Paper Bits

Apr 17

paperphilia:

Betty Pepper - Textile/Jewellery Designer:
‘The ways in which time changes and decays objects interests me greatly and I like the notion that all things are ephemeral and constantly in a state of deterioration. My work often deals with stories from the dim and distant past. This is why I choose to work with faded colours. I like the way they look as if they have lived a little.’

Betty Pepper - Textile/Jewellery Designer:

‘The ways in which time changes and decays objects interests me greatly and I like the notion that all things are ephemeral and constantly in a state of deterioration. My work often deals with stories from the dim and distant past. This is why I choose to work with faded colours. I like the way they look as if they have lived a little.’

(via looktouch)

Apr 6

redscharlach:

It’s Easter weekend so I’m shamelessly reblogging a piece of my own Sherlock art, because BUNNIES.

Thanks to Sarah for sending this to me, because I find it relevant. Also, bunnies.

Mar 1

“

People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.

You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.

Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.

”

Banksy, from Cut It Out (via zaschell) (via dharmachaos)

Have reblogged this before, but here it is again because the message needs amplification. Own the medium.

(via rainbowhill)

Dec 29

‘water calligraphy device’ by canada-born, beijing-based media artist nicholas hanna reinterprets the chinese tradition of using a water brush to write poetry in public spaces by transforming a flat-bead tricycle into a poetry-writing device.

Nov 22

Venezuelan artist Pedro Morales relies on his MakerBot Cupcake extensively for his new installation, De Redes and Cadenas, using it to transform brief poems by Rafael Cadenas into sculptures made up of machine-readable cyphers such as QR codes and Microsoft Tag.

Nov 2

bashford:

LumiBots by Mey Lean Kronemann are small, autonomous robots that can leave glowing traces. The robots are equipped with a UV LED at their tail which leaves a glowing trail on phosphorescent sheet. The traces not only create generative images, but have a deeper meaning for the lumiBots: With their light sensors, they can follow the other robots’ as well as their own trails, and amplify them, thus creating an ant-trail-like mechanism luring more and more robots on the same path.

Mesmerizing.

Sep 8

looktouch:

“Banksy of the Book Art World” (via Amelia)

Last month, the book art piece above was found at the National Library of Scotland. It was the fourth piece found since March in a book-friendly location in Scotland. All reference or are devised from the work of Scottish mystery writer Ian Rankin and include a note professing some book love.

The Notepad is a project created by SWAMP (Studies of Work Atmosphere and Mass Production), it just was installed in the Talk to Me exhibition at the MoMa.

“Notepad” is an act of protest and commemoration disguised as a stack of ordinary yellow legal pads. Each ruled line, when magnified, is revealed to be microprinted text enumerating the full names, dates, and locations of each Iraqi civilian death on record over the first three years of the Iraq War. A printed edition of 100 notepads, was covertly distributed to US representatives and senators, as a sort of Trojan horse, injecting transgressive data straight into the halls of power and memorializing it in official archives.

The Notepad is a project created by SWAMP (Studies of Work Atmosphere and Mass Production), it just was installed in the Talk to Me exhibition at the MoMa.

“Notepad” is an act of protest and commemoration disguised as a stack of ordinary yellow legal pads. Each ruled line, when magnified, is revealed to be microprinted text enumerating the full names, dates, and locations of each Iraqi civilian death on record over the first three years of the Iraq War. A printed edition of 100 notepads, was covertly distributed to US representatives and senators, as a sort of Trojan horse, injecting transgressive data straight into the halls of power and memorializing it in official archives.

Sep 7

shapeways:

The Bearina is a conceptual open-source, 3D printable IUD that uses a one-cent coin to as the chemical reactant by Open Design advocate Ronen Kadushin..

I’m curious: is there really enough copper in a coin to make this work?

Sep 2

Eye blog » Visualising thought. German exhibition explores mankind’s images of the mind

Via burningfp

Aug 9

“You’ve got to know the rules to break them. That’s what I’m here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.”

Alexander McQueen (via Amber Ying)

“You have to know the rules in order to break them” was something I thought I understood all through school, but didn’t…

Jun 30

Semiotics of Color

Via fyeahsynesthesia, a proposal to map colors to the alphabet in a meaningful way.

This website is divided into several sections that represent the process used in developing this system of writing with color as well as links to online resources such as color converting algorithms, a set of fonts for displaying color text, and several downloadable examples of how the color font was used in my newer works.

Jun 17

Carlos Vilardebo’s 1961 film of Alexander Calder’s “circus”, an intricately assembled performance piece played out by handmade characters including jugglers, sword swallowers, clowns, and animals.

Alexander Calder performs his “Circus”