DEHNG!!!! Just over a month out from the shortest day of the year! Make sure and capitalize on the long nights and get groovin to a lot of music! Here are a few tasty jams to whet your appetite for the weekend. Art courtesy of Andy Gilmore. NOCTURNE ROLLICKING
Categories: Art, Audio, Graphic Design, Painting, Stellar Jams
Recently, in my unrelenting perusal of the internet’s archives, I came across an amazing site called BibliOdyssey. The specialty of the site is scanning vintage prints, diagrams, texts, designs – and sharing the old-world craft with anyone willing to have a gander. Looking at these images, it seems as though expert hand crafting of diagrams and prints is becoming a lost art. Here are some of the more intriguing visuals discovered thus far, but plan to see more material coming […]
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Jack Handey is the epitome of a thinking man. Cooking up some of the most outrageous scenarios you might ever read/hear, Handey is a surrealist comic. His musings attracted Steve Martin in the late 70’s / early 80’s and after being introduced to Lorne Michaels, Jack became a contributing writer on Saturday Night Live for the better part of 2 decades. Below you’ll find 10 of his greatest ‘Deep Thoughts’. He coincidentally just published a new book entitled “The Stench […]
With Scandinavia’s long winter nights, it seems very fitting that Finland serve as the home of some of the world’s best Light Painters. Hannu Huhtamo, Jukka Laine, and Janne Parviainen make up the Light Painting artist group Valopaja, a Finnish word that translates as ‘Light Workshop’. The Valopaja have played a role in developing specialty computer software for creating light paintings through selective light sensitivity recording….just watch the video below the gallery. The Light Paintings below are all visions from […]
Categories: Art, Light, Light Painting, Modern Events, Nature, Painting, Photography, Video
Refractographs are the result of shining a small beam of light through prismatic materials, and directing the refracted light into a lens-less camera body. The process, while simple over all, is a bit difficult to fully understand without visual aids, but in watching the tutorial below the gallery (courtesy of Rob Turney) you’ll be well on your way to making your own refractographs. The fleeting vaporous forms of the refractions captured by the camera’s sensor or film become one-of-a-kind abstract […]
Categories: Abstract, Art, Graphic Design, Light, Light Painting, Lighting, Photography
Specifically intended to help you feel good about your Tuesday when contrasting it with the unfortunate souls below. Also, they’ll put a smile on your mug. If you don’t get a chuckle out of at least ONE of the GIFs below, you should probably go see your physician and line up a prescription of LTFU* pills. RELATIVELY SPEAKING, YOUR DAY ROCKS * LTFU pills are a treatment for a chronic condition caused by today’s serious, & stress filled lifestyles; the […]
Courtesy of the photographers featured on the New York Times LENS photojournalism blog, here are some perspective giving photos from around the world.
Categories: Community, Modern Events, Photography, Photojournalism
Happy Friday to all you beautiful people out there! Hope there are some grand plans in store for the weekend, if you’re searching for some feel-good audio diddys, you’ll be pleased to find a few below for your listening and partying pleasure. Thanks to Nicholas Bohac for the stellar painting used in this post. HAVE FUN & DON’T GET HURT (S.D. via A.H.)
Categories: Art, Audio, Painting, Stellar Jams
Some fun interior design components and various architecture and living quarters related bits!
Categories: Architecture, Art, Books, Graphic Design, Home, Interior Design, Lighting, Nature, Rings, Sculpture, Treehouse
Happy Wednezday yawl. Here’s hoping that the transition into the new timing rhythm has been smooth. In the case you need some zany fodder in your life, check out the gallery below. POWA
Categories: Art, Comedy, Drugs, Graphic Design, Nature, Painting, Parody, Photography, Photojournalism, Sculpture
Capturing Capacity