This melting polar bear ice sculpture, created by artist Mark Coreth, was presented last week in Copenhagen and sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to create an awareness on the human impact on the climate. As it melts, a skeleton appears..
And here is an inspiring interview with Mark Coreth.
Soundstills by Tviga Vasilyeva. The white forms in these photographs are the sculptural manifestations of audio footage that was recorded along the border between Russia and Finland. So amazing, I love these. Click here to view the rest of the set.
“The soundwaves are actual objects, reminiscent of the height of a tree. I recorded them when the forest was still there. When the trees had gone, I put the ‘sounds’ back to where they used to exist, sounds that look like trees that will never be heard again.”
This short animation reflects shortcomings of mankind in different stages. It was entirely created in Blender within a university motion design class.
A mescaline-infused short featuring the YYYs playing severely warped versions of themselves. Together, they try to “lose their minds in order to recover purity of truth.” And stuff. Directed by Barney Clay.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
It’s hard to say if Tim Walker has borrowed from Ramette, or come up with the idea on his own. Tim Walker’s surreal photograph’s have included Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter and work for Hermès luxury goods manufacturer. Is it possible for us to be unaffected by our surroundings? Is it possible for us to make anything original anymore, or will we just borrow from outside sources? Either way, surreal photographs offer us an exciting glimpse of the world we know, in a way we may not be used to seeing it. When you take Photoshop out of the equation, I feel these pictures take on a whole new level of ingenuity and skill.
Stephen Sprouse was a rock star in the truest sense, not through music, but through his fashion and love of music.
“Rock, art and fashion were always my favorite things, in that order,” Sprouse espouses, “but I don’t know how to play an instrument, so I had to work on the other two.”
That DIY attitude and his brazen fashion experiments in the 80’s were as much a part of New York as an extension of himself. Iggy Pop once said, “I don’t think he was looking so much at what people were doing, he was looking at what a few people were doing that everybody should be doing.” And with that he was credited with jump starting the urban-upscale fashion movements surrounded with punk sensibilities.
He found inspiration everywhere, including asking NASA for permission to use early pictures of their space exploration in his own work.
He fluttered between selling out/barely meeting supply/demand for his items and occasionally going bankrupt throughout the 80’s. He enjoyed a showroom in the last of Andy Warhol’s infamous ‘Factory’ lofts (meeting Andy in May of ‘84 while showing off his latest collection at the Ritz), and is known for his neon/day-glo colours, graffiti writing, leopard print patterns as well as such iconic imagery as Jim Morrison and Iggy Pop crucified and his 2001 collaboration with Marc Jacobs/Louis Vuitton and the current, posthumous 2009 Tribute Collection.
Stephen regularly designed for Debbie Harry (of Blondie fame) and later on Axl Rose and Billy Idol. Part of what I like about his work is how he used a variety of mediums besides fashion — photography, collage, and painting. After his death, Andy Warhol was buried in a Sprouse Suit. Debbie Harry swears she still has all of Sprouse’s outfits and guards them with her life.
Sprouse died on May 4th, 2004 at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York City of heart failure, after a closely guarded diagnosis of lung cancer a year before. He was 50.
1970’s illustration of the Pioneer 10 as it passes Jupiter. The Pioneer 10 was originally designed for a 21-month mission, pointed in the direction of Aldebaran, but ended up lasting more than 30 years.
Pioneer sent one last, weak signal that was recieved Jan. 22, 2003.
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