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David Zinn creates quirky little characters in urban environments like pavements, pipes or walls by using chalk and charcoal. They enlighten their grey surroundings and make passers-by smile. What else can you expect from art? I wish you a perfect weekend with lots of bright smiles! Like always: All credits appear after clicking the links. […]
Quirky Chalk Characters: In Love with David Zinn’s Street Art! Weiterlesen »
Do you still remember this summer feeling? Those hot days in July and August spent on beaches, in parks or on the balcony? Lisa Golightly’s paintings evoke a kind of summer melancholia inside me that wants me to go back to the Baltic Sea immediately. Nevertheless, I am convinced that the following autumn weekend will
Those Fading Summer Memories: Paintings by Lisa Golightly! Weiterlesen »
Beautiful Chemistry is a project collaboration between the Institute of Advanced Technology at the University of Science and Technology of China and Tsinghua University Press. With a 4K UltraHD camera and special lenses they capture chemical reactions in astonishing detail. The goal of this project is to bring the beauty of chemistry to the general
Beautiful Chemical Reactions! Weiterlesen »
The ghostly animated GIFs by artist Kevin Weir somehow remember me on Harry Potter. It’s fascinating to see those old historical photographs suddenly moving. Yet, it’s also a little bit spooky, weird and absurd. That makes it absolutely my cup of tea. …And now I will look for my old Harry Potter books and start
Ghostly Animated GIFs By Kevin Weir! Weiterlesen »
Example 1 – Example 2 – Example 3 Can you believe that the upper pictures are not created by drawing but by a typewriter?? Incredible, isn’t it? They are made by Paul Smith (1921-2007), who was born with Cerebral Palsy. Despite his bodily limitations he had the inner drive to create art … and so he
Wow!! Typewriter Art by Paul Smith! Weiterlesen »
„Water is a manifestation of the multitude of wave energies that surround us, a formless, colorless, tasteless, odorless “billowing solid” (Wallace Stevens), visible to our eye only with the addition of light. A single drop potentially mirrors everything that surrounds it. Water embodies the concept of endlessness, of complexities repeated fractally from one drop to
Filmmaker Guilherme Tensol collaborated with sports magazine Victory and Brazilian production company Mosquito Project to produce this documentary short titled Kite Fight for the New York Times: In the crowded favelas of Rio de Janeiro, flying kites is more than a leisurely activity. It’s a playful form of battle – people go up to the
Kite Fights on the Rooftops of Rio de Janeiro! Weiterlesen »
Do you know this feeling: You are reading a book and identify yourself so much with the main character that you just cannot put it down? Despite the fact that I’m reading a lot, this happens only seldom to me. But with Ilke S. Prick’s novel Essen Mit Freunden (Eating with Friends) it happened again.
Essen mit Freunden (Eating with Friends) by Ilke S. Prick! Weiterlesen »
Do you have an idea how much sun damage your skin experienced already? No? The passersby in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park had also no clue. … until artist Thomas Leveritt filmed them with a special UV motion camera. You can watch the film HERE. UV rays have the ability to make little freckles and pigment aberrations visible
Never Have I Ever: My Life (so far) Without a Date …Wow, that’s a title. What does she mean with „My Life Without a Date“? Those were the first thoughts I had in mind when I discovered Katie Heaney’s book in the book shop. I hoped to find a Bridget Jones – like read that
Summer Reading: Never Have I Ever by Katie Heaney! Weiterlesen »