Drawings by OldÅ™ich Kulhánek. Really like the way the artist merges all the shapes together. I usually don’t like photo realism, but there’s a nice textural quality and abstraction of forms that I find attractive in this work.
Yearly Archives: 2013
Cosmos Trailer
Nice to see this series rebooted with Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Looking forward to watching it.
On a side note, Annie bought me two Carl Sagan books for my birthday: “Pale Blue Dot” and “Billions and Billions”. Looking forward to reading them soon.
Sleeping Positions
I’m a side sleeper. And yes, it’s true, I flip from side to side.
Hat tip: Noel
Photos from Saturn
In this rare image taken on July 19, 2013, the wide-angle camera on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured Saturn’s rings and our planet Earth and its moon in the same frame. It is only one footprint in a mosaic of 33 footprints covering the entire Saturn ring system (including Saturn itself). At each footprint, images were taken in different spectral filters for a total of 323 images: some were taken for scientific purposes and some to produce a natural color mosaic. This is the only wide-angle footprint that has the Earth-moon system in it. Nasa.gov
Probably some of the most clear photos I’ve seen. Kind of insane that these are real photos of ourselves. Here we are, Earth, suspended in space like a grain of dust.
Gravity Trailer
Not sure if I care for the movie, but I’m really digging the visual effects. There’s just something about looking at the earth from space that never gets old. This might have to be rental, but I’ll watch it regardlessly.
Architectural Hermit Crab
Hermit crabs make their home in the New York skyline or a Paris apartment in the intricately crafted plastic habitats, which the artist simply left among natural seashells as options for the creatures.
japanese artist aki inomata creates intricately crafted plastic habitats for hermit crabs, which are influenced by the architecture of major cityscapes — the new york city skyline, a parisian apartment, and a tokyo-style house. the semi-transparent, delicate forms are designed in the style of physical human environments, which ironically become a shelter for the aquatic arthropods.
the biology of the hermit crab makes it a fascinating example of identity transfer — as they grow they require larger shells and periodically interchange their external portion with other members of the crustacean community. inomata connects her study of the hermit’s transformation to the self-adaptation of humans, whether it be in acquiring a new nationality, immigrating or relocating.
throughout her creative process, she determined that her plastic representations needed to sustain and support the hermit crab’s careful shell-selection process. she used CT scanning, typically a medical imaging procedure that produces cross-sectional pictures of the body, to capture highly-detailed, 3-dimensional renderings of an unoccupied seashell, which one of her hermit crabs had abandoned.
based on the tomography of the interior of the shell, she prototyped and produced several types of habitable shelters, which the hermits would find similar in construction to their usual exoskeleton. –DesignBoom.com
Pretty cool idea. Now that we have more accessible 3d printers, it’s exciting to see how people are using them. Pretty creative idea.