i’m still enjoying the regular entries on the ‘paris vs. new york’ blog
me news
new covers
one of the nice things about the ‘façade’ book project is that there are new covers being made as the billboards are being dismantled each week…
for example this week: two of my favourites which have been cut up and recycled into book covers, producing some nice ‘random’ cover designs as show here
the two billboards featured are the one from ‘richard niessen’ and one from ‘hans aarsman & erik kessels’ (shown above with the large dots)
real magick, the fabric of the universe
…believed to be the most geometrically complex and aesthetically beautiful structure in mathematics, the 4_21 polytope is the algebraic form at the centre
of a universal theory of everything. Originally described in the late 19th century, 4_21 models all interactions and transformations between known and postulated sub-atomic particles. It is the 21st century equivalent of the proto-scientific art of alchemy – where the transmutation of elements was the most elusive mystery of the universe. The theory is an attempt to reconcile one of the fundamental unsolved problems in physics: unify quantum physics and gravitation in hopes of ultimately explaining the fabric of the universe…
this rendering of the 4_21polytope was done in illustrator to an accuracy of 1/10,000th of a millimeter, a feat which has never before been achieved due to technical difficulties… go figure i didn’t even know it existed until now
the nation’s favourite drug
well it made me smile, sorry no idea what the credits are for this one but it does look a lot like the ‘modern toss’ style… (thanks to ‘john d’)