night photography like strange days

This guys website is a bit slow to slog through but the photos have such a strange and beautiful quality it's worth it to take a look.

http://www.imagesofnight.com/



splash
Originally uploaded by julietred.

visualize a city of cell phone usage

http://senseable.mit.edu/projects/graz/graz.htm#rtgraz

Beautiful.

monstercrochet.com

try this url for the crochet vegtables: monstercrochet.com

crocheted vegtables

check out this site: http://www.monstercrochet.com/VLA.html

she's crocheting vegtables!

A self sustaining city!

http://www.inhabitat.com/entry_487.php#body

rubber band art

These are so lovely. The costumes though, are strange.

from popgadget

definitely buying it

http://www.colorcalm.com/

It's a dvd of relaxing videos. A little new age-y. But after the week I've had I could use some ohm time. I did the preview in green. Aparently there is a lot more to it. For more go to mocoloco

a film that feels scultptural

http://www.anthonymccall.com/pg2.html

so totally and completely true

Via DailyKos

SUBTLE SAFETY RING

It's brass knuckles for women. Cooool.

http://www.redstartdesign.com/SubtleSafety.html

making slick looking books for cheap

Nice paper, nice binding and a clean layout design. All for cheap:

http://www.qoop.com/

If you create a free flicker account and upload your photos you can have books or posters made very cheaply through qoop.

Flickr:

http://flickr.com

Flickr is very handy for putting images online. It's easy to use. And free.

having ideas

http://www.ideagenerationmethods.com/

A catalog of ways of generating ideas. Nice.

mia friedrich

http://www.miafriedrich.info/index.html

very photoshop. nice though. moody.

how long will you live?

Ok. This is another one that isn't for the eyes. But it is interesting.

http://gosset.wharton.upenn.edu/~foster/mortality/perl/CalcForm.html

Answer the questions and learn how long you will live. After you get your score you can analyze your problem areas to know exactly how much life you are loosing to them. Interesting.

recycled materials as art (for sale)

http://www.elsewares.com/commerce/index.php?cPath=4_163

collective nouns

This isn't imagery but it strikes me as being visual.

Posted by Pete Cleppe on the CSUSB bulletin board:

You know about a covey of quail & a herd of buffalo otherwise known as collective nouns. But what collective nouns do we use for a group of taxi cabs, computer mice, lawyers, etc. Here are some suggestions:

a whatever of teenagers
a spider of webmasters
an objection of lawyers
a brief of lawyers.
a circle of geometricians
a wildcard of hackers
a monica of sins
a clutch of mechanics
a stoppit of parents
a drove of taxi cabs
a wad of gum-chewers
a clique of computer mice
an imelda of shoes
a grab-bag of purse-snatchers
a ______ of nihilists
a giggle of girls
a somephony of music critics
an ear of colonels
a duke of URLs

stereo speakers like sculptures

http://mocoloco.com/archives/001380.php

A zoomed-in view of words related to flowers

http://loop.aiga.org/resources/loop/loop9/colorproject/index.html

Someone scripted a code to collect what color each word was given on the internet and averaged the results to give 33,000 words their own color.

It took a really long time to run, even with a broadband connection, a fast processor and lots of ram. But there is a image gallery of some results.

an alphabet of logic

A very interesting article. Of course anything that starts, "...a journey of wonder and obsession that would eventually lead to the invention of a radically new notation for logic," has got to be good.

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/18/crystal.php

airport carpet like from above

http://www.gizmag.com/linktous/4219/

The carpet design comes from aerial photos of the area. So perfect for an airport.

friction and gravity

Tara Donovan
Untitled (styrofoam cups)
http://mocoloco.com/art/archives/001293.php

I really like the styrofoam cups, so light and voluptous. But I found a nice discussion of her work. See quote from Art Moco:

"Donovan has used materials as banal as plastic drinking straws, fishing wire, paper plates, tar paper, Styrofoam cups, wooden toothpicks, tempered glass and steel pins in her fascinating installations, quite often relying on friction and gravity to keep the piece together."

Linda, she has a light effervescent touch like you.

so so so so cool

http://www.elsewares.com/commerce/index.php

a site where you can buy artist created items. so each artist doesn't have to have a commerce site. a great idea and a good looking site.

walker art center website

http://www.walkerart.org/index.wac

nice clean design. personable. not a bunch of fancy flash, just one flash element at the top.

picasso for sale

http://www.costco.com/Browse/Productgroup.aspx?prodid=11048740&whse=BC&topnav=&cat=21527&hierPath=20162*21525*

I found this link on Tyler Green's art journal blog: http://www.artsjournal.com/man/

He's pretty funny about it.

Art at Costco

So... Next time you're at Costco, pick up a case of toilet paper and a Picasso. A 1958 drawing by Picasso can be yours for just $129,999.99.

My favorite things:

The Costco-ization of the price.

The text is hilarious: Picasso is "most renowned for pioneering the Blue and Pink Period." Really. So who exactly followed him into this Blue and Pink Period?

Important, historical and collectible, the art presented here is museum quality fine art created by the greatest masters of the past century." Really. Masters? What 'Masters' helped Picasso with this drawing.

On Picasso's daughter Maya: "She is the world's utmost authority." Really. So let's ask her where in Iraq the WMD were. And about cold fusion, too.

What makes me happy is that Costco is truly selling everything now. Cars, coffins and picasso. Good for them. They pay their workers well, treat them decently. The CEO only makes 10x the average employee's wage rather than 1000x like at walmart. And their stock prices are solid.

I am in the 98%

I can't figure this out. Can you?

http://www.coudal.com/thefish.php

I found this on the coudal site. Here's their text:

Whose Fish?
By Albert Einstein (maybe)

This brainteaser, reportedly written by Einstein is difficult and Einstein said that 98% of the people in the world could not figure it out. Which percentage are you in?

There are five houses in a row in different colors. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. The five owners drink a different drink, smoke a different brand of cigar and keep a different pet, one of which is a Walleye Pike.

The question is-- who owns the fish?

Hints:
1. The Brit lives in the red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The green house is on the left of the white house.
5. The green house owner drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Malls keeps birds.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhills.
8. The man living in the house right in the center drinks milk.
9. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
10. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the one who smokes Dunhills.
12. The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Princes.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.

There are no tricks, pure logic will get you the correct answer. And yes, there is enough information to arrive at the one and only correct answer.
If you get the correct answer, congratulations, you are one of the exclusive group of 121,348,731 people in the world who can.

zoom

This zooming swoop through space made my jaw drop. I just loved it. Don't read anything about it just watch.

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/

natalie jeremijenko

"a straw story"

this flexible plastic honecomb was born in an independant reserch project with Jeremijenko at the yale school of architecture.

for you linda

I thought you'd like the piece and also the title.

Janice Caswell

"Big sky open road" (detail)

http://www.artnet.com/artwork/424105104/janice-caswell--big-sky-open-road-detail.html

via artnet

we are family

Patricia Piccinini

Some nice installation pieces. One I especially liked on breathing.

http://www.patriciapiccinini.net

via conscientious

photo's with text removed

An interesting idea. Photo with text removed on left, the text which has been removed on the right. It's called "The Untitled Project."

http://www.siberart.com/untitled%20pages/untitled22.html

link from typographica

Show featuring video at Calif. State Fullerton

http://www.grandcentralartcenter.com/

interesting interactivity in website

Very graphic. Follow the projects link. Then, I'm not sure if I like the way you close each portfolio item. I don't think it's quite intuitive. It stays gray with the word "close" covering it until you move the cursor off the image. What do you think?

http://www.basitkhan.com/

four photographers, same subject

"Three internationally renowned photographers were commissioned to divulge the story of centuries old borgen ('farm-castles') and churches. These are Machiel Botman (Netherlands, 1955), Andreas Gefeller (Germany, 1970) and Terri Weifenbach (USA, 1957). The commission was also given to Marco Wiegers (Netherlands, 1973), a local talent that graduated from Academy Minerva.

What binds the four photographers is their fascination with locations and their talent in luring a hidden atmosphere from them. Nature and heritage, be it in different ways, play a big role for all of them."

— Website introduction

http://www.noorderlicht.com/eng/projects/current/index.html


Marco Wiegers

Machiel Botman


Terri Weifenbach

nice color and form

http://www.altphotos.com/Gallery.aspx?&a=MemberGallery&memberid=3360

Marzena Gregier

http://www.artshidden, subversive art on tv

"With the ultimate goal of involving the television audience, the GALA Committee placed numerous props and set pieces in camera's view, which were then broadcast to an international audience of millions. Although the artworks were not intended to subvert or parody the series, the characters and stories often provided an opportunity to create pieces which addressed topics like gender, infectious diseases, violence, environmental devastation and global conflict. The exhibition sidestepped editorial posturing and aimed instead to infiltrate and transform the medium, reinventing television with interpretive, interactive possibilities. Simultaneously, the GALA Committee moved public art into the most broadly communicative context possible."

-excerp from the 'GALA' site

http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/projects/mpart/about/about_frames.html

Signs using helvetica

http://typographi.com/001009.php

The institute for visual culture photo is a nice chuckle.

daily dose

here's the link to the daily dose guy in canada: http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/archives/photos_skyscapes/050615_1198.shtml

airport security xray camera images

i found this on the 'conscientious' site and think its pretty interesting stuff. i wonder how he obtained these? do you think he works for airport security?

http://www.lmi.com.mx/galeria/malejo/

beautiful loading gallery site (and interesting artist)

http://mariangoodman.com/mg/nyc.html

very engaging cellphone photos!

(and thanks so much on the info on the hyperbolic geometry!)

a moisturizer without glycerin

i just wrote to this lab to ask them exactly how their moisturizer works. on their site they say it's made for people who live in the desert! i've been looking for years and years! i just had to let you know cause i'm so excited. i'll let you know what they say if they write back.

http://www.colonialchem.com/COLAMOIST%20200.html

Another Cell Phone Photographer

http://www.hupix.net/index.html

cheeky photographer

http://www.chrisbuck.com/

I never thought I'd like a photo of donald trump. But here it is. Very smart. Creepy and fake. So The Donald.

more from the art of science competition

http://www.princeton.edu/artofscience/gallery/view.php%3Fid=40.html

I love these pieces. They are so beautiful and are functional.

the haze of the salton sea

http://www.marktucker.com/r_saltonsea/intro.html

from conscientious

x ray photographer

a conch shell

http://www.nickveasey.com/nickveasey.html

There is an odd one of people on a bus. Which if you read about it is actually one corpse being repositioned again and again. The conch shell is very beautiful.

link from Kottke

an interesting article on hyperbolic geometry

Ok. This one has a nice visual – the crocheted model of pseudosphere (the hyperbolic equiabvalent of a cone) – but I'm really posting this for you Linda because the article is pretty interesting.

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/16/crocheting.php

This one is on another interesting online magazine called Cabinet Magazine.

visually interactive poetry

http://www.bornmagazine.org/projects/night_highway/

born magazine is an interesting project which teams visual artists with poets. Nice.

the hyena people of nigeria

http://www.ak47.tv/008/the_hyena_people_of_nigeria/

The way the photographer is being looked at in these photo's is so uneasy.

strange mechanical drawings

eric feng

http://www.feric.com/

The bird one is so odd. A strange mix.

clean elegant web and product design

www.normann-copenhagen.com

Daily Dose

Be sure to check out the 'dailydose' guys photo site. He is such an incredible photographer. No matter what he's photographing it turns out interesting? How the heck does he do it?

Link To A Lovely Site/Lovely Photographes

http://www.pfephoto.com/enter.htm

on pantheism

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pantheism/#PaT

on pantheism

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pantheism/#PaT">http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pantheism/#PaT

art of science

http://www.princeton.edu/artofscience/gallery/index.html

The first annual art of science exhibit at princeton. This image is the wake created by a plate pitching back and forth. Quite beautiful.

more art of science

The Rock Blooms

James Nehlsen GS
Department of Chemical Engineering
This unique semi-organic mineral structure is the result of a slow chemical reaction. The reaction occurs spontaneously between alkanethiols, which are simple sulfur-containing organic compounds, and lead oxide. Here, the oxide is a surface coating on a coil of metallic lead wire that forms naturally in moist air. The structure consists of layers of lead alkanethiolates, a stable compound that is solid at room temperature and has a distinct yellow color. The layers grow outwards from the surface of the wire as the reaction proceeds, curling into “petals.” But be careful, beautiful though it may be, this “flower” is toxic. The structure grows slowly upward as the wire is uncoiled by the growing petals, eventually filling the jar in which the reaction occurs. This structure took more than a week to grow. A less delicate but faster growing form of this material can be used to remove polluting sulfur compounds from gasoline during the refining process.

still more art of science

Driven
Anton Darhuber, Benjamin Fischer and Sandra Troian
Microfluidic Research and Engineering Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering
SECOND PRIZE WINNER
This image illustrates evolving dynamical patterns formed during the spreading of a surface-active substance (surfactant) over a thin liquid film on a silicon wafer. After spin-coating of glycerol, small droplets of oleic acid were deposited. The usually slow spreading process was highly accelerated by the surface tension imbalance that triggered a cascade of hydrodynamic instabilities. Such surface-tension driven flow phenomena are believed to be important for the self-cleaning mechanism of the lung as well as pulmonary drug delivery.

cool and composed photo essay

A beautifully composed photo essay with a very cool emotional tone by Mary Farmilant .

http://www.maryfarmilant.com/portfolio?c=columbus+hospital&p=49

art and website work the same

http://www.boygirlparty.com/illustration/

susie ghahremani

Her website promoting her art looks and feels like her art.

quiet, strong composition of ordinary details

stefan steinbrecher

http://stefansteinbrecher.de/index.htm

street photog

good photos and a great story.

This guy Gary Stochl just took pictures for years completely on his own. No connection to the art world. Then he finally shows the work for consideration he brings 100's of them loose in a shopping bag.

http://www.americanplaces.org/CAPgallery/gary/garyindex.html

Beautiful stark light and bold compositions.

Gerard Laurenceau.

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/gerard.laurenceau/index.htm

childlike gentle illustrations

http://www.isabellearsenault.com/

I really like her color palette. And her sense of whimsey.

bonsai

http://www.andyrutledge.com/worlds2/decid1.html

Some of the bonsai photo's are just lovely.

nice black and white landscape photos

http://www.billschwab.com/

spock is a photog

http://www.leonardnimoyphotography.com

he has some really sensual stuff. quite beautiful.

beautiful product design

wow. it's a computer kiosk. make sure to click and drag on the image so the vr works.

http://www.iwoodkiosk.com/vr.html

funky illustrator

takes forever to load but worth it.

http://www.jonasbergstrand.com/