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Kevin Van Aelst – Mundane to Masterpiece
If you’re ever feeling uninspired by your surroundings, take a moment and try to eliminate the commonplace and reconnect it with the complexities of your mind. You just might form something beautiful and meaningful. That’s what Kevin Van Aelst, a Connecticut-based fine arts master, does to examine the ‘mysterious notions of life and existence.’ Take […]
Posted in: Art & Culture
Video: light and dark moments of destruction
June 2, 2011
Xaver Xylophon, a twenty-five-year-old Visual Communications student at The Berlin Weissensee School of Art, worked together with a young Parisian graphic artist Laura Junger to create “The Joy of Destruction” — a composition of dark yet commonly shared moments experienced among the human race. Combining stop motion with paper collage, the artists formed a clear, concise […]
Posted in: Art & Culture, Video
Halley’s Comet is at your disposal
June 2, 2011
Spanish manufacturer Vibia is launching Halley, a lamp that shoots over that outdoor dining table like a comet. Different configurations allow the light to form a complete arc when anchored to the ground on both sides or a partial arc when anchored to a tabletop clamp or a wall. The LED strip is waterproof […]
Posted in: Design, Technology
Brush up on your SLR skills, no purchase necessary
May 27, 2011
Show of hands: who knows what ISO means? What about aperture size? Focal length? Anyone? Now I’m sure a lot of you can’t really define these terms, however most SLR users can sort of explain their function. Luckily for those of us who can’t afford SLR’s quite yet (damn you, unpaid internships) but want to […]
Remove the neighborhood and show the city: This is Chicago
May 27, 2011
Sometimes, you just need a great picture of yourself. Not a posed picture, not a goofy face, but just you — as you are. And that’s exactly what producer Sarah Collins decided to do with her project This is Chicago. Through her portable photo studio, Collins wanted to strain the individuals out of the neighborhood. […]
Going viral: naughty children’s book becomes best-seller
May 27, 2011
The party line on piracy is that it’s bad for business. But what to make of the case of “Go the Fuck to Sleep,” the “children’s book for adults” whose viral-pirate PDF launched the book to the number-one spot on Amazon.com a month before its release? Something remarkable happened today. A children’s book hit the […]
June 2, 2011
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