An Amazing Concept

Chris Cobb, a local San Francisco artist did something amazing to a bookshop called Adobe Books- he arranged every single one of the 20,000 books by color. {Can you see this would be my fantasy?} The project is called "There is Nothing Wrong in This Whole Wide World" and is based on a simple idea:

"Even though there is so much to be unhappy about in this world, we should try to create something amazing and beautiful and interesting despite all of the problems." Chris Cobb

Chris and a team of 16 volunteers stayed up all night (ten hours, several pizzas and 30 bottles of water later) and arranged all of the books by hand. Inside every book there is a tag saying where it belongs.




Unfortunately this piece only existed until January 15th 2005

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Comic Art

Another of my random voyages through the web turned up the image below.



There is an interesting discussion on the Kitsune Noir blog.

It brings back memories of going up to Sheffield and Rotherham to see my Gran, uncles, aunts and cousins. One of my cousins had a big stack of American pulp comics, I'd never seen anything like them before and was totally blown away by them.

I haven't been up there for a while but thanks to the magic of Google street view I have taken a virtual walk down the street where my Gran used to live.

Peter Callesen

Just sent someone a link to Peter Callesen's webpage amazing artwork.

Alive But Dead

Holding on to Myself

Two Interesting Websites

Just discovered two very interesting websites:

Curious Expeditions

Under a heading of Librophiliac Love letter is a collection of photographs of beautiful libraries.

This is the library at Strahov Monestery in Prague

and

The Museum of Lost Wonder


Plenty to explore here.

Maurits Escher

I've always loved the art of Maurits Escher. What an incredible imagination.







All images are from the Official M C Escher website

There is an Escher museum in the Hague. The website seems to be a work in progress, it could do with some more images of the place.

The Ever Changing Face of Woman in Art

Really well executed.

Women in art from squilibri on Vimeo.

The most amazing video

600 years of the Prague clock tower. Wow!

The 600 Years from the macula on Vimeo.

More Frivolity

Should have saved this for December. But what the hell, the shit's in the shops already!

Experience Mobile Mobile from James Théophane Jnr on Vimeo.

The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello

Love this video, amazing visuals.

The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello - 2005 from debora censi on Vimeo.

Curiouser and Curiouser

The Cabinet of curiosity I blogged about here does not actually exist. It is a wonderful Trompe l'Oeil artwork, made all the more remarkable by the fact that it is not a painting but is constructed from slivers of inlaid stone.

This explanation is from here

Amazingly, this is not a painting! It’s a picture made of a mosaic of tiny slivers of inlaid stone. It was done about four hundred years ago by Flemish artist Domenico Remps, and usually it lives in a small institution in Florence called the Opificio delle Pietre Dure.

The subject is a so-called cabinet of curiosities. These were little display collections of natural and artistic curiosities, placed in specially made cabinets by wealthy collectors between four and three hundred years ago. They went out of fashion as collections of such things became too large and specialised for a small cabinet, but they are the ancestors of today’s museums.

Trompe L’oeil is french for Trick the Eye. The idea of pictures in this style is to be so realistic that, ideally, viewers might be deceived into not realising that they were looking at a picture rather than the real thing.

Victorian Surrealism

Amazing, fascinating, weird and rather creepy images by Jeffrey Harp.

Degenerates


Chorus


Dagon


The Flickr set is here

Jeffrey Harp's website is not fully functional at the time of writing.

At the dentist

A friend is going to the dentist today. I Googled some images to make him laugh and found these too.

Didn't realise it was such a popular subject.


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More Walking Beasts

Strandbeest Movies Follow the link to Theo Jansen's homepage.

Venyosa Walk 2 shows how well they can move. They are fascinating and also beautiful.

Would love to afford the book and DVD.

Art: Bathsheba Sculpture

Not much time to blog today, so it's honourable mention time.

Love this artist's work: Bathsheba Grossman Mathematical sculptures

The Metatron


The Gyroid


The 24 Cell


They are made using a metal 3-D printing process. Would love to own one.

They are available Here

I had to redo this, the original Bathsheba.com site seems to have gone and they are now being retailed through the quirao.com site.

Art: Bendtsen

One of Tom Bendtsen's Arguments. A house made of books.

Stumbled onto this looking for something else. Gotta love the Internet for turning up these unexpected treasures.

Website

Did it!

Nova (audio by Helios) from flight404 on Vimeo.

Yay! It worked!

This person's video work is amazing.