This is particularly sweet because that wolf almost undoubtedly didn’t have a pack. He was lonely. And then he wasn’t lonely: he had all the weird little squished stunted-development wolves and their weird bipedal not-wolves!
i am ugly crying like snot just avalanched out of my face i love dogs
Indonesia-based watercolor artist Elicia Edijanto (previously here and here) depicts loving relationships between wildlife and children set against atmospheric backdrops painted in black watercolor. “My subject are often children and animal because they are honest, sincere, unprejudiced and unpretentious,” shares Edijanto. “They give me so much inspiration for [a] particular mood or atmosphere, such as tranquility, solemnity, and also wilderness and freedom, which I put on my paintings.” Seen here are a number of recent paintings from the last year or so, some of which are available as prints and originals via her website. You can follow her works in progress on Instagram.
Future, as described by cyberpunk classics, keeps taking a more tangible form. Robots have already become an integral part of industrial process and of contemporary existence, and their numbers grow by the year.
However, there is another side to industrial progress. Mass robotisation is leaving technicians out of their jobs, and it’s just a matter of time before artificial intelligence starts replacing people at their stations.
And while world media discuss the need of taxing robots in order to reeducate workers they replaced, we all have to start preparing to a new kind of society: one, where robots play an evem more important role.
In Yekaterinburg, Russia, artists from StreetArt agency offered those topics up for a discussion when they arranged an artistic invasion into public space, as they drew their inspiration from the philosophy of Ghost in the Shell. This movie is based on the manga of the same name, depicting a near-future where in a cybernized society of people with artificial bodies and mechanical anatomy the line between a biological and a digital form is blurred.
How to tell a human and a robot apart? What form can a robot-human conflict take? Those questions are raised by the movie and its unconventional promotional campaign.
Imagine, what would a “humans only” city look like, and how would it feel to find oneself in a space of cyber apartheid, where public spaces are divided.
Provocative stickers and signs suggest that people think about what makes them human, and “human only” signs take the form of a CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart).
Street nameplates, public transport signs, emotional posters and even a cinema sign were installed during the night. In the morning, those objects appeared before the public, and received great feedback from the citizens.
designed by afzal kahn of british automotive fashion house, project kahn, the JEEP wrangler black hawk combines a tough aesthetic with luxury materials.
Sorting algorithms. Apparently there are an endless number of ways to visualize them in various contexts, and somehow it never gets old. Here sorting in the context of books on a shelf.
À l’occasion des Journées Européennes des Métiers d’Art, Société Générale lance l’exposition #LaMêmePassion, la première réalisée à partir de tweets, en partenariat avec les Meilleurs Ouvriers de France.
Cet événement présentera au public des oeuvres d’artisanat issues d’une co-création tout à fait originale. En effet, elles sont le fruit de la rencontre entre un Meilleur Ouvrier de France, maître dans son art, et un jeune apprenti ayant exprimé sa passion et son envie d’apprendre par un tweet.
Afin de donner vie à ce projet, Société Générale a appelé la communauté férue de jeunes artisans d’art à exprimer sa passion sur Twitter. Parmi celle-ci, sept apprentis ont été sélectionnés et associés en binôme à un Meilleur Ouvrier de France.
Le duo a ensuite été invité à transformer ces quelques mots en oeuvre d’art, déployant ainsi leur savoir-faire traditionnel.
Grâce au dialogue entre ces deux générations, un constat émerge : les millenials rêvent d’un monde plus concret et manuel, un monde où la relation ne se limite plus au virtuel et où la théorie est appliquée à la réalité. Les apprentis qui ont pris part à cette exposition en sont l’exemple, des digital natives s’exprimant sur Twitter et réalisant leurs rêves dans un atelier d’artisan.
J’ai la passion du bois, créer une œuvre à partir d’un arbre c’est le top ! #LaMemePassion
Pascal Arlot rêvait d’être sculpteur sur bois depuis son enfance. Après une formation de deux ans suivie d’un tour de France de quatre ans, il se lance à son compte. Son art réinvente les règles du jeu en mêlant tradition et nouvelles technologies. Sacré Meilleur Ouvrier de France en 2002, à l’âge de 39 ans, il continue à rechercher la perfection et l’excellence. Aujourd’hui son entreprise basée dans le Val d’Oise propose des réalisations de pièces uniques adaptées à chaque demande. Attaché à la notion de transmission, il donne des cours à des particuliers.
Avec le jeune Dorian, 19 ans, originaire de Montpellier, il s’est inspiré de typographies à la pointe de la tendance pour graver et sculpter dans un magnifique panneau le tweet proposé par l’apprenti. Lors de l’exposition, une vidéo sera projetée sur ce magnifique caisson en chêne de 2 mètres de haut et 1.24 mètre de large.
Toutes les oeuvres seront présentées dans un lieu hautement symbolique, incarnation de l’excellence de l’artisanat français, le Bastille Design Center, ancienne manufacture du 19ème siècle.
Pour concrétiser ce projet, Société Générale a collaboré avec FRED & FARID Paris et a choisi comme parrain de l’exposition le Maître chocolatier Meilleur Ouvrier de France, Georges Larnicol, dont les produits à la qualité jamais égalée bénéficient aujourd’hui d’un réseaux de 23 boutiques en France, dont 3 à Paris.
Idée audacieuse, mêlant les cultures et les compétences d’institutions différentes, #LaMêmePassion est surtout un pont entre le passé et le présent, un trait d’union entre tradition et modernité. La puissance de l’idée réside dans la réconciliation de deux mondes apparemment distants et adversaires : l’artisanat et le digital.
Infos pratiques :
Exposition gratuite #LaMêmePassion – pour participer, cliquez ici.
Horaires d’ouverture : Vendredi 31 Mars de 9h à 20h, Samedi 1er Avril de 10h à 19h, Dimanche 2 Avril de 11h à 18h
Bastille Design Center, 74 boulevard Richard Lenoir 75011 Paris
Man wears virtual reality headset. Another man throws a ball to headset-wearing man. Headset-wearing man catches actual ball displayed in virtual reality. There’s something magical about the quick data processing going on here.
“Ray Gascoigne has spent a lifetime at sea as a shipwright and sea merchant. His memories and love for ships are made physical through miniatures he constructs with extreme care within old whisky bottles. Over the past 60 years he has built hundreds of replicas of ships from the past and present of maritime legend. Many were built at sea, in the lonely cabin hours of night, and Ray (now 85) continues his craft on land today” (watch video).
This is a sketch I did as a concept for myself if I was ever asked to do
a wall mural. I’d handle the actual wall painting much different. I
just like the idea of a giant floating pink, polkadot manatee. Would be
perfect on a wall in Brooklyn especially after a snow storm.
As many of you know, our project was inspired by the Overview Effect — the feeling of awe, wonder, and perspective that astronauts experience when seeing the whole Earth from outer space. Accordingly, we are always looking for new and stunning views of the planet. This shot was captured just recently by the Elektro-L No.1 Russian weather satellite in a 121-megapixel image, making it the highest-resolution single photograph ever taken of Earth.
Bien que cela ne soit pas son métier, Andreas Levers est passionné de photographie. Le photographe allemand de Postdam a une autre passion, le voyage. Afin de lier ses deux passions, Andreas est parti sur la terre du soleil de minuit pour réaliser une série de photo simplement intitulée « Iceland Cinemascope ».
The Burj Khalifa is the tallest building in the world, towering 2,717 feet (828m) into the sky of Dubai, UAE. The design of the 163-floor structure is an abstraction of the Hymenocallis, a type of desert flower that has long petals extending from its center. The building has been very well received since it opened in 2010; however, its construction was very controversial as it was built primarily by workers from South Asia and East Asia who earned low wages and were housed in abysmal conditions. /// Created by @benjaminrgrant, source imagery: @digitalglobe (at Burj Khalifa)
The nice thing about animated GIFs for visualization is that they can get a message across pretty quickly, which lends itself to potential shares. You’d think there would be a Twitter bot by now tweeting GIFs non-stop. In any case, Lena Groeger put together a nice collection of them.
As you probably know, different countries have different legal age limits for drinking alcoholic beverages. In the United States, the age is 21. In some places in the world, there is no set age. In most places, the legal age is 18 to drink a non-spirit beverage such as beer in a public place without a guardian.
The map above, based on data from Wikipedia, shows where in the world you’re legally allowed to drink a beer in a public place. It’s slightly generalized and doesn’t take into account that in some places you have to be older to purchase the beverage, but it gives you a good idea of the age limits globally.
This by the way is part of new category I’m calling my sketchbook. I need a place where I can mess around with different formats without worrying about what is the “right” way to do it.
The folks over at London-based Little Planet Factory make tiny 3d-printed planets and moons you can sit on your desktop or hold in your hands. Designs include everything from entire solar systems to collections of moons, individual planets, and even science fiction creations like a theoretical terraformed Mars globe. See more in their shop! (via So Super Awesome)
