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Make love, not war

Photographer Rich Lam writes: “I noticed in the space behind the line of police that two people were laying in the street with the riot police and a raging fire just beyond them. I knew I had captured a “moment” when I snapped the still forms against the backdrop of such chaos but it wasn’t until later when I returned to the rink to file my photos that my editor pointed out that the two people were not hurt, but kissing.”

KOSMOS

Kosmos from Thorsten Fleisch on Vimeo.

Film-maker Thorsten Fleisch‘s short film Kosmos, from 2004, examines the mystery of crystals in close-up.

Haunting portraits by Jenny Morgan

Despite the traditional beauty of her oil paintings, Morgan actively contradicts simplistically pretty hyperrealism with gritty psychedelia. Old Masters and a concept of dimensional layering were two significant contributions to the bevy of new work. Morgan has an informed understanding of art history, color theory, and design theory that is simultaneously addressed and deconstructed. These references appear as figments, sheer filters for a dimension that pulls from the multiplicity of the present.

Morgan's passion for spiritual science translates into an interest in provoking a multitude of physical dimensions. Confronting the raw canvas and its function as a corporeal boundary are important components in many of these paintings. Each additive technique or reduction of the canvas allows Morgan to investigate perceptual layers. Figures fluctuate in and out of the background by way of pattern; stripes, zips, and even checkerboards distort the fore and complicate the viewer's understand of compositional space.

Dimensional incongruity in Morgan's work extracts sobriety, focus, and a sense of yearning from her sitters. The peculiar elegance of her work transcends photorealism in its connection to the body, to the moments of humanity. Morgan fastens to her subject's breath, thought, and life. She catapults each model into the light.

Nate Tyler_UNGU

Nate Tyler_UNGU from SimonSmoothBalls.com on Vimeo.

New Schizophrenic Music Video for ‘Ice Cream’ by Battles

‘Bombay’ by El Guincho

EL GUINCHO | Bombay from MGdM | Marc Gómez del Moral on Vimeo.

Cassini: Film using NASA footage

CASSINI MISSION from cabbas on Vimeo.

Beautiful works by Lorri Ott

Artist Statement
Experimental in material and process, my work is informed by the language of painting, the history of abstraction, chemistry, color, landscape and grid. Favoring the fluidity of pigmented liquid plastic I construct physical objects that function optically as well as sculpturally, engaging both vision and touch. Using color and surface texture to differentiate the parts or elements, I combine and assemble juxtaposing materials and forms (hard/soft, organic/geometric, opaque/translucent) to further abstract the pictorial qualities of the works.

http://www.lorriott.com/

"Dry Bones" (1965)

The Lennon Sisters perform Dry Bones on The Lawrence Welk Show, October 30, 1965. (via PCL LinkDump)

Blade Runner Polaroids of actress Sean Young

A gallery of polaroids snapped on the set of Blade Runner, from the private collection of actress Sean Young (Rachael), via Dangerous Minds.

Carsten Nicolai

pionier I
2011
parachute, wind machine, sound proof panels, timer
dimensions variable

the installation consists of a parachute inflated by a wind-machine, creating an ephemere situation of interaction between states of stability and instability. the set-up serves as a methaphor of the ambiguous and discontinuous interplay of artificially produced objects and natural elements.
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The joy of Fat Albert

‘MATTER FISHER’, A STRANGE TALE OF VOIDS AND FISHING

Matter Fisher from Moth on Vimeo.

The Flaming Lips and Prefuse 73 Join Together and Get Weird

Charles Huettner

Black Forest from Charles Huettner on Vimeo.

You need to Control + Click the video (or right click if you’re a Windows user) and select Turn Loop ON. This weird little short will play over and over until you’re content.

The Head

Featuring art and composition by Matias Vigliano, and a bouncy musical backing by Ariel Gandolfo, this hand-drawn animation is simply amazing.

Microscopic Art Hides Inside Computer Chips

Who is Moose Boy? From the Motorola RF IC Nokia 5190 handset

Considering the expense, precision and difficulty of manufacturing computer chips, you would think the engineers designing them are pretty serious people.

But it’s not all business inside a chip fab, as these microscope photos reveal. In fact, the designers of microchips frequently hide tiny cartoons, drawings and even messages alongside the super-tiny circuits and semiconductors they create.

Chipworks, a company that analyzes microchips by peeling them apart and looking at them under microscopes, has discovered many examples of silicon art. We’ve selected a few highlights here from the firm’s extensive galleries of silicon art, but check the Chipworks website for more.

The images in this gallery are magnified 200 to 500 times.

As Chipworks explains, these drawings are made with the same processes used to assemble the rest of a computer chip. Designs are etched onto photolithography plates which are then used to “print” the chips’ circuitry, layer by layer, in thin films of silicon, silicon dioxide, aluminum and other materials. It’s a complicated process that takes hundreds of steps and millions of dollars worth of machinery, and it requires incredible degrees of precision and repeatability.

But if there’s a little unused space in a chip, why not fill that with an entertaining design? It’s not as if most of the chip companies’ customers will ever notice. The only people likely to see these designs are the chip engineers’ supervisors and analysts at companies like Chipworks.

“The mass production of these works of art as parasites on the body of a commercial IC goes unnoticed by most observers,” writes Chipworks. “Their existence is a tribute to human resourcefulness and creativity, surfacing from deep within a complex process.”

By Dylan Tweney WIRED MAGAZINE

It is what it is . .

"birds" (pleix) from pleix on Vimeo.

If you have never seen this video before, your day has been made, your mind has been blown, etc., etc., etc. into infinity.

Crop Tops: Strange Agricultural Landscapes Seen From Space

Agriculture is one of the oldest and most pervasive human impacts on the planet. Estimates of the land surface affected worldwide range up to 50 percent. But while driving through the seemingly endless monotony of wheat fields in Kansas may give you some insight into the magnitude of the change to the landscape, it doesn't compare to the view from above.

When seen from space, those same featureless wheat fields are transformed into a strange and beautiful pattern.

By Betsy Mason March 17, 2011 | 7:00 am | Categories: Earth Science WIRED

Grizzly Bear - Knife

Knife from Encyclopedia Pictura on Vimeo.

Gabriel Dawe

Gabriel Dawe was born in Mexico City where he grew up surrounded by the intensity and color of Mexican culture. After working as a graphic designer, he moved to Montreal, Canada in 2000 following a desire to explore foreign land. In search for creative freedom he started experimenting and creating artwork, which eventually led him to explore textiles and embroidery—activities traditionally associated with women and which were forbidden for a boy growing up in Mexico. Because of this, his work is subversive of notions of masculinity and machismo that are so ingrained in his culture. By working with thread and textiles, Dawe’s work has evolved into creating large-scale installations with thread, creating environments that deal with notions of social constructions and their relation to evolutionary theory and the self-organizing force of nature.

—Carl Platon, Nov 23 2010.