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Tuesday, November 13, 2012

BAKA!!

Another piece seen at the Eyeworks Animation Festival.

Kyle Mowat's thesis animation from Sheridan College, in Ontario. (BTW, John Kricfalusi dropped out of Sheridan, then created Ren & Stimpy).

Saw this video in the Eyeworks Animation Showcase, as part of the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival.

Monday, January 9, 2012

Olivia Fox

Not sure what this is, besides awesome.

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Jodi

Dutch Internet art collective: Jodi.

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Parallax, as a metaphor

In a philosophic/geometric sense: An apparent change in the direction of an object, caused by a change in observational position that provides a new line of sight. The apparent displacement, or difference of position, of an object, as seen from two different stations, or points of view. In contemporary writing parallax can also be the same story, or a similar story from approximately the same time line, from one book told from a different perspective in another book. The word and concept feature prominently in James Joyce's 1922 novel, Ulysses. Orson Scott Card also used the term when referring to Ender's Shadow as compared to Ender's Game. The artist Sarah Morris named her studio Parallax, in reference to her parallel production of paintings and films.

The metaphor is invoked by Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek in his work The Parallax View. Žižek borrowed the concept of "parallax view" from the Japanese philosopher and literary critic Kojin Karatani. "The philosophical twist to be added (to parallax), of course, is that the observed distance is not simply subjective, since the same object that exists 'out there' is seen from two different stances, or points of view. It is rather that, as Hegel would have put it, subject and object are inherently mediated so that an 'epistemological' shift in the subject's point of view always reflects an ontological shift in the object itself. Or—to put it in Lacanese—the subject's gaze is always-already inscribed into the perceived object itself, in the guise of its 'blind spot,' that which is 'in the object more than object itself', the point from which the object itself returns the gaze. Sure the picture is in my eye, but I am also in the picture."

Via Wikipedia's Parallax entry.

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

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Friday, May 20, 2011

Geometric patterns on two great blogs

http://matsysdesign.com/studios/compositebodies/author/ljordan/
http://surfacefragments.blogspot.com/2010/04/arabian-antiquities-of-spain.html

Friday, April 22, 2011

Iannis Xenakis drawings

From White Hot Magazine.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Deer Dancers

Picuris Deer Dancer #1, by David Michael Kennedy.

Untitled, by Gloria Brown.

Untitled, by unknown artist.

What is this?!

This terra cotta thing is listed on 1stdibs as:

Han Dynasty Pottery Ding Tripod
China
260 BC - 220 AD
Rustic piece that is a rare find. Neutral outside color is balanced with a bright orange inside.

OK!
Anyway it is awesome.

Monday, March 21, 2011

Antique French Needlepoint Rug

http://nazmiyalantiquerugs.com/antique-rugs/antique-french-needlepoint-rug-1919-962.cfm

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Asmat body maska

The Asmat of New Guinea use these masks in dance ceremonies to mark the passage of the recently dead from this world to the next.

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Navigational chart

Used by natives of the Marshall Islands, each chart is made and used by an individual intra-archipelago navigator. They serve as private mnemonic devices.
At the Met's Oceana wing.

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