Design Ideas and Tech Concepts - Toxel.com More hidden mothers in Victorian photography: post-mortem photographs or not? As I mentioned in the original post on Hidden mothers in Victorian portraits, in 19th century photographs of children you can sometimes spot a mother hiding behind a chair or underneath a decorative throw, ostensibly trying to hold their squirmy children still during the long exposure times of the camera. (You can see the original post and images here.) The response to the first post on ‘hidden mothers’ has been almost as ridiculously interesting as the phenomena itself, so I thought it called for a follow up post in order to show some more of these intriguing images and to share some of the insights and debates that these photographs have stirred. In short, are any of the children in these images dead? And if so, why is the mother hidden? Several other commentators disagreed (including the fantastic vintage photography bloggers Mrs Marvel from Who Were They? // Photographs in this post are from a range of different places: click on individual images to go to the source. Susan E.
Escape Into Life brown dress with white dots “ There is a life review, of course, but it was so much more interesting than I had ever imagined. For one thing, they show you how and where your life really happened. Things you didn’t experience or weren’t ever aware of, but which dyed the fabric of your life its final color.— Jonathan Carroll / Child Across the Sky “ How volatile and untrustworthy memory is. How naive we are to depend on such a fragile, temperamental mechanism to keep our most important records straight.— Jonathan Carroll / Bathing the Lion “ We want to be loved for what we are, but also for what we want others to _think_ we are.— Jonathan Carroll / Bones of The Moon
Office Pets by Hella Jongerius Hella Jongerius has updated her website to include her Office Pets project commissioned by Vitra Edition last year. The limited edition pieces are made mostly by hand from materials associated with the corporate environment. Details like the wheels reference furniture usually found in offices. See more from Vitra Edition 2007 in our earlier story. Here's some information from Jongeriuslab: Office Pets Date: 2007 commissioned by: Vitra, Basel Type: Limited edition For Vitra Edition 2007 Hella Jongerius designed three curious wheeled objects - Office Pets - combining worlds of difference. Office Pets not only provide office staff a light-hearted escape from their tightly organised office life, but also represent a new stage in design. In 2007 we ask so much more from products than the serviceability that was the central feature of industrial design at the beginning of the 20th century. Office Pets form the daring but logical next stage in Jongerius’ career.
hsiao-ron cheng… again hsiao-ron cheng… again Mmmmm, I can almost smell the peonies and roses… just imagine if my whole head was covered in them! This is the delicate, yet kinda weird, work of Taipei based artist Hsiao-Ron Cheng. Happy weekend… I hope you get a face full of flowers!