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Ocean's Eleven (Florida, 2011)
(Japan, 2013)
Desert, Tucson, Arizona
Bondi Baths (Sydney, Australia, 2011)
Baker Beach, San Francisco, California
Waikiki Surfers (Honolulu, Hawaii, 2013)
The Theatre School (Chicago, USA, 2013)
Central Park (New York, 2011)
Bel Air (Cuba, 2012)
Secluded (Iceland, 2006)
Green Chairs (Vietnam, 2012)
Beach Soccer (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2010)
Chinatown, Manhattan, New York
Boats in Fog (Vietnam, 2012)
Bathing Boxes II (Melbourne, Australia, 2012)
Water Sky (Japan, 2012)
Beach Walk, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Shimabara Bay (Japan, 2013)
Harvest Bins, Twin Falls, Idaho
Happy Hour (Japan, 2012)
Speedway, Bonneville, Utah
Undercover, West Hollywood, California
Hillside Fences (Japan, 2009)
Sleeping Seal, Waikiki, Hawaii
Ginza Umbrellas (Tokyo, Japan, 2012)
Paris (France, 2012)
East Wacker (Chicago, USA, 2013)
Sea of Japan II (Japan, 2013)
When the master race still had it's flaws
ILLUMINATED CODE FROM SPACE Bioartis Haari Tesla (behance) -...
Bioartis Haari Tesla - | Posted by devidsketchbook.com
Bioartis Haari Tesla - | Posted by devidsketchbook.com
Bioartis Haari Tesla - | Posted by devidsketchbook.com
Bioartis Haari Tesla - | Posted by devidsketchbook.com
Bioartis Haari Tesla - | Posted by devidsketchbook.com
Bioartis Haari Tesla - | Posted by devidsketchbook.com
Bioartis Haari Tesla - | Posted by devidsketchbook.com
Bioartis Haari Tesla - | Posted by devidsketchbook.com
Bioartis Haari Tesla - | Posted by devidsketchbook.com
Bioartis Haari Tesla - | Posted by devidsketchbook.com
ILLUMINATED CODE FROM SPACE
Bioartis Haari Tesla (behance) - "Macrocosm and microcosm is an ancient Greek Neo-Platonic schema of seeing the same patterns reproduced in all levels of the cosmos, from the largest scale (macrocosm or universe-level) all the way down to the smallest scale (microcosm or sub-sub-atomic or even metaphysical-level). In the system the midpoint is Man, who summarizes thecosmos." - I was doing some researches and I found experiment with miniatures of space so I decided to try my own. The result has been nebulae, galaxies and supernovae transformed into microorganism.
Where Art Meets Gif: The Hypnotic Animated Gifs of David Szakaly
Since 2008 Hungarian/German graphic designer David Szakaly has been churning out some of the most dizzying, hypnotic and wholly original gifs on the web under the name Davidope. His blend of twisting organic forms, flashes of black and white, and forays into pulsing technicolor shapes have inspired legions of others to experiment with the medium, many of whom have been featured here on Colossal. It’s hard to determine the scale of Szakaly’s influence online, but a simple Google image search for “animated gif” brings up dozens of his images that have been shared around Tumblr hundreds of thousands of times.
Szakaly began experimenting with the vector animation program Macromedia Flash back in 1999 where he used the software to create presentations, banners, and other creatives for clients. It was nearly a decade later when he decided to dedicate more time to experimenting with motion graphics and found that Tumblr was a great platform to share his quirky gifs. While he still works in the corporate world on other digital projects, he has also found commercial success making animations for clients around the world. Though it’s his personal work that really stands out. If or when gifs end up on gallery walls, it will be hard to deny Szakaly’s role in getting them there.
Deleted footage from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy...
tastefullyoffensive: Video Games Reimagined as Classic...
Video Games Reimagined as Classic Children’s Books by Joebot [via]
Previously: Useful Children’s Books for People in Their Twenties
Momentum: Large Format Photos of Chalkboards from Quantum Mechanics Institutions by Alejandro Guijarro
Momentum is a project by artist Alejandro Guijarro who spent three years traveling to the quantum mechanics departments of Cambridge, Stanford, Berkeley, Oxford and elsewhere to shoot large format photographs of blackboards just after lectures. Completely removed from the context of a classroom or laboratory and displayed in a gallery, the cryptic equations from one of the most formidable branches of physics become abstract patterns of line and color. Via the artist’s statement:
Before he walks into a lecture hall Guijarro has no idea what he will find. He begins by recording the blackboard with the minimum of interference. No detail of the lecture hall is included, the blackboard frame is removed and we are left with a surface charged with abstract equations. At this stage they are documents. However, once removed from their institutional beginnings the meaning evolves. The viewer begins to appreciate the equations for their line and form. Colour comes into play and the waves created by the blackboard eraser suggest a vast landscape or galactic setting. The formulas appear to illustrate the worlds of Quantum Mechanics. What began as a precise lecture, a description of the physicist’s thought process, is transformed into a canvas open to any number of possibilities.
Guijarro graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2010 with a MA in fine art and now lives
and works in both London and Madrid. He’ll have work later this year at PhotoEspaña. (via Not Shaking the Grass)
Water Droplets Flow Uphill through a Superheated Maze Thanks to the Leidenfrost Effect
The folks over at Science Friday made this fascinating video about the Leidenfrost Effect, where water dropped on an extremely hot surface is capable of floating instead of immediately evaporating. While studying the bizarre effect, physicists at the University of Bath realized that not only does the water float, but under the right conditions and temperatures it can actually climb upward. The playful experiments lead to the creation of an incredible superheated maze. (via The Awesomer)
tysonmurphy: I took a screenshot from Sword in the Stone and...
I took a screenshot from Sword in the Stone and painted over it a little bit. Really fun way to jump right in and practice lighting. Hope I get some time to do more of these!
this is a really cool idea! turned out lovely I might add.
earthisalie: carlboygenius: Correcting Internet...
Correcting Internet DisInformation: The American Space Pen / The Russian Pencil
thank you for this.
Newswire: There exists one glorious film that Neil deGrasse Tyson won’t nitpick
Neil deGrasse Tyson, America’s Science Sweetheart and host of the relaunched Cosmos, made the news last year when he criticized the scientific accuracy of Gravity. In a series of tweets, the astrophysicist picked apart the Oscar winner’s depiction of a zero-gravity environment, among other things.
While Dr. Tyson insisted he enjoyed the film, he took some time during an appearance at SXSW Film Festival to critique some other sci-fi films. The good doctor enjoyed The Matrix, but pointed out that the film’s evil robots building a giant contraption—a matrix, if you will—to use humans as batteries is less efficient than just using the energy it took to build and run the contraption. Even film’s best-regarded depiction of space, 2001: A Space Odyssey doesn’t escape Tyson’s red pen, as he points out a moment where an astronaut drinks from a pouch in zero-G ...
Desenhar no gesso: você está fazendo isso certo!
CASO, eu dê uma sumida aqui no blog e tal… Há uma grande possibilidade de ter quebrado o braço pra testar 01 coisa bem rapidin.
Paris's Smog Has Gotten So Bad, It's Making Public Transportation Free
Ah Paris—city of light, city of love, city of smog? Unusually warm spring weather has trapped diesel car emissions, blanketing much of France in noxious and dangerous air pollution. It's gotten so bad that officials in Paris are taking the radical next step of making public transportation, bike shares, and electric car shares free to use all weekend.
MtGox class-action suits in US and Canada allege fraud, drag in Japan’s Mizuho Bank
Late this week, Canadian Bitcoin holders filed a class-action suit against defunct online Bitcoin exchange MtGox. The suit named MtGox, its affiliates, and its two major shareholders, Mark Karpeles and Jed McCaleb, as well as Japan's second largest bank, Mizuho Bank, where MtGox kept an account.
In the US, a class-action suit that was filed in late February was amended late Friday afternoon to name another primary plaintiff as well as several new defendants, including “John Doe defendants” and Mizuho Bank. MtGox KK filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy protection in February, shielding it from lawsuits in the US, but MtGox's executives, its parent company Tibanne KK, and its US subsidiaries are not protected, Reuters notes.
MtGox found itself in dire straits last month, when it appeared to have lost 750,000 bitcoins belonging to its customers as well as 100,000 of its own Bitcoins after weeks of DDOS attacks and “transaction malleability” problems. In total, MtGox is estimated to have lost $468 million worth of bitcoins. In mid-February, the exchange halted all withdrawals, and plaintiffs in both Canadian and US cases suspect large-scale fraud.
Beyond Immersion: Learn a New Language with Better Listening Skills
Get on the fast track to accomplishing one of your bucket list items, learning another language. Chris Lonsdale's TEDx talk offers five principles and seven actions that will help anyone learn to speak a new language fluently within just six months. The most important of these is perhaps to become better at observing and listening.
"Leonard Nimoy, who played the most famous TV scientist of all time, Mr. Spock, came from an arts and..."
- NYT (via gq)