Flippy Doodles

These ribs are pleats or seams. These arms are sleeves.

noreply@blogger.com (Flippy Doodle) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:33:00 +0000

Title: Simon Armitage, Homecoming
Images: surreal artwork by Valerio Carrubba

The surrealist landscape, mixed with the hyper-realistic colours of the figures, make his work look almost graceful and calm, despite the association of anatomy with the grotesque. All the subjects of his paintings bare their internal organs at the audience in serenity, as if it were their everyday business. There is something soothing about that to the eye and mind.

And the heart cracked in the breast. Now we have found our homes again

noreply@blogger.com (Flippy Doodle) — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 22:27:00 +0000

Title: Primo Levi, Reveille
Images: aerochrome photographs by Richard Mosse

The colours are fantastic. It's like catching glimpses of paradise.

The everlasting universe of things, flows through the mind and rolls its rapid waves

noreply@blogger.com (Flippy Doodle) — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:05:00 +0000

Title: Mont Blanc by Percy Shelley

Images: Illustrations from the children's book Babes in Toyland

This is from an old American children's book (1904). The illustrations looked cute so I decided to put them up; plus the words remind me of those magical stories I used to read as a kid.

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall

noreply@blogger.com (Flippy Doodle) — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:12:00 +0000

Title: Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
Images: artwork by Stefan Zsaitsits

The illustrations are from Stefan Zsaitsits' book Headsongs. You can view all of the artwork on his Behance profile here. The illustrations are made using charcoal on paper.

The first time I across across these illustrations I was struck by the loneliness of the characters. I guess it's because I am in a melancholic state right now, because they seem so vulnerable and sad. It's like being a kid again, and not knowing what to do in the world, or what your surroundings entail, and you feel incredibly scared.

It's like being blind, and craving for people to put your arms around. I especially like the one where he is hugging a pigeon (5th pic) - it's so honest and heartbreaking. It's like being in a comatose state, and wanting something to comfort yourself with.

Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh

noreply@blogger.com (Flippy Doodle) — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:27:00 +0000

Note: the images below contain upper-body nudity.

Title: character of Alex, in Stanley Kubrick's A clockwork Orange
Images: photography series In the Flesh, by Elodie Crebassa

I love the cream-peachy colour of all the photographs. Everyone looks so serene and peaceful, almost as if they were propped up after death. There is something very soothing in their lack of expressions.

And suddenly everything is right

noreply@blogger.com (Flippy Doodle) — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 17:02:00 +0000

Title: Paolo Nutini’s New Shoes, from his debut album These Streets
Images: high speed photographs of bubbles, by Heinz Maier

These are incredible. The colours are so pristine and clear. It's like an uninterrupted bliss.

German photographer Heinz Maier says that he only started taking photographs in 2010, but the camera techniques here look so professional and skillfully done.

Be sure to check out his Flickr Stream for more of his amazing work. Thanks to This is Colossal for the pointer.

I don't fucking believe this! Can everyone stop gettin' shot?

noreply@blogger.com (Flippy Doodle) — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:52:00 +0000

Title: character of Dog in the film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Video: an awesome scene from the 2011 Indian film Shaitan (Devil)

I am willing to add this scene to my top ten favourite scenes of all time.

If you are a fan of impeccably shot movie sequences, it's well worth to watch this scene, even though the dialogue is in Hindi (plus there is only a little bit of dialogue). It's a perfect balance between the violence of the gun fight and the escape of the young runaways, all melted together in slow motion, with the upbeat song Khoya Khoya Chand slathered on top in a generous serving (an interesting new age cover of the classic Mohammed Rafi song).

The movie is fairly decent, and I really hope that Bollywood movies move towards this direction, rather than making over-the-top dance movies. As an added bonus, the soundtrack of this movie is killer - a perfect blend of decadent Indian pulp culture tunes, with alt-rock/metal fused in.

Robot Fish

noreply@blogger.com (Flippy Doodle) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 06:47:00 +0000

Aie!
Slosh! Slosh!

Here I swim,
Within this emerald liquid,
Swishling about my little tail,
Slopping about my fins,
In and out,
With this bulging great apparatus,
On my eye,
Sending sonars,
In all directions.

All surface tension,
To perfect precision.

Little gelatin filled monsters around me,
Trying to outwit me,
Their golden scales flashing,
But my lovely smooth metallic cover,
Outwits them with their clumsy clatter,
My minute hydraulic pumps,
Piston on piston,
Pump on pump,
Pushing great waves of crystals,
In and out.

Those horrid collagen creatures,
Who simply exist,
To consume on others,
Not for a second considering,
This beautiful emerald green,
Not a even an instance of intelligence,
To spare,
For this aqua blue all around,
Multitudes of joy,
Every single molecule,
Salt, sulphur, carbonate,
All gently floating,
In this divine solvent,
Which gives birth to all life.

Each photon of light,
Scattered in perfect unison,
Sending waves of pristine delight,
Reflecting from this titanium frame,
This insignificant metal,
Of which I consist,
As if each photon had loved me,
In some previous organic life.

As if it were at all possible,
For God to design anything more immaculate.

Ji Lee: Word as Image

noreply@blogger.com (Flippy Doodle) — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:43:00 +0000

By Ji Lee, a designer based in NYC. Lee works for Facebook, and used to work at Google Creative Labs.

All we've gotta do is be brave and be kind

noreply@blogger.com (Flippy Doodle) — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:44:00 +0000

Title: lyrics from Baby We'll Be Fine by The National
Image: art work by Olaf Hajek

You can find more of his wonderful art work on his official website. Unfortunately, there is no biography section there, so there is not much I know about him. Snooping around on Google, I found this nice article on Dzine Blog about his paintings. He is an artist based in Berlin, and his medium is acrylic on cardboard, paper or wood.

I don't know how to do this

noreply@blogger.com (Flippy Doodle) — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:41:00 +0000

Image: cover of The National's 2005 album Alligator

Usually I don't blog about song lyrics, but right now I am feeling a little bit volatile, so I need to get things out of my head.

The National - Baby We'll Be Fine

All night I lay on my pillow and pray
For my boss to stop me in the hallway
Lay my head on his shoulder and say
Son, I've been hearing good things

I wake up without warning and go flying around the house
In my sauvignon fierce, freaking out
Take a forty-five minute shower and kiss the mirror
And say, look at me
Baby, we'll be fine
All we gotta do is be brave and be kind

I put on an argyle sweater and put on a smile
I don't know how to do this
I'm so sorry for everything
I'm so sorry for everything
I'm so sorry for everything
I'm so sorry for everything

Baby, come over, I need entertaining
I had a stilted, pretending day
Lay me down and say something pretty
Lay me back down where I wanted to stay
Just say something perfect, something I can steal
Say, look at me
Baby, we'll be fine
All we've gotta do is be brave and be kind

I pull off your jeans, and you spill jack and coke in my collar
I melt like a witch and scream
I'm so sorry for everything
I'm so sorry for everything
I'm so sorry for everything
I'm so sorry for everything
I'm so sorry for everything
I'm so sorry for everything
I'm so sorry for everything
I'm so sorry for everything

I choke up every time I listen to this song. It just speaks so well to me right now. It's so sad. I can't take it anymore. And it's that thought - of looking in a mirror and assuring yourself that things will be alright. But you end up feeling useless and pathetic. You just end up saying sorry to yourself.

It's when you are so alone, and fucking up your life, and you keep telling yourself that things will be okay. You keep promising yourself that this boring, useless existence is temporary, and that you will improve yourself.

Every time he sings "Baby, we'll be fine, All we gotta do is be brave and be kind" and "I'm so sorry for everything", I feel so sad.

I love The National, and this has to be one of my favourite songs by them. Matt Berninger's deep voice makes it so much more meaningful, there is so much melancholy there.

To imagine is like flying a kite. The mind, loosely tethered, is free to be blown about.

noreply@blogger.com (Flippy Doodle) — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 21:48:00 +0000

Title: Alan Fletcher, The Art of Looking Sideways
Image: book cover designs by Cardon Webb

Found these gorgeous vintage book cover series for Oliver Sacks books, designed in-house by Cardon Webb. I love the anatomy drawing and the generous helping of bright colours.

Note that these are are all separate book covers. I love how all of them can be put together like a puzzle to form one awesome image. A very clever concept.

Thanks to Spine Out for the pointer to this.

But for now we are young, let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see

noreply@blogger.com (Flippy Doodle) — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:12:00 +0000

Title: lyrics from Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Images: Andrees Allgemeiner Handatlas, a German cartographic book

More cartography love :)

I especially love the ones about the Moon and the Solar System (images 3 and 8, respectively)

From Wikipedia:

Andrees Allgemeiner Handatlas was a cartographic work published by Velhagen & Klasing in several German and foreign editions between 1881 - 1937.

By using chromolithography, rather than copper plate engraving, detailed maps could be offered at a much lower price than competing works, such as the 7th and 8th editions of Stielers Handatlas.

All these images are from the Flickr set of Professor A. Scobel, so thanks a lot to him for the scans. I suggest you go and check out the images on his Flickr (follow link above), and view them in their full sizes, since my images are too small to do justice to the detailed maps.

The robots are here

noreply@blogger.com (Flippy Doodle) — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:07:00 +0000

Image: infographic, from Mindflash

I love robots, and I love infographics. So an infographic about robots is the creme de la creme of my existence XD

Sorry the size is so small, Picasa get's all weird when I try to upload really large images. Check out the original at Mindflash here, it's super cute.

Thanks to Geekosystem for the pointer.

Jump

noreply@blogger.com (Flippy Doodle) — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:35:00 +0000

Image: a surrealist collage by Philipp Igumnov

You can view more of his surrealist collage work at his Flickr stream.

yMusic Ensemble - Beautiful Mechanical

noreply@blogger.com (Flippy Doodle) — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 20:27:00 +0000

I am loving these little crossovers between ensembles and indie bands. The latest addition to this is yMusic.

At first sight they appear to be a perfect set of indie rock kids, but as soon as you listen to their music, and watch them perform, you realise that they're all also mature classical instrument players. Yet they still have that cool indie vibe to them.

The band consists of:

Rob Moose - guitar (graduate of The Manhattan School of Music in violin performance)
CJ Camerieri - trumpet (classical trumpet training at Juilliard)
Clarice Jensen - cello (bachelor’s and master’s degrees at The Juilliard School)
Alex Sopp - flute (Bachelors and Masters degrees at The Juilliard School)
Hideaki Aomori - clarinet (Bachelor’s degree from the Juilliard School)
Nadia Sirota - violin (undergraduate and Master’s degrees from the Juilliard School)

In summary, a very talented pool of people. In addition to that, they all have indulged in a number of exciting indie projects, both individually and for big names like Bjork and The National.

I find it hard to describe music (because I don't really understand the technicalities of it, and hence cannot describe things in detail), but when I listen to awesome tunes, I can fully appreciate their value. And I know that with yMusic, I have a good band on my hands. So give their album, Beautiful Mechanical, a listen below.

You can read the detailed Paste Magazine review of the album here. The band's official page can be found here. And their Bandcamp page (this is where the playlist below is from) is here.

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Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

noreply@blogger.com (Flippy Doodle) — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 08:25:00 +0000

I am a traveller of both time and space, to be where I have been

noreply@blogger.com (Flippy Doodle) — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 13:16:00 +0000

Title: Led Zeppelin (Plant/Page), Kashmir
Images: digital art by Dan Durda

The Beach

Canyon City

Cloud City

Cosmic Chasm

Geyser Planet

Gliese 581g

Inhospitable

Jovian Atmosphere

Jungle Canyon

Limb of the Moon

Summer Evening in the BD-082823c System

The Pool

I remember watching a documentary on Discovery Channel a few years ago - it showed us what life could possibly be like on an alien planet. It explored the different life forms that could form based on the atmosphere of the planet, it's size, the number of moons it had, etc. And it wasn't based on the random imaginations of alien freaks either, it was based on what scientists thought alien life would be like, extrapolated from data on Earth and the different conditions on it.

They showed the CG of this beautiful landscape, so serene and devoid of human interference. All the wild life seemed to exist in this perfect harmony, in it's absolute pristine natural environment.

Imagine what it would be like if we actually discovered another planet with life on it. We are so used to human interference all over Earth, with barely any piece of land left uninhabited, that it is almost impossible to see nature so uninterrupted and pure.

All this brings me to the digital art above, done by Dan Durda. I never really thought about who did the CG on that show, but I guess it must have been a team of people as awesome as Dan Durda. From his online bio:

Dan Durda is a Fellow and a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Association of Astronomical Artists.
...
Dr. Durda is a Principal Scientist in the Department of Space Studies of the Southwest Research Institute's Boulder Colorado office. He has more than twenty years of experience researching the collisional and dynamical evolution of main-belt and near-Earth asteroids, Vulcanoids, Kuiper belt comets, and interplanetary dust.

He sounds totally awesome! Phil Plait from Bad Astronomy pointed out to his art work. You can check out his full gallery of work here.

Sunset on Mars

noreply@blogger.com (Flippy Doodle) — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:08:00 +0000

Image: via NASA

From the NASA website:

On May 19, 2005, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the Sun sank below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars. This Panoramic Camera mosaic was taken around 6:07 in the evening of the rover's 489th Martian day.

It's strange to see the sun look so alien and gloomy in this photo. But it does have a serenely hypnotic look to it.

The morning comes, the night decays

noreply@blogger.com (Flippy Doodle) — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 06:55:00 +0000

Title: America: A Prophecy by William Blake
Images: photographs by Anton Jankovoy and Mariya Sogrina

Sacred Gupteshwor Shiva Cave

Fire and Ice (Taboche 6367 m)

The Himalayas at night

Sunset on the river, Ukriane

Taboche Peak from the Dusa village

The Sunrise in Nagarkot

These photographs are just so insanely well put together. Be sure to check out the rest of their Flickr stream for more gorgeous photos.

I like to see how man models nature.

noreply@blogger.com (Flippy Doodle) — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 08:14:00 +0000

Title: a comment in this Wired magazine blog post.
Images: illustrations by Mark Weaver.

Mark Weaver is a freelance graphic designer & illustrator working in Atlanta, Georgia. His work has been featured in:

The New York Times
WIRED Magazine
GOOD Magazine
The Sunday Times Magazine
Paste Magazine
The Washington Post

...and other publications.

I like how his work has a vintage, yet futuristic look to it, as if some mad man from the 1930s sat down to imagine what the world would look like in 2011. So things are futuristic, yet slightly off target.

The collage style in some of the work especially stands out. There is something electric and intricate about it.

Be sure to check out all of his work on his website here. He also maintains a very nice Tumblr blog, which can be found here.

Musical Spectrum Analysis

noreply@blogger.com (Flippy Doodle) — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:37:00 +0000

Beautiful visualisation of music, by Joe Raymond Vega.

Foals - Spanish Sahara

noreply@blogger.com (Flippy Doodle) — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 05:54:00 +0000

Just cannot get over how beautiful this song is.

The Future

noreply@blogger.com (Flippy Doodle) — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 11:12:00 +0000

Image: from the book Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Curating* But Were Afraid to Ask

Thanks to We Find Wildness for the pointer to this:

Because he was being asked almost weekly about the future of art, curator, interviewer and co-director of London’s Serpentine Gallery since 2006, HANS ULRICH OBRIST thought it could be interesting to ask all the artists and architects he knows and has worked with to tell him what the future will be, in one sentence.

Sparklehorse - Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot

noreply@blogger.com (Flippy Doodle) — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:57:00 +0000

This is one of my favourite albums of all time.

From the delicate vocals of Saturday and Cow, to the summer pop-anthem Rainmaker (a song which seems to perfectly sum up the blissful naivety of the '90s), the entire album is a treasure mine.

The lyrics are rather non-sequitur in many parts, but they still make you feel all warm and compassionate inside (mostly due to Mark Linkous' hypnotising voice). My favourites from this album are Weird Sisters, Spirit Ditch, Most Beautiful Widow in Town and Hammering the Cramps.

Give the album a listen here (link to Groveshark playlist).