Simon Wald Lasowski. For a special issue of Blend magazine, various photographers were asked to photograph the same model on the theme of “Beauty and Eros”. With slapstick elements of ugliness and inspiration from fairy tales (the attractive and repelling witch), I wanted to show that beauty can be in the imperfections. VIA: –UNSCATHED CORPSE–
I don’t know what’s more remarkable: that this phone booth is shaped like a brain, or that there is a public phone still existing somewhere. This is an art installation in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where there are at least 100 phone booths. All of them are part of an art project in which 100 artists were invited to make something of them. The stunt is part of a transition phase by the telephone company that is rebranding and repainting the public phone facilities, which will all eventually look the same. The brain phone is the work of artist Carla Pires de Carvalho Fernandes. Link -via NEATORAMA
Panni Malekzadeh’s paintings of young girls juxtaposed with sex store neon signage deal with human vulnerability, boredom, fragility and the imprisonment of oneself. Her work has always been about things in herself that she felt incredibly uncomfortable and embarrassed by. Suggesting ideas of beauty vs. despair, shame, embarrassment and vulnerability that woman many times experience in their lives, Malekzadeh exploits what’s dangerous and what scares her about herself.
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Imagine a world where we never again hear the symphonic startup of a Windows 95 machine. Imagine generations of children unacquainted with the chattering of angels lodged deep within the recesses of an old cathode ray tube TV. And when the entire world has adopted devices with sleek, silent touch interfaces, where will we turn for the sound of fingers striking QWERTY keypads? Tell me that. And tell me: Who will play my GameBoy when I’m gone?
My ten-year plan is to complete the data collection phase by the year 2015, and spend the next seven years developing the proper markup language to reinterpret the sounds as a binary composition.
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With birds chirping all over the place, and the sun shining across fields of flowers, Spring is in full bloom. What better time to have a little contrast by delving into the dark and grisly world of monster sculptures. With artists like Jordu Schell and Chris Ryniak, and other stars in this niche, it’s a great time to be scared.
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