Gregory Colbert was born in Toronto, Canada in the 1960′s eh. Starting off creating provocative films that addressed the social issues of that time, Greg later went off course with his film making career (glad he did) to become a renowned fine arts photographer; opening his first public exhibit, Timewaves, in 1992 at the Musée …
I get quite frustrated when i can’t find too much about an artist i want to feature, especially one of this caliber. Dan McParlin creates a synthesis of psychedelic art and sci-fi, which falls into the genre called psychedelic fiction art. To stray off track a bit, i recently watched 2001 Space Odyssey a couple of …
I’m a sucker for innovative ideas like this one, absolutely brilliant. I have friends who work in videography and i know how tough it is to capture a scene without shake while fluidly moving the camera. This genius simplified the entire process of placing rails or bulked up iron and steel monsters to capture stabilized …
Since its independence from France in 1946, Syria has been rocked by periods of political instability. As the colonial hold of the great powers began to fade and the region witnessed a wave of Arab nationalism, which shifted Syria through a succession of military coups. However, in 1970, Hafez al-Assad, an ambitious minister of defence, seized control. … Continue reading »
Shit, all I see are people who are electronically dependant, they all wear their Facebook profiles like a religious pendant. It’s like watching a fiction of a fiction, Life seems to have lost all it’s friction, just a bunch of contradictions formed by competition, made from petty perceptions, all designed for misdirection. Bombings, sport cars, … Continue reading »
Whoa there, French photographer David Chambon the macro insect master has entered the building, and it looks like he’s brought along his amazing collection of photographs with him! Chambon has been an amateur photographer for over ten good years, capturing the various aspects of life a photographer enjoys taking; he specifies how he wishes to capture … Continue reading »
I absolutely love sculpting, it’s one of the only arts where you can bend 3-dimensional reality to the whim of your imagination, seeding significance and the human essence into the absence of form- I’ve always found it amusing how great artists can instil whatever profound wonders, earthly struggles or a dichotomy of both into their creations; as if … Continue reading »
It’s not everyday you can see footage of another planet, yet alone a rovers hasty approach toward alien terrain but today you can! It took four laborious weeks for Bard Canning to turn the original 4 frames per second Curiosity decent into an ultra-resolution, smooth-motion, detail-enhanced, color-corrected, 30 frames per second video. This is real-time film, which shows … Continue reading »
It’s no stroboscopic light levitation effect at play here or a wizards trick, although in the past it would be considered as such. This is actually the result of two sound waves, shot from speakers parallel from each other, causing the waves to perfectly interfere with one another creating a phenomenon known as a standing wave. No, … Continue reading »
God damn it, I wish the Tower of Babel was never built so I could speak everyones language, this way i could find more information on foreign artists! For instance, my friend from Japan emailed me a series of pictures and explained it was from a five person art collective called Kingyobu or the Goldfish … Continue reading »
