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cavetocanvas: Zao Wou-Ki, 2-11-59, 1959

Thu, 09 May 2013 16:18:50 -0400

Zao Wou-Ki, 2-11-59, 1959

ianbrooks: Know Your Cosmic Horrors by Jess Bradley Happy...

Thu, 09 May 2013 16:04:21 -0400

Know Your Cosmic Horrors by Jess Bradley

Happy Cthulhu Cthursday, errybody! Prints available for purchase at bigcartel.

Artist: Website / Tumblr

jtotheizzoe: mucholderthen: Topographical Map of the Moon...

Thu, 09 May 2013 14:26:22 -0400

jtotheizzoe:

mucholderthen:

Topographical Map of the Moon centering on the south pole

Colors represent altitude:

purple (over 9,000 metres below surface level),

blue (3,000 below),

green (zero altitude),

yellow (2,000 metres above surface level),

orange (4,000 metres above)

red (8,200 metres above).

A massive impact crater known as South Pole - Aitken basin is seen here as the purple and dark blue patch just below the south pole and is 2,500 kilometers in diameter.

Picture: SPL / Barcroft Media (via X )

You can’t begin to appreciate the violent history of the moon until you see it like this.

"When the profit motive gets unmoored from the purpose motive, bad things happen."

Thu, 09 May 2013 14:25:01 -0400

“When the profit motive gets unmoored from the purpose motive, bad things happen.”

- Dan Pink on the surprising science of what motivates us. (via explore-blog)

theartofanimation: Tony Sandoval

Thu, 09 May 2013 14:23:09 -0400

theartofanimation:

Tony Sandoval

thedailywhat: Touche of the Day: Mrs. Doubtfire’s Dress vs. Kim...

Thu, 09 May 2013 14:21:58 -0400

thedailywhat:

Touche of the Day: Mrs. Doubtfire’s Dress vs. Kim Kardashian’s Dress

Comedian Robin Williams chimed in on Kim Kardashian’s custom-designed Riccardo Tisci evening gown by comparing it to the floral dress he wore in the 1993 comedy film Mrs. Doubtfire. The socialite’s attire became quite a hit during Monday’s Met Gala, spawning a series of photoshopped images poking fun at the reality star’s “sofa slipcover”-like dress.

jeou: The same month when storyboards came about [for the...

Thu, 09 May 2013 14:20:35 -0400

Still from the movie 'Princess Mononoke'

Still from the movie 'Princess Mononoke'

jeou:

The same month when storyboards came about [for the movie], Miyazaki set off to the ancient forests of Yakushima, in Kyushu and the mountains of Shirakami-Sanchi in northern Honshu [of Japan].
“It was just right, the ruins of this ancient forest reflects on us as humans. We need to learn to appreciate what we have left of the environment, and I wanted this as a theme for the animation.” -Miyazaki on his inspiration for Princess Mononoke

vimeo: THIS IS WATER - By David Foster Wallace by The...

Thu, 09 May 2013 12:39:26 -0400

vimeo:

THIS IS WATER - By David Foster Wallace by The Glossary

Inspired by David Foster Wallace’s famous commencement address to the 2005 graduating class of Kenyon College, LA team The Glossary made this video to spread “some of the best life advice we’ve ever come across” to an even wider audience.

architizer: New York And London Double-Exposed! Today we’re...

Thu, 09 May 2013 12:28:59 -0400

Photo: Daniella Zalcman, "New York + London". 2012.

Photo: Daniella Zalcman, "New York + London". 2012.

Photo: Daniella Zalcman, "New York + London". 2012.

Photo: Daniella Zalcman, "New York + London". 2012.

architizer:

New York And London Double-Exposed!

Today we’re spotlighting the work of photographer Daniella Zalcman, whose stunning New York + London series of superimposed photos takes Instagram images to a new level. Navigating between travel and art photography, Zalcman documented her major transnational relocation to London from New York with this set of overlapping photographs of both cities. Her meticulous compositions produce synergy and dissonance in the same frame, heightening their visual contrast and strong atmospheric presence. Click through to see more!

"To not forget myself when the morning comes, and to not lose myself when the night comes."

Thu, 09 May 2013 12:23:23 -0400

““To not forget myself when the morning comes,
and to not lose myself when the night comes.””

- 有村竜太朗 (via epikhi)

"I wish the whole day were like breakfast, when people are still connected to their dreams, focused..."

Thu, 09 May 2013 12:23:09 -0400

“I wish the whole day were like breakfast, when people are still connected to their dreams, focused inward, and not yet ready to engage with the world around them. I realized this is how I am all day; for me, unlike other people, there doesn’t come a moment after a cup of coffee or a shower or whatever when I suddenly feel alive and awake and connected to the world. If it were always breakfast, I would be fine.”

- Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You (via lonehands)

syntheticpubes: by Benoit Paillé

Thu, 09 May 2013 12:20:49 -0400

syntheticpubes:

by Benoit Paillé

atama-itai: 吉田博「剣山の朝」大正十五年

Thu, 09 May 2013 12:14:19 -0400

atama-itai:

吉田博「剣山の朝」大正十五年

definitelydope: By Chow Hon Lam

Thu, 09 May 2013 12:14:08 -0400

definitelydope:

By Chow Hon Lam

Photo

Thu, 09 May 2013 12:13:49 -0400

cavetocanvas: Zao Wou-Ki, The Sailboats, 1952

Thu, 09 May 2013 12:12:16 -0400

cavetocanvas:

Zao Wou-Ki, The Sailboats, 1952

jenecioart: Familiar 15x20, oil and acrylic on board

Thu, 09 May 2013 12:09:03 -0400

jenecioart:

Familiar

15x20, oil and acrylic on board

climateadaptation: itsfullofstars: Some Strange Things Are...

Wed, 08 May 2013 14:06:20 -0400

climateadaptation:

itsfullofstars:

Some Strange Things Are Happening To Astronauts Returning To Earth

Tremendous. Surprise ending.

cavetocanvas: Richard Prince, Untitled (cowboy), 1989 From the...

Wed, 08 May 2013 13:51:45 -0400

cavetocanvas:

Richard Prince, Untitled (cowboy), 1989

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art:

In the mid-1970s Prince was an aspiring painter who earned a living by clipping articles from magazines for staff writers at Time-Life Inc. What remained at the end of the day were the advertisements, featuring gleaming luxury goods and impossibly perfect models; both fascinated and repulsed by these ubiquitous images, the artist began rephotographing them, using a repertoire of strategies (such as blurring, cropping, and enlarging) to intensify their original artifice. In so doing, Prince undermined the seeming naturalness and inevitability of the images, revealing them as hallucinatory fictions of society’s desires.

“Untitled (Cowboy)” is a high point of the artist’s ongoing deconstruction of an American archetype as old as the first trailblazers and as timely as then-outgoing president Ronald Reagan. Prince’s picture is a copy (the photograph) of a copy (the advertisement) of a myth (the cowboy). Perpetually disappearing into the sunset, this lone ranger is also a convincing stand-in for the artist himself, endlessly chasing the meaning behind surfaces. Created in the fade-out of a decade devoted to materialism and illusion, “Untitled (Cowboy)” is, in the largest sense, a meditation on an entire culture’s continuing attraction to spectacle over lived experience.

ashmackenzie: Seeking Substance Technology has made the...

Wed, 08 May 2013 13:51:01 -0400

ashmackenzie:

Seeking Substance

Technology has made the process of finding information incredibly simple, inhibiting our capacity to become truly knowledgable.

Part of “Dangerous Ideas”, my thesis work exploring controversial concepts proposed by various scientists and intellectuals, using visual metaphors to investigate how these ideas can make us so uncomfortable.

Check out the OCADU Illustration website for more stuff from all of this year’s thesis students!

- More thesis work - Prints -