Tag Archives: Pattern
“I’m Google” by Dina Kelberman – A Visual Exploration of Google Image Search
I’m Google is an ongoing digital art project by Baltimore artist Dina Kelberman that documents digital patterns through non-artistic photography found on Google Image Search. Note, that every single image share a slight visual characteristic with the image before it.
“I’m Google is an ongoing tumblr blog in which batches of images and videos that I cull from the internet are compiled into a long stream-of-consciousness. The batches move seamlessly from one subject to the next based on similarities in form, composition, color, and theme. [... ] I feel that my experience wandering through Google Image Search and YouTube hunting for obscure information and encountering unexpected results is a very common one. My blog serves as a visual representation of this phenomenon. This ability to endlessly drift from one topic to the next is the inherently fascinating quality that makes the internet so amazing,” Dina Kelberman says.
Dynamic Home for Bees by Atelierd
Sitting at 215 square feet, atelierd created a great looking “Bee Pavilion” in Alsace, France, with hexagonal structures. These geometric pieces are covered by a roof that allows breeze yet blocks direct sunlight out of the middle portion.
Overall, the area is dynamic – and not to mention visually stimulating. Each pod has a unique core with various textures, geometry and colors. Some are left with nothing inside so as to allow some visual transparency, and others are created with the idea of a place for the bees. Built in 2012, the home is transformable to accommodate humans that might like to repurpose some pieces as furniture and enjoy the natural buzzing surrounding the pavilion.
Snow Art by Simon Beck
Created by walking in the snow, artist Simon Beck creates mindblowingly intricate crop circle-esque works of art.
Cool pieces by Samuel Rodriguez
I love this mix of portraits, graphic design, patterns, and paint. They are created by visual artist Samuel Rodriguez.
Colorfully patterned house showcases 30,000 bottle caps – by Russian Olga Kostina
A Russian woman named Olga Kostina lives in a small village called Karmarchaga, where she recently put her plastic bottle cap collection to good use on the facade of her home.
Taking a whole ton of nails and a hammer in her arsenal, Olga attached her vision of caps to the small wooden home’s exterior. It’s like one giant mosaic piece, with geometric quilt-type patterns all over. There are even some furry creatures created on the different sides as well.
Well done, Olga!
Eternal Pattern
A Sign in Space by Swedish artist Gunilla Klingberg
This gorgeous installation is called “A Sign in Space”. It’s by Swedish artist Gunilla Klingberg, and it consists in printing stars on the sand that then slowly fade away as the tide rises in Laga beach, Spain. Composed of truck tires, the printed pattern is attached to the beach cleaner tractor which drives from side to side of the beach in the morning, and is repeated at all days when the low tide is synchronized with their early morning working schedule.
WB – Weird Beauty by Russian photographer Alexander Khokhlov
Cool black and white photographs entitled “WB – Weird Beauty” by Russian photographer Alexander Khokhlov, made together with makeup artist Valeriya Kutsan.
I love the Mickey Mouse one.
Return to the Sea: Saltworks by Motoi Yamamoto
Japanese artist Motoi Yamamoto was born in Hiroshima, Japan in 1966 and worked in a dockyard until he was 22 when he decided to focus on art full-time. Six years later in 1994 his younger sister died from complications due to brain cancer and Yamamoto immediately began to memorialize her in his labyrinthine installations of poured salt. The patterns formed from the salt are actually quite literal in that Yamamoto first created a three-dimensional brain as an exploration of his sister’s condition and subsequently wondered what would happen if the patterns and channels of the brain were then flattened.
Although he creates basic guidelines and conditions for each piece, the works are almost entirely improvised with mistakes and imperfections often left intact during hundreds of hours of meticulous pouring. After each piece has been on view for several weeks the public is invited to communally destroy each work and help package the salt into bags and jars, after which it is thrown back into the ocean, a process you can watch in the video above by John Reynolds & Lee Donaldson.
Walking Shadows by Jason Ratliff
Jason Ratliff uses the outline and shadow of objects to great effect in his series ‘Walking Shadows’. He is removing much unnecessary detail to bring emphasis to the shape of certain objects, while retaining detail where he wants to show the whole story. For ‘Walking Shadows’ he creates his simplified shapes with detailed patterns, as with the rainbow-like collages.
TEDxSUMMIT – The Power of X
Impressive! Like looking into a human kaleidoscope.
Prove ‘The Power of X’ by attempting an Idea Worth Doing to open TEDxSUMMIT in Doha, Qatar.
WE ARE Pi collaborated with the Koener Union and Paris’ BIG Productions. Together, they fused architecture, dance, math and magic into a bespoke18-meter high triangular mirrored structure that hovered over a multi-colour moving floor to create the world’s first Human Arabesque (with no computer graphics).
