Last week I had the pleasure to see the latest from video painter, Ben Jones at the Nada Art Fair in New York City. This video shows some of Jones’ work in which animated images are projected on top of painting. You get the sense of traveling into a time warp with this stuff. Awesome!
Ben Jones
Artist Ben Jones projects video on top of geometric paintings to create extradimensional images. He most recently had a large show at LA’s MoCA, shown here.
Ben Jones
Drew Morrison’s Entrippy
Ready for your science pun of the day? In this series Entrippy, Drew Morrison pokes fun at the topic of entropy. As Morrison states, the series “explores the idea that tangible matter can take on a multitude of forms as it disperses and restructures itself throughout time.” The series can be seen as a parody of how society turns natural materials into consumable goods. In Entrippy, Morrison uses the parade as a cultural motif. As he states,
“The organized parade can be thought of as one way a culture can celebrate itself and it’s traditions, by coalescing into a larger mass, and in turn taking on a greater meaning. What happens afterwards is a dispersion, not unlike nature’s unrelenting and innate ability to take and reshape proteins and minerals from one form to another. Similarly, mankind is obsessed with the idea of harvesting raw materials and restructuring them into functional, marketable items of interest.”
Interested in getting one of Morrison’s Entrippy images? You can purchase them here .
This is just magnificent. Astronaut Chris Hadfield sings a rendition of Bowie’s Space Oddity while floating in his tin can, THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. Includes beautiful shots a-plenty of planet earth, a floating guitar, and the incredible technological surroundings inside the 15-year-old low-earth-orbit satellite.
This heart, with ventricles made of hands, chambers made of manipulated terracotta, its form made from photos, is artist’s Rachel De Joode’s exploration into contemporary sculpture. As seen at the Nada Art Fair.
The joyous “Gutai: Splendid Playground” is at the Guggenheim for just two more days. The Japanese-modernist movement was marked by mixed media pieces imbued with a spirit of playfulness. Gutai, in part, was a conscientious reaction to elevate the mind above the conformity that led the country disastrously into WWII.
Sadamasa Motonaga’s Work (Water), is now flung across the Guggenheim rotunda. Although it is just dyed water placed inside large plastic tubes, these simple materials create giant brushstrokes of sun-filtered color. The lines are truly mind-altering to watch as you walk up and down the museum’s circular ramp. The original piece, in 1956, was strung through a pine grove park where children cavorted. Go see it if you can, and feel a childhood sense of awe your life might just be lacking.
Photographer Paul Octavius has discovered a new kind of astronomical phenomenon: Beer Planets! These images, and many other delightfully oddball discoveries appear on his Instagram feed. Follow him! @pauloctavious
Out in the Kentucky countryside, my Aunt and Uncle used to have a crow named Jeckle that spent summers on their property. He’d come and go with the season, was smart enough to do tricks, friendly enough to pet, and, with a cocking of his head, seemed to understand language.
Photographer Masahisa Fukase spent 10 years capturing images of these highly evolved creatures in the Japanese countryside, often from a train. His images are stark and impressionistic, almost completely focused on emotion rather than the birds themselves. Several of these gelatin prints are currently on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as part of their Birds in the Art of Japan exhibit.
Like Fukase (and my Aunt and Uncle), behavioral ecologists also study crows. These intriguing birds mate for life, can survive nearly 20 years in the wild, collaborate in extended family groups to rear their young, and use tools. Crows are studied almost as much as primates for clues into evolutionary social behavior.
Light and magic in the nighttime forest. Candles burn below the leaves, stars glow above. Lay back and feel the Earth spinning under your spine.
” After taking LSD. I lighting up a candle in the middle of the wood and during the 30 secondes of exposure, i make a meditation about the holism of nature surrounding me. Feeling the crystal vibration irradiating from the center of the Gaia mother earth. So in this picture i try to show you the magic,sacred metaphysical quality of the nature and new age bullshiting you. “
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