What It Is

Random stuffs. And I do mean RANDOM.

[theartofanimation]

Hebitsukai

[kyleekhaos]

[belaquadros]

Miranda July

[womenandsports]

[eupraxsophy]

Fazila Shirindil is a former student of Skateistan, a nonprofit organization that employs Afghan youth from the street, teaches them a new sport, and provides a place for boys and girls to play together. It also provides an escape for children who would otherwise be wallowing in the trauma of poverty and war. She has since become a skateboard instructor, and is seen here playing on a mini-ramp outside a guest house in Kabul in 2010, at the age of 12.

[fer1972]

Book Illustrations by Sveta Dorosheva

[fer1972]

Illustrations by David Wyatt

[staceythinx]

The Midnight Planétarium watch was a collaboration between Van Cleef & Arpels and Christiaan van der Klaauw. The watch is made of 396 separate parts and features the six closest planets orbiting the sun in real time (Uranus and Neptune were left out because you probably won’t live long enough to see either one complete a full orbit).

[microscopicexpressionism]

Microscopic Plant Cells.

[staceythinx]

Diana Eng created this collection of Laser Lace Tees and Tops using plant cells for inspiration.

Eng on her designs:

When t-shirts are worn, the patterns are stretched out, so I looked at floral anatomy and botanical cells for inspiration. The cells create a structure that is similar to the stretching patterns of the shirt. Since the anatomy is from flowers, it still adds a femininity to the designs.

[emergentfutures]

Computers are providing solutions to math problems that we can’t check

Good news! A computer has solved the longstanding Erdős discrepancy problem! Trouble is, we have no idea what it’s talking about — because the solution, which is as long as all of Wikipedia’s pages combined, is far too voluminous for us puny humans to confirm.

A few years ago, the mathematician Steven Strogatz predicted that it wouldn’t be too much longer before computer-assisted solutions to math problems will be beyond human comprehension. Well, we’re pretty much there. In this case, it’s an answer produced by a computer that was hammering away at the Erdős discrepancy problem.

Full Story: Io9

[fer1972]

Inner Worlds by Adrian Hogan

[robbieansonduncan]

Benthic Geometry

Vector graphic illustrations inspired by microscopic marine organisms. The complex, symmetrical forms found deep in the ocean are both alien and beautiful - ideal influence for an extensive body of mathematical compositions.

*Please credit these images to: Robbie Anson Duncan

[georgetakei]

Vegetative status. http://ift.tt/1ntrbhr

[kateoplis]

Mongolian Girls continuing the 6000-year-old tradition

[fer1972]

The Blue Girl by Sungown

[staceythinx]

Stunning skies by Hossein Zare

[ryanpanos]

[rndmgrrl]

Unnatural Perspectives | Morimura Ray | Socks Studio

Born in Tokyo in 1948, painter Morimura Ray graduated from Tokyo Gakugei University and began his career as a painter using abstract, geometric forms, later turning to woodblock printmaking.

According to his profile description in Wikipedia France, his early career as a non-figurative artist has a deep influence on his successive work, since the forms of trees, agricultural fields, houses and other elements are still created through an optimal disposition of triangles, squares and other geometric elements.

His drawings are based on “unnatural”, “flat” perspectives: often depicted from an high vantage point, they never aim to distinguish the figure from the background. Realism is not an issue, textures and hues are given great importance, and every element appears to have the same weight in the composition.

via ryanpanos: