Jonathan Moore
I am a designer who lives in code, entrepreneur, and an idea incubator driven to make our world a better place.
I am a designer who lives in code, entrepreneur, and an idea incubator driven to make our world a better place.
Today was my last day at Tumblr.
Five years...
“Drawing a labyrinth with salt is like following a trace of my memory,” — Motoi Yamamoto
Go Big & Go Home
A fantastic illustration by the talented Kyle Steed. In addition to Steedtastic, his Hand-Drawn Words blog is worth a look.
Using pieces of cherry, oak, ash, and maple James McNabb carefully creates bandsaw cut abstracted architectural forms that he combines in a wheel, table and sphere.
The City Series is a collection of wood sculptures that represent a woodworker’s journey from the suburbs to the city. Each piece depicts the outsider’s perspective of the urban landscape. Made entirely of scrap wood, this work is an interpretation of making something out of nothing. Each piece is cut intuitively on a band saw. The result is a collection of architectural forms, each distinctly different from the next.
Paul Octavious captures the Ann Hamiltons: the event of a thread art installation created inside the Park Avenue Armory. Featuring 42 large wood swings moving a massive curtain, flocks of homing pigeons, 42 radios in paper bags, and tables for people to broadcast snippets of text to those radios the event of a thread was probably something better experienced than watched, but Paul’s video beautifully captures some of the visual experience of the installation.
The old rules: Play it safe. Stay in your comfort zone. Find an institution, a job, a set of rules to stick to. Keep your head down. Don’t fly too close to the sun.
The new truth: It’s better to be sorry than safe. You need to fly higher than ever.
This is an inspiring and well produced video featuring Tina Roth Eisenberg, Josh Rubin and Sarma Melngailis to promote Seth Godin’s latest book, The Icarus Deception. What art are you going to create?
“Kim Beom screams at yellow paint. and that’s it.”
Via Kottke
Using Processing Italian artist Giuseppe Randazzo created Meanders as “a generative system driven by the interaction of growing agents”.
Designed by the media artist group J o n p a s a n g, the Hyper-Matrix combines hundreds of controllable surfaces to create an impressive effect for Hyundai Motor Group’s 2012 Yeosu EXPO. Watching the making of video, I can’t begin to image how much this wall cost to build and manufacture.
Found on The Fox Is Black
Art is a product and design is a process. Design is the foundation of all the arts.
Paul Rand, via @JESS3
Discovering what makes paper birds tick. Cut paper and vinyl film by Colombian artist, illustrator and paper sculpture Diana Beltran Herrera. View more of Diana’s work on Flickr
608 rain drops made of aluminum covered in brass, synchronized and dancing above Terminal 1 of the Singapore Airport. Created by ART+COM
Self taught photographer Christoffer Relander did a fantastic job compositing these multiple exposure film shots.
If you want to learn more about the technique, head over to the Flickr group “A Tale of Two Cities” where film photographers swap rolls of undeveloped film to expose two different cities. If you jump into the discussions you can find technique tips and details.
Another great multiple exposure example by Jon Duenas.
Visual and music installation by Squeaky Lobster and Romain Tardy.
At first glance I was almost certain that someone cleverly photoshopped a lawn inside York Minster Cathedral, but apparently this was the work of Wow! Grass! that temporarily ‘grassifies’ offices, cathedral, art spaces and even sofas.
The grass that they install is grown in a thick layer of felt, so there is no dirt left behind. When the event is over they roll it up and install it somewhere else.
“Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution”. —Ansel Adams
I love the way that photographer Josh Adamski digitally manipulates his shots to give them a highly surreal landscape combined with simple silhouettes. See all of his work at 500px.
