a bit of a lazy re-blog this one, but i thought this work from steve powers in and around a brooklyn car park was worth it… i’d love to make something like this myself one day…
see a related post of mine on the same fella here
me news
can cam
…the highest path represents the sun’s “peak”, when it appears highest in the sky, which takes place on 21 June in the northern hemisphere. After this day the trails grow shorter and climb lower in the sky, revealing the approach of winter. together, the 23.5-degree tilt in the Earth’s axis and its revolution around the sun are what give us our seasons. This striking image illustrates these changes and reveals the passage of time…
‘justin quinell’ fromthe UK made a makeshift pinhole camera using a beer can, which he then left outdoors for three months the result is a fascinating image of the sun’s trajectroy across the sky during that period…
it reminds me a lot of the work of german photographer michael wesely whom i blogged about back in ’07
3,449,527,133rd
two interesting infographics (or data visualisation, or interesting diagrams… or whatever the current term is) i came across this week: one from rolling stone entitled the new economics of the music industry, say wat appl egets 40 cents on every itunes dollar-euro sale!!! that is really smart and absolutely scandalous…
plus a great interactive graph from the ‘beeb’, that tells you which number you drew when you entered the ever-growing human race… it appears that my daughter is the 82,818,190,587th person alive since history began, so there you go
growing graphics
central st. martins (london) graduate ‘james henderson’ shared some of his work with me this week, including his ‘organic’ typography studies called ‘growing graphics’ that use a wide variety of materials to create letters that can expand up to 40 times in size, grow, change colour and transform through sunlight or heat, all looks very interesting
he doesn’t have a website but i managed to find some info online here and a bit here
praise
last week i attended the ‘awards’ awards night organised by ‘lernert & sander’ in amsterdam, the event was a highly entertaining tongue-in-cheek look at the world of art awards
it is very difficult to describe just exactly what made it so entertaining, the event has also not been very well documented unfortunately, highlights were the trick played on the jury, who were unwittingly recorded during the jury deliberations, on the night itself three well known dutch actors were then hired to replay their conversations live on stage, giving the public a unique and frank insight into what was discussed and how… the jury were very sporting about the whole send-up and chairman ‘hedy d’ancona’ even provided a great thank you speech accompanied by her fellow jury members, stood next to their respective ‘body doubles’ dressed in identical clothes… great fun
it was also very fitting that the jury didn’t manage to choose a winner in the end, another highlight was this classical rendition by the ‘familie pondman’ (a musical family that have recently been the subject of a much talked about documentary) who did a very special version (shown below) of a recent awards acceptance speech made by dutch-moroccan actor nasrdin dchar at the dutch film awards
this all won’t make much sense if you don’t understand dutch however, as i said it is very difficult to describe the evenings events in a coherent way… as they say ‘you had to be there’