Eric found the work of Jan von Holleben and pointed out to me this wonderful series of photographs that von Holleben has called “Dreams of flying“.
The Dreams of Flying photographs features children in fun, semi-fantastical poses that are accomplished by having them actually posed on good solid ground.
Here’s a few favourites from the series:
For the complete series go here. Information about von Hollenben’s other works is here, and details about purchasing his work can be found here.
Eric found these stuffed monkey portraits, via we-make-money-not-art.
UK-based artist Peter Jones does a wonderful job in conveying a certain poignancy with these oil-on-linen paintings to express how well-loved these monkeys must be :)
Visit the Fred [London] Ltd. site for more info on the collection and the artist.
After spending too much time watching various videos on Youtube, we found these videos of Rube Goldberg machines that they made for segments on a Japanese kids’ show called Pitagora Suicchi (Pythagorean Switch). A warning though, the music can get annoying and the video’s a little over 4 minutes long.
We’re suckers for these types of things. In my first year of design school I was required to make a similar type of machine that had to be powered by a steel ball and take up no more than 2 cubic feet while running a total of ten seconds. The other requirement was that it light a match in the end. And have a theme. Hard, but in the end, kind of fun. Mine had a New Year’s theme, counted down from ten, played Aud Lang Syne and popped a balloon full of confetti to boot. I’m glad I’m not in school any more ;)
A quick blog entry while I can still take advantage of a decent internet connection:
Check out Jason Gaylor’s blog for the second set of Fresh Foliage 2 brushes that just came out.
Very pretty! Hmmm… already thinking of different ways of using them.
(The first set is available here.)
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