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The Black and White Photography of Benoit Courti
French photographer Benoit Courti worked for years as a music composer before shifting his career toward professional portrait and art photography in 2010. His images fall everywhere on the spectrum from dark and brooding portraits to light, atmospheric shots of animals. You can follow him on Flickr, Tumblr, and on his website. He also has a number of limited edition prints. (via doloresdepalabra)
Timelapse of the Imperceptible Effects of Aging Created from Family Portraits by Anthony Cerniello
Editor’s note: Watch the whole thing. With sound. Don’t skip around. Just let it play, or else you’re missing out.
Aging is fascinating thing to document in film and photography, from Noah Kalina’s 12+ year portrait a day project to Diego Goldberg’s family portrait series that began in 1976, it’s interesting to see how many different approaches there are. This new clip titled Danielle from filmmaker Anthony Cerniello tries something I’ve never seen before and packs an amazing punch.
Last Thanksgiving, Cerniello traveled to his friend Danielle’s family reunion and with still photographer Keith Sirchio shot portraits of her youngest cousins through to her oldest relatives with a Hasselblad medium format camera. Then began the process of scanning each photo with a drum scanner at the U.N. in New York, at which point he carefully edited the photos to select the family members that had the most similar bone structure. Next he brought on animators Nathan Meier and Edmund Earle who worked in After Effects and 3D Studio Max to morph and animate the still photos to make them lifelike as possible. Finally, Nuke (a kind of 3D visual effects software) artist George Cuddy was brought on to smooth out some small details like the eyes and hair.
The final result is pretty remarkable, if a little bizarre. Not quite out of the uncanny valley, and yet pause the movie at any moment and it feels like you’re looking at a plain portrait. While it plays the transitions are just slow enough that you’re only vaguely aware anything is happening. It’s amazing as it is weird. He tells me via email:
I wanted to make a person, I felt like I could tell a story with that, but it ended up feeling slightly robotic, like an android. I’m OK with that. Things never come out the exact way you plan them, but that’s the fun. The score I imagined would tell this woman’s life, with events speeding by as she aged, but in the end I thought it would be more interesting to go with an abstract piece of sound, and my friend Mark Reveley really came through because I love how it sounds.
Cerniello normally edits commercials and music videos for the likes of 30 Seconds to Mars and Kings of Leon, you can see much more of his work over on his website.
Shakespeare with its original pronounciation
Speaking of inexpensive time travel, listen as David and Ben Crystal perform selections from Shakespeare in the original accent, as it would have been heard at the Globe in the early 1600s.
(via @KBAndersen)
Tags: Ben Crystal David Crystal language theater video William ShakespeareHiggledy piggledy
Hello all, I am back from vacation, but rather than get right back into programming language design, let's have some fun for a Friday.
Most of you are probably familiar with iambic pentameter, which is the poetic meter that Shakespeare wrote in: most lines in Shakespeare are ten syllables, divided up into five iambic feet. Each foot has an unstressed syllable at the beginning and a stressed syllable at the end. As Hamlet says:
O, THAT this TOO too SOlid FLESH would MELT Thaw AND reSOLVE itSELF inTO a DEW!
Very serious, iambs. By contrast, the trochee, in which the stress comes on the first syllable, is hilarious. All you have to do to make internet comedy gold is put two or more trochees together. Try it!
NINja DOCtor VERsus BAcon PIrate DILbert RObot UNder ANgry CHIcken
You could easily write an automated movie elevator pitch generator that was all trochees, and likely get results no worse than the last few years of Hollywood movies.
Harder to work with than the trochee is the dactyl, or, more specifically, the double dactyl. A dactyl is a poetic foot with three syllables, the first one stressed. A double dactyl is either simply two dactyls, or a poem in the following double-dactyl-heavy form:
DUM dum dum DUM dum dum -- nonsense DUM dum dum DUM dum dum -- person's name DUM dum dum DUM dum dum -- description of person DUM dum dum DUM. -- rhymes with line 8, ends sentence. DUM dum dum DUM dum dum -- second section comments further DUM dum dum DUM dum dum -- one of lines 5, 6 or 7 is a single word DUM dum dum DUM dum dum -- DUM dum dum DUM. -- rhymes with line 4
The two hardest parts of the double dactyl are coming up with a person's name and coming up with a single six syllable word. 1
For example, here's one I wrote which is a very short summary and critique of a Kurt Vonnegut short story.
Higgledy-piggledy Harrison Bergeron Became the Emperor And then was shot. Vonnegut wasn’t an Egalitarian. Satiric tone makes for Unlikely plot.
I've started compiling a list of the double-dactyl six syllable words by reading the Scrabble tournament word list. Of the first five thousand words in the list I've found eighteen double dactyls. There are 178 thousand words in the list, so I've got a ways to go yet. So far:
abecedarian abiogenesis abiological accessibility acetaminophen addressability admirability aerodynamical aerodynamicist albuminuria allergenicity alphanumerical alterability ambassadorial ambidexterity amiability amicability amphitheatrical
My challenge to you is: write a double dactyl on the subject of Benedict Cumberbatch, and leave it in the comments. Any additions to my list of double dactyl words would also be appreciated.
- Serious double dactyl enthusiasts go further and require each double dactyl to have a unique six syllable word, but that seems a bit too hard core for me. ↩
Paintings by Estela Cuadro
One of the things that inspire me is music. It always transposes me and my sensory parts, takes me to an inside world, introspectively. It nourishes my imagination, it motivates me. It constantly leads me to paint many of my paintings and I feel pleasure in that. I feel like I never want to stop doing this. It is part of my life.
Dreamy Architectural Watercolors by Sunga Park
Paris, France
Oxford, UK
Oxford, UK
The Whitehall street entrance, London
Dongseo elevated highway, Busan
Harrods, London
Sacre-Coeur church in Montmartre, Paris
These architectural watercolor studies by Sunga Park seem to drip and fade out of focus like a memory or a dream. The graphic designer and illustrator currently lives and works in Busan, South Korea as a wallpaper designer but it seems her true passion is for watercolor and other artistic endeavors. See much more of her work on Behance and Flickr. If you liked this, also check out the work of Maja Wronska.
Artworks by David Poppie
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New geometric and abstract compositions made with colored pencils.
My recent work involves the reclaiming of disposable objects in mass to create two and three dimensional works. Pieces can involve tea bags, matchbook strikes, plastic cutlery, etc. These items are generally disregarded and ignored by the everyday person. Through the gathering of the discards of contemporary culture, I ask the viewer to reconsider the function and value of these objects. I also reassign their value by re-contextualizing them by creating a piece of art from them. Besides utilizing the formal issues that interest me, based in the Minimalist school, I also am making a commentary on the disposable nature of contemporary culture.
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Fashion in Leaves: Illustrations by Tang Chiew Ling
A series of illustrations using leaves as dresses.
The most challenging part of this project was how to apply leaves to dresses! However, I tried to find some special leaves this time to make the "dresses" look elegant. I was very surprised to get those beautiful leaves in a garden. I never thought the leaves can be so beautiful; some of them are full of structures, patterns and lines, different colors, even withered leaves.
You Can Play Project will help Olympian NHL’ers navigate Russia’s anti-homosexuality laws
I'm posting this in my blog as opposed to KK Hockey because it may or may not be a touchy subject, and as it may or may not be hockey-related. Russia's strict anti-homosexuality laws will make the 2014 Olympics in Sochi both an inherently political place and very possibly a place where those who speak out against or publicly protest those laws (especially in a provocative manner) could be detained and/or expelled from the country, if not tried and jailed.
Red Wings evening stuff: new old news about Zetterberg speaking out, Holland & more Alfredsson gnus
I know it got garbled in code (not quite sure why), but I noted this two days ago, so I at least get to smirk and say, "Well, of course he did." The Free Press's Brian Manzullo duly notes that Henrik Zetterberg led the charge when Aftonbladet's Linus Norberg asked members of the Swedish Olympic orientation camp to weigh in on Russia's anti-homosexuality law. Zetterberg, Patric Hornqvist, Erik Karlsson, Henrik Lundqvist, Gabriel Landeskog and ten other Swedes weighed in, too, and they echoed Zetterberg's comments:
Zetterberg, the Detroit Red Wings captain who will likely represent Sweden in the Olympics, reportedly told Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet that the law is “awful, just awful.”
"I think that everyone should be able to be themselves,” Zetterberg said. “It's unbelievable that it can be this way in this time, especially in a big country like Russia.”
Graft Tableware: Biodegradable Utensils that Look Like Vegetables
For her diploma project at the École cantonale d’art de Lausanne in Switzerland, product designer Qiyun Deng created a beautiful set of utensils and and serving bowls made from bioplastic PLA, a material most often derived from vegetable fats, oils, or starches. Titled Graft, the delicately crafted design of each piece serves as a reminder of the biodegradable materials used to create them: a celery stem becomes a handle for a fork, a stalk of fennel becomes a knife, a slender carrot a spoon.
While Graft is just a concept at this point, I imagine these could sell extraordinarily well given the right price. But could you actually bring yourself to toss such a beautifully designed object in the compost bin? Learn more over on Deng’s website. (via THEmag)