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 »
I love Daft Punk and anyone who is a fan should give this anime a serious watch since it’s a collection of cartoon clips from their album Discovery which has some classic DP tunes. On a side note, I found this because for some bizarre reason I had a nonfigurative flashback of viewing this as … Continue reading »
I recently watched a TED talk about pollination, to which you’d be thinking, “That has no connection with the erotic nature of the female figure?” Haha, you would be surprised, Mother Earth is the sexiest lady around and she uses seduction and attractiveness to further the advancement of life. The gifted photographer Carsten Witte, captures … Continue reading »
In this intriguing documentary, philosopher Roger Scruton argues that 20th century art, architecture and music have shunned beauty and have instead made a cult out of ugliness, which Scruton says will lead humanity towards a complete spiritual wasteland. He will try to prove the importance of beauty in the arts and in our own lives using the … Continue reading »
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no… it’s Cloud House! Don’t freak out too much, mankind hasn’t expanded it’s architectural empire to the skies, but either way, this could be the next best thing. The Cloud is a renovated add-on to an old double-fronted Edwardian house, which is located in Fitzroy North a suburb of Melbourne, … Continue reading »
You’ve had a series of unfortunate events, made some bad choices and met up with all the wrong people. Now you’re on your knees with your hands tied behind your back, looking down at your own grave with a pistol stuck on the back of your skull- ready to fire. What would you do? Cry … Continue reading »
This could be a set piece for the movie Water World, it sure is big enough to be just that but it’s not, it’s actually the worlds smallest country! The Principality was founded in 1967 in international waters, roughly six miles off the eastern shores of Britain. The country started off being nothing more than … Continue reading »
Sorry for the misleading title but I could see this being a prospective Apple product one of these days, which is worrying and quite thrilling- Siri’s replacement is a sentient robot friend. As my cousin said when he saw this, “it’s hard enough to compete with other humans, now can you imagine going against that?” … Continue reading »
Hello piece of art, where do you hail from? The kingdom of Karlberg you say? Must be one imaginatively snazzy place to have come from because you’re one interestingly artistic piece of work. Yes, I just had a conversation with art, inanimate objects have a lot to say about the minds that made them. From … Continue reading »
I truly, wholeheartedly, passionately love books, soI jumped at the opportunity to watch this BBC special when I had the chance to. The Machine That Made Us is a documentary in which Stephen Fry examines the story behind the first media entrepreneur, printing press inventor Johann Gutenberg, to find out why he did it and how, a … Continue reading »
You ever get that amazing uproarious feeling when you find a song or a band that speaks to your soul? It’s almost equivalent to being lost in a desert of drabness until you find that water source of wonderful to fill your bones back with life. Ladies and gentlemen, finding Neil Krugs photographic genius has … Continue reading »
Now here’s a fashionably cool or as the ladies might say chic idea for a portraiture photography session. The title for this series, “Bêtes de mode” literally translates to “Fashion Animals”- a pretty legitimate name for this display. The photo’s were taken in order to be showcased at the Lafayette Galleries, a massive, well designed department store … Continue reading »
