Showing posts with label 4D. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 4D. Show all posts

Friday, October 25, 2013

25/10/2013: WLASze Part 1: Weekend Links on Arts, Sciences and zero economics

This is the first WLASze: Weekend Links on Arts, Sciences and zero economics post of this weekend.

Enjoy!

Beautiful series of landscape photography from around the world:
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2013/oct/21/awards-and-prizes-photography?CMP=twt_gu
From sublimely still:


To overpoweringly dynamic:


Best bit, the above link also offers links to 2010, 2011 and 2012 competitions.


From modern photography where every detail is given its prominence in light, motion and depth, to the first photograph ever that depicted people:
http://www.businessinsider.com/first-picture-of-people-2013-10
Irony is - the traces of people were all erased by the length of exposure… all but two...


I recently wrote about 3D and 4D printing (see here: http://trueeconomics.blogspot.ie/2013/10/4102013-wlasze-part-1-weekend-links-on.html). I even spoke about these two technologies as the signifies of the incoming change in global economic relations between core inputs of capital, labour and financial investment at a recent event… and now, art raced us all ahead of the reality:
http://www.dezeen.com/2013/10/20/mycelium-chair-by-eric-klarenbeek-is-3d-printed-with-living-fungus/


Living material interacting with 3D printed structure to reinforce it… the boundless capacity for tech innovation meets the boundless capacity for creative narration. And loses to it…

While on the topic: see this article about the emerging future of architecture in the age of 3D printing… http://www.dezeen.com/2013/09/25/3d-printed-buildings-to-become-reality-in-the-not-too-distant-future/ Will we print our homes of the future? Sure we will. Will they look like a spiders-infested cave of post-apocalyptic plastic universe that reverses Lego into a fly-like dimensionality of human existence?.. I hope not…

Spare me this 3-bed penthouse…


It might look cool in dramatic light (no - it does not) but semantically and aesthetically it is equivalent to Zaha Hadid's obsession with curvature sprawled over any space to bury any dimensional proportionality to the living space around it... sort of like the image below, only taken through the filters of design:

And think about the cleaning bills… or the cost of watches and jewellery lost in all these twigs and twists of the surfaces of the 3D-printed cob-web-building… Then there are family dinners, with kids… Yeeks!


Let's get back to the clean(er) world of science and thought… JPL imagery of Saturn: the colorized mosaic from NASA's Cassini mission shows an infrared view of the Saturn system, backlit by the sun, from July 19, 2013. http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1112979062/new-backlit-infrared-saturn-images-101813/



And for less dynamic imagery that is dead-cool: Saturn's satellite, the 'Death Star'(Moon) Mimas


Awe-inspiring...

Friday, October 4, 2013

4/10/2013: WLASze Part 1: Weekend Links on Arts, Sciences and zero economics

This is the first post of WLASze: Weekend Links on Arts, Sciences and zero economics for this weekend. enjoy!


A powerfully stylised and accomplished in technique, yet still young (in age, but even more importantly) in contextualising the meaning artist Andrew Salgado: via Saatchi Online:
http://www.saatchionline.com/andrewsalgado


Moving between the traditions of Euan Uglow (http://theartstack.com/search/Euan%20Uglow)


and
Valery Koshlyakov (http://theartstack.com/artists/valery-koshlyakov)


The maturity is still lacking, though, hence rather over-dramatised treatment of portraits, but overall - Salgado is a promising artist in great line of tradition…


From Tanzania to China: 18 absolutely fascinating landscapes on Earth:
.businessinsider.com/the-most-surreal-landscapes-on-earth-2013-7?op=1#ixzz2gn6ZDVYw
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-most-surreal-landscapes-on-earth-2013-7#


I covered number 13 before here: http://trueeconomics.blogspot.ie/2013/08/1182013-wlasze-part-2-weekend-links-on.html And I have seen numbers 6, 16, 17 myself… closeup and in person…
One of my favourite places, missing in the above is this:


That's right, the Death Valley. Unbelievably beautiful place.


The chain of innovation being triggered by 3D printers keeps expanding now to 4D printing incorporating materials memory:
http://climateerinvest.blogspot.ch/2013/10/ja-ja-you-have-your-little-3d-printer.html
So run this chain into the future:
Set A= {3D Printing + 4D Materials}
Set B= {"microfluidic" computer chips + DNA Memory}
Set C= {Wearable Tech}

Take sets A + B + C = merger of biotech and materials sciences into a seamless incorporation of all technology with our biological and neurological structures from chips auto-repairs of neurone connections to medicine hunting cancer cells to communications systems that replicate telepathy. Pretty soon - morning make up will not only shape our faces, but also carry our memory files, while our bodies act as "projection screens" for anyone we want to communicate with in, say, presenting business plan 'powerpoint' slides… keep going...

For set B see: http://trueeconomics.blogspot.ie/2013/09/2792013-wlasze-part-1-weekend-links-on.html


Amazing imagery from Tanzania shot by Nick Brandt
http://gizmodo.com/any-animal-that-touches-this-lethal-lake-turns-to-stone-1436606506?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow


Brandt's work can be seen here: http://www.nickbrandt.com/index.cfm


Nice to see WordlessTech.com profiling the visualisations of mathematical constants by Martin Krzywinski - http://wordlesstech.com/2013/10/03/round-art-pi/. I featured his work twice:
http://trueeconomics.blogspot.ie/2013/08/3182013-wlasze-part-1-weekend-links-on.html
http://trueeconomics.blogspot.ie/2013/07/2072013-wlasze-part-2-weekend-links-on.html

Though, unlike WorldlessTech.com - I wouldn't call him an artist in a strict sense. rather he is a visualisation scientist - a category of science that is somewhere between art and science in a normal sense. Maybe - it is just a branch of mathematics?.. Here is a snapshot of his fascinatingly intricate and deep work on 'accidental similarity': http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/accidental-similarity/



A fascinating show in London's David Zwirner Gallery by Philip-Lorca diCorcia http://www.davidzwirner.com/artists/philip-lorca-dicorcia/survey/


There is amazingly nostalgic, sensitivity-filled space to his compositions, Hockney'esque
More of his work: http://theartstack.com/artists/philip-lorca-dicorcia
One of my favourites:



Stay tuned for more…