Charlie Kaufman: Screenwriting Lecture

Amethyst Mountain.

Guys, this is a PAINTING. (Amethyst Mountain by Carly Waito, Oil on panel, 14" x 11")


via: http://carlywaito.blogspot.ca/2012/05/amethyst-mountain.html

John Cleese on Creativity.

a due Colori.

"Over the past two years or so there’s been no shortage of photography and short films featuring the sensuous curls of ink plumes dispersing underwater. Yet nobody comes close to the master, Italian photographer Alberto Seveso (previously here and here) who creates impressive underwater landscapes so rich in detail and color it makes me want to swim through my monitor. See more from his new series, a due Colori."

 via: http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/03/new-underwater-ink-photographs-by-alberto-seveso/

Tree, Line.

‘This is an ongoing series of constructed photographs rooted in the forest. These works, carried out in Surrey, Hampshire and Wales,involve site specific interventions in the landscape, ‘wrapping’ trees with white material to construct a visual relationship between tree, not-tree and the line of horizon according to the camera’s viewpoint.’ -Zander Olsen

via:  http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d834cad15053ef0163021665a0970d

The Sequence.

From the artist, Arne Quinze, “THE SEQUENCE bridges the communication gap between people and generates movement in the city. I want to reconnect people and let them interact with each other like they did in the past on squares. At least people talked to each other then.” This piece by the Belgian artist was installed on November 13, 2008 and will stay in place for at least 5 years. When the piece is taken down, all of the wood will be reused for another purpose.

via: http://lisastown.com/inspirationwall/category/public/

PBT Presents A Streetcar Named Desire.

Go see the lovely Eva Trapp in this!

Street Painting #5.

Every summer the small Swiss town of Vercorin offers up its public spaces and buildings to artists to make do with them what they will. R&Art, the association behind the initiative, commissions contemporary works that seek to engage the village as a whole in an effort to reconcile Vercorin’s history and traditions with contemporary culture. Lang/Baumann‘s “Street Painting #5″ is a stunning testament to the strength of the villagers’ goal to create “spaces for dialogues in synch with our times.

The painting encompasses the full width of the village, shooting outwards from the central town square down multiple side streets and alleys. Brightly colored diverging lines thread their way through the town and overlap at several points, creating intertwining forms which contrast with the neat, tidy urban edges. Standing in the middle of the square, the lines seemingly extend out into infinity, while from above–an impossible viewpoint afforded only to birds and passing aircraft–they seemingly form a map for some fictional subway system, albeit one realized on a micro-level where every address, cafe, and town landmark has its own train stop.

According to the artists, who spoke to My Modern Met about the painting, construction of the work was opened up to the community, with villagers helping to lay down and paint the lines on the village streets. When it was finished, the town “used it [the work] in a very playful way…especially the children used it to cycle or skate or walk on the lines.”

via:architizer.com

Wooden Textiles

"Wooden Textiles" convey a new tactile experience. We are used to experience wood as a hard material; we know the feeling of walking across wooden floors, to touch a wooden tabletop or to feel the bark of a tree. But we usually don't experience a wooden surface which can be manipulated by touch.

"Wooden Textiles" is a material that is half wood-half textile, between hard and soft, challenging what can be expected from a material or category. It looks and smells familiar but feels strange, as it is able to move and form in unexpected ways.

The processes to transform wood into a flexible wooden surface is its deconstruction into pieces, which are then attached to a textile base. Depending on the geometry and size of the tiles each design shows a different behavior regarding flexibility and mobility. There are various possible applications, for example as floorings, curtains, drapes, plaids, upholstery or parts of furniture.

http://www.elisastrozyk.de/seite/woodtex/woodentextiles.html

In My Studio.

Paper Typography.

Bianca Chang - Recent Works, June 2011 from Bianca Chang on Vimeo.

biancachang.com

We Are All Part of the Same Thing.

Dominique Falla’s con­tri­bu­tion to this year’s Positive Posters com­pe­ti­tion, she designed We are all a Part of the Same Thing, an amaz­ing, typo­graphic string art piece. I espe­cially love the ombré rain­bow effect she’s cre­ated with the dif­fer­ent col­ors of string. For more of a glimpse into the process behind the piece, check out Dominique’s blog.

Into The Fire.

The yin to Etsuko Ichikawa's soft-spoken, intro-spective yang is fiery, molten glass. Handling it while aglow at 2100°F, she loops, stretches and presses the smoking mass of lava atop paperto create abstract drawings known as pyrographs. Filmmaker Alistair Banks Griffin captures the dramatic choreography of Ichikawa's art in this short film for the Anthropologist.

 

http://www.theanthropologist.net/#/IntoTheFire