A definition of love
January 31, 2012 § Leave a comment
Love is kind of like when you see a fog in the morning, when you wake up before the sun comes out. It’s just a little while, and then it burns away… Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
A definition of love by Charles Bukowski.
via Brain Pickings
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Pictograms are forever
January 30, 2012 § Leave a comment
Not only diamonds are forever, pictograms as well. Designer Bryan Lenning has used only pictograms to depict all 24 James Bond films.
Can you guess the titles just by looking at the icons?
via Design Taxi
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The spirit of a city
January 30, 2012 § 1 Comment
To ‘highlight’ human existence and to show the spirit of a wounded city. That was the concept behind Wittner Fabrice‘s Enlightened Souls, a lightpainting project, which begun in May 2011 in Christchurch, New Zealand as an artistic and morale contribution to the 6.3 quake’s aftermath. Now in Hanoi, Vietnam, Wittner Fabrice creates his unique long-exposure photos with lights shone through large cut stencils.
“An interesting way to share ideas and feelings about society and life. After all, this is what street art is made for”, says Fabrice. See more light stencils after the jump. « Read the rest of this entry »
The dark side of a fairy tale
January 26, 2012 § Leave a comment
Not every fairy tale has a happy ending. Thomas Czarnecki’s photographic series From Enchantment to Down reveal a different ending to classic fairy tales heroines.
In each of his photographs, he uses recognizable princesses, such as Cinderella, Red Little Red Ridding Hood, Snowhite, Alice in Wonderland to create dark and complex narratives, revealing, thus, intriguing new ways for how classic fairy tales could have ended.
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Landscape in the mist
January 25, 2012 § Leave a comment
Landscape in the Mist (1988). RIP Theo Angelopoulos
What happened on the internet in 2011?
January 24, 2012 § 1 Comment
We know what happened last year on the internet, but this year? The London design agency Syzygy weaves together “20 greatest, funniest and most insane internet events from 2011.”
Can you recognise them?
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The sky turned blood red
January 18, 2012 § Leave a comment
“I was walking along a path with two friends / the sun was setting / suddenly the sky turned blood red / I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence / there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city / my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety / and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature.”
Edvard Munch, 1893
Not only poems can be animated, as we have seen in our previous post, but paintings as well. Edvard Munch’s The Scream gets a life of its own in this amazing video, created by animation director and graphic artist Sebastian Cosor.
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There’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
January 15, 2012 § Leave a comment
To visualise a poem’s world : what a challenge.
Designer Monika Umba attempts a magical immersion to Bukowski’s world with her mesmerizing animation video of Charles Bukowski’s poem “The Bluebird,” originally published in his 1992 anthology.
The Bluebird
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I’m not going
to let anybody see
you.
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I pur whiskey on him and inhale
cigarette smoke
and the whores and the bartenders
and the grocery clerks
never know that
he’s
in there.
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too tough for him,
I say,
stay down, do you want to mess
me up?
you want to screw up the
works?
you want to blow my book sales in
Europe?
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too clever, I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody’s asleep.
I say, I know that you’re there,
so don’t be
sad.
then I put him back,
but he’s singing a little
in there, I haven’t quite let him
die
and we sleep together like
that
with our
secret pact
and it’s nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don’t
weep, do
you?
via Brainpickings
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First quiz of the year
January 15, 2012 § 1 Comment
Our 2011 ended with a quiz: our last post of 2011 was Stephen Wildish ‘s 1980′s Film Alphabet, a graphic quiz testing our knowledge on pop-culture movies from the 80’s. Today’s post is the first quiz of the year and we decide to go with Stephen Wildish ‘s 1990′s Film Alphabet this time.
You know the procedure: Each letter and a movie title.
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An envelope, my canvas
January 10, 2012 § 1 Comment
An envelope, a canvas to ‘house’ your inspiration?
For Mark Powell envelopes have become the perfect medium to paint his portraits with nothing more than a standard ballpoint pen.
Pretty amazing. Don’t you think?
See more postal art after the jump
Our digital identity
January 10, 2012 § 1 Comment
How many pieces of our personal data are collected everyday by networks?
Michael Rigley creates an amazing motion video tracing the information we feed into the network everyday .
via Quipsologies
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An essence of the past
January 9, 2012 § 2 Comments
As awkward as it sounds, this new year brought us a sense of nostalgia for an era somehow lost. That’s why we got so impressed with Don Hong-Oai‘s contemporary photographs of China, appeared though as age-old paintings or ink drawings on long scrolls.
Using an old Asian photography technique and incorporating traditional calligraphy and elements of traditional Chinese paintings, Hong-Oai creates mind blowing landscapes, “bringing us back” the essence of past decades.
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