Orlagh O’Brien did some amazing emotion research in 2006 and 2007, called Emotionally Vague. He asked a sample of people different questions regarding emotions.
Q2: How do you feel these emotions in your body? Draw anything you wish.
This image was averaged over all participants of the study.
O’Brien also worked with colors (not unlike the color survey of information is beautiful) and words.
Highly recommendable.
(1) Why pirates save the environment
The pirate raids in the seas east of Africa have had a significant impact on the environment: international trawlers that were illegally fishing there for years have apparently been avoiding the shores, which led to a dramatic increase in fish stock. In Mogadishu (capital of Somalia), the growing supply has led to decreasing prices, thus people who live there can actually afford to eat fish for the first time in many years. So far, most of the fish was exported.
(Source: sz-online.de)
(2) Why there is beauty in architecture
I have not seen anything like that before … take yourself 12 minutes, relax, get a cup of tea and a blanket, and watch this. Please.
And after you realize that this is nearly 100% rendered (this is not filmed, it was created with a computer), I hope you’re as amazed as I am.
I wish I could walk a mile in your shoes.
Right out into the ocean.
(© asofterworld.com)
Ich habe auf blog.justhuman.de vor ein paar Tagen einen kurzen Artikel über Kunst, Evolution und Wahrnehmung veröffentlicht mit dem Titel: Was will uns der Künstler damit sagen?
Vielleicht ist dieser Versuch einer Verknüpfung aus Kunst und Wissenschaft für den einen oder anderen ja interessant. Kommentare könnt ihr dort oder hier posten, ganz wie ihr wollt.
Gerade zufällig gefunden:
“Es ist ein grundlegendes Missverständnis, dass man Fotografie dazu verdammt, Abbild der Wirklichkeit zu sein.”
“Wirklichkeit ist überhaupt nur darzustellen, indem man sie konstruiert.”
Worth living today: geek tattoos!
If you don’t understand this – go learn html!
What’s going on?
The short version:
The long version:
Most of you guys know that I’m doing photographs now and then.
A few weeks back, Julia, a colleague and friend of mine, told me that her and two friends were performing a theatre play in a few weeks, and asked me if I would be willing to do a photoshooting because they were in need of material for PR, advertising and such. The project is called “Orpheus & Eurydike”, and is a theatre play with an actor, a piano player, and a singer. You can find more details on the play on their website.
After recently completing an awesome workshop on exactly that kind of topic, I agreed, and we met on a very warm Friday afternoon in the “Hofgarten” (a public park) in Munich. The problem was that they needed the photographs *immediately*, and since I was going to go on holidays for a week on Saturday morning, I had to work the whole night. Another problem was that the sun was still very bright (even at 5 and 6 pm), so I had to use rather extreme flashlight. The idea was to get some photographs with a little bit of surreal flair (Orpheus & Eurydike, is, after all, quite an epic fantasy story).
We went to work, finished after around 8 hours. Julia came home with me, and we spent the night in front of my computer (till 6am), me working on photoshop, her telling me what details to keep and which ones to work on, what photographs to delete and which ones to take, et cetera.
You can see two final results here and here.
Now, due to many press-contacts, Julia was able to place infos on the play in different newspaper (twice in the AZ, once in the SZ).
Rock’n Roll!
Today I want to write about one of the greatest inventions in the sector of art I’ve heard of so far: the Image Fulgurator.
It was invented by the 24 year old German art student Julius von Bismarck.
What does it do? It is a camera that is triggered when another camera that is not too far away uses its flash. But the Image Fulgurator doesn’t simply produce pictures, it uses a flash and and an analogue picture in the camera in order to project that picture onto an object for a very short time; it will therefor appear on the photographs of other people.
Imagine taking a picture of a famous building, just to see it on flames if you check it afterwards in your digital camera; or a huge brandname on a famous building, which clearly wasn’t there when you took the photograph. Or some text on the clothing of a star …
Julius calls the device (translated from German) “apparatus for minimal-invasive manipulation of photographs”, and he thinks of it as an analogue hack. I love the idea.
Here are the technical details, and here is an article about the Image Fulgurator (SZ magazine).
[ the photograph shown above was shot by Richard Wilhelmer; thanks to Verena for sending me the link! ]
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