On its most basic level, this is a five minute video of a guy making a few pairs of scissors by hand. But what could have been a mundane shoot of a master craftsman using archaic tools to create common household objects, is completely elevated by filmmaker Shaun Bloodworth into something strikingly beautiful. The film’s subject, Cliff Denton, is one of the world’s last “putters” (literally “a putter togetherer of scissors”) who works at Ernest Wright & Sons in Sheffield, a company that has been hand-making scissors and shears for 112 years. Watch and be transfixed. Is this another example of autonomous sensory meridian response? Music by The Black Dog. (via Devour)
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The Putter: A Meditative Video on the Art of Making Scissors by Hand
An Abandoned Bangkok Shopping Mall Hides a Fishy Secret
Photo © Jesse Rockwell
Photo © Jesse Rockwell
Photo © Jesse Rockwell
Photo © Jesse Rockwell
Photo © Jesse Rockwell
Photo © Jesse Rockwell
Photo © Jesse Rockwell
In most post-apocalyptic films when the camera pans down the abandoned streets of New York or Tokyo, long after people have disappeared and the buildings have fallen into disrepair, we see nature again thriving. Trees and plants take hold in the sidewalks and wild animals like deer, bears, and lions stalk the ruins left behind by humans. But after descending the staircase at a vacant shopping mall in Bangkok, professional cook and photographer Jesse Rockwell discovered a wholly different take on beasts inheriting the Earth: fish. Specifically exotic koi and catfish, teeming by the thousands in a secret subterranean aquarium. Rockwell shares via his blog:
New World shopping mall, a four storey former shopping mall. Originally constructed as an eleven storey building. It was found to be in breach of old town Bangkok’s four storey limit on building heights. The top seven floors were demolished to adhere to building codes in 1997. In 1999 the mall burned due to suspected arson committed by a competitor in the area. The disaster resulted in several casualties, and the building has remained abandoned ever since. Not having a roof, the basement floor remains under several feet of water year round.
At some point in the early 2000s an unknown person began introducing a small population of exotic Koi and Catfish species. The small population of fish began to thrive and the result is now a self-sustained, and amazingly populated urban aquarium.
What an amazing discovery. It makes you wonder what else lurks in abandoned places around the world? You can see more of Rockwell’s photography over on 500px and on his website, Taste of the Road. (via James Theophane, The Verge)
Reverse Perspective Painting Creates Amazing Optical Illusion as You Move around It
First: watch the shaky video, it’s all spoilers here on out.
On first view of this clip by Benjamin Dalsgaard Hughes, I was convinced the skewed perspective of the painting was some kind of digital trick on an HD display, somewhat similar to the dancing shadows we saw a few months ago. But then, the sudden disorienting reveal. What! This particular optical illusion is what’s known as reverse perspective painting, where objects (usually rooms) are painted on a physically skewed surface resulting in images that appear in reverse when viewed head on.
The painting above is by Brian Williams and is currently on view as part of a show on 3D art that just opened at The Gallery Ice in Windsor. Perhaps the most well-known artist working with forced perspective is Patrick Hughes. Here he is discussing his own work at Flowers Gallery a few years ago. Love the bit at the end where the entire crowd is squatting up and down to view the painting.
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07.05.2014
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Tiny Madrid House Fits 8 Rooms Into 21sqm Space
Cooper GriggsI think I'd still get claustrophobic.
With only 21 square meters (or about 215 square feet) to work with the designers at MYCC Architecture were forced to draw on an unusual source of inspiration for this tiny madrid house. The design by was modelled after an old video game, Super Mario Bros. using ladders and stairs that connect platforms inserted in […]
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Through a Glass, Quickly
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something came up at work recently that sorta hit me upside the...
something came up at work recently that sorta hit me upside the head. the ground shifted under me. and, unexpectedly, i’m beginning to see a lot of things differently. not sure where this will lead, but i’m going to be spending more time getting up, going outside and reminding myself who i am… and who i want to be.
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