ZitatI’m not sure it’s possible to infuse black tape with more energy than Polish artist Monika Grzymala has accomplished with her piece Raumzeichnung, roughly “Drawing Room”. The three dimensional installation which seems to launch from columns in the basement of Galerie Crone was installed in 2012 and required 3.1 miles (that’s 5km) of stretched, cut, and criss-crossed tape. According to Ignant the artist begins her work from scratch in the gallery, working intuitively with tape to sketch out ideas as she conceives them until the work is done.
Zitat Photographer Bertrand Kulik has recently taken this stunning shot of an amazing horizontal rainbow—as opposed to the more common arched variety—beside the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
While this rainbow may look unusual, NASA clarifies that this is actually just a normal rainbow—it merely looks straight and horizontal because it is a low rainbow, which means that only the very top of it is visible.
Zitat Landscape photographer Kevin Cooley has taken long exposure photos that capture airplanes leaving light trails across the sky as they take off or touch down at airports.
For his photo series ‘Nachtfluge’, Cooley traveled to major airports in the US to capture the images.
For each image, Cooley left the camera shutter open for up to four to five minutes—sometimes longer.
“Photography is by nature an exploration of time,” said Cooley in his artist statement. “The blink of an eye may be frozen by the shutter. Or in the case of this series, many minutes or even hours add up to construct a single image punctuated by the paths of commercial airplanes traversing the night skies.”
“These white streaks, the only aspects of the planes visible in the photos, are created by the landing and navigation lighting on every plane. Each line represents the amount of time it takes a commercial flight to pass through the frame.”
ZitatBlack Hole is the lastest project from Swiss photographer Fabian Oefner who is known for his photographic work with vibrantly colored paints, most notably manipulating it with sound and magnetic ferrofluid. For this latest project Oefner connected a metallic rod to an electric drill which was then covered in paint. Activating the drill then caused to paint to fling violently outward which he then captured with a precisely timed camera.
Realistic Urban Landscape Paintings by Nathan Walsh April 6th, 2013
ZitatMany painters working from photographic source material employ a wide variety of techniques to arrive at a final image. This will involve anything from loose sketching beforehand to complex grids, where a photograph is translated into paint box by box. Such is not the case with British painter Nathan Walsh who instead relies on elaborate drawings reminiscent of architectural blueprints before every committing paint to canvas. This deep reverence for the underpinning geometry and perspective gives each work a sense of life that might otherwise not be present in something created with the mechanical aid of a camera or software.
Zitat‘Graffiti of Speed / Mirror of Symmetry’ is a series by Tokyo, Japan-based photographer Shinichi Higashi that captures the city at night, in symmetrical long-exposure shots. With details such as light trails of rushing cars set against the skyscrapers and modern buildings enhanced with symmetry, the result is a futuristic look at the largest metropolitan area in the world.