Edward Estlin Cummings

i  carry your heart with me

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

Google's Art Project

http://www.googleartproject.com/

Google has developed a feature that allows you to navigate through galleries of the world's leading museums and get microscopically close to masterpieces such as Van Gogh's "The Starry Night"? You are able to see the blue and gold brushstrokes of "The Starry Night" at greater proximity than Van Gogh himself. It's exciting, for those who fetishize "the hand of the master," to feel oneself so close to genius.
  A great program for people like us who can't get there for a while.

Since I seem to be spamming video this week, how about an Encore! eh people? Is the video the artwork or is the drawing? Well I consider booth but its really impressive how they turned the video into its own piece of art with the fluid transitions and awesome camera work and time-lapse effects.  ( Not this video ronald the one under)


COMBO a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis (2 times loop) from blu on Vimeo.

It Makes NONE at all!

So don't try understanding it, but sir.... CAN I HAVE A REDO ON MY VIDEO!!! lol, I wish I had seen this before I did it.

This video is the sister of movies like Inception, Fight Club and that lot, it turns your brain to mush but forces you to think  The lack of a score helps A LOT, its helps play tricks along with with the camera angles and elevation changes, the stoppage of time it take the viewer even out of reality and forms the idea of a dream(day dream) or nightmare with the lack of a confirmed character.

Between from Via Grafik on Vimeo.

Went checking out few of the sites we were given last year and found some interesting , This first puts 2d into a 3d world and feels as if its a Kandinsky or Frank Stella artwork in motion. cough* Art car cough*

The music also helps enhance the video and matches perfectly with it, a great interpretation and almost feels as if its not made with a computer.

Ida Walked Away from takcom™ on Vimeo.

Barbados Museum Trip - Barbadian 19th Century Architecture

  This was my first time going to this museum but i have to say it was fun, I learned a lot of important facts about my history, both small and big. One thing I learned about is something thats always discussed and a bit cliche but sad to say i've never really put the topic through its paces so heres a slight go.

Two developments influences the Barbadian chattel house, common by the late 19th century.

1) landless plantation workers who could be evicted at a moments notice needed homes that were 'chattels' , movable properties  that could be dismantled very fast, moved and reassembled elsewhere.
2) Cheap pine from America came pre-cut and dictated the dimensions of the houses.

With these two traits the main form of Barbadian architecture Evolved and like the Georgian Great houses it emulated, the chattel house is perfectly symmetrical with  central door and evenly spaced windows on each side.

                                                Scaled Replica of a Basic Chattel House.

 Each unit of this chattel house is its own entity, It could be separated from the other parts dismantled and moved to another site, the above example is a "two gable and shed-roof" combination. These housed seemed like something outs of a cereal box and could be put together by a class of 10 year olds, but they were architecturally sound to  the everyday basics. The roof required a steep pitch for the rain to run off, the pitch-pine siding is nailed to studs so that panels are quite rigid when assembled but can easily be separated.

White pine trimming covers the bolt heads and raw ends of the siding at the corners, and  "gingerbread" bargeboards trim the gable ends of the roof. These houses were placed on loosely packed limestone blocks to allow for its easy removal.

 A common native  feature in the architecture, these decorative elements were used to decorate facades and verandas. While the motifs on barbadian houses have not been attributed with any symbolic meaning, its said the designs were supposedly copied from pattern books or were of the personal tastes of the carpenter or owner, they were a main feature in the finishing of one of these houses though.

In the 19th Century Merchants and shop keepers  built townhouses or "shop houses" ( there are some still in town), The families lived above there own shops.  These stores varying in floors used there ground floor as the shop or warehouse, the second floor was used as wooden galleries to provide comfortable living space for the families whilst shading the shoppers below.

The Minimum Wage Machine  by Blake Fall-Conroy

"The minimum wage machine allows anybody to work for minimum wage. Turning the crank will yield one penny every 5.04 seconds, for $7.15 an hour (NY state minimum wage). If the participant stops turning the crank, they stop receiving money. The machine's mechanism and electronics are powered by the hand crank, and pennies are stored in a plexiglas box".

"Contrary to some other art experiments on work (I'm thinking of some of Santiago Sierra's early projects, but had I any memory, I'm sure a dozen other works would come to my mind), this, here, is not about objectifying labor. It takes the paradox of work-as-product in a somewhat different direction. If there is a minimum wage, any job should be paid the minimum wage. So turning the handle should actually always give you this result."

You can read a technical description of how it was constructed (didn't understand half of it) here.

 These images below us type to create images and typography, where the latter is used to shape the forms while the words within have messages to deliver. It is just amazing how manipulation of font types, sizes and keywords can form a great artwork with inner meaning.

 Typography is an art without which every design seems to be incomplete. It is not a science, for which we need to follow any definite axioms and rules. Typefaces are designed to convey your creativity to others but every type cannot be used for any design.

 Typography plays a major role in making any graphic design successful, Black and white typeface can be more impressive than colorful typography….what say?

I found these Images while searching and thought they were very interestingly put together and had very creative concepts and ideas behind them.

Burdened Barrack Obama 

	Overeating Typography:
	Wash away the TYPE:
	Falling:
	Typography with “A”:
	“M” Design:
	Dancing Typo:
	Typography Tree:
	I love Graphic Design:
	“X” and “Y” Typography:
	Typography Whirl:
	Question Mark?
	Ink and Water:
	Zebra Print:

Timo Glock helmets:

Helmet designs are more than just a pretty design on carbon fiber, they are of sentimental value to a drive, a hallmark of their career which symbolizes their personality.
The two cards on the back of Alonso's helmet refer to his two titles - and also on his passion for playing cards: 

 

There are more tricky and less obvious ones though. For example, Michael Schumacher had some Chinese signs on his helmet. Those were the names of his family members. Here it's Mick - his son - (above the AMD sign) and Michael, on the other side it's Gina Maria and Corinna (his daughter and his wife). 

 

This is Gina's name: 

 

Michael has 7 stars on the top of his helmet, but those are NOT to represent his titles. They were there since his Benetton times (although the number of the stars varied at the beginning, there was five and I think even four, but he was still at Benetton when it became 7). IIRC he once commented he just likes the starry night sky, so that's why it's on his helmet. 

Straight from the Book

These pictures speak for themselves: Brian Dettmer is some kind of genius. All of these are from actual books  and nothing is added, only removed to show connections within the book in a visual manner. It’s really incredible! 

The Art of The Pop Up Book

• Pop up books art seen as childish forms of entertainment right? No, Artist Martin David proves that view wrong with his great use of the art form to give us sweeping shapes and forms with eye catching illustrations and prints while incorporating both into each other, his attention to small details is amusing.
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