So in love with bright colour at the moment. A couple of people/projects/phenomena that have been inspiring me.

Philip Stearns’ glitch art — I love the interplay of vibrance and darkness, and the pure aesthetic beauty of these accidental malfunctions. Wikipedia tells me that the word glitch derives from the German glitschig, meaning “slippery”.

The Aurora Borealis always inspires and astounds me. Such breathtaking beauty caused by millions of violent magnetic explosions. It’s like glitch art occurring naturally.

Japanese designer Mitsuo Katsui’s incredible, timeless posters from the 60s and 70s.

Vasa’s laminated cast acrylic sculptures. 

Holi, the Hindu festival that celebrates the colours of Spring.

10th Mar 2012 | 5 notes
“Quartz crystal plays an essential role in a long list of media devices. Radio, record player, television, telephone, computer among many others all rely on the mechanical property of quartz crystals in the shape of crystal oscillators. With the effect that translates electricity into oscillation and back, it enables us to see ourselves through the objects we create. Quartz Mirror mimics the familiar form of mirror, using sliced, polished and silvered pieces of quartz, the unfamiliar yet prevalent basis for ways to duplicate and distribute images. It’s a reflection through a technological myth, suspended between two mirrors.”

“Quartz crystal plays an essential role in a long list of media devices. Radio, record player, television, telephone, computer among many others all rely on the mechanical property of quartz crystals in the shape of crystal oscillators. With the effect that translates electricity into oscillation and back, it enables us to see ourselves through the objects we create. Quartz Mirror mimics the familiar form of mirror, using sliced, polished and silvered pieces of quartz, the unfamiliar yet prevalent basis for ways to duplicate and distribute images. It’s a reflection through a technological myth, suspended between two mirrors.”

28th Jan 2012 | 1 note
Generative design meets stock photography, by Anarchy/Alchemy. “We fed a library of stock photography into a piece of software we built that combined them into new compositions of three following a set of predefined rules. Randomly juxtaposing the source material and combining imagery from a wide variety of different topics and contexts resulted in a series of images that carried entirely new and unexpected meanings.”

Generative design meets stock photography, by Anarchy/Alchemy.

“We fed a library of stock photography into a piece of software we built that combined them into new compositions of three following a set of predefined rules. Randomly juxtaposing the source material and combining imagery from a wide variety of different topics and contexts resulted in a series of images that carried entirely new and unexpected meanings.”

4th Oct 2011 | 3 notes

When the last living thing 

Has died on account of us, 

How poetical it would be 

If Earth could say, 

In a voice floating up 

Perhaps 

From the floor 

Of the Grand Canyon, 

“It is done.” 

People did not like it here.

27th Sep 2011 | 13 notes
"Why do amoebas build stalks from their own bodies, sacrificing themselves in the process, so that some may climb up and be carried away from dearth to plenty on the legs of an innocent insect or the wings of a felicitous wind? Why do vampire bats share blood, mouth to mouth, at the end of a night of prey with members of the colony who were less successful in the hunt? Why do sentry gazelles jump up and down when a lion is spotted, putting themselves precariously between the hunt and the hungry hunter? And what do all of these have to do with morality in humans: Is there, in fact, a natural origin to our own acts of kindness?"
– The story of George Price and his mad quest for the scientific origins of altruism (via curiositycounts)

(via curiositycounts)

16th Sep 2011 | 43 notes