Archive for September, 2012
Finish her!
Posted in Gif, tagged Gif on 28/09/2012| Leave a Comment »
Kick kick flip
Posted in Video, tagged Advertising, Video on 28/09/2012| Leave a Comment »
Two world-class skateboarders, one skateboard, one badass soundtrack (The Black Keys?):
The tagline is a pretty loose excuse to tie the idea to the product, but the idea is so fun and so well executed it really doesn’t matter.
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Poppin’ fresh
Posted in Typography, tagged Design, Typography on 27/09/2012| Leave a Comment »
The noblest art
Posted in Advertising, tagged Advertising, Illustration on 26/09/2012| 1 Comment »
Don’t call me Shirley
Posted in Illustration, tagged Illustration, Science on 25/09/2012| Leave a Comment »
Should’ve brought a brolly
Posted in Photography, tagged Photography, Science on 24/09/2012| Leave a Comment »
Over the past few months photographer David Chambon has been working on a beautiful series of photos featuring insects covered in morning dew:
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Ridged for her pleasure
Posted in Science, tagged Photography, Science on 21/09/2012| Leave a Comment »
The crop circle aliens have got bored of Somerset and have moved to underwater Japan.
Japanese photographer Yoji Ookata found these rippling geometric sand patterns nearly six feet in diameter and almost 80 feet below sea level, near Amami Oshima at the southern tip of the country:
It turned out that the artist wasn’t some scrumpied-up West Country farmer, but in fact a small puffer fish only a few inches in length, using a single fin.
It swims tirelessly through the day and night to create these vast organic sculptures, which are created to attract the ladyez. The more ridges, the greater the chance of finding a mate. Once the female fish has made it to the middle of the structure, she finds the male fish waiting, and the pair eventually lay eggs at the circle’s center, the grooves later acting as a natural buffer to ocean currents, protecting the delicate offspring.
It always comes down to sex doesn’t it…
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The first casualty of war is plastic
Posted in Video, tagged Animation, Video on 21/09/2012| Leave a Comment »
Stop-motion animator Chris Butcher (who won the Red Bull Canimation Competition in 2011) created this fantastic stop-motion animated short film Plot-oon that follows a platoon of green army men as they escape prison and try to reach safety at a nearby vegetable patch:
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Silver lining
Posted in Art, tagged Art, Sculpture on 20/09/2012| Leave a Comment »
CLOUD is a rather sweet interactive installation by artist Caitlind r.c. Brown made from 1,000 working lightbulbs on pullchains and an additional 5,000 made from burnt out lights donated by the public. Visitors to the installation could pull the chains causing the cloud to sort of shimmer and flicker:
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Purple patch
Posted in Art, tagged Art, Painting, Printer on 19/09/2012| Leave a Comment »
Artist Nick Blakeman and photographer Esther Robinson created these great body painted images of a body being gradually created from the feet up, as if it were being 3D printed.
As Anatomy UK says, it’d be great to see this with anatomical detail added onto the sections:
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Vacuum Packed 