Gathering Ideas

- Jack's tumblr - I'm an editor and motion graphics designer based in Brighton. I also make other things in my spare time.

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Animated Chronicles.

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I filmed this for a friend’s exhibition.

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Lace Detailed Steel Objects of Cal Lane

Cal Lane is an artist from Victoria, British Columbia, currently living in New York.

I like to work as a visual devil’s advocate, using contradiction as a vehicle for finding my way to an empathetic image, an image of opposition that creates a balance - as well as a clash - by comparing and contrasting ideas and materials. This manifested in a series of “Industrial Doilies”, pulling together industrial and domestic life as well as relationships of strong and delicate, masculine and feminine, practical and frivolity, ornament and function. There is also a secondary relationship being explored here, of lace used in religious ceremonies as in weddings, christenings and funerals. With this notion of desirable oppositions I created the structure “fabricate”. In this Structure I hand cut lace trimming patterns into 9 I-beams, then constructed a tower, simultaneously macho, and of delicate finery. The metaphor of lace further intrigued me by its associations of hiding and exposing at the same time; like a veil to cover, or lingerie to reveal. It also introduces a kind of humor through the form of unexpected relationships…

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I drew this to demonstrate the new graphics tablets to the rest of the office. 

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Pastel Winter Scenes (photos by Алексей Угальников)

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9 Squares 21

Top: Josef Atlestam, Zak Tietjen, Sonia Lange Middle: Ryan Woolfolk, Kevin Snyder, Greg Elzerman Bottom: Jordan Bergren, Traci Brinling, Jeremy Rech

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Tatsuya Tanaka

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Romain de Tirtoff  aka  Erte (23 November 1892 – 21 April 1990) was a Russian-born French artist and designer known by the pseudonym Erté, from the French pronunciation of his initials). He was a diversely talented 20th-century artist and designer who flourished in an array of fields, including fashion, jewellery, graphic arts, costume and set design for film, theatre, and opera, and interior decor.

Erté is perhaps most famous for his elegant fashion designs which capture the art deco period in which he worked. One of his earliest successes was designing apparel for the French dancer Gaby Deslys who died in 1920. His delicate figures and sophisticated, glamorous designs are instantly recognisable, and his ideas and art still influence fashion into the 21st century.

Thanks psychetronictonic

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Matteo Berton

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The Maya ‘Wall of Skulls’ (Tzompantli) at Chichén Itzá, Yucatan, Mexico.

Tzompantli means “skull racks” in Nahuatl, and were described by the horrified Spanish conquistadors. This Mesoamerican architectural form is usually found in central Mexico during the Postclassic Period, where they were often made of the real skulls of sacrificed people. Low platforms with carved friezes depicting such skulls are found at some Maya sites in association with ball courts. The shown frieze from Chichén Itzá is one such example of this.

The first photo is courtesy of Tim Dawson, and the second, Paul Simpson.

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This amazing sculpture is called The Caring Hand and is located in Glarus, Switzerland. I wish I knew who the Sculptor was? Great idea :)