Galactic planktonSpace graphic by Mads Dam
Nano ArtA new kind of images
NanoArt is a new art form where micro or nanosculptures created by artists or scientists through chemical or/and physical processes are visualized with powerful research tools like Scanning Electron Microscopes. Mono-chromatic electron microscope scans are processed further using different artistic techniques to create pieces of art that can be showcased for the general public. Read more... ![]()
The worldwide competition NanoArt 2007 is open to all artists 18 years and older. Submission deadline December 31, 2007. Online voting will open January 1, 2008 through March 31, 2008. Judging is via the Internet and decided by our site visitors. Winners will be notified and published online around April 15, 2008. Green geometryGreen animationArt without filterThis is not Charlottenborg
Yesterday I helped one of my friends, Mikala, transporting 6 of her sculptures to the exibition "Charlottenborg without filter". Everything looked more or less normal, until I noticed a feathered figure: an angel walking around... Image and Communication in the Complexity EraEssay by Ovidiu Bufnila, image counselor
The deprivation of huge naval forces found in the bloody, tragic and impressive clenching announces an imperial structure. The difference is prepared. The imperial divers are dipping their harpoon in the Barbarians' blood. But aren't the Barbarians charming beings in the volutes of the world's hidden plan? Aren't they revealing themselves in the rain that came from beyond the visible horizon, modeling new gods? Aren't the Barbarians the ones who understand the truth of the pinky clouds better than the obsolescent savants that don't see the metaphysics in its splendor, only the clumsy piling of some water drops.... Lars MikkesOdyssey to Solaris, Denmark
![]() Thoroughly marked with some of the great themes of art history; thus Mikkes should be recognized as one of those modern artists who try to maintain the role of art as a medium for our questioning and our discussion of the individual’s relationship to the surroundings.... Humans are born colourblindYour first sight is in black and white
Human children are born into a black and white world. The cones in your eyes don't begin functioning until you are 4 months old. Then vision undergoes a gradual transformation. One out of 40000 never develops cones, seeing only in black-and-white throughout life. (Achromatopsia, or rod-monochromatic colorblindness).... U F OUnidentified Fotonic Objects
Every explanation is also a filter. Ray HarryhausenQuotes and filmography
I was a King Kong addict, went to see it again and again. I loved the way the film took you from the mundane world into the surreal. King Kong haunted me for years, I came out of the theatre in another world. I'd never see anything like that before in my life. I didn't know how it was done and that was half the charm.... René MagritteCollection of quotes
Sidney SimeMaster of the mysterious
Sidney Herbert Sime (1865-1941) was an english artist quite famous a century ago, but now almost forgotten. However, the best of his production deserves better. Here's a few examples of the work of Sidney Sime - master of the mysterious, the grotesque, the fantastic.
Introduction to Sime |
PicturesStill life
Aerial - a white world |
Order and chaosLiving image by Mads Dam
If you see a pattern moving right or left, up or down - it's an illusion. If you see a pattern starting ordered and gradually becoming chaotic, this is also an illusion. In fact, the pattern itself is an illusion... ExospheresDisturbing the atmospheres
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Cycling towards eternity. These images find themselves somewhere in the limbo between stills and video. This kind could be called "living image", to separate it from motion-picture and still-leben. |
Imaginary links
Fonts Fantastique - Klaus Johansens collection of extraordinary truetype fonts |
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