Patiently Arranged Dandelion Works by Botanical Artist Duy Anh Nhan Duc All images via Duy Anh Nhan Duc Self-taught botanical artist Duy Anh Nhan Duc uses a steady hand to arrange dandelion blossoms in artful imitations of their flight through the air. His monochrome works are each reminiscent of a universal childhood urge to scatter a dandelion’s seedlings with a single blow, eager to watch the feathery pieces take flight in the wind. With this in mind he carefully dissects a dandelion’s fluff, placing the individual seeds in concentric patterns. In many works gold leaf is used to single out some of the miniature components, adding another layer of precision to his patiently executed fields of flora. His solo exhibition, The Imaginary Herbarium, is currently on view at Galerie Bettina in Paris through February 15, 2017.
Time to Ditch Our Profit-Hungry Corporate Economy: Here's What the Future Could Look Like Instead June 10, 2012 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. The economy was bound to tank. Kelly, a fellow at the Tellus Institute and co-founder of Business Ethics magazine, wrote the just-released book, Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution (Berrett-Koehler, 2012) that helps provide an antidote to the extractive, money-at-all-costs economy. "Our minds have been so colonized by the paradigm of industrial-age capitalism that we've lost the ability to imagine other ways of organizing an economy," she writes. "My sense is that there is an alternative, and that the reality of it is farther along than we suppose. Kelly's book takes readers across the U.S. and across the world to examine communities and businesses that have flipped the traditional corporate model on its head, providing us with working examples of the transformation we are headed toward if we want a sustainable economy. Marjorie Kelly: No, certainly not.
Pixelnoizz gold leaf | Greg Dunn Design Ink on watercolor paper 18″ X 24″ 2015 Framed in custom selected moulding with antireflective and UV protective art glass. The retina converts light hitting the eye into neural signals that can be interpreted by higher order brain structures in the cortex. Retina in Ink is a neonaturalist work combining scientific visualization with techniques in abstract expressionism to yield chaotic and evocative neural networks in ink. Details: 22K gold, horse and synthetic human hair, ink, and dye on stainless steel Framed in custom selected molding The brain’s characteristic circuitry involves both long range, myelinated axon bundles (depicted with horsehair) that connect disparate regions of the brain and peripheral nervous system, as well as a great deal of locally connected circuits (inked neurons). This painting has a dynamic reflective element in the different lusters of 22K gold leaf overlaid onto etched and dyed stainless steel. Detail photos: 12K gold, dye, and mica on cut acrylic panel
Understanding Camera Lenses Understanding camera lenses can help add more creative control to digital photography. Choosing the right lens for the task can become a complex trade-off between cost, size, weight, lens speed and image quality. This tutorial aims to improve understanding by providing an introductory overview of concepts relating to image quality, focal length, perspective, prime vs. zoom lenses and aperture or f-number. All but the simplest cameras contain lenses which are actually comprised of several "lens elements." Each of these elements directs the path of light rays to recreate the image as accurately as possible on the digital sensor. The goal is to minimize aberrations, while still utilizing the fewest and least expensive elements. Optical aberrations occur when points in the image do not translate back onto single points after passing through the lens — causing image blurring, reduced contrast or misalignment of colors (chromatic aberration). Original Image ZOOM LENSES vs.
Nicole Krauss’s Beautiful Letter to Van Gogh on How to Break the Loop of Our Destructive Patterns “Feeling helpless and confused in the face of random, unpatterned events, we seek to order them and, in so doing, gain a sense of control over them,” the great psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom wrote in his magnificent meditation on uncertainty and our search for meaning. But as our terror of losing control compels us to grasp for order and certainty, we all too often end up creating patterns that ultimately don’t serve us, then repeat those patterns under the illusion of control. These patterns of belief — about who we are, about who others are, about how the world works — come to shape our behavior, which in turn shapes our reality, creating a loop that calls to mind physicist David Bohm’s enduring wisdom: “Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe… What we believe determines what we take to be true.” Krauss writes: Many thanks to reader Carla Taylor for kindly bringing the Krauss letter to my attention.
Jean Pronovost art visionnaire, symboliste, surréaliste et mythologique Current Work — Nic Bladen Menu Current Work Click For Larger View Euphorbia caput-medusae (II) Oedera capensis Leucospermum cordifolium Aloe africana Aloe africana Leucospermum cordifolium X linear Maurocenia frangula Aloe somaliensis Crassula ovata 'gollum variegata' leucospermum cordifolium Euphorbia caput-medusae (I) Euphorbia caput-medusae (III) Leucospermum erubescens Cussonia spicata Acacia erioloba Agapanthus africanus Aloe falcata Aloe pluridens X Protea nitida dwarf Aloe gemini Aloe pluridens X Euryops pectinatus (Wolharpuisbos) Aloe succotrina X Aloe tenuior Aloe succutrina X Tulbaghia violacea Aloe andongensis I Aloe castanea Aloe melanacantha Crassula rubricaulis Haworthia attenuata Orbea variegata I 5 DAY CREATIVE TEXTILE COURSE: FLAX PROCESSING, SPINNING, WEAVING AND NATURAL DYING « Selvedge Join textile artist Susie Gillespie and learn how to process, spin, weave and naturally dye linen. Susie will pick your flax from her orchard in August (2016) so it has time to dry. But don’t worry, she’ll talk you through the process of planting the seeds, rippling and retting the stems so they are ready to be spun. You’ll start by making preparations to the flax stems to prepare them for spinning, this will include revealing the flax fibres, removing the pith, combing them and finally winding them so you can tease off the fibre to produce the yarn. Once you have a hank of your own linen you can experiment with a range of natural dyes or keep the linen in its natural state. You can take the course at your own pace and we hope you’ll find time to enjoy the tradition of sitting together spinning and weaving linen. You’ll come away with your own linen cushion cover, or piece of artwork made from start to finish completely by you. 10-4, Sun-Thurs, 7-11 May 2017, 10-4, £775 per person
whoworeitbetter Elsa Mora | Elsa Mora's official website Bruder Klaus Field Chapel - Architecture of the World - WikiArquitectura Introduction A small concrete chapel built by local farmers on the edge of a field. Concrete is cast around a group of 120 tree trunks, cut at a local forest, and then slowly burned. The meticulous arrangement of the trees teardrop or leaf created the oculus that provides the only direct light to the small dark space. The field chapel is dedicated to Swiss Saint Nicholas von der Flue (1417-1487), known as Brother Klaus. Location The small chapel of concrete was built on the edge of a field in Mechernich on the way Rissdorfer Weg, in a low slope of the Eifel (Naturpark Nordeife) Natural Park, 55 km from Cologne in the west of Germany. Concept In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life , one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction. Floor On a sunny day, the oculus resembles the eruption of a star, a fact that can be attributed and refer to a vision of Brother Klaus in utero. Design Spaces Structure Constructive method Light • Oculus • Perforations walls
Dumpster Art (For a fuller, more luxuriant experience with this cartoon, click the guard’s sock.) Bizarro is brought to you today by Bizarro Boulevard. Here’s a fun cartoon that takes a few seconds to put together in your mind, which is my favorite kind. To fully get it, you may need to have used one of those recorded guided tours at a museum, but I’ll wait while you go do that. Now that you’re back, don’t you think this is funny? INSIDER TRIVIA for JAZZ PICKLES ONLY: 1. 2. 3. Installation Aerial par Monika Grzymala Aerial est une installation de l’artiste berlinoise Monika Grzymala, entièrement réalisée à l’aide d’un gros scotch noir, elle habille une colonne et deux murs blancs avec une dextérité hallucinante. On vous a déjà présenté de nombreuses installations faites à base de ruban adhésif (pour retrouver certains articles, cliquez ici et là) mais je trouve qu’Aerial apporte une nouvelle dimension à cette matière. Comme une toile d’araignée projetée contre les murs ou une explosion de peinture figée, l’installation est immobile et pourtant semble vivante et animée… Pour info, il lui aura fallu plus de 5km de ruban adhésif pour venir à bout de son travail. Pour en savoir plus sur Monika Grzymala, cliquez ici. source