Gravity-Defying Land Art by Cornelia Konrads
German artist Cornelia Konrads creates mind-bending site-specific installations in public spaces, sculpture parks and private gardens around the world. Her work is frequently punctuated by the illusion of weightlessness, where stacked objects like logs, fences, and doorways appear to be suspended in mid-air, reinforcing their temporary nature as if the installation is beginning to dissolve before your very eyes. One of her more recent sculptures,Schleudersitz is an enormous slingshot made from a common park bench, and you can get a great idea of what it might be like to sit inside it with this interactive 360 degree view.
What you see here only begins to sratch the surface of Konrad’s work. You can see much more on her website. All imagery courtesy the artist.
Beautiful and a little eerie
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Thank you! I never get mail - this made me really happy :)
Underwater Photos That Mimic the Look of Baroque Paintings
Hawaii-based photographer Christy Lee Rogers specializes in creating dreamlike photos of people underwater. Her project Reckless Unbound shows people swirling around one another while wearing colorful outfits. The photos are reminiscent of the paintings of old Baroque masters, who would often paint people floating around in heavenly realms.
Rogers creates her photos in swimming pools at night. The scenes are illuminated with bright off-camera lights, and the shoots often last two to four hours each.
Christy Lee Rogers reshapes the boundaries between contemporary photography and painting, with her series Reckless Unbound. While provoking the audience with vivacious movements and purpose, she also stirs the viewer’s memories of baroque painter Pieter Paul Rubens and his Massacre of the Innocents.
Without the use of post-production manipulation, Rogers’ works are made in-camera, on the spot, in water and at night. She applies her technique to bodies submerged in water during tropical nights in Hawaii. Through a fragile process of experimentation, she builds elaborate scenes of coalesced colours and entangled bodies that exalt the human character as one of vigour and warmth, while also capturing the beauty and vulnerability of the tragic experience that is the human condition.
You can see more of her work over on her website.
Words are obsolete.
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oh no help this is adorable
Fun historical fact, there used to be more gay and lesbian content in early silent films until religious groups protested resulting in “decency standards.”
OMG soooooooooo cute :3
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Just saw Life of Pi today and while I found it a well-acted, beautifully-shot meditation on the act of storytelling, the frame story made me want to vomit.
In Life of Pi, the frame surrounds a white novelist who has been encouraged to meet Pi and listen to his life story. The novelist is…
I have also noticed this issue in many films and shows. I haven’t seen Life of Pi yet but this post will definitely have an impact on how I view it. Really well written - everyone should read this.
Robert Darnton, Extraordinary Commonplaces
How have I never heard of commonplace books before? This is how I’ve been reading and writing for most of my adult life—I never knew it had a name.
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This quote was in the movie of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button but not the book. I still really like it though.
http://www.falmouthpubliclibrary.org/?/blog/entries/the-curious-case-of-misquotation/
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Ned Stark uses Punnett Squares to determine Joffrey’s birth.
Because I taught a lesson on Punnett Squares the other day, and then watched Game of Thrones that evening, and it amused me that Ned was also learning genetics.
“Black of hair… Black of hair…. Black of Hair…”
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Just as surely, all of us know at least something of the real story, the genocide that cleared the way for the settlement of this continent by people from foreign shores. Thanksgiving is wrapped up in that story, too—grim extra credit goes to those who remember that John Winthrop declared a day of thanksgiving after his soldiers returned from massacring hundreds of Pequot men, women, and children.
“National Day of Mourning” plaque at the site of the historical monument Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts.
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