• Gavin Worth - Wire Sculptures

    “By bending black wire into something resembling freestanding line drawings, I create sculptures that engage the viewer by involving them in their subtle changes. When the light in the room shifts, so does the mood of the piece. A breeze might softly move an arm for example. My wire sculptures tell stories of simple human moments: a woman adjusting her hair, a face gazing from behind tightly wrapped arms, a mother gently cradling her baby. The honest, unguarded moments are those which I find to be the most beautiful.”

    (Source: m0iety)

    • 1 month ago  #art #sculpture #installation  140 notes

  • The Underwater Project by Mark Tipple is a series of stunning images capturing the tightened faces and the clenching bodies of surfers and swimmers once they have gone under the surface of the water. 

    “Coming from a surfing background I used to  wonder what happens when we’re duck-diving. I always wondered what it looks like from a  different angle than what we can see above the surface.”

    (Source: m0iety)

    • 1 month ago  #photography #art #landscape #underwater photography  159 notes
    Calvin: If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently. Hobbes: How so? Calvin: Well, when you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.

    Calvin: If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.

    Hobbes: How so?

    Calvin: Well, when you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.

    (via razorshapes)

    2 months ago 125,779 notes

  • unknowneditors:

    Today’s UE artist on Tumblr feature - Eno Swinnen!

    So please tell us a bit about yourself and your work! How did you come up with the idea to create gifs?
    Hi, i’m Eno, an animation student from Belgium. I mainly work with rotoscopy which means that I draw over filmed footage frame by frame (in the age of the internet this can be almost anything). I started by trying to make the source material more abstract which in turn grew to a more computer-like analyzing of the pictures I was drawing. After that, making gifs just made sense to me. that and my animation almost always benefits from the looping nature of gifs. Most of the gifs that are on my blog now will be part of my master project, which will be an animated short that’ll also completely be online in gif form.

    Do you need special preparations to make a piece (getting inspired, looking for references and so on) or do you just sit down and make an artwork?
    The only preparation that I need is the photocopies I draw on. When I find a youtube vid, or something else that I can record, that inspires me I turn it into frames which I get printed at a copy shop. The next part is just me drawing on the back of these photocopies frame by frame. This part is definitely just me sitting down making everything up as I go.

    How long do you take on a single gif? Which programs do you use and in comparison which one is more advanced for which features?
    I mostly draw in batches of about 500-700 frames and when I’m doing good I draw about 50 or 60 frames a day, sometimes only like 30. On average I do about 3 weeks on a certain part and then I turn parts that I like into gifs. As far as programs go I use After effects to turn videos into frames and Photoshop to turn the scanned frames back into gifs, basically I almost don’t use software as I’m kind of clumsy with it anyway. 

    What gives you the most satisfaction about (your) art?
    Watching it move is so satisfying! There’s almost nothing as fun as working on something for 3 weeks day in day out and then finally seeing it move. 

    What are you looking forward to at the moment?
    Graduating and hopefully being able to get payed for doing what I love. That or just being able to continue making gifs.

    Check this artist out on Tumblr / Vimeo / Flickr
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    • 2 months ago 1,602 notes

  • The Immortal Jellyfish

    While the humans have been looking for the elixir of life throughout every period of history, it appears that there is one species of jellyfish that are actually immortal. Turritopsis nutricula is able to transform its cells from mature state back to immaturity, in other words – back to youth. The medusa leads a regular cycle of life, but after maturing and mating, it reverts back to its initial state – a polyp colony.

    The process is referred to as “transdifferentiation”, and it basically makes the jellyfish unable to die. The bell-shaped immortal jellyfish measures up to a maximum of about 4.5 millimeters (0.18 in) and is about the same in its length and width. Originating in the Caribbean, it has now spread worldwide, and the discovery of its unique ability has heated up many discussions among the scientists. Some claim that their mystery is soon to be solved and applied to humans, while others only expect it to improve the quality of life at our final stages.

    (Source:  Wikipedia and NY Times)

    (Image source:  Takashi Murai)

    (Source: m0iety)

    • 2 months ago  #Science #Animals #f  2,356 notes

  • 1. Odd Nerdrum, 2002

    2. Théodore Géricaultca, 1822

    3. Franz von Stuck, 1895

    4. Edvard Munch, 1897

    5. Francesco Hayez, 1859

    6. Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, 1892

    7. René Magritte 1928

    8. Pablo Picasso 1969

    (Source: meeresstille, via ruineshumaines)

    • 3 months ago 1,815 notes
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