Tag: art

Stops Along the Way

Artist Jennifer Bolande  created Visible Distance / Second Sight  for the 2017 Desert X biennial exhibition in the Coachella Valley:

“In a cinematic experience animated by driving along Gene Autry Trail, viewers will encounter a series of billboards featuring photographs of the very mountains towards which they are heading. Each photograph is unique to its position along this route and at a certain point as one approaches each billboard, perfect alignment with the horizon will occur thus reconnecting the space that the rectangle of the billboard has interrupted. In the language of billboard advertising this kind of reading is referred to as a Burma-Shave.“

[Found here, via here.]

Tree of Sorrow

[Found here.]

Five Bugs and a Snail

OH, wonder I much about what this book contains !
Can Insects talk and do they have brains ?
I always thought that these queer little things
Were made up entirely of legs, wings and stings.

[From Comic Insects by The Rev. F.A.S. Reid, illustrated by Berry F. Berry, London, 1872. Found via here; click for larger images. ]

Food with Hands

The New York Times Magazine asked artists Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari to interpret the 1971 Betty Crocker Recipe Card Library. While photographing the dishes, Cattelan said they styled the food “with humor and without mercy.”

Published in the NYT Magazine Food Issue, 11 November 2015.
[Found here, more about it here, and there’s a video.]

Screen Test

Tela habitada, Helena Almeida (1976)

[Found here.]

A Busy Guy

[Images from a video of a rock stacker found here.]

Indehiscent Hot Links

Un dimanche (Jubivillad), Kurt Seligmann, 1938.

Jamaica Ska, Byron Lee & The Dragonaires (1964) Byron Aloysius St. Elmo Lee formed the Dragonaires while attending St. George’s College in the early 1950s. Originally playing mento Jamaican music, they expanded into calypso, soca, rock steady, reggae and ska. Their recording of Jamaica Ska was covered by Fishbone (with Annette Funicello) in the 1987 schlock comedy Back to the Beach.

Dee’s.

Tater.

Buttons.

Flocking.

VW Trailer.

The Crusher.

Finding Ernie.

The carbon race.

Medical artwork.

Bulbs and tubes.

Pretty DemSocs.

Cyriak’s Sea Life.

The Whiz Monster.

RIP Yayoi Kusama.

Helen and Marilyn.

Eleven Implosions.

CNN’s Greatest Hits.

A bunch of bouncing balls.

Claymation sculpting timelapse.

Unexpected visitors [via Everlasting Blört].

Boys just want to have fun [via Thompson, blog].

Interactive Tibetan monastery bunkroom [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image found here: Un dimanche (Jubivillad), Kurt Seligmann, 1938.]

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The .Gif Friday Post No. 970 – Horizontal Control, Bimbo’s Initiation & All Frequencies

The second was culled from Bimbo’s Initiation (1931).
[Found here, here and here.]

Harvest House

Argentinian artist Leandro Erlich suspended the model house, called Pulled by the Roots, above the construction site for a new underground tram system in the southern German city of Karlsruhe. “In the modern era, we are tempted to see human innovation as inorganic and divorced from the natural world,” said Erlich. “The speed of technology and the increasingly virtual dimension in which many of us we live only encourages this tendency to separate our inventions from the earth that sustains us.”

In other words, human activity is part of nature.

[Image found here. Story and more here.]

Animalia Metallica

Tatyana Shubina of St. Petersburg, Russia creates sculptures of birds, fish and other creatures out of scavenged scrap metal.

“Tatyana Shubina‘s studio is located within the Red Triangle factory complex, some of whose buildings are so dilapidated that they’re literally falling on one’s head. This crumbling industrial monster serves as both an inspiring backdrop and an excellent source of materials for Tatyana’s work.

Born in Veliky Novgorod in 1978, she studied at the Rachmaninoff Novgorod Regional College of Arts and the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia in St. Petersburg.  She is a member of the St. Petersburg Union of Artists and the Polyrealism creative association. She is a laureate of the Youth Prize of the President of the Russian Federation.”

[Found via MOBT.]