Mar 5, 2010 1
Gustave Doré was a world famous 19th century illustrator. Although he illustrated over 200 books, some with more than 400 plates, he is primarily known for his illustrations to The Divine Comedy, particularly The Inferno, his illustrations to Don Quixote, and Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven.
Wikipedia entry on Gustave Doré
(via Reclusland)
Feb 26, 2010 2
Dark Roasted Blend has a big round-up of trippy architectural visions of future cities. Here are some highlights:
Luc Schuiten’s Vegetal City
The Walking City by Archigram, an old favorite of mine.
‘Shroom City, by Frederic St. Arnaud
There are many more at Dark Roasted Blend: Hallucinatory Architecture of the Future
(Thanks Trevor!)
Feb 19, 2010 1
Surrealist book-object; harsh noise album in paperback form.
300 pages of pixel-noisescapes, created soley using the antique mac paint app LightningPaint.
Paperback with full colour cover, black + white interior.
Cementimental – Untitled Harsh Noise Graphic Novel
(via Fadereu)
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With Chemistry as Art, Safren uses chemical reactions on metal surfaces to create dynamic images. With these works, Safren brings to the fore the chemical materiality of painting and the intimacy of individual artist with their materials. Safren’s ‘paintings’ interact with their viewers through the refractive and reflective nature of the chemicals applied to their surfaces.
(via Fadereu)
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aDiatomea: ColonyI from MRK on Vimeo.
aDiatomea is an artificial life system that uses various methods and notions of a-life research. The basic principle of aDiatomea is that every aspect of it is entirely mathematically generated and thus it is not created purposefully as an art piece but as a complex system that takes a life of its own. These artificial organisms are based on actual unicellular organisms known as Diatoms. These beautiful microscopic creatures are constructed using the superformula, an equation that can reproduce organic forms. Granular sound is injected in these organisms, acting as their life-force, while they interact with each other and their environment. This film shows a recording of 36 seconds of evolution, pushing the boundaries of complex computer calculations.
(via Fadereu)
Jan 14, 2010 0
What do you think is the true nature of this world and how can a person get closer to it?
We are naked beings and nothing has any meaning. We only fabricate things to help us be more removed from nature. Humans are like the prodigal sons of Earth – moving away from their mother to spend her fortunes, only to return in death as the stripped down and barbaric beings we once were. So to get closer to true nature? Burn your clothes and belongings and money, have a sharp chiseled stone to catch food and a grass hut to keep shelter! Or realize we live a world that is consumed by false beliefs and agreements and try to live your life without taking it all too seriously.
Coilhouse: Sculpting The Infinite With Kris Kuksi
Jan 11, 2010 0
20 paintings, and the history of the Futurist movement
Marinetti wanted Futurism to become the official artistic style of Italian fascism, but Mussolini resisted and encouraged a wide range of styles to keep artists of all types on the side of the regime. While Futurism would ultimately be linked to fascism, there were many socialist and anarchist Futurists, linked by an interest in political violence. Towards the end of the 1930s, Italian fascists were adopting the stance of their German counterparts, considering modern art to be degenerate and rejecting the Futurist movement.
20 Dynamic Paintings From The Italian Futurists
(via Mister X)
See also: Vorticist art collections
Dec 8, 2009 0
“I was studying mosaics in school” recalls Cliff. “I just remember sort of making this connection in my head between the tiles and roach papers. It’s when one sees the level of detail in Cliff’s work that the true amazement begins. Little bits of paper– otherwise thrown away– cut into delicate shapes and arranged together in such a way as to form a true work of art.
(via Toke of the Town via Disinfo)
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Emergent Architecture is, as Grinding puts it, finding “the sweet spot between public art and alternative energy.”
Ecofriend: Solar-powered Photobioreactor generates biofuel using algae
(via Grinding)
Sep 4, 2009 2
Did you know that Alejandro Jodorowsky was originally going direct Dune? (I could swear I’d written about this here before, but I apparently haven’t. For this, I am sorry.)
In December 1974, a French consortium led by Jean-Paul Gibon purchased the film rights to Dune from Arthur P. Jacobs. Jodorowsky was set to direct. In 1975, Jodorowsky planned to film the story as a ten hour feature, in collaboration with Salvador Dali, Orson Welles, Gloria Swanson, David Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin, Alain Delon, Hervé Villechaize and Mick Jagger. The music would be composed by Pink Floyd. Jodorowsky set up a pre-production unit in Paris consisting of Chris Foss, a British artist who designed covers for science fiction periodicals, Jean Giraud (Moebius), a French illustrator who created and also wrote and drew for Metal Hurlant magazine, and H. R. Giger. Moebius began designing creatures and characters for the film, while Foss was brought in to design the film’s space ships and hardware. Giger began designing the Harkonnen Castle based on Moebius’ storyboards, and Dali was cast as the Emperor with a reported salary of $100,000 an hour. His son Brontis Jodorowsky was to play Paul. Dan O’Bannon was to head the special effects department.
Instead, some of the people involved went on to make Alien and Jodorowsky went on to write the comic book series Metabarons, and David Lynch gave up the opportunity to direct Revenge of the Jedi to direct Dune (Wikipedia says David Cronenberg was also offered the chance to direct Jedi and turned it down – I didn’t know that before today!)
Anyway, the Drawing Room in London will have an exhibition of the materials created for the movie 17 September – 25 October 2009
(Drawing Room link via Dangerous Minds)
More info on Jodorowsky’s Dune:
Jodorowsky: The Film You Will Never See Jodorowsky’s eulogy for the ill-fated project.
(much thanks to Jellyfish for all the Jodorowsky Dune trivia)
Richard Metzger also points to this saying it was some footage from the movie (I haven’t watched it yet): It’s actually trailers for two Moebuis animated movies: 1) L’Incal, based on a comic book collaboration between Moebuis and Jodorowsky and later ripped off by Fifth Element and 2) An animated version of Moebuis’s Arzach. Neither was ever released, to the best of my knowledge. The video was uploaded, incidentally, by the above mentioned artists extraordinaire and pop culture trivia maven Popjellyfish.
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