today and tomorrow

Imported Landscape by Pétur Thomsen.

found at trendbeheer

“Self-Portrait Machine” by Jen-Hui Liao (his website isn’t online yet) is a really cool drawing machine. The user places himself in front of the machine and a camera will take his portrait. Now he has to wrap his wrists to the machine while holding 2 markers. The machine will analyze the picture and translate it into mechanical movements to guide the hands of the user to make the drawing.
You can go and see it at the Royal College of Art SHOW 2009 in London till this Sunday.

Here are a few result made by the man/machine.

found at we make money not art
photos by Jen-Hui Liao & Régine Debatty

Modèle Puissance is French collective which pratical articulates around drawings. Here are a few drawings by Jean-Philippe Bretin from his series Circuit. If you like their work, you should check out their books Random and Supersymétrie.

E99500 is an orange color in hexadecimal color codes, but it’s also the title of this video by Hugo Arcier, a French director and 3D artist. He also has another portfolio with some very weird 3D work.

“L’intelligenza del Male #5″ by Andrea Galvani.

found at dropular

I’m completely blown away by the internet art of Elna Frederick. These are not just weird static images but javascript animations. Man I love the internet.

found at Rhizome

Heroes is a series of charcoal drawings by Robert Longo.

found at but does it float

“Through The Green Fuse” is series of photos by Robert Buelteman, actually they are photograms. His technique is quite complex and dangerous, it’s based on Kirlian photography. He places flowers and leaves on a color transparency film, on top of that he lays plexiglas with a sheet of metal in between, floating in a liquid silicone. Then he hits everything with an electric pulse which causes the coronas and outlines to appear on the film. The last step he needs to do, is hand-painting it with a white light coming from an optical fiber. It can take up to 150 attempts to get this right. You can read more about it at Wired.
The results are just stunning.

I found this one in the comments for “Tim Walker for Hermès“. Philippe Ramette made this photograph called “Balcon II” in Hong-Kong in 2001. There is some discussion going on if Tim Walker copied Philippe Ramette …
I just like both photographs.

This is the video of the day: De Bordjesdraaier by Carmen Freudenthal & Elle Verhagen.