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Hastings Park, 16 July 1955 (2008) | PDN Photo of the Day

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:33:31 -0800

Hastings Park, 16 July 1955 (2008)

Stan Douglas

Large Format

"Hastings Park" 16 July 1955 (2008) is from Stan Douglas's project "Humor, Irony, and the Law" in which the artist re-stages historic moments of unrest in his native Vancouver. This particular image recreates a scene at a Vancouver horse track in 1955 using models dressed in period clothing selected to match the look of color film at that time. The models were photographed between takes while they were off guard. This image is composed of 30 separate shots.

David Zwirner Gallery

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DCMP Image Gallery

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:34:01 -0700

Two Tracks: A Fish Tale in Five Parts

Tapwater Jackson

Image - Division of Condensed Matter Physics

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SwipeLife - Mens Lifestyle Magazine for Fashion, Gadgets, Cars, Gear, Design, and Culture

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:08:48 -0700

The Insect Illustrations of Cornelia Hesse-Honegger

SwipeLife Magazine.

Cornelia Hesse-Honegger

My personal weakness for scientific illustration -- scattered throughout my SU pages -- must have its origin in the hours, days, and weeks, spent lying on the floor of my 10'X12' bedroom, reading and rereading the Golden Book Encyclopedia and the moldy old biology books I had gathered. Admittedly, they both lacked plot, but I was able to supply the story.

Scientific Illustration

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Ansel Adams in Color | Arts &Culture | Smithsonian Magazine

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:30:50 -0700

Ansel Adams in Color

Not everything in the photographer's philosophy was black and white.

Smithsonian Magazine, Richard B. Woodward

"Ansel Adams never made up his mind about color photography. Long before his death in 1984 at age 82, he foresaw that this "beguiling medium" might one day replace his cherished black and white. In notes tentatively dated to 1949, he observed that "color photography is rapidly becoming of major importance."

Image Results for Ansel Adams

Alloy, West Virginia, c. 1939

Sunrise, Death Valley National Monument, c. 1948

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Instant Expert: How Can We Tell If a Country Is Making Nuclear Power or Nuclear Weapons? | Popular Science

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:58:49 -0700

How Can We Tell If a Country Is Making
Nuclear Power or Nuclear Weapons?

It's All About Enrichment

"Just about everyone insists that Iran's nuclear program is aimed at building weapons. Iran claims it only wants nuclear power. So how do weapons inspectors get at the truth? They study the country's supply and treatment of uranium, one of the most abundant nuclear materials on the planet.

Just one pound can produce energy equal to burning three million pounds of coal. To harness all that energy, the uranium must first be "eenriched" increasing the concentration of an unstable form of the element, U-235, which, when split, can release massive amounts of energy in what's known as a fissile reaction. The configuration of the equipment most commonly used for this enrichment, called gas centrifuges, can tip inspectors to illicit intentions.

That's because making uranium reactor-grade requires that 3 to 5 percent of its total concentration must be U-235 (nearly all the rest is U-238, uranium's most common isotope). Nuclear weapons, however, require at least 90 percent. The arrangement it takes to hit that number can be a dead giveaway."

International Atomic Energy Agency and Iran

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Dead Calm :: Photography Served

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:13:16 -0700

Carl Erik Hagen

Dead Calm

Photography Served

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Monarchy of Norway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:17:24 -0700

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_Norway

Accept Reality

I am sick and tired of political hacks and media commentators who go on and on and on and on about what President Obama's Nobel Prize means. Some of the drivel from the left is the essence of self-absorbed Kool-Aid. And, the reactions from the right are pure psychotic delusions manifesting in apologist themes that fully resonate south of the Mason-Dixon line. Remind me what it is about a belief in peace and diplomacy and justice that is un-American.

Bente will accept responsibility for the Norwegian Parliament

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People &Places on the Behance Network

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:17:26 -0700

People & Places

Marc Yankus Photography

Burnt Shadow
"Marc Yankus' fine art and published experience span a period of more than three decades. His work has been included in exhibitions at The Brooklyn Museum, New York City; The Library of Congress, Washington, DC; and ClampArt, New York City.

Yankus' artwork has graced the covers of books by Salman Rushdie, Philip Roth, and Alan Hollinghurst, among many others. His images have also been used for theatrical posters for such acclaimed Broadway shows as Jane Eyre; August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom; and John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize winning play, Doubt.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Department of Prints and Photographs of The Library of Congress have acquired his work for their permanent collection, as well as many private collections. Fall of 2008 marked his second one-person exhibition at ClampArt in New York City."

City

Ocean

Snow Garden

Caitlin At Factory

The Rabbi's Daughter

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15 Modern Visionaries in Digital Visual Art | WebUrbanist

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:57:06 -0700

Digital Painters:
Old World Art Meets Modern Tech

Steph, WebUrbanist

"If you think that digital art has no soul or dimension, you haven't seen the work of these 15 visionary visual artists. Some work as concept artists or illustrators while others take more of a fine art approach, creating purely for their own pleasure. Many of them have backgrounds in traditional art, seeing the use of digital media such as Photoshop and Corel Painter as a natural evolution of the creative process but never losing sight of those mysterious elements that make a work of art truly effective."

Ray Caesar

Bobby Chui

Cristiano Siqueira

Linda Bergkvist

Digital Art

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Dorothy Surrenders: My Weekend Contemplation

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:27:48 -0700

An excerpt from Dorothy on Polanski:

"That Roman Polanski is a great director is not the question here. He is a great director. "Rosemary's Baby," "Chinatown," "The Pianist." These are all great films. But the art is not the artist, nor does the art absolve the artist either. What he did was wrong and criminal. It does not matter that he may be a genius. It also doesn't matter that Roman Polanski had a tragic life. His survival of the Holocaust, the gruesome murder of his wife Sharon Tate; these are all unspeakable things for any human to have to survive. But, once again, they do not negate one's own ugly actions.

But both these reasons - his genius and his tragedy - have been used as excuses by those seeking to have him freed. And, quite frankly, both reasons make me furious. They smack of an insular elitism that has nothing to do with justice and everything to do with power and privilege. If he wasn't talented, would his apologists then think it was OK for him to be finally punished for raping a 13-year-old girl? How easy it is through the lens of time to say, "Oh, it was the 70s, everyone did crazy things." But going to a key party in bell bottoms and drugging and raping a 13-year-old are not the same. The former is a crazy thing, the latter is a despicable crime."

Dorothy Snarker