exhibition-ism: The miniature staged genre scenes from street artist Isaac Cordal
“ It is possible to speak from only one point in time, but that does not invalidate the insights of the rest. ”
Joseph Campbell (via nathanielstuart)
I went to the Art Gallery on Saturday with Angela and we couldn’t stop laughing when we saw this sculpture. We must’ve circled it 10 times cracking ourselves up (I’m sure we weren’t the only ones) And 3D printing is breaking into the fine arts world! Nothing like a few giggles to break up the tight-lipped gravity of a gallery. In short, it’s awesome and kinda trippy.
Whatever examines the near future in a world that is digitised and mapped. It is a sculpture of a disenfranchised youth living in a cyber world, his existence depending on technology. As constant users of cyberspace we enjoy its benefits – but do we understand its negative aspects?
The work uses ‘organic data’. I use this term as opposed to ‘inorganic data’, which would be data produced solely inside software. ‘Organic data’ is taken from life and digitised by a scanning process. This process mirrors our contemporary practices of investing our living world into computer spaces such as Facebook.
I manipulate the data with digital tools then prepare it for 3D thermal plastic printing. The many 3D pieces are assembled and hand finished.
“…may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.”
For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea
e.e. cummings (via humdrumstar)
attentione-il-est-shaun-micallef:
Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell - Masha Gessen Interview
In this EXTRA MAD AS HELL clip, Shaun interviews Russian-American journalist and author Masha Gessen about her latest book ‘The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin’. It explores how Vladimir Putin, a small-minded, low-level KGB operative became the most powerful man in the world’s largest country. Masha recently visited Australia as a guest of the Sydney Writers Festival.
“ We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. ”
Einstein (via bridgettelizabeth)
(Source: sarahxmay)
feminist disney is so great
BEST EVER
i’m in love.
Perfection.
(Source: terriblesting)
