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Taichung Gateway in Xitun District, Taichung City by Vincent Callebaut Architectures. September 18th, 2011 by Sumit Singhal Article source: Vincent Callebaut Architectures For the hundredth birthday of the creation of “Taiwan R.O.C.”, the main aim of the Taichung City Government is to honour the local building traditions and symbolize the new Taiwan dynamics into economic, political, social and cultural achievements.

Night View Architects: Vincent Callebaut ArchitecturesProject: Taichung Gateway – Active Gateway CityLocation: Xitun District, Taichung CityHost Organization: Secretariat: Taichung City GovernmentSponsor: Urban Development Bureau, Taichung City GovernmentProject Title: Taiwan Tower Planning, Design and Construction Supervision Service ProjectContract Performance Location: Xitun District, Taichung CityConstruction budget : NT$ 6.588.000.000Delivery: December 2016 Cove Site Plan Master Plan Aerial View The Project site is included in the Taichung Gateway City. View from the Gateway Park The three main functional entities are organized as follows : Main View Facade Bottom.

VINCENT CALLEBAUT ARCHITECTE C.V. Jared Krichevsky. Someone went and made a real-life heart of glass. Heart of Glass: The Art of Medical Models | Wired Science. InShare0 This model, known as Mrs. Einstein, is the most complete vascular system from the head to the toes that FSG makes. It's used to demonstrate the path that catheters make. Photo: Garry McLeod This model shows the main arteries of the brain, including the Circle of Willis and Basilar artery.

The measurements of a cadaver casting were used to make this model.Photo: Garry McLeod This model includes the trachea and the detailed branches of the bronchial tree. The bronchial rings were added using the measurements from a cadaver casting to make the model look and feel anatomical.Photo: Garry McLeod Wade Martindale heats up glass to create a joint. Detail of demonstration model.Photo: Garry McLeodThis close up, shows a stent entering the coronary artery for a balloon catheter placement.Photo: Garry McLeod Photo: Garry McLeodThis model, known as Mrs. Gary Farlow can make art out of arteries. Cubify | Express yourself in 3D with 3D printing.

One Man, 1,200 Hours, and Over 100 Pencils: City Band, A Monumental Drawing by Chris LaPorte. Two weeks ago I was fortunate to spend a few days in Grand Rapids, Michigan at ArtPrize 2012, a sprawling international art fair featuring over 1,500 installations by more than 1,700 artists in venues throughout the city including the Grand Rapids Art Museum, the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, as well as countless art galleries, cafes, sidewalks, and even smack dab in the middle of a river. The entire affair centers around popular vote that determines ten winners (a maximum award of $200,000) as well as several juried awards.

You can see the 2012 winners here. It was a great trip and I saw more art three days than I’ve seen in person in the past year. One of the most outstanding artworks I encountered in Grand Rapids was this gargantuan drawing on exhibit at the GRAM by artist Chris LaPorte who attended the New York Academy of Art and now lives and works in Michigan. Retronaut. ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide. Happy Famous Artists. April Gertler. Dinosaur Art: The World’s Greatest Paleoart -- exclusive excerpt. There are many forms of art –- still life, abstract, landscape, digital, cubism, marine, aviation, splatter, modern, photography etc but chances are, few people know what "paleoart" is. Well, simply put, it is the illustration of prehistoric life. Its practitioners combine an understanding of such broad disciplines as anatomy, geology and botany to open windows onto the ancient past, bringing to life as best they can organisms from across the planet’s four billion-year history.

Everything from jellyfish to trilobites to mammoths to the first single-celled organisms – and, of course, dinosaurs. Dinosaur Art is a collection -- and celebration -- of some the finest purveyors of paleoart. My primary reason in assembling this host of talent was to give them a voice. Here’s a selection of some of my favorite images, from the book. -- Steve White, editor of Dinosaur Art Douglas Henderson I love the lighting on this. John Conway Tarbosaurus is a very close relative to T-rex. Luis Rey Raul Martin. FEI Company's Photostream. Nuthin' But Mech. Spanish fresco restoration botched by amateur. 23 August 2012Last updated at 06:50 ET Cecilia Gimenez: "Everybody who came into the church could see I was painting" An elderly parishioner has stunned Spanish cultural officials with an alarming and unauthorised attempt to restore a prized Jesus Christ fresco. Ecce Homo (Behold the Man) by Elias Garcia Martinez has held pride of place in the Sanctuary of Mercy Church near Zaragoza for more than 100 years.

The woman took her brush to it after years of deterioration due to moisture. Cultural officials said she had the best intentions and hoped it could be properly restored. Donation Cecilia Gimenez, who is in her 80s, was reportedly upset at the way the fresco had deteriorated and took it on herself to "restore" the image. She claimed to have had the permission of the priest to carry out the job. "(The) priest knew it! BBC Europe correspondent Christian Fraser says the delicate brush strokes of Elias Garcia Martinez have been buried under a haphazard splattering of paint. 'Good intentions'

The Official Tim Burton Website. I DRAW COMICS Sketchbook & Reference Guide by Matt Marrocco. The I DRAW COMICS Sketchbook & Reference Guide is the ultimate tool for practicing the basics of Comic Book illustration, page design and the art of storytelling. We've designed the ultimate Comic Book Artist Field Guide by combining commonly used industry reference materials and 100+ sketching templates into a ubiquitous and iconic molelskine sketchbook form. By providing valuable Comic Book Industry background information and commonly used Comic Book terminology, no one is starting from scratch when learning with the I DRAW COMICS Sketchbook & Reference Guide. The beauty of the I DRAW COMICS Sketchbook & Reference Guide is that it gives you the ability to immediately apply what you've learned in the provided "Non-Photo Blue" templates.

Not only do they help you along as you improve your grasp of proportion and perspective, but you can scan your sketch into Photoshop and with minimal tweaking, the templates disappear leaving only your sketches behind! Who doesn't love a hoodie?! The Library of Congress' Photostream. Amazing 70-Year-Old Color Photos. Sometimes looking at old photographs makes me think of this exchange between comic-strip hero Calvin and his dad: Calvin : Dad, how come old photographs are always black and white? Didn't they have color film back then? Dad : Sure they did. In fact, those old photographs are in color. As absurd as it sounds, there is a kind of psychological truth to it -- having seen mostly black-and-white pictures of the world pre-1960 or so (I'm not counting Technicolor movies), I begin to imagine the past unfolding in monochrome.

But this really takes the cake : the Library of Congress has just created a Flickr page , on which they've posted nearly 2,000 color slides -- many of them hauntingly beautiful. But rather than sending you off to pick through thousands of these photos on Flickr -- something of a laborious process -- we've compiled our favorites here. A boilermaker at a Chicago train yard, 1942 Boy near Cincinnati, Ohio, 1942 "Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif. Mike Capp. New Street Artist ‘Bored’ Turns Chicago Sidewalks into an Alternative Monopoly Game. I was walking in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood a few weekends ago when I happened upon an enormous stack of Monopoly ‘Chance’ cards made from plywood and bolted to the sidewalk announcing a marriage proposal at a nearby church.

It was awesome. Immediately I started wondering if it was a genuine proposal? Was it a joke? Or could it be… ART?! Chicago has a fair amount street art if you know where to look, but it’s mostly spray painted stencils and paste-ups, and it’s extremely rare to see something three dimensional or sculptural. As it turns out I wasn’t the first blogger to make the discovery.

After a few desperate tweets and some emailing, I finally got in touch with the artist (or artists!) While there are a number of good street artists in Chicago, this is definitely a welcome change of pace. Konietzko « bryan « photojournal. See Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night recreated with 7,000 falling dominoes. That's total apps downloaded, though. That's including games, weather apps, mobile web browsers, and "fart button" apps all in the same statistic. It's impressive, but not terribly useful for gauging how much of a threat mobile phone gaming poses to traditional handhelds. Analysts keep trying to make this argument, but I'm just not convinced. People who want to play Angry Birds and Cut the Rope are a separate demographic from people who want to play Mario 3D Land and Kid Icarus; sure, there's some overlap, but I don't think it's nearly as much as the industry talking heads want to believe.

I'm still talking about revenue. Casual gamers used to play gameboys, pretty much every kid in my middle school had a gameboy advance, I don't think that all of the kids in my school were "core gamers". Apple has come out and said games are the best selling apps on the app store and take the majority share of the income pie. The 25 Best Places in the World to Photograph. Carved Book Landscapes by Guy Laramee. (click images for detail) For the better part of three decades multidisciplinary artist Guy Laramee has worked as a stage writer, director, composer, a fabricator of musical instruments, a singer, sculptor, painter and writer.

Among his sculptural works are two incredible series of carved book landscapes and structures entitled Biblios and The Great Wall, where the dense pages of old books are excavated to reveal serene mountains, plateaus, and ancient structures. Of these works he says: So I carve landscapes out of books and I paint Romantic landscapes. Mountains of disused knowledge return to what they really are: mountains. They erode a bit more and they become hills. Then they flatten and become fields where apparently nothing is happening. Laramee’s next show will be in April of 2012 at the Galerie d’Art d’Outremont in Montreal. Got Old Phonebooks? Make Art Out Of Them! Texas based photographer Cara Barer uses old phone books, computer manuals, maps, and comic books to create hypnotic sculptures, which she then photographs.

Her inspiration came when she saw a rain-soaked Yellow Pages lying on the ground. She photographed its intricately bent pages and soon began the search for more books, and more methods to change their appearance. She realized she owned many books that were no longer of use to her or to anyone else. She soaked the manual for Windows 95 in the bathtub for a few hours, then gave it a new shape and purpose. Half Price Books became a regular haunt, and once an abandoned house gave her a set of outdated reference books, complete with mold and a storied history of neglect. Barer seems to have no problem acquiring large reference books: “Half a century ago, students researched at home with the family set of encyclopedias, or took a trip to the library to find needed information. See more of Cara Barer’s photography here. via Amusing Planet. Disputed painting revealed as a Van Gogh. Lisa Grossman, reporter (Image: Kröller-Müller Museum) High-energy radiation and some clever detective work have revealed that a supposedly anonymous painting was actually crafted by Vincent van Gogh.

The painting, Still Life with Meadow Flowers and Roses (below), was painted over a painting of two half-naked wrestlers: Van Gogh's homework as an art student in Antwerp, Belgium. Since 1974, the painting has lived at the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, the Netherlands, which houses more than half of the known Van Gogh paintings. But the museum was never sure how to categorise it. The painting wasn't like Van Gogh's other floral still lifes: the canvas was much bigger than usual, and the flowers in the foreground were gaudier than normal for the artist. Since 2003, the painting had been listed as anonymous. A key clue emerged in 1998, when X-ray examinations uncovered two human figures grappling with each other underneath the layers of flowers. Rene Magritte. "René Magritte was no doubt disappointed that, aside from the small circle of his kindred spirits among the Surrealists, the world needed over a quarter of a century to discover that his work has both philosophical and poetic content which corresponds to certain social and intellectual trends, particularly of the second half of the twentieth century.

Magritte's work was not easy to approach at the outset, however. He is a difficult painter, and his simplicity is misleading. A world ever more disturbed and unstable - in labor, trade, and industry, as well as in intellectual and university circles - is a world in which reason remains indispensable. Yet the irrational no longer allows itself to be thrust aside, and today it is struggling to win recognition. As a result, there is now a greater possibility, especially among the younger generation, to arrive at a better and deeper understanding of Magritte's art. "Seeing, says Magritte, is what matters.

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