Anamorphic Illusions
Swiss artist Felice Varini has a fantastic series of anamorphic illusions. It took him 30 years to complete the body of work.
2100°/451°
A short film by Alistair Banks featuring the art of Etsuko Ichikawa.
I can’t remember if I’ve already shared this particular project, but it never hurts to revisit good art.
Martin Klimas, Paint, Music and Photography
Martin Klimas’ 3D artwork uses paint positioned above a very loud speaker. Here’s the results of “Bitches Brew” by Miles Davis. (via Kottke.org, naturally)
“a gigolo is a professional dancer”
via Gunslinger
Visible Tom Waits
By Jim Lockey.
Decoding the Decodex (to the Codex Seraphinianus)
For those interested in Luigi Serafini’s Codex, I posted a hack translation of the accompanying «Decodex» that came with the most recent edition.
Dear Esther
The illustration in Dear Esther, a remake of a Half Life 2 mod, is incredible.
I’ll definitely be purchasing the game, if only to gawp.
(via)
Repost of a Post Past
Going down the rabbit-hole of Cece’s post. Great rememberies here, following “flockers.”
Turn It Off
I like this guy’s response to a ringing cell phone. Nicely done, sir.
Ark Codex ±0 video
Video object for the Ark Codex ±0 book object which is forthcoming from Calamari Press.
The Mother Courage of Rock
She was skinny, quick-witted, disarmingly unprofessional, alternating between stand-up patter, bardic intonations, and the hypnotic emotional sway of a chanteuse, and she was sexy in an androgynous way I hadn’t encountered before. The elements cohered convincingly; she seemed both entirely new and somehow long-anticipated. For me at nineteen, the show was an epiphany.
Springtime 1976, I was living in the cinderblock building on the glorified median strip there where they split Highway 13, and one day I went over to this one girl’s apartment, she lived right by the guy who dealt me speed, and she said, “Hey, you know who you remind me of? You remind me of Patti Smith!”
Gave her a possum grin I’m still grinning.
recording a tree
Via BoingBoing:
This music — which sounds like a moody piano soundtrack for a existentialist movie about a rainy day — is made by slicing a tree in cross-section, sticking it on a turntable, and dropping a tone-arm with a PlayStation Eye Camera in the head, and processing its output through Ableton Live. It’s called Years, and it was created by Bartholomäus Traubeck.
Absolutely beautiful.
Google Image Search art by Sebastien Schmieg
Sebastien Schmieg created a video showing the output of recursive Google Image searches using the “visually similar” feature, Search by Image, Recursively, Transparent PNG, #1. It starts out a little slow, but after a while it starts pulling in fresh images. It’s not entirely algorithmic (if an image has already been used, he skips to the next image in the results) but it’s pretty amazing.
Riusuke Fukahori, Goldfish Salvation
Sarah posted Riusuke Fukahori’s freakishly realistic resin goldfish on her tumblr:
Absurdly realistic sculptures of goldfish created by Riusuke Fukahori, one layer of paint & resin at a time.
Watching the meticulous layers applied is stop-motion goodness.
image out of context
my current desktop
Los grumildos
Low-tech mechanical puppets on the fringes of society. They have the size of a Barbie doll, and everything moves.
Gracias a Tom Sale.
Captain Beefheart’s Ten Commandments of Guitar Playing
4. Walk with the devil
Old Delta blues players referred to guitar amplifiers as the “devil box.” And they were right. You have to be an equal opportunity employer in terms of who you’re bringing over from the other side. Electricity attracts devils and demons. Other instruments attract other spirits. An acoustic guitar attracts Casper. A mandolin attracts Wendy. But an electric guitar attracts Beelzebub.
(From WFMU’s Beware of the Blog. Via Brian Beatty.)
my current desktop
My current desktop
What say you, Flockers? Too skeuomorphic or cute-sy?
(via core77)
the inverse of the American Dream
Photographer Doug Rickard used Google Street View to find pictures for his latest show at the Museum of Modern Art.
According to Rickard, this epiphany fused immediately into a crystal-clear idea: He would use Street View as his camera and, working from a room in his home, travel the roads of neglected American cities and neighborhoods in a 21st-century “road trip.” This single idea would utterly consume his life for close to two years, resulting in the important body of work “A New American Picture,” a selection of which hangs today in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Guy Laramee, Carved Landscapes
Guy Laramee carves landscapes out of books. He says about his work:
Mountains of disused knowledge return to what they really are: mountains.
Many more examples at the link.
(via marginal revolution)
Charles Coleman, the celluloid adventurist
Coleman, 47, is film programmer for Facets Multimedia.
One thing being lost is the art of conversation, of people seeing a movie and then actually having a good talk afterwards. — As told to J.R. Jones.
Man, does this put me in mind of my friend Charlie’s thoughts re: the “hidden cinema” he frequents in Buenos Aires.
From the Comments
Forgive me for touting my own.
Merry Christmas, er, Happy Holidays, whatever floats the boat.
Google Image Search: Francesca Woodman
