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Russian Matchbox Covers Celebrate Fall Colors

Saturday 11.05.2011 , Posted by

Eastern Europe adopted modern design in the 50′s and 60′s like no other area of the world. From architecture to propaganda posters, the modern and minimalist aesthetic was everywhere. One of the common places these designs found a home was on the matchbox covers of the general public. In communist countries, propaganda for the space race was popular, but so were public health announcements about alcohol abuse, hygiene and safety on the roads… in the case of the labels displayed here, the simple message was to enjoy the beautiful outdoor colors of autumn [Read more...]

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Totems: The Exaggerated Streets of Shanghai

Friday 11.04.2011 , Posted by

This new photo series, titled “Totems” from French photographer Alain Delorme, has captured a documentary style feel of Chinese society and the smaller trades that take place on the streets of Shanghai. His photos depict a sunny Shanghai and encompass the typical people one would find about the city — running errands, walking to work, small street vendors — mixed together with workers of superhuman abilities and strengths, moving monumental amounts of “Made in China” goods throughout the city [Read more...]

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Your Brain: Introduction to the Default Mode Network

Friday 11.04.2011 , Posted by

Do you ever wonder what your brain is doing when you space out? Doctors around the world are looking into what happens when our minds go on “Default Mode” and, as this video points out, the findings are pretty surprising. Not only does activity go up in many quieter regions of the brain, but they may serve surprisingly important purposes. With the more we learn about the quieting of the brain, the more practices like meditation or simply spacing out in the shower look like they are good things for your head [Read more...]

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288,000 Jelly Beans, 22 Months, 1 Music Video

Friday 11.04.2011 , Posted by

Internet music sensation Kina Grannis put in some serious time on her latest video, 22 months and 1357 hours to be exact. Inspired by the jelly bean “paintings” that have been floating around the net for a while, director Greg Jardin wanted to make the idea more animated. They ultimately used a well rounded pallet of 288,000 candies for the piece, keeping 30 people busy creating it. Grannis spent hours laying on a glass table while individual photographs where taken to create the stop motion animation. Although easier techniques exist, no CGI or green screen was involved. Hear more of Grannis’ music on youtube [Read more...]

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A Breathing Sea Sculpture: Guardian of the Hole

Thursday 11.03.2011 , Posted by

This new sculpture by Korean artist U-Ram Choe is beautiful to behold, but it’s far more than meets the eye. The peacefully decaying body of a seal like animal rests on the sea floor, kelp like forms growing from its body… then it begins to move. Using a fascinating internal mechanism, the animal gently breaths; its forest of kelp delicately waving above [Read more...]

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Rebel Surf Photography by Keegan Gibs

Thursday 11.03.2011 , Posted by

Keegan Gibbs is a photographer and artist who embodies southern California’s surf punk aesthetic. His photos beautifully capture his friends waxing boards, suiting up for surf sessions before catching waves and generally being awesome. In his most intimate photographic moments, he captures a surfer covered in weather beaten tattoos, holding a beautiful new baby. Not limited strictly to surf culture, his photos also capture the gutter punk lifestyle: kids with Gatorade colored hair, hitting up the county fair, running amok, spitting off the ferris wheel and being enamored in young love. These moments, when photographed by Keegan, stop you dead in your tracks and cause you to stick around for a sun bleached minute [Read more...]

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Baroque.me: An Interactive Look at Bach’s Prelude

Thursday 11.03.2011 , Posted by

The last time we mentioned Alexander Chen he had converted the New York subway map into an interactive stringed instrument. Continuing the musical theme, he’s now taken the iconic prelude to Bach’s Cello Suites No. 1 and made an interactive visualization you can mess around with until the tune’s completely “Baroque.” The orbiting dots pluck the strings, like a rotating music box. You can grab and throw the nodes off track using your pointer, then watch as they slowly regain their orbit and the tune its rhythm. See the video at the bottom or head to Baroque.me to play with history [Read more...]

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A World Drawn Together by Dots

Thursday 11.03.2011 , Posted by

Student designer/artist Miharu Mitsunaga has created a series of stunning portraits and photographs by covering her subjects with a multitude of tiny hand-painted dots. Her architecturally based series, titled “Ten-Ten” (dots in Japanese), symbolically illustrates the bond between man, woman, family, friend, adult, child and nationality through covering spaces with mostly red dots in her signature pattern. Her series “Graduation Work,” takes the concept one step further covering subjects with linear white dots across their bodies, effectively creating a union across perceived differences in culture, race, sex and age. Beautiful. [Read more...]

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Sculptures from One Sheet of Paper

Wednesday 11.02.2011 , Posted by

Popping out of a single sheet of white paper, these sculptures push the limit of possibility in paper arts. Artist Peter Callesen uses only a knife and folds to create amazingly detailed 3D scenes, leaving the empty space on the flat page as reminders of how the shapes where created (sometimes from surprising shapes). See a huge collection of Callesen’s work at petercallesen.com [Read more...]

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Balloons of Bhutan: Stories of a Nations Happiness

Wednesday 11.02.2011 , Posted by

The country of Bhutan has a unique interpretation of what makes their nation a success: instead of focusing on the countries Gross National Product, a concept mostly unrelated to a populations well being, since 1972 they have officially focused on “Gross National Happiness.” Now renowned traveling story collector Jonathan Harris has put together an inspiring website of his 2007 project Balloons of Bhutan. Harris traveled the Himalayan kingdom giving out balloons and capturing a storied portrait of the nations happiness [Read more...]

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