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No Way Home: Buildings Float Into the Sky

Wednesday 11.09.2011 , Posted by

Homes and apartments float away into the cloudy skies in photographer Rafa Zubiría’s dreamy architectural shots. Living and working around San Sebastián in Spain’s Basque Country, his series “No Way Home” finds a perfect balance between reality and the Photoshopped alternate, leaving the viewer to focus more on where the buildings are going than how they got to floating. The images remind me of a much less chaotic version of Röyksopp’s music video for What Else Is There. See more of Zubiría’s work at rafazubiria.es [Read more...]

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The White Soldiers: Artistic Discourse in the Holy Land

Tuesday 11.08.2011 , Posted by

White from head to toe, dressed in full combat gear he patrols the streets of Jerusalem, Palestinian and Israeli settlements: Yehuda Brown, a former Israeli soldier turned artist, is performing an ongoing piece entitled The White Soldier. The stark monochromatic brightness of his appearance raises strikingly varied reactions from the people he meets. The white can symbolize a range of ideas, from purity to surrender or even a deathly angel; while the charged image of a soldier can correlate to “control, sovereignty, security and oppression.” It’s a striking cause for discourse about the collision, both social and militarily, between the Palestinian and Israeli world [Read more...]

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Ethereal Dreams: Paintings by Justin Lovato

Tuesday 11.08.2011 , Posted by

Justin Lovato’s paintings reside within the primordial ooze of dreams, which see his subjects always shifting, always changing. A working artist from Sacramento he finds himself currently residing in Berkley, California. Of his latest show This Too Shall Pass he waxes poetic: “The temporary nature of all things seen, a certainty among an environment of discord and antagonistic uncertainty on the great blue dot, earth [Read more...]

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Tearing Through: Portraits by Bec Wonders

Tuesday 11.08.2011 , Posted by

Like personalities tearing off their external masks, these wild portraits reveal the person inside the person. Bec Wonders, the talent behind these works and the face you see above, has combined her excellent, moody portrait photography with paint in this new experimental series. This is an up and coming artist to watch, see much more of her work at becwonders.blogspot.com [Read more...]

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Japanese Posters Teach Chemical Warfare Safety

Tuesday 11.08.2011 , Posted by

With the outbreak of the Japan-China War in 1937 and the threat of airstrikes a real likelihood on Japanese soil, these posters from 1938 were created by the government to educate the public about the new Anti-Aircraft Defense Law. According to Pink Tentacle, the law “required citizens to take protective measures against gas attacks and prepare for disinfection, evacuation and relief.” Included in the informative posters, which look a lot like predecessors to airline safety brochures, are instructions for creating your own quick emergency mask, how to evacuate the area and treat patients wounded with mustard gas [Read more...]

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Victorian Portraits Gone Wild

Monday 11.07.2011 , Posted by

A hidden treasure trove of long lost imagery, recalling a past when man and beast lived peaceably together in fine victorian surroundings: maybe that is the Grand Ole Bestiary. Then again, it could be a stylish little shop over at Etsy that peddles a fine collection of anthropomorphic imagery custom made using photoshop and a lot of love. Swing by the shop, where you can get your own affordable print ($8-$20) to entertain guests at your next parlor room tea time [Read more...]

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Brilliant: App Predicts Weather for the Near Future

Monday 11.07.2011 , Posted by

We’ve all had plans to do something outdoors during a day when the weather prediction says 90% chance of rain… but when is that rain going to hit? Now, an in development app called Black Sky aims to answer that question, and look beautiful in the process [Read more...]

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Occupy Art: Protesters Captured on Newsprint

Monday 11.07.2011 , Posted by

Using the very newspapers where stories of the Occupy movement are being printed, self-trained UK artist Guy Denning has been doing frequent drawings of members of the 99%. Capturing the spirit of the movement, from sadness to strength and rage, his pieces on newsprint and boxes capture the uniquely global protest which continues to garner attention and raise questions about the roll of corporations in world politics. See more of this excellent artists work (including a host of non-Occupy related pieces) at Flickr or on his Facebook page [Read more...]

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When Were Words Popular? PopSci Archive Explorer

Saturday 11.05.2011 , Posted by

If you’ve ever wondered about the popularity of topics through time, this new interactive archive of Popular Science magazine is just the thing. With the help of a team at Google, the entire catalog of 1,563 Popular Science issues starting at the magazines inception in 1872 has been archived, creating a set of mineable data totaling 1.35-gigabytes. By using both a visual calendar and a circular animation of dates, users of the new Archive Explorer can see when words and terms were popular based on the number of times they appeared in that month issue. Especially interesting is observing when words like “internet” and “communist” came into use. Check it out for yourself at popsci.com [Read more...]

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Emotionally Vague: A Graphical Survey of Feelings

Saturday 11.05.2011 , Posted by

Just what do our emotions look like? It’s a simple question with extremely complex answers. Emotionally Vague, an interesting and extensive project to graphically display how our emotions look and feel in our body, surveyed 35 different countries to get to the bottom of the question [Read more...]

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