OnelargeprawnIf there is anything we have learned from the likes of Nuit Blanche, Alexandre Farto, and Alan Sailer, it is that explosions can looks very beautiful. Fashion photographer Nick Knight hammers the point home in a series of photos that he took in 2005. What look like colourful abstract flowers are in fact paint explosions.
Have a look at Knight’s small set of pretty paint explosions after the jump.
You may recall Albert Seveso and his images of coloured varnish coming into contact with water in a fish bowl (refresh your memory). In his latest series, Aqueous Fluoreau, photographer Mark Mawson creates equally stunning and more vibrant photos when he captures the interaction between ink and water.
Have a look at some of his striking underwater ink photographs after the jump.
FOTONICA is a first person shooter jumper that reminds me of all the good times that were had in REZ. Created by Milan-based game design studio, Santa Ragione, FOTONICA is a free-running game set in an abstract vector landscape where you speed through a level, jumping from one platform to another, and collecting the pink dots along the way. The games relies on the use of one button and what seems like a simple task is quite deceptive, especially for someone like me, who has as much spring in my step as a dead flea. See the trailer to FOTONICA below.
You can play the demo on Kongregate or you can download the game (34 MB) from the FOTONICA website to speed through all the five levels. If you like the game, you can give the developers some real money, however little or as much as you like, according to their “Pay What You Want” pricing system.
[via Creative Applications]
Earlier today I had spotted a post on The Given Collective about the seriously sexy art of Italian illustrator Alberto Seveso. He has become quite famous for mixing black and white portrait photos with colourful vector designs. The style is known as “sperm shaping” and can be seen in his A me mi piace la gnocca! series (possibly NSFW).
I like exposed nipples as much as the next guy but do you know what interests me more than that? Seeing varnish coming into contact with water. In his Medicina Rossa series of photos, he poured a red coloured varnish into a fish bowl full of water, and used a blue varnish in his Sequence verdastra/bluastra/bastarda series. The images of this beautiful reaction look like they could have been computer-generated but Seveso assures people they are not. See them after the jump.
Goran Konjevod is a professor of mathematics and theoretical computer science. It’s a good thing that he also loves origami otherwise we’d have a tough time convincing you how awesome computer science is.
Channeling his keen mathemagical energy, Mr. Konjevod has made some fantastic 3D paper (and copper) sculptures. He says this about his creations:
Most of my pieces so far are abstract shapes naturally formed by the tension of the paper when multiple layers of paper are arranged according to regular or irregular patterns. In that sense, they could almost be said to be discovered, rather than invented or designed…
…I try to restrict myself to working with single uncut sheets of paper or other foldable material (such as copper), and for the most part use very simple “pureland” folds. Normally, this last restriction would imply that the resulting forms are flat. However, a real sheet of paper is always three-dimensional—even when unfolded—and its thickness brings about a much more obvious three-dimensionality when multiple layers are present.
We think his abstract origami should do all the talking. See a few of them after the jump.
I guess this needs no introduction which is pretty swell as I cannot brain today, I have the dumb. Click on the images to take you to the download locations.
See more wallpapers after the jump.