+ Sarah Doudney

‘The pure, the beautiful, the bright,
That stirred our hearts in youth,
The impulse to a wordless prayer,
The dreams of love and truth,
The longings after something lost,
The spirit’s yearning cry,
The strivings after better hopes,–
These things can never die.’

+ word of the day

Coxcomb

n.        A conceited, foolish dandy; pretentious fop. 

+ Michael Parkes

This Gargoyle print my friend Jacyln had in her living room when we were little girls and I always loved it. 20 or so years later her parents were getting rid of it and she remembered I liked it. She gave it to me and now it hangs in my house in Colorado.

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+ Guardian Building by mgsmith

Via Flickr:

The Guardian Building’s first five floors are almost entirely occupied by the large open lobby that extends the full length of the building. The sixth floor—the level where the green, white and gold design wraps around—is filled with duct work and large blowers. Behind the decorative screens are air intakes for the circulation system.

+ Jack Graves III

Nebula

+ Otis' 6 week old baby picture

+ Motoi Yamamoto: Saltscapes

currently on display at the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina.

mint museum

+ Tim Molloy

+ LACMA

So many great artists have there work in the lacma. I can't wait to go back. Here are just a few pieces I really liked. 

possibly Ernst Kirchner

Kolomon Moser cabinet

Light film by Thomas Wilfred

Ribbon sculpture by Richard Serra

+ shipwreck near Marina del Rey

+ Venice

+ Deskriptiv

Limm:  Digital Art and Programming. 

Images made by trailing points from sample positions inside a volumetric vector field.

www.deskriptiv.de

+ Lenticular Street Art by Roa

+ Croatian-Austrian collective Numen/For Use

String Prototype: inflatable interaction space.

Tuft Rome:

Macro Museum of Contemporary Art, 2013

Concept for an inhabitable installation / not realized

Primary fabric on which the wool is tufted can be three dimensionally deformed. Tufted primary fabric is shaped by either straining upper and lower surfaces apart one another or bringing them together on alternate points. After deformation the wool is fixed onto the fabric with several layers of liquid latex and covered by a secondary fabric on the back side. The result is a pair of permanent yet soft and pliant undulating surfaces forming a carnal levitating cave.

http://www.numen.eu/home/news/

+ Emily Blincoe

+ Collaboration

In North America, Europe and many other parts of the world, bee populations have plummeted 30-50% due to colony collapse disorder, a fact not lost on artist Aganetha Dyck who for years has been working with the industrious insects to create delicate sculptures using porcelain figurines, shoes, sports equipment, and other objects left in specially designed apiaries. As the weeks and months pass the ordinary objects are slowly transformed with the bees’ wax honeycomb. 

It’s almost impossible to look at final pieces without smiling in wonder, imagining the unwitting bees toiling away a piece of art.  And yet it’s our own ignorance of humanity’s connection to bees and nature that Dyck calls into question, two completely different life forms whose fate is inextricably intertwined. (text and pix from thisiscolossal.com)

+ Quote of the day

Words are only painted fire. a look is the fire itself"
Mark Twain

+ Window socket Solar Electricity

The Window Socket offers a neat way to harness solar energy and use it as a plug socket. So far we have seen solutions that act as a solar battery backup, but none as a direct plug-in. Simple in design, the plug just attaches to any window and does its job intuitively.

Designers: Kyuho Song & Boa Oh

Read more at http://www.yankodesign.com/2013/04/26/plug-it-on-the-window/#yJTxGh1AAW2UlG9V.99

+ Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

a german expressionist painter and woodblock artist, also a founder of the art group or movement Die Brücke or "The Bridge"

1910

1930

1932