Zachary Abel can’t help himself when it comes to making really cool mathematical sculptures out of everyday objects:
I think about math constantly, and I see and look for math in everything around me. Geometry in particular fascinates me, and I delight in discovering hidden patterns even in the most mundane of objects. By transforming often-overlooked household items into elaborate, mathematical sculptures, I hope to share this sense of excitement, curiosity, and beauty that a mathematical outlook has instilled in me. Maybe I’ll even be able to learn and teach some math along the way.
You can see more examples of his creative compulsion here
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Tōhoku Japanese Earthquake Sculpture by Luke Jerram.
About the piece:
This sculpture was made to contemplate the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan. To create the sculpture a seismogram of the earthquake, was rotated using computer aided design and then printed in 3 dimensions using rapid prototyping technology. The artwork measures 30cm x 20cm and represents 9 minutes of the earthquake.
Look for it soon at the Jerwood Space in London for a show called Terra. The show will also include his fantastic virus sculptures.
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ART WE LIKE THIS WEEK: Christain Faur’s ”Crayon Art”’
How fantastic is this? The combination of so many different colours of crayon placed together to trick the human eye, making your brain put an image together that may not actually be there….do we really see what the artist intends us to see?
Love it!
WAIT HOW
SCIENCE
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Roman Opałka was a French-born Polish painter who painted numbers. In 1965 he began painting a process of counting – from one to infinity. Starting in the top left-hand corner of the canvas and finishing in the bottom right-hand corner, the tiny numbers were painted in horizontal rows. As of July 2004, he had reached 5.5 million. (via triangulation)
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INKLING BY WACOM (by Wacom)
“Wacom has announced a pretty amazing product today, the Inkling. This so-called Digital Sketch Pen allows you to capture whatever you draw or write on a sketchbook or any kind of paper in digital form, “stroke by stroke”. Just insert a sheet of paper or a notebook into the receiver, use the Inkling Digital Pen and transfer your works to your computer to refine them digitally anytime later.”
NEED.THIS.IN.MY.LIFE.
Just let the enormity of what’s going on here slowly sink in.
Unbelievable.
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an artist used photoshop to add tilt shift to 16 van gogh paintings… it’s kind of gorgeous
Oh god and the others:
god
why is this the first time someone’s ever done this
it’s so beautiful
oh man this is so fantastic
starry night doesn’t really work for the format
but all of the other ones, god
^
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Wassily Kandinsky’s triangle and the spirituality of art. According to this renounced abstract painter there are 4 categories of artists, categorized from highest to lowest:
1. Artists whose work springs from the spirit of contemporary feeling, which is capable of educating further. This work is uplifting and meaningful to its viewers. This art holds power for the future as it is from deep within the artist, however to be this artist is to be lonely.
2. Artists who use their work for the purpose of spiritual enlightenment.
3. Competent artists (technicians).
4. Artists who produce “art for art’s sake.” Viewers of these works find them “pretty” or “nice” but vacant of meaning. These artists are sell-outs who paint just for material reward and to satisfy vanity and greed. This leads to competition, over-production, hatred, jealousy, and so on.
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Alejandro Durán: Washed Up
“Over the course of this project, Durán has identified products washed ashore from forty-two nations on six continents. The resulting photo series depicts a new form of colonization by consumerism, where even undeveloped land is not safe from the far-reaching impact of our disposable culture.”
“Washed Up speaks to the environmental concerns of our time and its vast quantity of discarded materials. Beyond turning trash into treasure, the alchemy of Washed Up lies in the project’s potential to raise awareness and change our relationship to consumption and waste.”
