I Met the Walrus: Josh Raskin
I Met the Walrus - Josh Raskin - Courtesy of Very Short List.
Archive for 'Art'
Subtract Garfield, add angst
"Garfield Minus Garfield is a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle."
This is simply BRILLIANT...and, the ONLY way one should look at Garfield comics ever again.
TED2008 video - Chris Jordan: Picturing excess
Chris Jordan changed my perspective. After seeing him speak at TED2008, I don't think I'll look at my own consumption and waste the same way. Chris is an artist who uses the large scale images to depict the enormous impact of Western culture. His images (below) of the number of plastic cups used by airlines every 6 hours (all one million of them) has me bringing my own cup when I fly. Those images are a part of an exhibit called "Running the Numbers: A Self Portrait."
Check out Chris' talk at TED2008 and then visit his site for more of these incredible images.
Chris Jordan -Running the Numbers: A Self-Portrait
"Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 32,000 breast augmentation surgeries in the U.S. every month.
This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs. Employing themes such as the near versus the far, and the one versus the many, I hope to raise some questions about the role of the individual in a society that is increasingly enormous, incomprehensible, and overwhelming."
~chris jordan, Seattle, 2007
The Art of the Title Sequence
This is another of the great site find from Very Short List:
"Founded by Ian Albinson, a Vermont-based designer, and Alexander Ulloa, a writer in Boston, the site is a goldmine for anyone looking for a quick film or design fix. From the whip-crack art direction of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly to recent sequences that are sometimes better than the films for which they’re created (The Island of Dr. Moreau), the site’s selections are a perfect tribute to the designers and filmmakers who made and continue to make great movies better from start to finish."
Players (Daily Dose of Imagery)
I've been a fan of Daily Dose of Imagery for some time now. Today's dose was not only a great image, but a video project as well. Enjoy!
Players from Sam Javanrouh on Vimeo
Alison: Photographs by Jack Radcliffe (Behance Network)
Alison: Photographs by Jack Radcliffe (Behance Network)
From Jack's portfolio on Behance Network:
"When my daughter Alison was born, in the tradition of a new parent, I began to photograph her, initially in a separate and private body of work. However, in the process of documenting Alison's growth, I developed a passionate interest in human relationships and capturing intimate moments in the lives of family and friends."
Intimate indeed. These photographs are really magnificent in the way they not only document Alison's development from child to woman, but the way they seem to reveal the depths of her relationships along the way.
Check out the rest of Jack's portfolio on Behance Network or on his own site - Jack Radcliffe Fine Art Photography.
indexed
From what I can tell, Jessica Hagy's blog, indexed, has been around since August of 2006. Go figure how I haven't run across it until now. But thanks to ChangeThis I was introduced to her new manifesto, "Indexing a Career." Think of Hagy as a less caustic version of Hugh MacLeod (the guy who draws cartoon on the back of business cards). Her index cards are witty, elegant in their simplicity and cut true.
You can find more of Jessica's cards at Plenty, GOOD, BBC Magazine Online, Current (soon) and her book through Amazon.
Oh, and by the way, the card above is titled "Entrepreneurship."
