Month: May 2016

Khen Shish

Khen Shish, “Circle I”, Acrylic on Paper, 2014

“In order to create disorder in the painting you have to disrupt, interrupt, or maim. tear, perforate. As with a simple walk on the pavement in daily life, it’s the same with painting. There’s room for injuries. The dilemma is whether to ‘dress’ it or let it ‘form a scab’” (Khen Shish).

Keith Jellum

Keith Jellum, “Transcendence”, Bronze, South Park Building, Portland, Oregon

Keith Jellum hand fabricates and casts large scale sculptures and unique weathervanes in bronze, copper, and steel. Drawing on animistic themes, he creates one-of-a-kind artworks for both public and private locations.

Transcendence is an outdoor sculpture by Keith Jellum, located in Portland, Oregon, United States. It depicts a fish flying through the brickwork above Southpark Seafood at the northwestern corner of Southwest Salmon Street and Southwest Park Avenue in Downtown Portland. The sculpture measures 11 feet (3.4 m) long and is made of hand forged and welded bronze.

Bicycles

Bicycles Drawings and Renderings

In 2009, artist Gianluca Gimini started asking friends and strangers of all ages to draw a bicycle by heart onto a sheet of paper. The drawings were digitally rendered by Ginluca Gimini. The results created a fascinating collection of bicycle designs.

“Soon I found out that when confronted with this odd request most people have a very hard time remembering exactly how a bike is made. Some did get close, some actually nailed it perfectly, but most ended up drawing something that was pretty far off from a regular bicycle. Little I knew this is actually a test that psychologists use to demonstrate how our brain sometimes tricks us into thinking we know something even though we don’t.” -Gianluca Gimini

Thanks to http://twistedsifter.com for the images.

The Kiss

Photographers Unknown, (The Kiss), Computer Graphics, Gay Film Gifs

One kiss is all it takes
Fallin’ in love with me
Possibilities
I look like all you need
Let me take the night, I love real easy
And I know that you’ll still wanna see me
On the Sunday morning, music real loud
Let me love you while the moon is still out
Something in you, lit up heaven in me
The feeling won’t let me sleep
‘Cause I’m lost in the way you move, the way you feel
One kiss is all it takes
Fallin’ in love with me
Possibilities
I look like all you need

Dua Lipa and Calvin Harris, One Kiss

Songwriters: Jessica Reyez, Dua Lipa, Adam Richard Wiles

Universal Music Publishing Group

Kyle Bean

Kyle Bean, “Forbidden Fruit”, Fruit, Metal, Flame

With a slightly sinister and naughty tone, British designer Kyle Bean materializes “forbidden fruit” as a series of dangerously armed produce, bearing unusual self defense mechanisms. Photographed for latest issue of the “Gourmand” magazine in collaboration with photographer Aaron Tilley, Bean has composed five visualizations of the guarded garden greens. Each snack embodies its own spunky and edgy style, while its protective personality seems to divulge secrets about a “dark side” of fruit. – Design Museum

“Magic Eye” by Tom Bacceo and Cheri Smith

Three Autostereograms from the book “Magic Eye” by Tom Bacceo and Cheri Smith, 1991

Magic Eye is a series of books published by N.E. Thing Enterprises (renamed in 1996 to Magic Eye Inc.). The books feature autostereograms (precisely, random dot autostereograms),which allow some people to see 3D images by focusing on 2D patterns. The viewer must diverge his or her eyes in order to see a hidden three-dimensional image within the pattern. “Magic Eye” has become something of a genericized trademark, often used to refer to autostereograms of any origin. The autostereogram predates the Magic Eye series by several years. Christopher Tyler created the first black-and-white autostereograms in 1979 with the assistance of computer programmer Maureen Clarke.

Unable to find an American publisher after creating its first images in 1991, creators Tom Baccei and Cheri Smith managed to make a deal with Tenyo, a Japanese company that sells magic supplies. Tenyo published its first book in late 1991 titled Miru Miru Mega Yokunaru Magic Eye (“Your Eyesight Gets Better & Better in a Very Short Rate of Time: Magic Eye”), sending sales representatives out to street corners to demonstrate how to see the hidden image. Within a few weeks the first Japanese book became a best seller, as did the second which was published shortly after.

Click on each image, relax your eyes. Try refocusing your eyes. Once you get one, it is easy to shift to the other images. I, personally, find it easiest to view these images by slowly crossing my eyes and slowly uncrossing them. As I uncross the eyes, at one point the image just pops into view.

Thanks to http://nickyskye.blogspot.com

Alexandre Hogue

Paintings by Alexandre Hogue

The dust storms of the 1930s moved millions of tons of topsoil across America’s heartland, wiping out farms and ranches that had stood for generations. Hogue was a young Missouri-born artist just making his reputation when the Depression and Dust Bowl ravaged the communities of the Southern Plains. He saw firsthand the mass exodus of families who packed what the banks had not taken and set out for California, hoping to find a better future.

Alexandre Hogue’s deep concern for environmental issues was a catalyst for the creation of a body of works that spanned the entirety of his career. The land-management failures that spawned the devastation of the dust-bowl decade of the 1930s became the impetus for some of the artist’s most powerful imagery—the Erosion series. Works such as the DMA’s own Drouth-Stricken Area served as an alarm to the public and an accusation and rebuke to powers that, through encouraging poor farming practices, had helped to produce the greatest agricultural disaster in American history.

Hermann Hesse: “I Was One Who Seeks”

Photographer Unknown, (World Life Tattoo)

“I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I’m beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn’t pleasant, it’s not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.”

― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend