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Simon Schubert is a German artist and sculptor.
take a look at his Art With Folded Paper. (via)

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

Exsitu Insitu is the latest animation by artist SAM3 (Granada, Spain) featuring music scored by Endika Currier(San Jose, CA). This work was created on location at Anno Domini during the last 2 weeks of August, 2009 in preparation for the opening of Sam’s debut solo exhibition at the gallery. (via)

wall painted animation

Collages by Devin Troy Strother

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.

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!!!

Ana Botezatu: “I know it’s not such a big thing this dog…but still”

“ideas in my sketchbook for a new Alice in wonderland”

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.

The hungu is an African musical instrument, ancestor of the Brazilian berimbau. Its origins are carried on in an ancient tradition. Inspired by the grace and raw beauty of African rock paintings, Nicolas Brault combines 2D animation on a graphics tablet with the warmth of sand animation, thus uniting modernity and tradition, Brazil and Africa, music and memory.

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!)

Graphic designer Heinz Edelmann, who developed the psychedelic look of the Beatles’ animated 1960s film Yellow Submarine, died on Tuesday, aged 75. The Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, where Edelman taught illustration from 1986 to 1996, confirmed the report of his death by German daily Stuutgarter Nachrichten. AP report here. (via cartoonbrew)

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.

 

 Flash Content: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

BOXCLOCK Fullscreen

more projects by sansumbrella

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Q:  ”Somewhere along the line we’re supposed to figure out that one medium can’t do another’s chores. For instance, a written artist statement can’t stand in for a performative song and dance number. And yet the attempt, however clumsily made or especially if it’s clumsily made can be better than if everything played its assigned role, spoke it’s own language, did what it was best at doing.
Everyone: Arms up, Kick and Kick and Kick, together now, spin around” (via)

“What’s the earliest thing you remember being really into?”
“My mom’s leg. Is that what you mean…? ” Read Interview

The Brian Bress Channel

I ve been following this talented artist since year 2000, James Paterson, based in Montreal, he surprised me 10 years ago while he started to post his fantastic low quality flash animations.

his first website, presstube.com shows his past 10 years work, from little test sketches to sculpture, animation, painting, movies.

He’s also running the great animation website insertsilence.com

this video is an excerpt from ‘I Am A Chain Reaction’ which is one of seven works that make up the dance/animation/programming hybrid project, Smashup, collaboration with Amit Pitaru ( Insertsilence ), and dancer/choreographer Dana Gingras ( Animals of Distinction, The Holy Body Tattoo ). Smashup premiered in its complete form, an hour long performance, at the Festival Transamérique in Montreal in the summer of 2008.

The software component of I Am A Chain Reaction is projected from above and running live during the performance. This is a raw video recording from above and involves no compositing.

Olivia Jeffries’ Website

Not only the colours and shapes of Microorganisms are very inspiring; but also their behaviour. Providing no mutational event occurs the resulting daughter cells are genetically identical to the original cell. Hence, “local doubling” of the bacterial population occurs. Both daughter cells from the division do not necessarily survive. However, if the number surviving exceeds unity on average, the bacterial population undergoes exponential growth. 

the slideshow in the video is a beautiful selection of Hans Bellmer’s work.
if you’d like to look at it with another soundtrack, i would suggest this:

 

 Libertango: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

“I sent my bank manager some of my poetry. He took me to court.”  (more)

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