Great visuals--art and graphic design for smart people

DiscussãoLiterary Snobs

Entre no LibraryThing para poder publicar.

Great visuals--art and graphic design for smart people

Este tópico está presentemente marcado como "inativo" —a última mensagem tem mais de 90 dias. Reative o tópico publicando uma resposta.

1CliffBurns
Abr 5, 2011, 12:29 pm

Probably long overdue: a thread specifically devoted to visual arts and graphic design.

Not to be confused with our lengthy "Film" thread(s).

Just to get us started, a site Sherron just forwarded to me, featuring minimalist posters of various mental afflictions:

http://www.geekosystem.com/mental-disorder-posters/

2kswolff
Abr 5, 2011, 12:44 pm

Enjoy!

http://coudal.com/

I also enjoy their "Museum of Online Museums."

3CliffBurns
Abr 5, 2011, 7:44 pm

And if you haven't visited "Web Urbanist":

http://weburbanist.com/

My wife likes these folks.

4kswolff
Abr 5, 2011, 10:11 pm

Great visuals. Not sure about the "smart people" part?

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/comedy-goldmine/canadianize-things-photoshop.php

5CliffBurns
Abr 6, 2011, 12:20 am

Fascinating. Where DO you dig this stuff up, Karl?

6TineOliver
Abr 6, 2011, 12:34 am

Novels as art: http://postertext.com/

7beardo
Abr 6, 2011, 3:38 am

8CliffBurns
Abr 6, 2011, 9:15 am

Thought I should re-post Thomas Allen's pulp and western-inspired book covers:

http://www.foleygallery.com/artists/artist_ins.php3?artist=8

Love this guy.

9LovingLit
Abr 12, 2011, 3:03 pm

>6 TineOliver: Love the poster text art, and >7 beardo: love the Polish covers too.......and >8 CliffBurns: love the pulp inspired Foley art. Very inspirational for my arty aspirations.

10kswolff
Abr 12, 2011, 3:23 pm

"The Institute of Official Cheer":

http://www.lileks.com/institute/

11anna_in_pdx
Abr 12, 2011, 3:43 pm

10: Although James Lileks is a rightwing nutcase, his takedown of Better Homes and Gardens' 1970s decorating manual is epic and it was one of the first sites on the Internet that gave me hours of laughing therapy.

Here is my favorite page in that entire thing.

http://www.lileks.com/institute/interiors/BHG/chpt8/index.html

12kswolff
Abr 12, 2011, 4:12 pm

11: I was never really certain about his political views, but I enjoy his snark commentary on vintage retro stuff.

13CliffBurns
Abr 13, 2011, 12:23 pm

The universe to play with:

http://www.solarsystemscope.com

(Very cool site my wife forwarded to me.)

15CliffBurns
Abr 14, 2011, 4:16 pm

Cool links, Fred, thanks...

17LovingLit
Abr 21, 2011, 4:22 am

#14, wow, I got stuck on vintage ad browser for about 40 minutes, great old ads there, thanks

18Booksloth
Editado: Abr 21, 2011, 6:43 am

19CliffBurns
Abr 24, 2011, 10:13 am

The art of pinhole cameras:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/13141337

20kswolff
Abr 26, 2011, 10:43 pm

http://www.cracked.com/article_19155_the-14-most-unintentionally-terrifying-stat...

There needs to be more statues of demons eating babies.

22kswolff
Maio 1, 2011, 5:10 pm

23CliffBurns
Maio 5, 2011, 3:52 pm

24Sandydog1
Editado: Maio 5, 2011, 8:31 pm

OMG. 'Much more realistic than holding recoilless rifles, lobbing grenades, shooting M1s (prone, sitting, standing), pointing Thompson machine guns.

26kswolff
Maio 17, 2011, 10:56 am

Two places for political cartoons, one historical and one contemporary:

Thomas Nast cartoons and the 1872 election:

http://nastandgreeley.harpweek.com/subpages/cartoon-1872-MediumB.asp?UniqueID=44...

And a political cartoonist's blog appropriately named "The Pain!":

http://www.thepaincomics.com/

27Sandydog1
Maio 18, 2011, 8:39 pm

Aw dammit, Karl I just peed myself over that "skeet shooting' cartoon...

31anna_in_pdx
Jun 9, 2011, 2:21 pm

Expensive as well - whew!

34kswolff
Jun 24, 2011, 9:55 am

33: Love the parallels with actual totalitarian posters. It would be great for some language geek to keep the poster images -- especially the ones with the Empire and Darth Vader on it -- and put North Korean text in it. That would be awesome.

35anna_in_pdx
Jun 24, 2011, 11:26 am

33 those are wonderful. I sent to Chris and his wargaming buddies.

37CliffBurns
Jun 25, 2011, 4:04 pm

Classic covers and posters from the 1960's. Lotsa femme fatales:

http://www.rockingfundas.com/2010/08/classic-illustrations-from-60s.html

38CliffBurns
Jul 10, 2011, 12:45 pm

39kswolff
Jul 15, 2011, 9:51 am

40CliffBurns
Ago 7, 2011, 10:56 pm

A Christmas present idea for your resident sky fy geek:

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1fjtw8/winstonscifi.blogspot.com/

41kswolff
Ago 16, 2011, 11:22 am

The visionary Pop artist Peter Saul, like some Day-glo predecessor to Robert Williams and Joe Coleman:

http://hilobrow.com/2011/08/16/peter-saul/

42letterpress
Editado: Ago 16, 2011, 5:56 pm

This blog is the most amazing miscellany of images salvaged, saved and snaffled. The book, Bibliodyssey is wonderful too. I'm longing for another volume, that much more satisfying when accompanied by the smell and feel of paper.

http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/

43CliffBurns
Ago 16, 2011, 10:23 pm

Ah, the internet is full o' wonders...

45nymith
Ago 27, 2011, 6:02 pm

I'm not sure if those better embody the phrase "retro" or "wacky." Think I'll settle for "crazed wholesomeness."

46CliffBurns
Ago 27, 2011, 6:45 pm

I'll go along with that.

If only the future had turned out to be as interesting as those folks envisioned it...

47kswolff
Ago 28, 2011, 2:42 pm

45: "Crazed wholesomeness" -- Come visit Rochester, MN. You'll get crazed wholesomeness by the bucketful. I've never been to a place so obsessed about wanting to be average and ordinary. Bladerunner meets Mayberry, minus the fun parts of both, but including huge dollops of "health Nazi" condescension and Joel Osteen watered-down religious sanctimoniousness. Granted, it's not a terrible place to live, but it's not a wonderful place to live either.

Re: our non-jet packed future:

"The jet-man, on the other hand, no longer seems to know either adventure or destiny, but only a condition. Yet this condition is at first sight less human than anthropological: mythically, the jet-man is defined less by his courage than by his weight, his diet and his habits (temperance, frugality, continence). His racial apartness can be read in his morphology: the anti-G suit of inflatable nylon, the shiny helmet, introduce the jet-man into a novel type of skin in which 'even his mother would not know him'. We are dealing with a true racial conversion, all the more credible since science-fiction has already largely substantiated this metamorphosis of species: everything happens as if there had been a sudden mutation between the earlier creatures of propeller-mankind and the later ones of jet-mankind..."

-- "Jet-man", Mythologies by Roland Barthes

48nymith
Ago 28, 2011, 8:09 pm

"Come visit Rochester, MN. You'll get crazed wholesomeness by the bucketful." That would make a really cool billboard.

Barthes - I like the writing, but the meaning appears somewhat inscrutable.

49anna_in_pdx
Ago 30, 2011, 11:52 am

I am just using this space to announce that my sister actually purchased The Gallery of Regrettable Food for me as a birthday gag gift. While I think Lileks' site of ugly old advertising is funny, particularly the "interior desecrators" part that I've mentioned here before, it is unfortunate that he is such a wingnut politically. Ah well. (Also, I think he lives in Minnesota? Or somewhere in Flyover Country. :))

50CliffBurns
Ago 30, 2011, 12:18 pm

GALLERY gets some good reviews--people find it screamingly funny. Do you?

51anna_in_pdx
Ago 30, 2011, 12:45 pm

It was funny. He has a way of mocking old advertising that is quite amusing. I thought some of it was sort of pointless though. Casseroles are what they are, and no, they don't photograph well - so? We still eat them.

52CliffBurns
Ago 30, 2011, 12:48 pm

"Casseroles are what they are, and no, they don't photograph well - so? We still eat them."

Hee hee.

Which begs the question, can haggis be artfully arranged on a plate?

"I thought the presentation of the stuffed guts was particularly attractive, didn't you, Cyril?"

53anna_in_pdx
Ago 30, 2011, 1:15 pm

There was a section mocking some WWII pamphlets that had recipes for organ meats and stuff. Those were kind of interesting, quite apart from his humor.

54CliffBurns
Ago 30, 2011, 1:22 pm

I intend to pay a visit to our pal Ian Sales in merry old England some day. And if he offers me steak and kidney pie or some other Limey abomination, I'll convert HIM into tripe.

55anna_in_pdx
Ago 30, 2011, 1:33 pm

Hold out for eel pie.

57iansales
Ago 30, 2011, 3:24 pm

Cliff, you'll get pork pie and bloody like it. And a pint of proper real ale.

58CliffBurns
Ago 30, 2011, 3:26 pm

Well, I'm a Guinness man, kid, so I think we'll see eye to eye there.

Pork pie. Isn't that a HAT?

59iansales
Ago 31, 2011, 2:17 am

You can wear it on your head if you want. But don't be surprised if you get some odd looks from people.

60kswolff
Ago 31, 2011, 1:43 pm

If you like zeppelins, you'll love dieselpunk:

http://www.dieselpunks.org/photo/albums/steampunk-pinup-girls

61CliffBurns
Ago 31, 2011, 2:13 pm

"Steampunk pinup girls"???!!!

Thanks, Karl, I needed that.

62nymith
Ago 31, 2011, 2:29 pm

Steampunk rocks. So do Zeppelins - it's airplanes that give me the shudders.

63kswolff
Set 14, 2011, 1:44 pm

64beardo
Set 18, 2011, 1:11 am

Bookplates by the Russian artist Vladimir Zuev

For Bulgakov fans - see the second example.

http://50watts.com/#1217583/Zuev

65CliffBurns
Set 18, 2011, 11:00 am

A pal sent me a link to this site that features pages from scrapbooks kept by Stan Brakhage's wife. Gorgeous collages:

http://beineckeroom26.library.yale.edu/2009/06/08/brakhage-scrapbookso/

Also click on the commentary by Yale professor Richard Demming. It gives some background on the Brakhages' relationship and how that informed and inspired Stan's films.

66kswolff
Set 18, 2011, 4:55 pm

65: Your film reminded me of Brakhage ... or if Brakhage and David Lynch went on a road trip to Saskatchewan.

67kswolff
Set 18, 2011, 6:07 pm

68CliffBurns
Set 18, 2011, 8:58 pm

"...if Brakhage and David Lynch went on a road trip to Saskatchewan."

Lovely. Great blurb. Thanks, Karl.

69kswolff
Set 18, 2011, 10:24 pm

Avant garde stained glass in Moscow metro station via Dark Roasted Blend:

http://www.cracked.com/blog/history-texbook-from-the-future-holy-shit/?wa_user1=...

72CliffBurns
Set 21, 2011, 10:18 am

This site highlights sketchbooks, journals and travel diaries of artists. Very cool and beautifully presented:

http://sketchesandjottings.wordpress.com/

73kswolff
Set 26, 2011, 10:29 am

Abandoned vehicles of war courtesy of those jokesters at Cracked.com:

http://www.cracked.com/article_19449_6-images-abandoned-weaponry-you-wont-believ...

Best passage:

"In May 2011, Scott Haefner -- less of an "international superthief" and more of a "casual boat fan" -- managed to break through fleet security and spend an entire weekend photographing the remaining fleet. He and a friend boarded the ships and hopped from vessel to vessel for 48 hours, using only an inflatable raft and a few other supplies you could buy from any camping supply store. One of the greatest surprises Scott stumbled upon while out dicking around on the ghost armada was the Sea Shadow (IX-529)."

74kswolff
Out 4, 2011, 3:32 pm

76mejix
Out 12, 2011, 11:26 pm

Richter overload. I just couldn't resist. This critic is unintentionally hilarious:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/video/2011/oct/12/gerhard-richter-tate-modern-...

77CliffBurns
Out 13, 2011, 2:02 am

Fascinating!

78mejix
Out 13, 2011, 10:57 am

I didn't realize the Guardian also had this one. Its is better, I think:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/video/2011/oct/13/gerhard-richter-tate-modern-...

79kswolff
Out 20, 2011, 11:42 am

Not really graphic design, but a great visual anyway:

http://gawker.com/5851347/troops-in-afghanistan-burn-donated-copies-of-bill-orei...

Needless to say, I support our troops. I'd want to the same thing, especially if I had to risk my life day after day, then get back to base where some wingnut donated Bill O'Reilly books. WTF, seriously?

80CliffBurns
Out 20, 2011, 12:14 pm

Very, very weird. I guess if the troops run out of toilet paper...

81kswolff
Out 20, 2011, 4:57 pm

80: Why do you think I sent them signed copies of the Overton Window?

82CliffBurns
Out 26, 2011, 10:33 am

83kswolff
Out 30, 2011, 3:03 pm

A visual of all the bank mergers in the last 20 years:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Oh0jS87k-Ws/Tm5UrvULd7I/AAAAAAAAA7Q/l6yTB3n8BLc/s1600/...

"Too big to fail" in an easy visual format.

85nymith
Nov 24, 2011, 10:11 pm

I kind of like the panda and (??) Invisible Man? on iphones.

The REST of them are just plain obnoxious.

86kswolff
Nov 24, 2011, 10:17 pm

Furry Penn and Teller is ... um ...

87kswolff
Jan 9, 2012, 11:13 am

89CliffBurns
Jan 15, 2012, 1:07 pm

90kswolff
Jan 27, 2012, 9:13 am

Zappa album artist Cal Schenkel:

http://hilobrow.com/2012/01/27/cal-schenkel-2/

Like, wow, man, groovy!

92mejix
Editado: Abr 10, 2012, 12:22 am

I had forgotten about this thread. Thanks for restarting.

Speaking of the Pompidou, not a fan of Josef Albers' paintings but looove his work on paper:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xoyger_josef-albers-en-amerique-du-8-fevrier-au...

94CliffBurns
Maio 16, 2012, 3:03 pm

In response to the photos in #93, I wrote this snippet, which Sherron posted on my Facebook page:

"Ahab stalks it still, through the swollen underbrush, its trail wide and easy to follow, marked by pulverized tree trunks, a long, deep, snaking rut in the soft loam of the forest floor.

He will follow it to the very gates of Perdition, if necessary, his hate a goad, relentless and all-consuming.

Hobbling along in the wake of the great whale, knowing it is somewhere ahead, moving easily across the earth, surging forward with powerful thrusts, swimming through seas of bright green."

96kswolff
Maio 28, 2012, 10:03 pm

95: Well, he wasn't wrong. The Russians just got the execution wrong and the Marxist Germans were slaughtered by WW 1 vets / proto-Nazis. Still undecided about which has been worse for humanity: the gulag system or credit default swaps?

97ajsomerset
Maio 28, 2012, 11:48 pm

Good question. A few million kulaks might have views on that.

98kswolff
Maio 29, 2012, 11:56 pm

97: Perhaps. But both the gulags and credit default swaps did cast millions free from their personal property. But if Stalin wasn't such a slacker and did send Ayn Rand to her well-deserved place in the gulags, we might have been spared the last few years economic turmoil. And gulags were no less efficient or humane than any Fortune 500 corporation. Nomenklatura, apparatchiks, trusties, and zeks. In both economic systems, the hierarchy is the same with the same results.

Then again, living in the US with the nascent Tea Party will do that to a person. Might make me into a Maoist simply out of spite and for my own personal amusement. One death is a tragedy, a million deaths means more job vacancies and not having to deal with internal hires.

99CliffBurns
Jun 27, 2012, 5:41 pm

100anna_in_pdx
Jul 17, 2012, 11:19 am

99: While those are really attractive pieces of art, I can't help but mourn the book that can never again be read. :)

101CliffBurns
Ago 10, 2012, 12:51 am

102Sandydog1
Ago 10, 2012, 8:14 pm

Does the Pope wear funny clothes?

Thanks, Cliff!

103anna_in_pdx
Ago 11, 2012, 3:08 pm

Interesting and beautiful, just heard about this on facebook, though the article is old.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/26/autistic-artist-stephen-w_n_334703.html

104kswolff
Ago 11, 2012, 5:02 pm

102: Only when he shits in the woods.

105kswolff
Ago 18, 2012, 10:47 pm

106mejix
Ago 19, 2012, 11:17 am

107mejix
Ago 31, 2012, 7:21 pm

This is old, but Seurat's drawings are worth seeing over and over:

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/arts/20071026_SEURAT_FEATURE/index.html

110Sandydog1
Jan 15, 2013, 9:23 pm

Of all the Pholidotids, that is by far, my favorite...

111varielle
Jan 16, 2013, 2:48 pm

Much cuter than an armadillo.

112kswolff
Jan 24, 2013, 12:36 pm

113iansales
Jan 25, 2013, 6:52 am

Ooh, nice find.

115CliffBurns
Fev 18, 2013, 3:47 pm

Well, it's a visual piece...

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4lz8e_ilka-schonbein-metamorphosen_creation#....

(My wife is a puppeteer and mask-maker--blame this one on her.)

117CliffBurns
Fev 19, 2013, 10:03 pm

Those pieces are quite remarkable. Steady nerves required, fantastic coordination and dexterity.

Meanwhile, I can't scratch my forehead without poking myself in the eye.

118CliffBurns
Mar 16, 2013, 1:36 pm

Is it visual art? Music? Both? The "singing, ringing tree":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B0hGyKV9qs

119mejix
Editado: Mar 22, 2013, 2:57 pm

120CliffBurns
Mar 25, 2013, 10:01 am

122CliffBurns
Abr 4, 2013, 2:23 pm

Amazing lost and/or abandoned places. "Magnificent desolation", to paraphrase Buzz Aldrin:

http://imgur.com/a/D9iDC

(My wife Sherron sent me this one)

123Sandydog1
Abr 5, 2013, 10:17 pm

Beautiful in a way, Cliff (and Sherron)

124CliffBurns
Abr 5, 2013, 10:40 pm

Spooky beautiful.

125CliffBurns
Abr 19, 2013, 10:16 am

Another one from Sherron--where children sleep:

http://www.demilked.com/where-children-sleep-james-mollison

126CliffBurns
Abr 22, 2013, 10:13 am

127CliffBurns
Maio 8, 2013, 10:28 pm

War portraits--fascinating and troubling:

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/lalage-snow-we-are-the-not-dead

(Courtesy, Sherron)

128Sandydog1
Editado: Maio 9, 2013, 7:49 pm

Reminds me of photos of those Commanders in Chief, before, during and after.

Poor slobs (ie, the Presidents).

129ajsomerset
Maio 10, 2013, 9:28 am

More essentially BS photography exploiting our credulity towards the photograph. I recall reading a novel dealing with just that subject. Who was it wrote that thing? I can't remember ... as I recall he went on to ruin his career with nonfiction. What was that guy's name?

Portraiture like this is highly manipulative. Remember, if the shutter is open for 1/250 of a second, you are looking at one of almost a million equivalent moments occurring in a single minute. It represents nothing. On top of that, the portraitist is in complete control of the lighting. The lighting is set up for the desired effect, and the photographer shoots until she gets a picture that reflects her preconceived narrative. Then we pretend that the eyes are the window to the soul, etc.

130Dzerzhinsky
Maio 10, 2013, 11:34 am

There's something in what you say.

131mejix
Maio 11, 2013, 10:45 am

BibliOdyssey: Books, Illustrations, Science, History, Visual Materia Obscura, Eclectic Bookart

http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/

132kswolff
Maio 11, 2013, 6:45 pm

Lamborghini Ecosta, aka, the car that made Bladerunner real:

http://www.complex.com/rides/2013/05/lamborghini-ecosta-photos-weekend-concept

Yes, it's a supercar and it has all the usual luxury vehicle baggage ... still, one has to admire just how bonkers the design is.

133iansales
Maio 12, 2013, 3:17 am

Jeez, that's ugly. What happened to all the cool cars they used to build, the ones designed by Bertone and Pininfarina?

134kswolff
Maio 12, 2013, 9:21 am

Probably gone, since both those designers are dead. Still, visceral and divisive reaction is always a good thing. Remember how they rioted at the performance of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" and the Cannes audience booed David Cronenberg's Crash

The Ecosta won't be to everyone's taste -- I'm more of a Miura/Testarossa/F40 classicist myself -- but the design aesthetics of Art Nouveau and Bauhaus were equally divisive.

Ah, Taste, you fickle goddess!

135mejix
Maio 12, 2013, 11:20 am

I'm a sucker for these audio slideshows at The Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/series/new-review-month-in-photography

136kswolff
Maio 12, 2013, 9:38 pm

137CliffBurns
Maio 12, 2013, 9:50 pm

Far out! I read OMNI all the time, way back when...

138Dzerzhinsky
Editado: Maio 13, 2013, 12:20 am

"Ah, Taste, you fickle goddess!"

:|

# 134 Nevertheless, this doesn't imply our faculties of criticism and reason are completely wayward and undependable.
Critics slammed Nicholas Cage in "National Treasure II" before it even hit the screens. It turned out to be a smash hit with the general public. Does that mean it was really a good movie? Nope.

I am not one to ignore when people 'vote with their feet' (I've often cited it myself) but I also watch out for instances when too much stock in placed in what tilts 'the people'. After all, at one time the public loved watching blood sports in Coliseums; with shallow troughs engineered into the aisles so they could stick their fingers down their throats and vomit in order to consume more food.

139kswolff
Maio 13, 2013, 7:18 pm

138: Critics slammed Nicholas Cage in "National Treasure II" before it even hit the screens. It turned out to be a smash hit with the general public. Does that mean it was really a good movie? Nope.

But the more pertinent issue is, does "National Treasure II" work as Camp? Like 300 and Suckerpunch

140CliffBurns
Maio 26, 2013, 10:27 pm

Lovely retro, steampunk, weirdo images:

http://michellagarde.com/dramagraphies-2009-2011

Ian, check out the pieces "Le Grand Voyage" and "Les Envahisseurs".

141CliffBurns
Editado: Maio 27, 2013, 1:05 am

Work places of the brilliant and creative:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/40-inspiring-workspaces-of-the-famously-creat...

(Sent to me by Sherron)

142iansales
Maio 27, 2013, 3:05 am

#140 Nice.

143Sandydog1
Maio 28, 2013, 9:18 pm

141

Great stuff, Cliff.

I'm having trouble wrapping my brain around #25, however. WFB should have been a bit more inspired.

144CliffBurns
Jun 9, 2013, 1:17 pm

Wonderful, surreal portraits by a 14-year old Massachusetts kid--Sherron sent these to me:

http://www.demilked.com/surreal-self-portraits-14-year-old-fiddle-oak/?fb_action...

145CliffBurns
Jun 9, 2013, 3:07 pm

...and how about this one, another Sherron pick. Miyoko Shida, literally balancing on a feather:

http://www.wimp.com/wonderfulperformance/

(Make sure to watch it through right to the end.)

146Sandydog1
Editado: Jun 13, 2013, 8:36 pm

Cliff, I just spent a bat-shit crazy day dealing with people that should be featured in Jon Ronson's next book.

That was truly amazing. Thanks for the grounding; thanks for sharing.

147CliffBurns
Jun 13, 2013, 9:34 pm

Some people take performance to a whole other level, don't they?

And, remember, not ALL of us are psychopaths...

148Harry_Vincent
Jun 16, 2013, 4:08 pm

Niki Feijen, the "disciple of decay":

http://500px.com/nikifeijen

149CliffBurns
Jun 16, 2013, 4:36 pm

Wow, I could write an M.R. James-type ghost story about every one of those photos.

Good find, Harry!

150Dagdapublishing
Jun 16, 2013, 4:49 pm

#7: Wow. Those covers are surrealist masterpieces.

There are so many terrible books covers about these days, makes you despair...

151CliffBurns
Jun 16, 2013, 4:52 pm

Definitely getting to be a lost art.

152CliffBurns
Out 22, 2013, 11:37 am

Bee-yoo-tiful photos of post-Soviet architecture:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20131021-post-soviet-imperial-splendour

153RobertDay
Out 22, 2013, 6:10 pm

Sadly, we here in the UK can't access that, as it's not funded by the licence fee and so is closed to UK licence fee payers.

Yeah, I don't get that either.

154CliffBurns
Nov 1, 2013, 4:27 pm

How about a pictorial look at the 1939 New York "World's Fair":

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/11/the-1939-new-york-worlds-fair/100620/

(Cheers, Gord)

155DugsBooks
Nov 1, 2013, 8:42 pm

#145 That is remarkable. I am surprised that hasn't been copied by cirque du soleil or the blue man group.

157CliffBurns
Nov 3, 2013, 9:15 pm

158CliffBurns
Nov 14, 2013, 1:28 pm

Just what the doctor ordered, more pictures of beautiful libraries:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20131113-the-most-spectacular-libraries

159CliffBurns
Nov 14, 2013, 4:05 pm

This one from my wife--photos of abandoned toy factories:

http://www.juxtapoz.com/current/photographs-of-abandoned-toy-factories

Chilling...

160guido47
Nov 14, 2013, 4:46 pm

Quite sad and some-how bizzare, cliff.

161CliffBurns
Nov 14, 2013, 6:08 pm

I know what you mean.

164CliffBurns
Nov 17, 2013, 12:20 pm

A few wise words from Mark Rothko:

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2008/sep/23/rothko.art...

Watched Simon Schama's documentary on Rothko last night and found it mesmerizing.

165Sandydog1
Nov 17, 2013, 1:19 pm

162

Very Pynchon-esque

166CliffBurns
Nov 17, 2013, 1:24 pm

Or like props from a Terry Gilliam movie.

167CliffBurns
Nov 17, 2013, 2:39 pm

169kswolff
Nov 26, 2013, 7:17 pm

Star Trek 24K gold pizza cutter:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/f2aa/

172DugsBooks
Editado: Dez 8, 2013, 8:07 pm

#170 ....WTF!! Neat stuff...

#171 Thanks for the link. I saw2001 Space Odyssey {fantastic sound & image} and Dr. Zhivago {sniffle, had a hard time controlling my manly emotions!} in Cinerama/CinemaScope. I was/am completely incapable of explaining the dramatic difference in CinemaScope and the film technique of the day...the huge screen was great. The opening scene in Dr Zhivago with the train roaring across the screen and the Doppler effect enhanced by the sound tracking left to right following the train caused me to jump a bit - kind of like in one of the 50's Tarzan movies when the natives are shown a movie for the first time with a train heading toward them. ;-)

I wonder if anyone has CinemaScope set up anywhere?

174kswolff
Dez 17, 2013, 10:43 pm

175CliffBurns
Dez 26, 2013, 12:30 pm

Tara Donovan's odd, beautiful sculptures. Excellent look at process too:

http://channel.louisiana.dk/video/tara-donovan-sculpting-everyday-materials

(From my wife)

176mejix
Editado: Dez 27, 2013, 10:59 am

Some art documentary recommendations:

http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/862003/20-must-watch-artist-documentarie...

I would stay away from Beauty is Embarassing, though.

177CliffBurns
Dez 27, 2013, 9:29 am

Bought "Beauty is Embarrassing" for my wife as a Christmas gift. She's a mask-maker and puppeteer and I'd heard good things about the flick.

178mejix
Dez 27, 2013, 11:00 am

She'll probably like it then. Its about the guy that used to do puppetry for Pee Wee's playhouse.

180CliffBurns
Jan 6, 2014, 3:30 pm

High rez scan of Poe's "The Raven"...with Gustav Dore illos:

http://boingboing.net/2014/01/05/high-rez-scan-poes-raven.html

Looks beautiful.

182mejix
Jan 17, 2014, 4:08 pm

184CliffBurns
Mar 11, 2014, 5:44 pm

World's oldest masks:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-26533994

(My wife would KILL to see this show.)

186CliffBurns
Mar 22, 2014, 1:48 pm

"Lost and Found", a lovely little film Sherron sent me about a fascinating man and the unique world he's constructed. Costs you nine minutes of your life and well worth the investment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raU6749Cczw&feature=youtu.be

187Sandydog1
Mar 23, 2014, 3:06 pm

> 185
Well, I've enough books for that room divider.

>186 CliffBurns:
Thanks for sharing; life inspiring indeed.

188Sandydog1
Mar 25, 2014, 7:39 pm

189civitas
Mar 26, 2014, 11:29 am

Books illustrated by woodcuts: http://pantherpro-webdesign.com/heller/art_of_woodcutting3.html

Note: You’ll probably appreciate the red sound OFF below link near the top of the page.

190CliffBurns
Abr 30, 2014, 10:00 pm

Creeeeepy playgrounds:

http://www.sadanduseless.com/2014/04/creepy-russian-playgrounds

(Yet another one from Gord)

192CliffBurns
Maio 3, 2014, 10:00 pm

Les yikes!

Life after humans...

193Sandydog1
Maio 12, 2014, 7:52 pm

194jekkod
Maio 12, 2014, 7:55 pm

Este utilizador foi removido como sendo spam.

195CliffBurns
Maio 12, 2014, 9:18 pm

#193 Very cool, Dawg.

Don't know Hoekstra's work, glad I am now acquainted.

196Sandydog1
Maio 15, 2014, 9:50 pm

Perhaps those Retronaut offerings should have been posted over on this thread.

Another gallery. Now you know what life's like on Uranus:

http://www.retronaut.com/2014/04/life-on-other-planets/

197mejix
Maio 15, 2014, 11:30 pm

Great link. Thanks!

198CliffBurns
Maio 20, 2014, 10:41 pm

The Met releases thousands of images to the public domain. Just a sampling is stunning:

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/05/metropolitan-museum-of-art-releases-400000...

199mejix
Maio 21, 2014, 8:46 pm

Rembrandt etchings at The Morgan: http://www.themorgan.org/rembrandt/default.asp

200mejix
Maio 27, 2014, 8:06 pm

I thought we needed something classy in this thread so here's Ernest Hemingway's wrinkly butt photographed by Robert Capa:

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2014/06/photographer-robert-capa-d-day_slidesh...

201CliffBurns
Maio 27, 2014, 8:15 pm

That's a good piece.

202Sandydog1
Editado: Maio 27, 2014, 8:22 pm

Don't get me wrong, now, ol' Ernie's my homey, but Capra has done much, much better:

http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAGO31_10_VForm&ERID=24KL...

203CliffBurns
Jun 6, 2014, 10:49 pm

204CliffBurns
Jul 2, 2014, 9:30 pm

205varielle
Jul 3, 2014, 9:58 am

Now that is pretty cute. I will have to look for them when I get to London in a few months.

206CliffBurns
Jul 15, 2014, 9:19 pm

Amazing graphite portraits:

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/07/graphite-portraits-stefan-zsaitsits/

My wife sent this my way--thanks, Sherron.

207Sandydog1
Jul 20, 2014, 3:43 pm

Wild stuff, Cliff and Sherron.

208CliffBurns
Jul 25, 2014, 1:31 pm

Look at these giant marionettes--my wife is crazy about puppets:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-28478888

209mejix
Ago 3, 2014, 8:27 pm

I've been browsing the many books available online at the Metropolitan and Getty museums' websites. There is so much good stuff, it's overwhelming. These two I find brilliant (and can be downloaded!)

Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Photographs
http://www.getty.edu/publications/virtuallibrary/089236517X.html?qt=cameron

All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852–1860
http://tinyurl.com/kdp5rgw

211gendeg
Out 1, 2014, 3:54 am

Colossal (http://www.thisiscolossal.com/) always makes my eyeballs pop.

212CliffBurns
Out 1, 2014, 11:44 am

Gorgeous sites, folks.

213CliffBurns
Out 9, 2014, 2:39 pm

Cool site I heard about on CBC radio 2:

http://mysteriousdev.com

215anna_in_pdx
Nov 13, 2014, 5:22 pm

214, wow, that is super weird.

216CliffBurns
Nov 17, 2014, 3:52 pm

In honor of Pina Bausch:

http://vimeo.com/100021239

(My wife sent me this one.)

217mejix
Nov 17, 2014, 8:33 pm

That's pretty cool. Thanks!

218CliffBurns
Dez 23, 2014, 11:43 am

Short CBC feature on Art Spiegelman exhibit in Toronto, including some rare works:

http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/Arts/ID/2643643799

219Harry_Vincent
Dez 29, 2014, 9:35 pm

222mejix
Fev 10, 2015, 8:41 pm

223mejix
Fev 11, 2015, 10:28 pm

Mingering Mike has a website:
http://www.mingeringmike.com/

And later this month he will have a show at the Smithsonian:
http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2015/mingering_mike/

224CliffBurns
Fev 26, 2015, 9:24 am

How's this for presentation:

http://architizer.com/projects/silverpeak

226CliffBurns
Mar 16, 2015, 3:08 pm

228Sandydog1
Ago 21, 2015, 7:09 pm

Some Art for smart (and weird) people:

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/08/dismaland/

229CliffBurns
Ago 19, 2016, 5:09 pm

Soviet era masterpieces, anyone?

http://www.popmatters.com/review/masterpieces-of-soviet-painting-and-sculpture-e...

(From Gord's cabinet of curiosities)

230guido47
Ago 20, 2016, 4:39 am

Thanks Cliff >#229, I really want that book, but...but...$US70 WHICH IN Aussi dollars is a Squillion or so :-)

I have an artist friend from Serbia/Croatia/etc who finally convinced me that "Socialist Realism" is not necessarily BAD

232bluepiano
Out 25, 2016, 5:33 pm

>231 CliffBurns: Thanks for that. I like that artwork very much indeed. (I like much less the text being wiped blank of ostensible 'heartaches and nightmare'.)

Calls to mind the remarkable & remarkably fetching edition of Wizard of Oz illustrated by Graham Rawle. I adore it now; I wish I'd had it as a child.--Perhaps good illustrations seem all the more striking when they're of a mediocre work like Wizard of Oz?

233CliffBurns
Out 27, 2016, 10:23 am

234Dzerzhinsky
Editado: Nov 14, 2016, 5:38 pm

What saddens me about all these great visuals --the art, sculpture, painting, & landscapes displayed on all these websites--is that this is no longer a society where we look up at things around us. Everyone shuffles around completely absorbed by the virtual world of their emails. They don't raise their eyes up at all. Architecture, the sky, nature, the ocean--not needed anymore by ''modern' people. Their minds are just not on it; nothing awes them, they don't care what anything looks like. They're not interested in preserving anything. As long as its on a website somewhere, for them to check out when they get home--they're content with 'the picture' rather than the reality. Aesthetics have been killed by little scrolling menus, checkboxes, and navigation symbols. No one will even step out of their house and walk down the block without their phone. :(

235Cecrow
Nov 15, 2016, 2:15 pm

>234 Dzerzhinsky:, I had an almost opposite impression, that we can no longer share and appreciate photos of amazing vistas, events, etc. without the lurking suspicion that the image has been altered, no matter what sworn testimony to the contrary. The sense of wonder that comes with incredulity is mostly lost to all but the most naïve. You can't really believe any image you don't see with your own eyes. Even then of course you can doubt, but at least you will find the incredulity factor is still alive and well in that setting.

236RobertDay
Nov 15, 2016, 6:16 pm

>235 Cecrow: Agreed. One of the most irritating things I find these days ("these days"! Listen to me!) is the throwaway comment "Huh! Must be Photoshopped."

I've been taking pictures for nearly fifty years, and I know what goes into making some of the most stunning images. And then someone whose idea of a photograph is something they grab with their phone claims to be able to detect Photoshop work. Well, if it's GOOD Photoshop, a) you won't be able to tell, and b) Photoshop isn't a magic wand to make impossible images. If it's GOOD Photoshop, I'd be the first to congratulate the photographer because they may well have put far more time and work into the image than Joe Average can possibly imagine.

237Raspberrymocha
Nov 22, 2016, 5:35 am

As a recently retired Visual Arts instructor, I have been happily reading through and appreciating this discourse. There is so much in the world which people no longer open their eyes and minds to see. The frustration with teaching students that things actually exist outside the realm of what exists on the web is excruciating.

All that aside, I often will not read books solely based upon my visceral reaction to the cover art.

238bluepiano
Nov 25, 2016, 8:54 am

>237 Raspberrymocha: Will you not read them because the cover itself is atrocious or because the nature of it suggests that the book itself is something you wouldn't want to read? e.g. I'd not bother opening a book with a still from a Hollywood movie nor would I likely be interested in the sort of book whose cover has gilt lettering or a candy-box sort of picture.

I'm sure I wouldn't be the only one to welcome any particularly egregious examples of bookcover art you might care to offer here . . .

239Cecrow
Editado: Nov 25, 2016, 9:30 am

I do all my reading research in advance, so I don't often get confronted with having to judge by cover alone. I don't think I avoid a book I want to read based on its cover, but I will sometimes avoid a particular edition of it, or seek out an especially attractive one I spotted here on LT. If it only has one edition and it's ugly, maybe then I'm stuck.

I wanted this copy of Dombey and Son, and was prepared to order to get it:



But I'm "stuck" with this one because getting it for a buck in a used book sale was just too good to pass up. Such is life.

240bluepiano
Editado: Nov 25, 2016, 12:42 pm

241CliffBurns
Nov 25, 2016, 12:44 pm

I must say, the ability to choose (and design) my own covers is one of the major benefits of being an indie author.

242Cecrow
Nov 25, 2016, 1:44 pm

>240 bluepiano:, yeah, there's a lot of ugly options.

>241 CliffBurns:, you've been more successful at that than the many others I've seen who don't display much talent for it. To have that opportunity to put the best face on something you value and to squander it, only suggests to me they had a similarly lazy approach to the writing and it loses my interest immediately.

243CliffBurns
Nov 25, 2016, 1:54 pm

I devote A LOT of time on the look of my books--I'm certainly aware as a reader that an ugly book is a book likely to remain on the shelf, gathering dust.

244Raspberrymocha
Nov 25, 2016, 3:50 pm

>238 bluepiano: It's totally a viseral reaction for me. Doesn't matter about the subject matter, most of the time. It is more of a "don't want anyone to see me reading this". Case in point are those Chelaine Harris vampire novels. So poorly executed (middle school art figure drawing ability at best) that I cringe at the covers, albeit they were on best seller lists.

245CliffBurns
Jan 13, 2017, 9:16 am

246jldarden
Jan 13, 2017, 12:35 pm

A little unsettling...

248lisapeet
Jan 16, 2017, 9:23 pm

>247 CliffBurns: Thanks for that! I've been a fan of his since I was a tiny thing—what a fun portrait.

249CliffBurns
Jan 16, 2017, 9:42 pm

He's hardly lost a step--still as crazy as ever.

No wonder Hunter loved him.

250Harry_Vincent
Fev 10, 2017, 4:01 am

The "beach beasts" of Theo Jansen:

http://www.strandbeest.com/

252civitas
Abr 9, 2017, 10:46 am

>235 Cecrow: amazing vistas...

Invisible Oregon, an infrared time-lapse film: https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/520617/invisible-oregon/

253anna_in_pdx
Abr 10, 2017, 11:53 am

>252 civitas: that's so lovely. Thanks for sharing it!

255CliffBurns
Jun 24, 2019, 11:56 am

Stalin's "Dead Road":

https://www.rferl.org/a/remains-of-stalins-gulag-railroad-lies-abandoned-in-the-...

(Another great find from my pal, Gord.)

256lisapeet
Jun 24, 2019, 1:44 pm

Wow. Those are both stunning and sobering.

257CliffBurns
Jun 24, 2019, 2:23 pm

Mark Fisher writes of the "eeriness" of abandoned places--those pictures are a perfect example.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/making-sense-of-the-weird-and-the-eerie/#!

258mejix
Jul 6, 2019, 11:51 am

Penguin celebrates dog-eared delights in new Happy Reading campaign

https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/penguin-classics-happy-reading-campaign-graphic...

259CliffBurns
Jul 6, 2019, 12:08 pm

I used to work in a book store where every Christmas Penguin would send us slightly battered copies of their books and we'd have a "hurt Penguin" sale, titles going at much-reduced prices.

Do publishers still have relationships like that with indie bookstores?

260bluepiano
Jul 6, 2019, 5:32 pm

Discovered that publishers generously uploaded one of those offbeat, off-the-beaten-path design books I'm so keen on. Still intend to get it in proper book form so as to see the illustrations properly but in the meantime this version's interesting & perhaps it might be for someone here as well: https://www.academia.edu/16168567/The_Last_Vispo_Anthology.

261mejix
Jul 8, 2019, 9:14 pm

>259 CliffBurns:
I really don't know. "Hurt Penguin" is a curious name though.

262CliffBurns
Dez 3, 2019, 11:51 am

The visual influence of the French New Wave:

https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/film-2/how-the-french-new-wave-revolutio...

(Another gem from Gord)

263CliffBurns
Dez 22, 2019, 3:04 pm

264Sandydog1
Dez 24, 2019, 8:47 pm

Cool seasonal threads, maybe suitable for Twelvetide too:

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/stunning_images_of_pagan_costumes_worn_at_wi...

265CliffBurns
Mar 12, 2020, 12:54 pm