Zanis Waldheims Art Gallery

Zanis Waldheims Art Gallery

Daichi's Beatbox

Aerial football

aerial photography by Stephan Zirwes

via ektopia

Delete Advertising

Artist: Ji Lee

"Jordan Seiler's incrediblely ambitious "New York Street Advertising Takeover" became a reality yesterday, when over 120 illegal billboards throughout the city were white washed by dozens of volunteers.

NYSAT was organized as a reaction to the hundreds of billboards that are not registered with the city, and therefore are illegal. While illegal, these violations are not being prosecuted by the City of New York, allowing the billboard companies to garner huge profits by cluttering our outdoor space with intrusive and ugly ads.

After the illegal spots were white washed, late in the day yesterday over eighty artists transformed these spaces into personal pieces of art."

via wooster collective

A frozen record of microbial digestion

"In freshwater ponds and lakes, the biological activity of microbes in the sediments on the lake floor produces bubbles of gas, usually methane or carbon dioxide. In winter this activity is slow, but it is still present.

The gas bubbles rise to the frozen surface of the lake, becoming trapped there. The following night, another layer of ice forms beneath the bubble, so it is encased in ice. This leads to the flattened shape you see. The picture is a frozen daily record of the gas emissions."

via new scientist

Sinai Hotels

via BLDGBOG:

[these] images by Sabine Haubitz and Stefanie Zoche of Haubitz+Zoche, (look) at "the concrete skeletons of five-star hotel complexes" abandoned on Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.

They are resorts that never quite happened, then, with names like Sultan's Palace and the Magic Life Imperial. This makes them "monuments to failed investment.""






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Quarries II

previously: Quarries I - Implosions

Gagarin Collage

Collage by Sean Hillen . Click on image to see it in its full glory. I love the sense of depth in this one.

via minutiae

Auto-tune Baby

A baby crying through an auto-tune. Brilliant.


Bonus:

Northern Black-capped Gumchewer

Pencil illustration by Brock Davis

The Wilhelm Scream

"The Wilhelm scream is a repeatedly used film and television stock sound effect first used in 1951 for the film Distant Drums. The effect gained new popularity (its use often becoming an in-joke) after it was used in Star Wars and several other blockbuster films as well as television programs and video games.

The Wilhelm scream has become a well-known cinematic sound cliché, and is claimed to have been used in over 140 films."

see also Disney copy & paste

Watered Cross Effect

Drawing realised with a harmonograph by Joseph Goold. More here.

via the art of memory

Video of a home made harmonograph in action:

A Wolf Loves Pork

Mixtape #1

5 tracks, 20 minutes. Just messing around with some audio software yesterday. It's not great but I hope you enjoy it.

Mixtape #1 - Take Bloodstone by xenmate

Tracklisting:

1.- Henry Mancini "Bali Hai"
2.- School of Seven Bells "Iamundernodisguise"
3.- Amon Tobin "Bloodstone"
4.- Panda Bear "Take Pills"
5.- Actress "Ivy May Gilpin"

Japanese Toy Design

See more at BibliOdyssey

Embracing Imperfection

Brilliant Noise from Semiconductor on Vimeo.

"Brilliant Noise takes us into the data vaults of solar astronomy. After sifting through hundreds of thousands of computer files, made accessible via open access archives, Semiconductor have brought together some of the sun's finest unseen moments. These images have been kept in their most raw form, revealing the energetic particles and solar wind as a rain of white noise. This grainy black and white quality is routinely cleaned up by NASA, hiding the processes and mechanics in action behind the capturing procedure. Most of the imagery has been collected as single snapshots containing additional information, by satellites orbiting the Earth. They are then reorganised into their spectral groups to create time-lapse sequences. The soundtrack highlights the hidden forces at play upon the solar surface, by directly translating areas of intensity within the image brightness into layers of audio manipulation and radio frequencies."


Black Rain from Semiconductor on Vimeo.

"Black Rain is sourced from images collected by the twin satellite, solar mission, STEREO. Here we see the HI (Heliospheric Imager) visual data as it tracks interplanetary space for solar wind and CME's (coronal mass ejections) heading towards Earth. Data courtesy of courtesy of the Heliospheric Imager on the NASA STEREO mission. Working with STEREO scientists, Semiconductor collected all the HI image data to date, revealing the journey of the satellites from their initial orientation, to their current tracing of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun. Solar wind, CME's, passing planets and comets orbiting the sun can be seen as background stars and the milky way pass by. As in Semiconductors previous work 'Brilliant Noise' which looked into the sun, they work with raw scientific satellite data which has not yet been cleaned and processed for public consumption. By embracing the artefacts, calibration and phenomena of the capturing process we are reminded of the presence of the human observer who endeavors to extend our perceptions and knowledge through technological innovation."

L'Enfer

Cabaret L'Enfer via you will be assimilated. Photograph by Robert Doisneau (again)

Extra (again!):

Pastel

Florizel from the always stunning Le Divan Fumeur Bohémien has posted a gorgeous tryptich featuring the pastel range of Roché and a painting by Degas.

The Hollow Mask

Scooping

“Battle of the Natsu-yasumi,” a photo series by Fumio Nabata, presents a unique underwater perspective of goldfish scooping, a traditional game typically played at summer festivals in Japan.




Via Pink Tentacle and a desgana.

Talking of underwater photography; there is a pretty interesting talk about the power of photography by National Geographic's David Griffin over at the TED website. The talk is ok, some great shots and that, but if you cannot be bothered to go through the 14 odd minutes of the talk I strongly suggest you forward the video to the 12 minute mark for a particularly curious anecdote concerning this picture of a Leopard seal by Paul Nicklen:


Link.

Online Tenori-on

Possibly the best online music toy in existence is this ToneMatrix which acts like a simplified version of the tenori-on. Very cool.

image via you will be assimilated

Eagle with Camera

I strongly recommend turning the volume OFF before pressing play.

In fact, if someone can dub this video with The Fun Years that would be pretty intense.

Horror

A collection of old horror movies.

Pictured: Ray Harryhausen.

Pareidolia: the movie

The Lost Tribes of New York City from Carolyn London on Vimeo.

not amazing but the idea is good, and we like faces in places in these shores...

Quarries I

"I found an organic architecture created by our pursuit of raw materials. Open-pit mines, funneling down, were to me like inverted pyramids. Photographing dimensional stone quarries was a deliberate act of going out to try to find something in the world that would match the kinds of forms I held in my imagination but had never seen in real life – the idea of inverted skyscrapers." Edward Burtynsky

Click on images for extra ooh's and aah's.

Bonus I

Bonus II

Alice

Pogo says: "The music video for my song 'Alice', an electronic piece of which 90% is composed using sounds recorded from the Disney film 'Alice In Wonderland'."

Quite nice this. If so inclined, you may download the mp3 for free here.

Bonus: songs songs songs songs songs songs songs and some more songs.

Razzle Dazzle Camouflage

via wikipedia:

"Dazzle camouflage, also known as Razzle Dazzle or Dazzle painting, was a camouflage paint scheme used on ships, extensively during World War I and to a lesser extent in World War II. Credited to artist Norman Wilkinson, it consisted of a complex pattern of geometric shapes in contrasting colors, interrupting and intersecting each other. Dazzle did not conceal the ship but made it difficult for the enemy to estimate its speed and heading. The idea was to disrupt the visual rangefinders used for naval artillery. Its purpose was confusion rather than concealment."

There are a bunch of design plans here, filtered from here.

Bonus ball

Satirical Map of Europe

click to enlarge

Lifted from BibliOdyssey:

"Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956) was one of the most famous cartoonist/caricaturists of WWI. He crossed the border from Holland into Belgium to witness first-hand the atrocities of the advancing German army. He subsequently chronicled the brutality of theses forces in his cartoons which drew the wrath of the Germans. They forced the Dutch authorities to put the illustrator on trial for jeopardising the neutrality of the Netherlands (acquitted). A reward was offered by the Germans for Raemaekers' arrest and he escaped to Britain where he continued to skewer the German army in his drawings. He produced a thousand cartoons during the war and gained world wide acclaim from their syndication."

See more incredible maps at BibliOdyssey.

Another Wall is Possible

artist: escif

Psychedelic Jesus

Lifted from pink tentacle:

"In 1974, home appliance retailer Yamagiwa Corporation printed 1,974 copies of a promotional poster featuring a Jesus portrait by noted pop artist Tadanori Yokoo. The poster depicts Christ in front of a colorful mandala-like pattern centered around an inverted triangle, which Yokoo described as being a Tantric symbol of Shakti, the feminine creative energy of the universe, though it could just as well represent the Holy Trinity."

more posters from Tadanori Yokoo