Planetary Folklore

A Gif for Wednesday

2016-08-03T03:10:00.000-07:00

Eigengrau

2016-08-01T02:57:00.000-07:00

The background brain colour you see in complete darkness.

Also known as dark light or brain gray - "it is perceived as lighter than a black object in normal lighting conditions, because contrast is more important to the visual system than absolute brightness. For example, the night sky looks darker than eigengrau because of the contrast provided by the stars."

Tomma Abts

2016-07-13T04:02:00.000-07:00

Tomma Abts (Winner of the 2006 Turner Prize)

Eat Sleep Pattern Repeat Repeat Repeat

2016-07-13T02:51:00.004-07:00

Eat Sleep Pattern Repeat Repeat Repeat on Society6

Stopcycle

2016-04-21T07:00:00.002-07:00

"STOPCYCLE is a series of 25 small scale sculptures, which as an ensemble create a seamless 25 frame animated loop. The work explores changes of form, and sound using repetition through time. The sculptures shapes are organic and layered in form, much like topographical maps. The forms are descriptions of anatomical regions, as well as being formal experiments in geometry and motion. Their shapes are infinitely cycling, beginning anew once they end - they can be interpreted as tangible, shapeshifting clocks.

The 25 frame loop is based on a procedural texture named ‘Perlin noise’. Perlin noise is a computer generated visual effect developed by Ken Perlin in the 1980’s. it is a gradient noise used by visual effects artists to increase the appearance of realism in computer graphics. It is a fractal landscape exhibiting some form of statistical self-similarity to natural phenomena.

The technique is commonly used in computer generated graphics to create the effect of randomness in textures and landscapes. STOPCYCLE employs these techniques and presents them physically utilising the mediums of sculpture and stopframe animation."

A Gif for Wednesday

2016-04-20T07:02:00.000-07:00

Midnight Special

2016-04-04T05:02:00.002-07:00

Looks interesting...

Thermonuclear Art

2015-11-04T06:40:00.003-08:00

I could watch this for hours... NASA has a created an ultra-high definition 30-minute portrait of the Sun, put together from data captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) :

via IFL Science!

Bird Sounds Visualised

2015-11-04T00:33:00.002-08:00

Bird Sounds Visualised from Andy Thomas on Vimeo.

White Light 74 - Andrew Weatherall

2015-07-16T01:59:00.004-07:00

Listening to...

White Light 74 - Andrew Weatherall by White Light Mixes on Mixcloud

A Gif for Wednesday

2015-07-15T01:57:00.000-07:00

#universe

What’s the Best Instagram Photo Size?

2015-07-09T06:46:00.001-07:00

Looking to create images at the best size for Instagram?

The Instagram photo size has been updated (as of July 2015) to 1080 pixels, so upload images at a minimum size of 1080 x 1080.

Jamie xx

2015-04-30T04:06:00.000-07:00

I'm a sucker for a space video...

Directed by Erik Wernquist (of Wanderers fame) // with photos by NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

A Gif for Wednesday

2015-04-29T01:04:00.000-07:00

Space Fold

2015-04-27T04:58:00.001-07:00

Awesome new work from Emma McNally:

12:31

2015-04-23T01:02:00.000-07:00

12:31
Designer: Croix Gagnon and Frank Schott
Location: n/a
Image Credits: Croix Gagnon and Frank Schott

"In 1993, a convicted murderer was executed. His body was given to science, segmented, and photographed for research. Croix and Frank used that footage to create these 7 photographs. An animation of the 1871 slices was played fullscreen on a computer, which was moved around by an assistant while being photographed in a dark environment. The resulting images are long-exposure “light paintings” of the entire cadaver."

Visible Human Project

→ www.todayandtomorrow.net

Chasing the Light

2015-04-23T00:46:00.003-07:00

Love these soft pastel drawings of icebergs by artist Zaria Forman

Pastels Become Water: New Work by Zaria Forman

Magnetic Liquid

2015-03-26T02:54:00.000-07:00

Awesome ferrofluid patterns (love that stuff!):

Via Synaptic Stimuli

A Gif for Wednesday

2015-03-25T01:54:00.000-07:00

Via big blue boo

First and Final

2015-03-20T05:36:00.001-07:00

Beautiful... the opening and closing shots of 55 films side-by-side:

Bacterial Self Portrait

2015-03-12T01:53:00.001-07:00

Unusual 'selfies' by Olivia Vankuiken, a high school senior in New Jersey - a series of unique self portraits made by cultivating her own bacteria in petri dishes.

A Gif for Wednesday

2015-03-11T05:12:00.000-07:00

"At GE Global Research, workers heat a tube of almost pure quartz to temperatures of around 1,700 degrees Celsius to create custom laboratory glassware."

Source: GE Reports

2015-03-06T01:30:00.001-08:00

"When they create, they forget this nothingness for a moment and form their conception of the world."

Quote: Karel Malich
Photo: Milan Malíček

Wall Tapestries

2015-03-05T01:50:00.000-08:00

Society6 have added Wall Tapestries...

Introducing New Wall Tapestries to Society6!

A Gif for Wednesday

2015-03-04T05:53:00.000-08:00

Source: PATAKK