Spotted in the wild: the rare Pentax-headed photographer. (We even spotted a pair!) Photos by kiyoshimachine
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Atlas Cutouts by Claire Brewster - old maps and atlases are painstakingly manipulated with a scalpel to create intricate cut-outs.
Claire Brewster’s work is about retrieving the discarded, celebrating the unwanted and giving new life to the obsolete. Claire uses old and out of date maps and atlases as her fabric with which to create her intricate, delicate and detailed cut outs.
DIY project: Fold old maps into origami globes.
Other sheets of paper, such as magazine, catalog, book, or old sheet music pages, also could be used.
For this project, 5” square pieces of maps were folded into globes, then strung on twine. If you’d prefer to leave your globes loose, you could display a bunch of them in bowls, or group them on trays and add other items to make centerpieces (great for travel-themed parties). What other uses could you find for them?
For the how-to-fold-‘em details — Robbi Lindeman’s excellent tutorial and photos — visit poppytalk’s blog.
For other map reuse ideas, check the Unconsumption map-post archive here.
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Better world (by Sergio Albiac)
Generative rendering experiment.
Complementary shift variation harmony.
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Glowing Silhouettes Made of Thousands of Sun Streaming Pinholes. “Bucklow begins by projecting the shadow of his sitter on a large sheet of aluminum foil and tracing its outline. He then makes about twenty thousand small pinholes in the foil silhouette (one for each day of the average human lifespan). Using a contraption of his own device that places the foil over a large sheet of photographic paper, Bucklow wheels his homemade ‘camera’ out into daylight and pulls the ‘shutter’ to briefly expose the paper to direct sunlight. Thus each finished picture becomes a kind of photogram silhouette composed of thousands of pinhole photographs of the sun. The intensity of light on a given day and the length of exposure create unique color variations on how the resulting piece appears.” Christopher Bucklow
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Top, screen capture from Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, 1952, directed by Kenneth Anger. Via. Bottom, screen capture from Angel Mine, 1980, directed by David Blyth. Via.
See also, three screen captures from Scorpio Rising, and Kenneth Anger: Icons at MOCA, Los Angeles.
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The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.
George Bataille. Via.
