This photograph by Frans Lanting is just stunning, he made it in Namibia and this is its description on the National Geographic website: “Tinted orange by the morning sun, a soaring dune is the backdrop for the hulks of camel thorn trees in Namib-Naukluft Park.”
found at kottke
With the “I am more than my face :)” project, Mitsuko Nagone intended to create herself, instead of finding her identity.
found at iGNANT
Pyrite 004 by Dylan Fisher.
Profiles is a project by Israeli-based designer Idan Friedman. He embosses portraits on aluminium throw-away trays. Beautiful work!
found at It’s Nice That
“Just Like Starting Over” by Yarisal & Kublitz.
“3 Dreams of Black” is a new interactive film directed by Chris Milk for the song “Black” by ROME, a music project by Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi featuring Jack White & Norah Jones. The project is a Chrome Experiment that showcases some of the latest web technologies like WebGL in modern browsers like Google Chrome.
Not only can you interact with video, you can also add your own items to the dream or see what others have build. For those of you who want to know the technical details: this page will keep you busy for a while. The model view and the demos are just as impressive.
Aaron Koblin was the creative director of this project and Mr.doob the technical director and of course a bunch of really talented people. You might also want to check out “The Wilderness Downtown“, a project with many people who were also involved in this one.
It’s been a long time since I’ve been that blown away by a web technology. So if you have the latest version of Google Chrome installed and a pretty decent graphicscard, go ahead and be …
I really like this 3D ASCII Animated GIF. It appeared in an article about making 3D GIFs from 2D source on weekly ascii. If anyone know who’s the creator, please let me know.
found at Rhizome
The Fach & Asendorf Gallery launched its website today. It’s an online exhibition gallery for net.art, media art, digital madness and satisfaction, founded by Ole Fach and Kim Asendorf. But they have plans to take to organize in house exhibitions in other galleries, museums and art spaces around the world. Their first exhibition features Andrey Yazev and Emilio Gomariz. I really like Andrey’s Untitled Scrollbars, try out them yourself!
FRAMED* – a platform for new art forms – was first conceptualized by Yugo Nakamura of tha ltd. to display diverse forms of expression including interactive art, web applications, motion graphics & illustration in everyday interior spaces. FRAMED* looks and is a display, but with an integrated computer. The interesting thing is the integration with an iPhone app which lets you choose which piece to display but also allows you to interact through the touchscreen with digital artwork. The iPhone app has also a build in store to buy and install new works. I think it’s quite an interesting concept for a digital art market. I wouldn’t having a FRAMED* on one of my walls …
