Wellington, NZ’s Daizy Design is a face-painting studio that does astounding work, as the images here can attest. They also paint pregnant bellies, do custom work for photo shoots, and so on. The rates look pretty reasonable, considering the standard of work on display.
[Wow, so delicate and haunting. -egg] – –
This winter Chicago-based photographer Satoki Nagata produced a series of abstract, black and white street portraits of people caught in the frigid elements. Nagata says that he lights his figures from behind with a flash using a slow shutter speed and doesn’t rely on double exposures or glass reflections as it may appear. The results are some pretty striking photographs of people that look nearly transparent yet appear to be almost perfectly surrounded by a crisp halo of light. Nagata’s primary work centers around documentary photography which is also well worth a look.
Personality trait and predictive Likes, according to the study
High IQ
The Godfather
Lord of the Rings
The Daily Show
Low IQ
Harley Davidson
I Love Being A Mom
Tyler Perry
Emotional stability – neurotic
Emo
Dot Dot Curve
So So Happy
Emotional stability – calm and relaxed
Business administration
Climbing
Getting Money
Homosexual males
Wicked the Musical
No H8 Campaign
Human Rights Campaign
Homosexual Females
Not Being Pregnant
The L Word
Sometimes I Just Lay In Bed and Think About Life
Parents separated at 21
I’m Sorry I Love You
Never Apologize For What You Feel
It’s Like Saying Sorry For Being Real
When Ur Single, All U See Is Happy Couples N Wen Ur In A Relationship All U See Is Happy Singles
Parents did not separate at 21
Apples To Apples: The Helen Keller Card
Gene Wilder
Making Dirty Innuendos Out Of Perfectly Innocent Things
“Facebook users are unwittingly revealing intimate secrets – including their sexual orientation, drug use and political beliefs – using only public “like” updates, according to a study of online privacy. The research into 58,000 Facebook users in the US found that sensitive personal characteristics about people can be accurately inferred from information in the public domain.”
Facebook users unwittingly revealing intimate secrets, study finds | Technology | The Guardian via Jo M.
“We were trying to adapt something that worked in the West to India,” Rahul says, describing his efforts with Onze Technologies. But transplanting mapping software to Indian cities is not a simple feat. “It doesn’t quite work out,” he says.
For one, the landscape is entirely different. Very few urban pockets are laid out in a grid. They’re filled with winding, narrow roads prone to sudden turns and stops. Addresses are often out of order or sight. Streets pop up, change names and add new commercial inhabitants all the time.
Another obstacle is cultural. “People are not used to maps,” Rahul explains. Giving directions in India is an idiomatic art, well-rehearsed and rarely done following formal strictures. He goes on: “I can guarantee you nobody will say, ‘head south.'” Rather than cardinal directions, people will navigate the lost using a series of routes and familiar landmarks.
For a newcomer, the directions (“straight, straight, left”) can be fruitless. And, I soon discovered, they can be just as ineffective for people who share a mother tongue.
Why It’s Nearly Impossible to Make GPS Work for India – Mark Bergen – The Atlantic Cities)
[Not, you know, an actual *library, but still cool. -egg] – –
This subway library has posters of books and scannable barcodes—zap ’em with your phone to get a 10-page preview while you ride!
Wow.
Kevin Champeny “Killing Field” Detail
Kevin Champeny “Killing Field” Detail
Kevin Champeny “Killing Field” Detail
Kevin Champeny “Killing Field” Detail
Kevin Champeny “Killing Field” Detail
Kevin Champeny “Killing Field” Detail
Kevin Champeny “Killing Field” Detail
Kevin Champeny “Killing Field” Detail
Kevin Champeny “Killing Field” Detail
Killing Field, Mosaic Shotgun Shell Portrait Made of Tiny Animal Objects
Hit or miss, but some of it’s really nice, and I like the music. – –
I’m really enjoying these kinetic sculptures by artist Laurent Debraux who works primarily with magnets, metallic objects and ferrofluid. The artist was just exhibiting at the Kinetica Art Fair in London and if you missed it head over to YouTube channel where you can catch over 30 videos of his work.
Los Carpinteros is a Havana-based artist collective currently comprised of Marco Castillo and Dagoberto Rodríguez (a third member, Alexandre Arrechea, left in 2003) who produce a wide range of works including sculpture, installation, and film. My favorite of their works are these lovely abstract paintings of Legos and other structural or architectural pieces. Via Sean Kelly Gallery:
Interested in the intersection between art and society, the group merges architecture, design, and sculpture in unexpected and often humorous ways. They create installations and drawings which negotiate the space between the functional and the nonfunctional. The group’s elegant and mordantly humorous sculptures, drawings, and installations draw their inspiration from the physical world—particularly that of furniture. Their carefully crafted works use humor to exploit a visual syntax that sets up contradictions among object and function as well as practicality and uselessness. For Los Carpinteros, drawing has played an integral role as a mock technical draft or form of a blue print that suggests not only a process of artistic elaboration but also a form of architectural or carpentry plans.
You can explore over 100 of their paintings in high resolution on their website, and don’t miss this interactive 360 degree walkthrough of an exploded room at Hayward Gallery in 2008. (via faith is torment)
It’s hard to visit an art or design blog these days without spotting the illustration work of Estonian artist Eiko Ojala, his Naked series is a great place to get started. The artist works digitally without the aid of 3D software where he draws everything by hand to create landscapes, figures and portraits that look as if they’ve been cut from paper. Most critical are the placement of shadows which Ojala also draws by hand, though via email he admits the complexity occasionally requires the use of photographed shadows which he then incorporates into the illustrations. His latest work is this beautiful Vertical Landscape which is easily one of his most accomplished pieces and I think bodes well for this young illustrator’s career. Wouldn’t you love to see this in motion? (via behance)
