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modernate: Creating a three-dimensional world out of...

Mon, 28 May 2012 02:24:46 -0400

Creating a three-dimensional world out of two-dimensional drawings, David Spriggs masterfully recreates galaxies in all their glory. Along with his celestial collection of clouds, stars, and meteors, Spriggs also produces what look to be free-flowing alien-like life forms.

These spatial images are created through the combination of painting, drawing, photography, digital media, and sculpture. Topographical cross-sections of a subject are painted or drawn onto sheets of transparent film. Sheets are then specifically spaced and hung apart to reveal the appearance of three-dimensional forms in a state of suspension.

modernate: Glasgow-based artist Jim Lambie can transform any...

Mon, 28 May 2012 02:22:57 -0400

modernate:

Glasgow-based artist Jim Lambie can transform any space into a visual delight with his geometric tape designs. Using everyday vinyl tape, he creates angles and lines of contrasting colors that suggest movement and optical illusions. He can convert a once empty and quiet room into a space filled with energy. As viewers enter a converted space, they instantly have a visual interaction with the artwork.

Video

Mon, 21 May 2012 13:28:03 -0400

sonidiario: float radius = 500; float radius2= 500; float...

Sun, 20 May 2012 17:48:49 -0400

sonidiario:

float radius = 500;

float radius2= 500;

float step_rad = 0.1;

int centX = 250;

int centY = 250;

void setup(){

size(500,500,P3D);

frameRate(30);

background(0);

strokeWeight(2);

smooth();

}

void draw(){

translate(width/3,height/3);

rotateX(centY);

rotateY(radius);

stroke(255,10);

noFill();

ellipse(centX, centY, radius2*2.7, radius2*2.1);

radius2 = radius2 - step_rad;

stroke(255,10);

float x,y;

float lastx = -999;

float lasty = -999;

for(float ang = 0; ang <= 1440; ang+=5){

radius-=0.5;

float rad = radians(ang);

x = centX + (radius2 * cos(rad));

y = centY + (radius2 * sin(rad));

point(x,y);

}

}

showslow: Ernesto Neto works with abstract installations which...

Sun, 20 May 2012 11:30:15 -0400

showslow:

Ernesto Neto works with abstract installations which often take up the entire exhibition space.his materials are gossamer-thin, light,stretchable fabrics in nylon or cotton. like fine membranes fixed to the ceiling by long,stretched threads his works hang down into the room and create shapes that are almost organic. sometimes they are filled with scented spices and hang in tear-shaped forms like gigantic mushrooms or huge stockings,sometimes he creates peculiar soft sculptures which the visitor is allowed to feel through small openings in the surface. he also creates spatial labyrinths which the visitor can enter and thereby experience the work and interact with it.

rikaorlanda: Rubinke Maria

Sun, 20 May 2012 11:29:44 -0400

rikaorlanda:

Rubinke Maria

showslow: Leo Burnett

Sun, 20 May 2012 11:29:14 -0400

showslow:

Leo Burnett

teachertots: via All That Is Interesting

Sun, 20 May 2012 11:28:29 -0400

teachertots:

via All That Is Interesting

alecshao: Jorge Mendez Blake - El Castillo (The Castle), 2008

Sun, 20 May 2012 11:21:18 -0400

alecshao:

Jorge Mendez Blake - El Castillo (The Castle), 2008

beconinriot: Moon Bridge in Taiwan by bbe022001

Sat, 19 May 2012 21:37:59 -0400

beconinriot:

Moon Bridge in Taiwan by bbe022001

(via Thomas Hämén)

Thu, 17 May 2012 12:49:48 -0400

(via Thomas Hämén)

Photo

Mon, 14 May 2012 00:45:15 -0400

(via Captain Blood and the unfortunate amputee)

Sun, 13 May 2012 22:03:58 -0400

(via Captain Blood and the unfortunate amputee)

Video

Sun, 13 May 2012 21:59:02 -0400

explorans: Aakash Nihalani

Sun, 13 May 2012 18:30:33 -0400

explorans:

Aakash Nihalani

explorans: Nicholas Alan Cope

Sun, 13 May 2012 18:30:25 -0400

explorans:

Nicholas Alan Cope

explorans: Theater Series by Franck Bohbot

Sun, 13 May 2012 18:30:17 -0400

explorans:

Theater Series by Franck Bohbot

explorans: In his second year of neuroscience grad school, Greg...

Sun, 13 May 2012 18:27:08 -0400

explorans:

In his second year of neuroscience grad school, Greg Dunn was moonlighting with a different kind of experiment: blowing ink across pieces of paper. The neuron-like pattern it formed was instantly recognizable to him as a neuroscientist. “Ink spreads because it wants to go in the direction of less resistance, and that’s probably also the case of when branches grow or neurons grow,” he says. “The reason the technique works really well is because it’s directly related to how neurons are actually behaving.”

Dunn calls this the “fractal solution to the universe,” which he sees as the “fundamental beauty of nature.” He’s fascinated that this branching pattern holds true across orders of magnitude, whether that’s nanometers for neurons, centimeters for ink, or meters for a tree branch.

Since graduating with his PhD last fall, Dunn has continued to spend his days with neurons—big, golden ones ten thousand times the size of neurons in your brain. The former University of Pennsylvania grad student now creates paintings of neurons for a living.

typeworship: Ligature, Bart Overly, 1995 This architect...

Sun, 13 May 2012 14:51:05 -0400

typeworship:

Ligature, Bart Overly, 1995

This architect designed ligature is constructed to form a solid block from the two letterforms.
It would be interesting to see this reproduced with today’s 3D printing technology.

shudaily: New York by shudaily. Just something quick I made,...

Sun, 13 May 2012 14:50:03 -0400

shudaily:

New York by shudaily. Just something quick I made, haven’t touched photoshop or anything design related in a while. Lemme know what you think.