Flashback to the best things
Design Wish - Jumbo Cutlery Drainer
Tel Aviv-based PELEG DESIGN makes this Jumbo Cutlery Drainer, an elephant-shaped cutlery drainer for your sinkside.
ANIMAL REGULATION SERIES by LIU DI
Twenty-five-year-old artist Liu Di Photoshopped these distorted animals into his photos of the Beijing in an interesting echo of all the enormous abandoned buildings throughout the city.
The series, Animal Regulation, is part of a group show featuring the work of other young Chinese artists. Curated by Barbara Pollack, it’s on display in two locations in Florida: at the Tampa Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg.
Exbiotanica - Bonsai in Space
The botanical artist Makoto Azuma took his cutting edge floral into the stratosphere with his exhibit titled Exbiotanica. Azuma and his crew, along with help from JP Aerospace, launched “Shiki” (a Japanese white pine) and an untitled arrangement of flowers, into space using a helium balloon.
Josh Weil has a classmate of mine a Columbia University's School of the Arts
Books to Read: The Great Glass Sea by Josh Weil
With a lyrical ear and a fablist's heart, Josh Weil has constructed a stunning alternate world from a scrap of an idea (that Russsia was experimenting with sky mirrors to do away with the darkness in key northern cities) that tests the connection between two Russian brothers on two different paths.
In the section he read last night at LA's Skylight Books, the figure of the Ekranoplan - Caspian Sea Monster emerged as a hulking dark presence.
Ekranoplan - Caspian Sea Monster
From wikipedia:
The Caspian Sea Monster, officially «KM» (Korabl Maket, Russian - Корабль-макет Naval Prototype),[1] also known as the "Kaspian Monster", was an experimental ekranoplan, developed at the design bureau of Rostislav Alexeyev.
The KM was designed in 1964 – 1965, and was unique in size and payload. The first spy photographs from American spy satellites showed a strange aircraft carrying letters "KM" on its fuselage. CIA disambiguated it as "Kaspian Monster", while it actually meant "Korabl maket" – "prototype ship" in Russian.
The ekranoplan had wingspan of 37.6 m, length – 92 m, maximum take-off weight – 544 tons. Until An-225 it was the largest aircraft in the world.
KM was designed as a special vehicle for the military and rescue teams. However designing such a machine caused serious difficulties. It was documented as a marine vessel and prior to the first flight a bottle of champagne was broken against its nose. It displayed the Soviet Navy Flag and was assigned to the Soviet Navy, since the ground effect is only possible within several meters from the surface. The new vehicle was, however, piloted by air force test pilots.
Top Three World Cup Goals in Flipbooks
A charming filpbook portrayal of the Cup's best goals.
8-bit World Cup Moments by Matheus Toscano
Matheus Toscano works to capture this year’s World Cup in 8-bit glory using an iPad and drawing app ‘Sprite Something’ on his site 8-bit Football.
Meso-American Gods series in Crayon by Rogelio Lara
Rogelio Lara:
I picked up crayon from substitute teaching elementary. I drew them as rewards for the kids and started to really like what I drew. I started posting them on Facebook to get this girl's attention I got such a positive reaction from people that I kept on going. This particular series - Mythological Dreams - comes from my interest in Mythology - I played Dungeons and Dragons as a kid, and when my Philosophy professor introduced me to Joseph Campbell in community college I realized the importance and insight of the messages behind the mythology which only made me love it more.
The Rotten Sea - Photos of Ukraine's Syvash lake by Sergey Anashkevych
With an average depth of 1.6 to 3.2 feet, Syvash Lake is hyper saliented and super prone to vast smelly and red algae blooms.
Photographer Sergey Anashkevych captured these stunning images of the shallow and brilliantly red salt flats just off the Sea of Azoz in the Crimea.
Also check out CRAZY PINK LAKE SEEN FROM ABOVE
Tokyo to San Francisco in 83 Seconds
from the video page:
"Over 3,400 separate images combined to make this time lapse video from a Boeing 747-400 en route from Tokyo's Narita Airport to San Francisco. That's Venus leading the sunrise."
Seeing into objects by sanding into them
Laurin Döpfner uses an industrial sander to remove milimeter-thick layers of wood, electronics, and even bones to create this amazing stop motion video.
Finals of Copa Poética this Friday Night, 8-10pm in Highland Park
This Friday, July 11th, I'll be reading alongside some of the most dynamic poets in Los Angeles for the last of the Copa Poética series, looking to capture some of the spirit and energy of the World Cup in words.
For the series, I've been writing a new form I am calling the XI (and 11-lined poem).
The most recent post over on Manipulated Bestiary (my poem a week for a year book project) is a tribute to Miroslav Klose, the player with the most World Cup goals in history who will be playing this Sunday in the finals.
XI: Klose - Die Mannschaft
The years swim back to you, brightening
your implacable wisdom with strength
Do you not stand at the edge of the sky
with your nervous arms extended invoking a personal
God to breathe a wind into your empty heart
like the rest of us? Exchanging your being with
the terrible angels wheeling overhead one exhaled breath
at a time? The winds gnaw at your face
the time you move through is the time of monument
and story, grain for grain exchanging marble for stone
we outlive our own lives in your softening cheek.