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- Artist: Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Track: Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
- Album: Playing the Piano
I’ll just keep posting this ‘till I find out who the fuck this person is.
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As part of the “European Art Movement” project, the lads over at...
The Witches of Eastwick
Filipp Malyavin, Whirlwind (1906), from Google’s amazing Art Project
High tech merged with high culture Tuesday at The Art Institute of Chicago when Google Inc. announced an upgrade to its Google Art Project initiative, adding thousands of works in dozens more countries. The project [now] provides access to more than 30,000 ultra-high resolution images of paintings, sculptures and photographs from 151 museums and other institutions in 40 countries. […]
Google Art Project also offers a virtual tour of 46 museums using the high-tech giant’s Google Street technology. With images larger than a gigapixel (1 billion pixels), the zoom-in feature allows viewers to get inside cracks in the parchment and other details that are not visible to the naked eye.
Biodigital Human
Online browser-based interactive resource allows you to examine human anatomy:
The BioDigital Human is a 3D platform that simplifies the understanding of anatomy, disease and treatments. Explore the body in 3D!The BioDigital Human is a 3D platform that simplifies the understanding of anatomy, disease and treatments. Interactive tools for exploring, dissecting, and sharing custom views, combined with detailed medical descriptions provide an unprecedented new visual format to learn about your body.This app uses the exciting new web standard for 3D - WebGL.You can try it out here - if you use Chrome, you can get the Chrome app here
(Source: famulus, via eatmeforbreakfast)
Minjeong An
Creative, diagrammatic self-portraits of the artist.
The full size versions of the works can be found on the artist’s website (although it seems to have taken a bit hit in traffic)
Alternatively, you can see more at 50Watts profile of the artist.
A plume of foam in bauxite waste at an aluminum manufacturing plant - Darrow, LA., December 2005
Grass being planted on covered mining site, a process called “hydro-seeding” - Kayford Mountain, W. Va., October 2005
Heavy metal waste from fertilizer production - Convent, La., December 2005
Phospho-gypsum fertilizer waste - Geismar, La., December 2005
Oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon spill floats and mixes on the water - Gulf of Mexico, June 2010
Two types of oil from the BP Deepwater spill float on the Gulf - Gulf of Mexico, June 2010
The inside of a holding tank at an oil sands upgrader facility - Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, July 2009
Outlet pipe from phosphate waste impoundment - Lakeland, FL, 2007
Herbicide manufacturing plant - Luling, LA, 2010
Herbicide manufacturing plant - Luling, LA, 2010
Run-off pond at Rio Tinto Mine - Rio Tinto, Spain, 2008
Waste pond near brown coal-fired power station - Lausitz, Germany, 2008
(Source: mymodernmet.com)
“Sean Martindale organized a project called Outside the Planter Boxes. He rounded up a group of local “artists, designers, gardeners and urbanites” to execute “planter interventions” in sites across the city. In the end, 17 participants made more than 30 projects in a single 24-hour period during the weekend of May 20.”
Airport planter by Martin Reis.
“This Lego installation was inspired by Jan Voormann’s ‘Dispatch Work’ which I chose to bring to the streets of Toronto for the first time.
Grass Spills planters by Sean Martindale.
Beer Carton Flowers by Karen Abel. A temporary installation made from discarded beer cartons found in this street planter at Brock Avenue, and Bloor Street West.
Tire Swing / “Great Canadian (Fake) Swimming Hole” planter and Zen Garden planter by Bentley Ball.
(Source: GOOD)
She’s alright!
(Source: unpoco)
