Art is present (10)
Sunday, March 20th, 2011 Posted in ... Other | No Comments »Brian Detmer carves art out of old books. He folds and bends the pages, and cuts them out to create sculptures like this: Tomoko Shioyasu takes huge sheets of synthetic paper and cuts away at it: See the blog post at My ...
The water is smoking
Saturday, March 19th, 2011 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »In two earlier posts I shared many things that people do with two famous classicial pieces: The Flight of the Bumblebee by Rimsky-Korsakoff, and the O Fortuna ouverture from Karls' Orffs Carmina Burana (two posts). But the same things happen with ...
Le Flâneur (Paris on fast forward)
Friday, March 18th, 2011 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »Maybe it's time to visit the city of lights again... Watch it full screen in HD. Enjoy! This video is composed completely of photographs. It was made byLuke Shepard, a student at The American University of Paris. Check out this interview for some ...
Pale blue spice
Thursday, March 17th, 2011 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »Carl Sagan became famous (among other things) with his text about the "pale blue dot". The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken in 1990 by Voyager 1 from a distance of over 6 billion kilometers: Old Spice ...
Pray the Devil Back to Hell
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011 Posted in Taking a stand | No Comments »Liberia has been in a civil war from 1989. By 2002 over 200000 people had died, and one third of the population was displaced. This 2008 documentary is the story of a group of woman who at that time said ...
What Pi Sounds Like
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »If you count musical notes as numbers, and then start playing pi (Michael John Blake), this is what happens: It sounds remarkably well. How would that come? Do our ears/brains make harmonic sequences, are we able to memorize 30 notes... ?
The placebo effect
Monday, March 14th, 2011 Posted in Smart thinking | No Comments »A lot of studies have been done over time about the working of placebo's (for a starting point, follow the links below the Wikipedia article on placebos). This video nicely sums up some of the effects placebo's have: Created by: Daniel ...
Art is present (9)
Sunday, March 13th, 2011 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »How did these artists ever come up with these ideas? Michael Kalish made a three-dimensional sculpture of heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali using 1,300 sand bags, hanging from 10 kilometers of stainless steel cable: He dedicated the website http://www.realizeali.com/ to his ImmortuAlize, visuAlize, ...
Art is present (8)
Saturday, March 12th, 2011 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »Creativity on a small scale: Scott Bain's Micromachina sculptures use hollowed-out beetles and other bugs, together with tiny dolls: Anatoly Konenko from Omsk (Russia) has built the world’s smallest aquarium (with live fish): Konenko started making microminiatures in 1981. He wrote ...
Art is present (7)
Friday, March 11th, 2011 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »Creativity on the wall: David Walker makes these beautiful graffiti portraits: Eric Grohe creates realistic wall murals and architectural facades: You can add paint to a wall, but you can also make portraits by removing material. That's how Portuguese street artist ...
