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Evening Stories by Barbarja

Evening Stories  is a project incorporating words and drawings
about finding one’s self inside oneself.

“I grab the most forward point of the body with my teeth. I hook the edge of sensation with a tooth and tear the delicate covering. Lava flows out of it, rushing silently bringing doom to a happily drowsy unknown town. With a cold finger I touch a ball of nerves and bend in half, simultaneously looking at plowed fields of supplications and entreaties. I sigh deeply.  Donned in human skin I lick the evidence of life off It with my tongue. The human skin puts the mind into a trance and paves the way to so far unavailable walls and floors: feet, hands, bellies, buttocks and counts the hairs around the bellybuttons. I stick a finger into my nose to keep the red paint inside. My finger reeks with life. It is cold. ”

The source images of this fascinating video by experimental image/sound-maker Brian O’Reilly & Woody Vasulka come from a video synthesizer called the Rutt-Etra Scan Processor from the 1970s, while the sound comes from manipulations via custom software designed by O’Reilly himself and co-designer Chandrasekhar Ramakrishnan. The full work is of total approximate duration of 45 minutes, with sections of various lengths, textures, and dynamic qualities. (read more) (via)

我是外星人第無��號 : my friend said that “they were so odd!!”

Jenism - Somewhere in south america, Mazel tov, Festivus, Pomp, unexpected grid. Illustrations by Jennifer Crouch

little worries i like to draw things.

The art of SSIN.
Take a look at the artists website and discover how detailed these layered works are.

Michelle Jane Lee’s art is minimalist in form yet muscular in content. There is a complexity, density . . .to put it simply, there is a lot of heart in her often times sparse drawings and paintings. Like a kid in the sandbox with limitless imagination, she builds, telling us stories with images because language fails here, showing us a myriad of ways to be and belong in the world.

A selfportrait with all our friends

Passive aggressive love notes and other unmentionable things

.Radical.! i make things.

This image of the male sex organ of a flowering plant took first place in Nikon’s annual Small World photomicrography competition this year.

Chosen for both its scientific and artistic qualities from among a record 2,000 entries, this image was captured by Estonian scientist Heiti Paves. (via)

See 137 contributions of this year’s competition at Nikon small-world and check out the small-world winners from 1977-2009.

Originally discovered on the blog Redundancy is Redundant, Eric Rondepierre’s gorgeous and inspiring manipulations of old cinematic images. More of Rondpierre’s work can be found on his website.

Ernest Concepcion and Mike Estabrook battle each other in time through drawings, known as Kangaroks.Ernest and Mike create a 135 foot long chalk drawing on the walls of the 52nd floor of 7 World Trade Center. It took 4 days to draw.

view video or the photoset on flickr

As the kangaroos rise from the sulphuric dephths, only the flight of the shining mantis can save the world… KANGAROK!!!

These new Mars pics were snapped by the High Resolution (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on August 3. The Orbiter has been studying Mars since 2006, and the new shots below add to a collection of over 1,500 taken by the HiRISE camera since April.

Read more at dailygalaxy and download the images in amazing resolution at HiRISE

Bended Data by Ruud877

JimFromIowa “I’m a professional writer who has come back to art recently after 30+ years away and I’m making up for lost time.”

Jumbo Fruit, explores the underbelly of American culture, reflecting on an age of consumerism and over-stimulation. Using obsessively bold colors, Rob and Christian Clayton generate a tangled myriad of technicolor imagery that stems from the traditional still-life. The brothers transcend convention to create a kaleidoscopic medley of fruits, figures, and objects. (via)

Find all of Wang Tzu-Ting’s works on her flickr: 史黛普．王

Chlorophyll Skin is an experimentation into color, movement, absorption and the body created by artists Lucy McRae and Mandy Smith.

Also take a look at Lucy McRae’s collaborative project with Bart Hess: LucyandBart
They work in a primitive and limitless way creating future human shapes discovering low – tech prosthetic ways for human enhancement.

This was a random find. I believe it’s made by Jane Frazer.
Generous Download in High Resolution. thanks!

Tal R’s Last Drawing Before Mars is a collage of supernova proportions. Bursting with the graphics of primitive special effects, Tal R makes a painting-cum-time machine. Hundreds of tiny clipped figures and consumer ephemera are conjoined in the unifying rays: a Nazi soldier to a gay porn star, a cartoon cat to a chintz lamp. People with no heads or wrong heads and others with skulls merge seamlessly with ugly furniture, sock puppets, tribal sculptures and status-symbol splendour. (via)

Hear from the artist personally what inspired him for his most recent exhibition
“u laugh an ugly laugh” in his 1h videodocumentation

Matthew Palladino is a 22 year old artist from San Francisco. Matthew’s a recent CCA student who dropped out and felt that he’d do alright by educating himself instead. Say hi to Matthew, enjoy his work and what he has to say. Read an Interview with the artist at Fecal Face.

Tadashi Moriyama (b.1979) raised in Japan and moved to the United States.

The stories behind each series are based on themes of creation and subsequent destruction of cities, memories, space and time. The artist uses inspirations and influences from Indian miniature painting, Buddhist and Hindu paintings, 15-16th century Italian painting and Alchemist paintings as well experiences in Tokyo and
New York to build these non-sustainable systems of structures and memory. (via)

Tadashi Moriyama will have a solo show opening October 3rd at
Bonelli Arte Contemporanea, Italy.

Amnesia, Download in High Res

Peripetics is a fantastic experimental CG short. The “piece in six acts” was made by London-based Zeitguised for the opening exhibition at the Zirkel Gallery. (via cartoonbrew, thanks guys!)

(via rhizome.org)

rmember the appartat’s “wall” album artwork? Made by Maria hinze….welcome in a wonderful abstract /structural/organic  way of painting

http://www.mariahinze.com/

also check out Caitlin Gallupe’s masks of human hair:

Emergence - flickrgroup

about:

Emergent properties, behavior and patterns, decentralized systems, complexity, order out of chaos. Please read the wikipedia article on Emergence to get an idea of what this group is about.

The universe is complex. Random assortments of things, coupled with simple rules, can give rise to complex patterns that are sometimes counterintuitive, frequently beautiful, and almost always interesting. Computers allow us to explore the emergent properties of mathematical constructs, for example the Mandelbrot set and the Game of Life. Outside the world of Mathematics, emergent behavior is all-pervasive, yet it is frequently hard to identify. Think about the [lack of central] organization of an ant colony. Think about the flight formation of a flock of geese.

Can you show further examples? Can you help discuss how complex behavior and/or patterns arise from simpler rules?

Boids with predators by mattie_shoes
Flickr Video

Boids is an old programming geek thing to show off swarm behavior. Essentially, you make a bunch of artificial birds (boids, ha!) and make each one follow very simplistic rules.
1) try and stay towards the center of the group
2) avoid hitting your neighbors
3) try and match velocities with your neighbors
Assuming the rules are set up correctly, your flock of boids will behave similarly to real flocks of birds.

In Jeu (2006) the filmmaker sets the viewer down in a landscape whose scenery constantly morphs and mutates. This helter-skelter world evokes the chaos of modern life. A film without words.
Technique: Paint on cells

more animated films by Georges Schwizgebel:

Ravissement de Frank N Stein 1982

78 Tours 1985

Find a huge collection of Georges Schwizgebel’s animations on panfrek’s youtube channel

 

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BOXCLOCK Fullscreen

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