Maybe it's just my mood, but there seems to have been a little lull in eye candy and things that make me go "ooohhhhh" in my content streams lately.
Or it might also be that blogging is hard work and my few remaining neurons are focused on other projects ;)
But, hark, there is a bit of pretty to be shared - the Nymphaeum Omega Fountain and Moses Statue at the Ernst Fuchs Museum After much searching, I regret that I can't find any story about how the Pump House for the estate came to be such a glorious creation. Art is like that sometimes. It just is.
Nymphaeum Omega Fountain & Moses Statue, Ernst Fuchs Museum
Nymphaeum Omega Fountain & Moses Statue, Ernst Fuchs Museum
Filed under: people who's creativity makes me envious. Photographer Mark Mawson shoots these amazing images of paint drops into water using high speed cameras. I love the colors and the shapes, the work has an ethereal quality to it - especially watch the video. Gorgeous stuff....
Some photography eye candy from photographer Pol Tergejst to start off 2013 - these images were composed by the artist using flame shapes combined with burnt matches.
I love the idea of using the natural shapes created by flames and smoke as components of art. Genius.
How about some pre-holiday sculpture with Guadiesque origins? You in? I thought so....
British design team Glithero created this lovely installation for Design Miami. The piece references Gaudi's method for creating the shapes that would become Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. In place of a mirror, Glithero used a long pool of water to create the reflection, which coincidentally also gave the impression of champagne bubbles (Perrier-Jouët Champagne sponsored the installation.)
What I love about this is the creation of shapes over the reflection of water, the whole thing is just stunning.
Saturday eye candy. Isn't this gorgeous? The structure was built in Hong Kong for the Mid-Autumn Festival by LEAD (Laboratory for Explorative Architecture) as a tribute to the Moon Goddess.
One of these crossed my visual sphere the other day and I was just blown away with art-love at first sight.
Photographer Andoni Aleman has a whole slideshow that's worth a few minutes of your time, very talented! I specifically love this series, called Zuhaitz.
This morning I am entranced by this absolutely magical piece of timekeeping engineering from Jaquet Droz. Normally, I don't really care much about watches now that we've all gone to using our smart phones for just about everything, including telling the time.
There are watches and then there is really expensive jewelry that serves a function, like this. Someone with a Rolex wouldn't impress me, but this sure would.
Today my eye was caught by these stunning photographs of the collision of water droplets in contrasting colors from German photographer Markus Reugels.
A quote from the artist, “I want to manage one genre very good and not many half-hearted" is one that a lot of people (like myself) could probably adopt to our betterment.
Many moons ago when I was working for Nickelodeon, a line producer one day snarked to our show producer, "Water, kids, and electricity. What could possibly go wrong?"
That said, I would really love to know how Antonin Fourneau managed to make this very cool interactive lighting exhibit waterproof enough to not fry when doused with liquid.
I mean, if I can't manage to keep the same keyboard functioning for more than 6 months because I managed to spill water/coffee/wine/tea onto it, how can he keep this LED wall from fritzing out with so much exposure to water?
I'm a sucker for beautiful ironwork and laser cut steel. Which reminds me that I need to post some pictures of my own gates (soon!)
The design on these makes my Eye Candy circuits light up with "oooohhh, ahhhhh."
I also love that Bureau A went to the extra effort of lighting them and treating the gates like a piece of art. Kudos to them for embracing Go Big or Go Home.
I originally flagged pictures of these lamps from Nervous System because they looked interesting. When it finally seemed like the right day to feature them on the blog, I did some more digging and now I'm convinced they are the next Really Cool Thing I Need to Have (this, thankfully, is a short list otherwise I'd be a pauper.)
Each lamp is unique because it is designed by computer simulation and then printed in 3D. The simulation starts from a "seed" and builds out the circulatory system to carry nutrients to branches.
Thankfully, the lamps are currently out of stock, otherwise I'd be about $500 poorer right now. There is some pretty cool jewelry based on the same concept. I'll leave you and your credit cards alone now to talk it over.
I swear, all the cool art in the world is happening in Singapore. Not only do they have the Helix Bridge and the Supertrees, but now they also boast the world's largest kinetic art sculpture at the Changi Airport created by ART+COM.
This looks so unbelievably lovely, I'm just imaging what it must be like to sip your Chai Latte at the terminal while watching the peaceful drops of bronze dip and sway like an whimsical natural rainstorm.
Pictures don't do this one justice, so it's all videos on this post.
Blogging gets tough when the schedule goes nuts! Today, a much overdue post on stunning lighting art from UK artist Bruce Munro. I've had the video for this open in a browser tab for over a week and here it finally is.
Frosted acrylic orbs. Miles of fiber optic cable. Color scrolling projection.
Dramatic. Lovely. Cool as hell.
Also, I need this in my backyard. Somebody get on that, please, right away.
