Walking through a forest, you might think you’ve discovered a Stargate if you saw this up ahead:
This is a wind sculpture by artist Anthony Howe; more at his website.
The Diagonal Symphony
In 1924, experimental filmmaker Viking Eggeling ‘composed’ the Symphonie Diagonale, an abstract composition of shapes and movement – Art Deco synesthesia of music, in silence.
Video Quitter
A young woman has decided she has had enough — she apparently works for the fastest animation company in the world, making online videos with a goal towards speed and hits — and she decided to announce her departure from the company with a video:
Not to be upstaged by the ever-increasing number of views her quitting video got, the company responded with a video of their own to announce that her position was open. A rooftop pool? I wish I was an animator!
Embroidered Photos
Artist Maurizio Anzeri embroiders over old photographs, producing string-art like those gaudy owls in your grandma’s rec room, but more hypnotizing. More here.
Good Morning, Fargo! Reality Show
As I drove back to Fargo today, cruising across the dry basin of Glacial Lake Agassiz, watching stormclouds build over Detroit Lakes and listening to Prairie Public Radio, I learned something new about Fargo today. A reality-TV producer is putting together a Fargo-themed show, to be called “Good Morning, Fargo!” This is the first I’ve heard of such a thing, so I immediately started going down the rabbit hole. More inside.
21st Century Tintype Combat Photography
A photographer has pulled an old instruction book off his shelf, and has taken tintype photography to the front lines for the first time since the Civil War. Aerial gunner Ed Drew, while stationed in Afghanistan, had his fellow soldiers pose for tintype photographs, producing haunting artwork that recalls the Civil War, in a modern context.
Two Parakeets Shredding
As a follow up to this, the sport of pool skating has come to the parakeet world:
Chromatic Typewriter
Artist Tyree Callahan has adapted an old Underwood typewriter by removing the metal type and replacing it with multicolored rubber stamp material. Using this Frankenstein of language, he paints pictures:
Unfortunately, it doesn’t actually paint.
(Via.)
Artistic Automaton
A truck dropped off a box of robot pieces, much like C3P0 at Cloud City. Museum curators reassembled the automaton, and it still draws what was stored in its “memory”.
Urban Exploration
Photographer Jared Lim wants to show you just how abstract a world you live in. More of Jared’s work at his website.
