Paganism

Photographer Matthew Stone for i-D Magazine

Via  Catch Fire and Life Is Not A Rehearsal

Protect and explore

Welcome to the pleasure universe! Wear your condom and roam as you wish!  Pleasure planets, comets and entire ecosystem of creatures and environments comprised of genitalia and porn clippings are designed by illustrator James Jean

Non conformist architectural tour

 

Guided by street trial star Danny MacAskill and directed by Stu Thomson for Channel 4′s documentary Concrete Circus.  The music is horrible and totaly kills the action so I would recommend watching it with some hardcore sonar background.

HELL-3d

A crew of demolition workers in Paris discovered a mysterious wooden box hidden in the ruins of a condemned building.  The box contained a collection of photographs depicting a hedonistic world filled with drunken devils, sinister skeletons and scantily clad women.  An anonymous note found buried among the glass images added:
‘“This is the work of my life, it is thus that I dreamed of Hell.  If my visions are true, then the wicked may rest assured, the afterlife will be sweet for them to bear.”
What the demolition workers discovered that day was a series of photographs known as Les Diableries, The Diabolical.  Each scene in the series was composed of an elaborate diorama sculpted out of plaster and clay and embellished with miniature props.  Created in Paris during the 1860s, the series was printed in the form of stereoscopic transparencies.’

How to see cross-eyed stereoscopic images:

1. Click on images to enlarge / set video to full screen and pause it.
2. Place index finger between images at bottom.
3. Focus on your index finger.
4. Slowly bring your finger towards your nose, staying focused on your finger, but paying attention to the background images in your peripheral vision. You will notice that instead of two images, there are four images floating about.
5. Continue bringing your finger closer to your nose- you will see the two middle images moving towards each other.
6. When the two middle images are aligned, or are on top of each other, stop moving your finger. You will now see three images in the background. The middle one contains the left/right images overlapped.
7. Slowly remove your finger from your field of vision, while keeping the middle two images aligned.
8. Gradually force your focus out to the combined left/right image in the middle.

More info on “Les Diableries” here.
Images retrieved from flickr user Depthandtime‘s collection.
More vintage stereoviews here.
Video’s audio track is “The Three Shadows – part II” by Bauhaus.
Link to video.

it’s complicated…

Roller coaster images found @rollr-coastr.tumblr.com

BERNHARD | BURKARD

How come no one thought of this before? Bernhard Bukard’s Curt Deck Chair: To achive best stability, it needs to be leaned against walls or rails in a flat angle. The anti-slip coated stand provides safe grip on every surface.
Found here.

the art of tidying things up

Swiss artist and comedian Ursus Wehrli is famous for his Tidying Up Art books, where he takes famous artworks by the likes of Chagall, Seraut, or Paul Klee, and “tidies” up the images by carefully organizing them into component pieces, or by creating clever infographic-like variations.
Must see: his hilarious TED talk in 2006.
Found here.

Ouch!

An advertisement series for a pain relief cream by SAATCHI & SAATCHI, Milan. Excellent visualisation of effort and pain just by distorting the perspective of the image.

 

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fuck your fascist beauty standards

Brilliant conceptual artist Yolanda Dominguez (previously presented here) sent normal women onto the streets and sidewalks of Madrid and asked them to strike the awkward, ridiculous fashion-model poses like the ones inside magazines, for the project called “Poses“.
Found here.

time to speak out

No to contemporary art (2006+2007) by Patrick Guns.
Unfortunately we can’t find any info on this brilliant stunt. If you know something, please tell, we absolutely have to be there…

NDE and the tunnel of light #2

Long exposure shots by Flickr user AppuruPai from the Yurikamome train line, which connects the artificial island Odaiba to the rest of Tokyo via the Rainbow Bridge.
Found here. Trivia on NDE here.

NDE and the tunnel of light #1

A near-death experience (NDE) is as an experience of a person near death, in an unconscious state, reporting that something happened, usually being drawn through a tunnel, towards a light.
The leafy train tunnel above is located somewhere in Ukraine and is photographed by Oleg Gordienko.
Found here.

Biomimicmarketing

A nice, complex word that sounds smart and can impress your friends! It is composed of the words Bio-mimic-marketing and stands for using images of nature to market a product. Biomimicmarketing strategies can be roughly summarised in five categories:  Using nature as aesthetics (such as the juice packages above and bellow-which are great by the way), Use nature as metaphor (e.g. Puma sneakers), Promote a ‘natural’ feeling when using the product, Brand it Eco-friendly and Brand it ‘naturally’ made. Read the full article here and be very impressed or/and scared of how marketing can shove products down our throat (while making us feel natural at the same time!)

 

ice cream gore

Video by the Art of Bleeding, a Los Angeles-based multi-media performance troupe that creates comically surreal and potentially educational programs in health and safety.
Gunther von Häagen-Dazs features the controversial German anatomist Gunther von Hagens as he wonders into the spooky frozen world of ice cream.
Link to video.

landcarpet

Landcarpet by Florian Pucher is a rug capturing the aerial view of farmed landscapes all over the world, based on satellite images. The one above is Europe.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd

…as quated by Voltaire.
“Vibration” is a life-size sculpture of a horse and its cart in shimmering, frozen motion forms by Xavier Veilhan, previously posted here and here.
Via ArtForTheWorld.