Brian Dettmer's Altered Books: "In this work I begin with an existing book and seal its edges, creating an enclosed vessel full of unearthed potential. I cut into the surface of the book and dissect through it from the front. I work with knives, tweezers and surgical tools to carve one page at a time, exposing each layer while cutting around ideas and images of interest. Nothing inside the books is relocated or implanted, only removed. Images and ideas are revealed to expose alternate histories and memories. My work is a collaboration with the existing material and its past creators and the completed pieces expose new relationships of the book’s internal elements exactly where they have been since their original conception."
Monday, October 10, 2011
Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table
Brian Dettmer's Altered Books: "In this work I begin with an existing book and seal its edges, creating an enclosed vessel full of unearthed potential. I cut into the surface of the book and dissect through it from the front. I work with knives, tweezers and surgical tools to carve one page at a time, exposing each layer while cutting around ideas and images of interest. Nothing inside the books is relocated or implanted, only removed. Images and ideas are revealed to expose alternate histories and memories. My work is a collaboration with the existing material and its past creators and the completed pieces expose new relationships of the book’s internal elements exactly where they have been since their original conception."
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Zaoum is the natural language of children and lovers
lanke tr gl
ziiuu lentrl
lumpf tumpf trl
lumpf tumpf trl
lanke tr gl
pe pe pe pe pe
ooka ooka ooka ooka ooka
lanke tr gl
pii pii pii pii pii
zuuka zuuka zuuka zuuka zuuka
lanke tr gl
rmp
rnf
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Friday, June 17, 2011
LOSHADKA
Art group's blog here.
"Loshadka means 'pony' in Russian, the native language of founding member Ilia Ovechkin. It's a twee word, coded in a foreign tongue, and constantly rearranged in gibberish anagrams on the title bar of http://loshadka.org/ -- a compounded transformation that makes a neat metaphor for the group's activity. Members take YouTube home videos, naïve digital art, advertisements and other online junk, then tweak and recontextualize them. Loshadka is one of a handful of artists' group blogs, also called "surfing clubs," since the posted objects come from rambling sessions of Web browsing. New media theorist Lev Manovich has compared the net surfer to the flaneur, and Loshadka's giddy, dark sense of humor shares a certain detachment with Baudelaire's perceptive dandy. - http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/finer-things/2009-03-19/loshadka-surfing-club/
Friday, June 10, 2011
Fingering Instabilities
Laplacian instability occurs when a smooth interface evolving under a Laplacian field develops rapidly growing spikes and branches …The instability has been connected to many disparate phenomena, such as dendrites on snowflakes, forks on lightning, quasi-steady-state fracture, lobes on lichen, coral, riverbeds, vasculature, and urban sprawl patterns. Since the formation of non-smooth features from smooth initial conditions is counter-intuitive, this topic has attracted attention in physics, chemistry, and material science…
Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827)
Laplacian Growth from Nervous System on Vimeo.
Every Reform Movement Has Its Lunatic Fringe
One glimpse from an endless blog of blogs, fantastic images, reveries, a rabbit-trail or worm-hole.... here
(click on photo to go to this particular artist's work).
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
OPTIMAL SHIMMER SOURCE - SOLID BLACK (an excerpt)
More hypnotic animation by Brandon Jan Blommaert and the Pandaclock Communications Network here
Friday, May 13, 2011
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Atomic Cake
Friday, April 15, 2011
'Che si chiama planispherio'
Daniele Barbaro, Perspective (1568). Double-purloined from BibliOdyssey, an incredible blogsite of visual relics. Main site here.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
"They sent one into space, but there are tons on planet Earth!"
Golden Records, eclectic music updated often, connected with Peaking Lights...
Also: Gorilla vs. Bear.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
A wheel within a wheel, with rims full of eyes all around
1.
Twin Portal from Konx-om-Pax on Vimeo.
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2.
Slot Hum from Sculpture on Vimeo.
Plus one more from the same source:
Demonstration Reel from Sculpture on Vimeo.
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3.
From 20 Jazz-Funk Greats, with a taste of their entertaining sci-fi commentary:
"Adult. were that blinding beacon of paranoia awaiting at home after a cocaine-fuelled night in the Electroclah Babylon. The half glimpsed hallucination of a Bauhaus tiger with stroboscopic eyes snarling from your surgical looking chaise longue.
"Their greatness, never doubted, hit us again while we were picking some tunes for the most excellent T O N G U E S night a couple of weeks ago. It is a testament to the madness of the early noughts that they were considered a ‘party band’, when in all honesty they were cartographers of a geography of serrated edges, autobahns of modernity built on a regolith of psychosis and future shock."
Twin Portal from Konx-om-Pax on Vimeo.
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2.
Slot Hum from Sculpture on Vimeo.
Plus one more from the same source:
Demonstration Reel from Sculpture on Vimeo.
_________________________________________________________________________
3.
From 20 Jazz-Funk Greats, with a taste of their entertaining sci-fi commentary:
"Adult. were that blinding beacon of paranoia awaiting at home after a cocaine-fuelled night in the Electroclah Babylon. The half glimpsed hallucination of a Bauhaus tiger with stroboscopic eyes snarling from your surgical looking chaise longue.
"Their greatness, never doubted, hit us again while we were picking some tunes for the most excellent T O N G U E S night a couple of weeks ago. It is a testament to the madness of the early noughts that they were considered a ‘party band’, when in all honesty they were cartographers of a geography of serrated edges, autobahns of modernity built on a regolith of psychosis and future shock."
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Jodocus Frisch (1714-1787) - Visions of the End of the World
More from this incredible portfolio of 18th century end-of-the-world visionary etchings here.
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