It’s not always easy to come up with a new idea and execute it in a way that seems effortless, but artist Zander Olsen has done just that. These simple yet extremely thoughtful temporary installations were created using white material and creative camera angles in various locations around the UK.
This is great! Totally brain-bending.
Really cool!
Sammy’s superpowers:
Louise’s superpowers:
Anthony Michael Simon doesn’t produce his own art, instead he lets spiders do the work for him.
About the work:
Chicago native Anthony Michael Simon first discovered the artistry of the silk-producing arachnids while trekking through a forest in Korea, where he is currently based, looking for a location for his next sculptural art installation. He came across a huge spiderweb and it somehow clicked in his mind that he could catch spiders and have them naturally spin their webs in his studio.
Damn.
(If you’re just tuning in: the Radiolab tumblr is going on a rainbow spree this week as we get ready for our new hour-long episode, all about colors. Check it out next week at radiolab.org)
Spiders are still the worst, but this is pretty cool. Mostly because the spiders are gone.
One of my wishes is that those dark trees,Robert Frost, “Into my Own”
So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze,
Were not, as ’twere, the merest mask of gloom,
But stretched away unto the edge of doom.
I should not be withheld but that some day
Into their vastness I should steal away,
Fearless of ever finding open land,
Or highway where the slow wheel pours the sand.
I do not see why I should e’er turn back,
Or those should not set forth upon my track
To overtake me, who should miss me here
And long to know if still I held them dear.
They would not find me changed from him they knew—
Only more sure of all I thought was true.
I told my best friend from college that I was thinking about buying a fryer, and she responded with a link to this Google image search with the message “WE WILL MAKE ALL THE THINGS”.
Soulmates.
npr:
I am a big fan of the minimalist black and white images that have been coming back from NASA’s Cassini Orbiter, but I think the ultraviolet-light images are pretty cool too.
Make that two fans! Awesome stuff. More views through the UV lens coming later today, coincidentally.
These are beautiful! -Savy
(via wnycradiolab)
