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Designer Alexandra Khitrova Discovers a New Career through Her Stunning Fantasy Concept Art
Early last year motion graphics artist and Alexandra Khitrova decided to utilize some of the digital tools she had acquired in her profession to explore concept illustration. While she did study art in school, this was an entirely new creative realm, a pet project to explore realms of science fiction and fantasy where flying dragons mingled with terrifying storms and otherworldly beings were brought to life on the screen.
The reaction online and off was swift, and Khitrova soon found herself working on increasingly complex drawings as she suddenly began to get commissions. Now, only a year later, she is already working with a team of writers and artists on a feature film. You can see more of her work over on DeviantArt.
Moving On: A Stop-motion Music Video for ‘James’ Made with Yarn by Ainslie Henderson
Moving On is the latest stop-motion video from BAFTA-nominated animator, writer, and director Ainslie Henderson. The clip was created as a music video for British rock band James and tells a story of life and death through characters depicted with yellow yarn. Sad, but wonderfully done. (via Jason Sondhi)
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Beautiful 17th Century Book on Color Mixing #arttuesday
Dutch Artist A. Boogert’s Traité des couleurs servant à la peinture à l’eau is a stunning and comprehensive guide to color mixing. Though it’s from from 1692, its strikingly similar to the Pantone color guide with regards to range and specificity. From Thisiscolossal:
In 1692 an artist known only as “A. Boogert” sat down to write a book in Dutch about mixing watercolors. Not only would he begin the book with a bit about the use of color in painting, but would go on to explain how to create certain hues and change the tone by adding one, two, or three parts of water. The premise sounds simple enough, but the final product is almost unfathomable in its detail and scope.
Spanning nearly 800 completely handwritten (and painted) pages, Traité des couleurs servant à la peinture à l’eau, was probably the most comprehensive guide to paint and color of its time. According to Medieval book historian Erik Kwakkel who translated part of the introduction, the color book was intended as an educational guide. The irony being there was only a single copy that was probably seen by very few eyes.
Blue Iceland: Photos by Andy Lee
Blue Iceland: Photos by Andy Lee
Infrared photos of Iceland that makes the landscapes even more dramatic and moody.
Kintsugi: The Art of Broken Pieces
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Kintsugi (or kintsukuroi) is a Japanese method for repairing broken ceramics with a special lacquer mixed with gold, silver, or platinum. The philosophy behind the technique is to recognize the history of the object and to visibly incorporate the repair into the new piece instead of disguising it. The process usually results in something more beautiful than the original.
The video above was filmed at Tokyobike in London which recently had a Kintsugi workshop. If you’d like to try the technique yourself, Humade offers gold and silver DIY kintsugi kits. See also: When Mending Becomes an Art. (via Kottke and The Kid Should See This)
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Cardboard Lamps by Vera van Wolferen
Cardboard Lamps by Vera van Wolferen
Unique, one-of-a-kind lamps made entirely out of cardboard. You can purchase the lamps at her Etsy shop and also check out her stop motion animation at her website.
I'm an animation filmmaker and artist from the Netherlands. When I was little my mother used to bring home big boxes for me to play with. I transformed them into houses, post offices, and dollhouses. Today I use cardboard to make props for my stop motion animations and unique, handcrafted, one of a kind cardboard lamps.
Lying to Ruth
Peter Bach, a cancer doctor, writes about losing his wife to cancer.
The streetlights in Buenos Aires are considerably dimmer than they are in New York, one of the many things I learned during my family's six-month stay in Argentina. The front windshield of the rental car, aged and covered in the city's grime, further obscured what little light came through. When we stopped at the first red light after leaving the hospital, I broke two of my most important marital promises. I started acting like my wife's doctor, and I lied to her.
I had just taken the PET scan, the diagnostic X-ray test, out of its manila envelope. Raising the films up even to the low light overhead was enough for me to see what was happening inside her body. But when we drove on, I said, "I can't tell; I can't get my orientation. We have to wait to hear from your oncologist back home." I'm a lung doctor, not an expert in these films, I feigned. But I had seen in an instant that the cancer had spread.
The last sentence here really got to me:
Our life together was gone, and carrying on without her was exactly that, without her. I was reminded of our friend Liz's insight after she lost her husband to melanoma. She told me she had plenty of people to do things with, but nobody to do nothing with.
Bach's discussion of treatment options reminded me of Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Emperor of All Maladies, which is one of my favorite books of recent years. I was also reminded of how doctors die.
Tags: books cancer crying at work medicine Peter Bach Siddhartha Mukherjee The Emperor of All MaladiesNot sure how to divide the rent fairly? Simple. Use a triangle.
Albert Sun and his friends moved into a small three-bedroom apartment where all the bedrooms were drastically different in size and other perks such as a nice view and natural lighting. They were challenged to figure out how to divide the rent up fairly based on what room each person got. Using the mathematical theorem called Sperner’s Lemma, Albert and his friends were able to come up with a fair solution. via New York Times:
The problem is that individuals evaluate a room differently. I care a lot about natural light, but not everyone does. Is it worth not having a closet? Or one might care more about the shape of the room, or its proximity to the bathroom.
A division of rent based on square feet or any fixed list of elements can’t take every individual preference into account. And negotiation without a method may lead to conflict and resentment.
I set out to find a better way to divide our rent. That’s how I came across a paper by Francis Su, a math professor at Harvey Mudd College in California, about a mathematical proposition discovered in 1928 by the German mathematician Emanuel Sperner. It is called Sperner’s lemma.