These beautiful series of mirrors with a haunting background of menacing clouds by Benjamin Graindorge were specially commissioned by contemporary design gallery Ymer&Malta for their first Design Miami Basel show.
Jody Xiong of DDB China in conjunction with the China Environmental Protection Foundation created this wonderful outdoor campaign to create a subtle visual reminder of the environmental benefits of walking versus driving. Enormous white canvases with a bare tree were placed across 132 crosswalks in 15 Chinese cities. As pedestrians crossed their shoe soles were imprinted with a small amount of green paint, leaving behind a trail of leaf-like footprints. BBD estimated that nearly 3,920,000 people passed through the installations, and the final posters were eventually hung has billboards in several urban locations. Awesome!
Cris Gianakos. Samaria Gorge Intervention, 2008, Ink jet print of color photo with chine colle
Cris Gianakos. Niki of Samothrace with Two Rectangles, 2008, Photo print, gouache, ink and acrylic medium on paper
“I’m always interested in things that we don’t call art. What could I do this to make it art? How could I change people’s minds?”
—John BaldessariHappy birthday today (June 17) to John Baldessari, our current 100 Artists featured artist. Art21 first filmed with the artist in 2008 for Season 5 of Art21’s Art in the Twenty-First Century series.
WATCH: John Baldessari in Systems [available in the U.S. only] | Additional videos
IMAGES (all excluding bottom): Works by John Baldessari included as part of an exhibition of selections from the Broad Collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, 2008. Production stills from the Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 5 episode, Systems, 2009. Artwork © John Baldessari. Production still © Art21, Inc. 2009.
IMAGE (bottom): John Baldessari in his studio, Venice, CA, 2008. Production still from the Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 5 episode, Systems, 2009. Production still © Art21, Inc. 2009.
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Cephalopods of NaplesFrom an 1896 monograph by Giuseppe Jatta. The illustrator is Comingio Merculiano (1845- 1915), a professional watercolor painter hired in 1885 by prof. Anton Dohrn as in-house illustrator for the Naples Zoological Station, and one of the best scientific illustrators to date. This book on cephalopods is his masterpiece.
via BibliOdyssey: Neapolitan Cephalopods
Images hosted by the Biodiversity Heritage Library on behalf of the Smithsonian Institution
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1. Untitled (2011)
2 Untitled (2006)
3. Untitled (2010)
4. Palestinian Wall, Jerusalem (2008)
5. Eric Becklin, First Human to See the Center of Our Galaxy (2010)
6. Above Sigmund Freud’s Couch (2008)
7. Snowstorm (2009)
8. The Top of the Tree Gazed Upon by Anne Frank While in Hiding, Amsterdam (2008)
9. Lindsey (2007)
10. Untitled (2008)
- Zapara 002: LC-A+ RL + Kodak ProImage 100.
- El Calvario: Holga 135BC + DIY redscale film.
- SuperHolga: Supersampler&Holga 135BC + Kodak ProImage 100 film.
- Rescan: Holga 135BC + Lomography Chrome 100 film (xpro)
- LCA-033: LC-A+ RL + Lomography CN 100 film.
- First 006: Sprocket Rocket + Kodak ProImage 100 film.
“Analogue photography has a very special way to capture your point of view, thus lomography adds an extra-flavour to that formul. I take advantage of that one. I’ve found out through double exposures how to re-create new scenes of daily life. Routine can be beautiful if you pass upon it twice.”.
Oriana Mejías (Venezuela)
Berndnaut Smilde – Making Clouds from The Avant/Garde Diaries on Vimeo. When viewing (usually photographic) evidence of Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde‘s fantastical cloud works, the first question is usually: “Is it real?” Yes, it’s actually a small, perfect indoor cloud. … Continue reading
Nancy Rexroth
A Woman’s Bed, Logan, Ohio, 1970
gelatin silver print, 10 x 8 inches
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Aaron Siskind
Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation, 1961
Gelatin silver prints, 27.9 x 26.1 cm (11 x 10 1/4 in.) each
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