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Catching a Ride Across the Atlantic - Hitch-Hiking on a Yacht — Yacht Mollymawk — The cruising log of the good ship Mollymawk. Catching a Ride Across the Atlantic - Hitch-Hiking on a Yacht — Yacht Mollymawk — The cruising log of the good ship Mollymawk. Bateau stop | Le 33 Tour. Tout est parti d’un désir lointain d’un jour expérimenter le « bateau stop », et d’une conversation avec Thomas, mon colocataire passionné de voile, et voilà que la première ligne de mon voyage est tracée : une transatlantique en bateau stop ! Cette conversation déterminera même la date de mon départ puisque on ne fait pas une transatlantique n’importe quand (pour éviter les cyclones et autres réjouissances !). Ce sera donc mon premier défi : trouver un voilier qui voudra bien me prendre à son bord, alors que je n’ai aucune expérience de la navigation (tout juste une semaine de croisière côtière en Bretagne)… Et ce n’est pas une mince affaire mais je vous prouve que c’est possible, il faut juste ne jamais cesser d’y croire.

J’ai commencé à parcourir toutes les bourses aux équipiers en ligne et à y déposer une annonce pour traverser l’Atlantique, puis à en parler à tout le monde autour de moi et sur les forums de voyageurs. Quelques sites de bourses aux équipiers : The Myth of the Ethical Shopper - The Huffington Post. Michael Hobbes There’s this video that went viral earlier this year. On Berlin’s Alexanderplatz, a vending machine is selling plain white T-shirts for €2 each.

Customers approach in ones and twos, insert coins, pick a size. Then, before the shirt comes out, a photo appears—a black-and-white image of rows of sewing machines. “Do you still want to buy this shirt?” For a generation now, buying better has been one of our most potent forms of protest. It all started in the mid-’90s, when anti-sweatshop mania burst into the mainstream of American culture. And for a while there, it worked. But in the past 25 years, the apparel industry, the entire global economy, has undergone a complete transformation. This year, I spoke with more than 30 company reps, factory auditors and researchers and read dozens of studies describing what has happened in those sweatshops since they became a cultural fixation three decades ago. Translation missing: en.parallax1_caption And most companies did these things. Les affiches du salon de la photo depuis 1926.

AFFICHES/FLYERS - UGOBIENVENU. Vivre Parmi les Ecrans 02. Zbigniew Czapla : "Rytual", 2011. Visualizing Sound With Fluids. Fuck Yeah, Book Arts! Photos 780 Notes Down The Rabbit Hole by Dina Makarita is a tunnel book that evokes the feeling of time passing as you fall into a deep REM sleep, when your most vivid and bizarre dreams occur. The overall form is an expandable sequence of bright turning shapes representing depth of sleep, while the rotating shapes mimic the movement of the dreamer’s eye during REM sleep. Packaging includes instructions for assembly, a dream journal with interpretations, a photo book of the project, and all the necessary paper materials for creating your very own dream tunnel book. Studio Bertjan Pot's Masks. Dutch designer Bertjan Pot's masks were the product of a failed material experiment. "I wanted to find out if by stitching a rope together I could make a large flat carpet.

Instead of flat, the samples got curvy. When I was about to give up on the carpet, Vladi came up with the idea of ​​shaping the rope into masks. The possibilities are endless, I’m meeting new faces every day. " Studio Bertjan Pot consists of Bertjan Pot, Vladi Rapaport and Marjolein Fase. Le Super Serif Typeface on Behance. New Year Doublevision with Horyon Lee. The Conference by Media Evolution 2014. Police mugshots in the 1920s. Sherlock: The Network app. Films | Video Gallery | Roger Ballen Photography. Bizarre, Fleshy Sculptures by Francesco Albano.

We're not sure what type of creature these piles of sagging, deformed, empty skin belonged to but we sure don't want to meet them. Reminding us slightly of certain Asger Carlsen photos, these sculptures by Francesco Albano are certainly disturbing. Albano sees the skin as the nearest boundary between internal and external identity, a kind of storage space, and "bone" as a stable structure that sustains our physical presence and makes us complete.

(via) Deformations by Can Pekdemir. Can Pekdemir is an Istanbul-based conceptual artist working on deformation and abstraction of body forms using various methodologies and focused on isolated urban spaces, city and nature relationship using photography as a tool of documentation. He is a full time instructor in Departmant of Visual Communication Design at Istanbul Bilgi University. (via) Paintings and Performance Art by Olivier de Sagazan. Introduction to Contemplative Computing: My talk at Lift11, Marseille. Introduction In the spirit of earlier talks that started with an activity, I want everyone to open up your laptop, iPad, or smartphone, and check your email. While you're doing that, take notice of something: Are you holding your breath? You probably are. Almost everybody holds their breath when they check mail, and almost nobody realizes it. It's a small thing, but every time you do it (and think about how often your check your mail) CO2 builds up in your bloodstream, your body interprets that as a warning, and your anxiety level goes up a little.

Via flickr An ancient, subconscious physical system accidentally triggered by a modern technology illustrates how complicated-- and problematic-- our relationships with information devices have become. Via flickr This often feels like an inevitable state of affairs. Via flickr More recently, neuroscientific explanations for our addiction to technology have become popular. Via flickr and by applying some very old ideas to this problem... via flickr. Contemplative Computing. Vers une informatique contemplative. Par Rémi Sussan le 15/07/11 | 6 commentaires | 5,465 lectures | Impression Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, du Peace Innovation Lab à Stanford et du Groupe d’étude des systèmes sociaux numériques de Microsoft Labs, a débuté son intervention à la conférence Lift en nous suggérant une petite activité : “consultez vos e-mails” a-t-il demandé, “vous allez le faire de toute façon”.

Mais il nous a demandé d’observer notre comportement à ce moment : il semble en effet qu’en majorité, les internautes retiennent leur respiration au moment de cette consultation. Ce qui a pour conséquence d’augmenter notre CO² dans le sang et donc notre sensation d’anxiété. Voilà pour lui un exemple de la manière dont les technologies modernes provoquent des stress. Image : Alex Soojung-Kim Pang sur la scène de Lift, photographié par Swannyyy. “On dit souvent que nous sommes dans l’âge de l’information, a-t-il continué, alors qu’on a plutôt l’impression d’être dans l’âge de la distraction”. Interaction of Color: Revised Edition: Josef Albers: 9780300018462: Amazon.com. A rebours: Amazon.fr: Joris-Karl Huysmans. Goethe's Theory Colours. ROY G. BIV: An Exceedingly Surprising Book About Color: Jude Stewart: 9781608196135: Amazon.com.

The Tricky Science of Color Perception. Color is infinitely shifty. It’s unstable in the presence of nearby colors. It’s vulnerable to tricks of the light. It acts like it’s moving when it’s not. It can act like it’s there when it’s not. Put another way, color is subject to a thousand kinds of distortion as it travels from an object, through light, through your eye to your (acculturated) brain. Yet the tricky, interwined science and art of color perception still goes under-appreciated.

In my new book ROY G. Goethe Trifles like writing the blockbuster myth Faust and schooling Darwin in plant morphology paled — in Goethe’s eyes, anyway — to publishing his baby, Theory of Colors (Farbenlehre), in 1810. Book cover redesign of Goethe’s Farbenlehre by Daniel KövesháziIntended as a corrective to the science underpinning Newton’s Opticks (1704), Goethe imagined darkness not just as absence of light but as its own active force; the battle of Light vs. Huysmans “Alas!

Tortoise by Travis Juntara on Flickr Albers. AI Plate : une interface tactile qui flotte dans les airs avec Clubic.com. Pepper's Ghost ou l'illusion d'un spectre. Publié le 11/03/2011 Pepper's Ghost est sans doute l’une des illusions les plus connues dans le monde de la prestidigitation et du théâtre. Son principe : des objets ou des acteurs apparaissent ou disparaissent de façon fantomatique… L'histoire de la technique du Pepper's Ghost L'invention de cette illusion par un certain Henry Dircks remonte à 1862, il créa un effet d'optique qui semblait faire apparaître et disparaître des fantômes sur scène.

Cette technique a été mondialement utilisée et certains l’utilisent sous le nom de « Dircksian Phantasmorgia ». Dircks effectuait son illusion devant un public, sur scène, mais sa méthode particulière qui requiert un certain nombre de matériaux coûteux et une installation spécifique nécessitant des modifications dans la plupart des salles de spectacles découragea rapidement les propriétaires de théâtre. Sa première démonstration eut lieu lors d’une scène d'une œuvre de Charles Dickens et remporta un vif succès. Comment ça marche ? Crédit photo©AjF. Pepper's ghost. Technique[edit] In order for the illusion to work, the viewer must be able to see into the main room, but not into the hidden or "Blue Room. " The edge of the glass is sometimes hidden by a cleverly designed pattern in the floor.

The hidden room may instead be painted black, with only light-colored objects in it. In this case when light is cast on the room, only the light objects reflect the light and appear as ghostly translucent images superimposed in the visible room. In the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland/Walt Disney World and Disneyland Tokyo, the glass is vertical to the viewer as opposed to the normal angled position, reflecting animated props below and above the viewer that create the appearance of three-dimensional, translucent "ghosts" which appear to be dancing through the ballroom and interacting with props in the physical ballroom. History[edit] Giambattista della Porta[edit] Porta's description, from the 1658 English language translation, is as follows. Modern examples[edit] "Risqué {dirty little pictures}" @ Long Beach Museum of Art. The curatorial child of artists Jeff McMillan and Nathan Spoor and museum director Ron Nelson has been born today at the Long Beach Museum of Art in the group exhibition, Risque {dirty little pictures}.

After over two years of gestation out popped an incredible collection of erotic/perverse works by 40 artists who were invited by the trio to create works within a 8x10 format. A gorgeous catalog and T-shirt by RVCA with Glenn Barr's image commemorates this gathering of artistic vision. The show features works by Soey Milk, Audrey Kawasaki, David Molesky, Nathan Spoor, Jeff McMillan, Brendan Monroe, Natalia Fabia, and many more. Artist names on each image above. Maeven / Lotta Nieminen. Lotta Nieminen est une designer graphique, illustratrice et directrice artistique originaire de finlande. Elle a dernièrement réalisée l’identité visuelle de Maeven, une boutique en ligne de vêtements de marque vintage. Kenne deine Rechte / Grundform. “ Kenne deine Rechte ” veut dire en allemand : “Connaissez vos droits”.

C’est un portail en ligne des droits de l’homme des jeunes pour les jeunes. GRUNDFORM est une agence et un studio de communication visuelle qui a eu pour responsabilité la conception, le design, le développement et le marketing du projet. Aava / Bond. Une identité minimaliste signée par l’agence créative spécialisée en identité de marque Bond . Kirschner / Six. Puma Dance Dictionary. Unwoven Light par Soo Sunny Park. Victoria's Camp. OSCILLATE. Sagrada Familia Perspectives.