Tag: art

Waves in progress

Post author By Wells Baum
Post date February 18, 2020

Here’s something you can look at for hours: looping waves in progress.

Created using visual effect software Houdini by Polish motion designer who goes by the name 00.032, according to her dribble page, the piece takes after Matthieu Lehanneur’s original physical work of the same vein.

The French designer Lehanneur constructed a furniture collection called Ocean Memories that depicts three-dimensional ocean currents frozen into stone and bronze sculptures.

Lehanneur and 00.032 demonstrate both static and motion-centric representations of the Earth’s ocean.

Waves, a symbol of natural energy, have been a fascination with artists such as Hokusai for centuries.

Tags art, design, Matthieu Lehanneur, Ocean, video

Architecture & Design Technology

Pablo Picasso’s “light drawings”

Post author By Wells Baum
Post date February 4, 2020

“Everything you can imagine is real,” said the legendary painter Pablo Picasso.

In 1949, photographer Gjon Mili captured the painter using a small electric light in a dark room to paint the artist’s iconic centaurs, bulls and greek figurines.

The chaotic images vanished as soon as they were created but thanks to Mili’s two separate cameras, Picasso’s timeless “light drawing” live on.

Thanks to today’s advancements in virtual reality, one can replicate Picasso’s moves using Google’s Tilt Brush application on the Oculus Rift. The app lets your paint in 3D space with virtual reality.

Photos by Gjon Mili for TIME, 1949

Tags art, design, painting, Picasso, Tech

Architecture & Design Health Nature Travel

Beautiful apples from around the world

Post author By Wells Baum
Post date January 12, 2020

William Mullan is a photographer who specializes in taking pictures of rare apples from around the world.

The golden Knobbed Russet, the star-shaped api etoile, hard red Black Oxford apple — these are just a few of the varieties that appear in Mullan’s 200-page photo-book, Odd Apples.

Writes Atlas Obscura on how Mullan’s fascination with apples came to be:

Mullan was born in the United States, but grew up in the United Kingdom, where a teenage encounter with an Egremont Russet led to his love of apples. Its spicy, persimmon-like flavor “just blew my mind,” he says. But many of the apples he’s photographed were born in North America, including such romantic cultivars as the Black Oxford and Hidden Rose.
“There’s just this sense of infinity with [apples] that I love,” Mullan says. While he imagines he’ll move on to other subjects in the future, for now, he’s still entranced by apples.

Even better, during his exhibits, he slices the apples open and passes the edibles around for his audience to enjoy.

You can follow Mullan’s work on Instagram.

Tags apple, art, Nature, Photography

Architecture & Design Health Science

A 3D render of your eye under a microscope

Post author By Wells Baum
Post date December 23, 2019

What does your eye look like under a microscope?

Instagram 3D artist Frank J Guzzone gives us at least an imaginative glimpse into the workings of an eye.

Don’t get carried away by the reality or irreality of the visualization. Just admire the concept.

Eye doctors on Twitter have promptly responded to Twitter account ZonePhysics with rightful criticism. “There’s no windstorm in the anterior chamber,” writes Dr. Cheryl G Murphy in debunking the graphic tweeted with the headline “This is your eye under microscope.”

As someone who stares at eyes under the microscope day in and day out, that’s not even close. Not that much movement on the iris. There’s no windstorm in the anterior chamber. Peripheral cornea blurred for no reason. The actual iris magnified is much more beautiful than this.
— Dr. Cheryl G. Murphy (@murphyod) November 8, 2019

Renders do not explain science — at least this one — but we can admire the fascinating illustration nonetheless.

Tags art, design, eye, Nature, science

Animals Nature

Picasso Bug

Post author By Wells Baum
Post date December 20, 2019

Talk about where art meets insects!

This Picasso-looking bug, or rather Salvador Dali-inspired bug is a reminder of nature’s beauty.

What’s the coolest bug you’ve seen? Tell us on Twitter.

Tags art, Insects, Nature, Picasso

Architecture & Design Technology

The un-Christmas tree

Post author By Wells Baum
Post date December 3, 2019

The un-Christmas, all the aspects of the traditional Christmas tree, minus the pine tree itself.

Whether by virtual reality or a Harry Potter magic wand, the ability to minimize a Christmas tree into nakedness is a fascinating concept. As Leonardo Da Vinci said, “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

If you’re looking for other creative Christmas tree ideas, look no further than the astronomical tree, collating colored succulents into a tree or teasing people’s imagination. Through the roof!

Tags art, Christmas, design, Holidays, Interesting