Instead of the boring pie charts and graphs politicians usually point to, wouldn’t it be great to see detailed and beautiful political visualizations instead?
The artist, mibi, is currently working on a new version for 2007 that should be out shortly - it’s going to be even bigger and contain more detailed information. I’m in contact with the artist so I will post here as soon as the new version is available.
(via chrisamiller.com and deviantArt)
Art on a grand scale has always fascinated me - how will people react to such a large, unexpected invasion of art into their “normal” everyday lives? Well some folks over in England recently got to find out what happens when a giant girl and her elephant land in their time-travelling rocket.
If you’re scratching your head then jet over to Wikipedia’s article on The Sultan’s Elephant, which explains that this was all part of a large public art exhibit by the Royal de Luxe theatre company. They should really be congratulated for such an amazing display of ingenuity and engineering!
(via Centripetal Notion and zefrank)
Every year Princeton University asks researchers to submit images (and, for the first time this year, videos and sounds) that are “produced in the course of research or incorporating tools and concepts from science”. This year’s gallery of winners represents a special blend of art and science:
The practices of science and art both involve the single-minded pursuit of those moments of discovery when what one perceives suddenly becomes more than the sum of its parts. Each piece in this exhibition is, in its own way, a record of such a moment.
Often the captions included with each image are just as beautiful as the artwork they describe. Here is the description for the beautiful Nebula included in this blog entry:
The Orion Nebula is a star birth region of the Milky Way galaxy. From our perspective, this star birth region lies on the next further out spiral arm of our galaxy. The nebula consists mostly of hydrogen gas that is slowly collapsing under the influence of gravity. The collapsing balls of gas eventually become massive enough that their own crushing density becomes sufficiently great to cause the hydrogen to fuse into helium in a massive nuclear fusion reaction that can run for billions of years. In this way, a star is born.
current twc: 12,702 - hacking up poorly organized sections
I absolutely love David Lanham’s work. He has an amazing imagination and can create some really elegant images. Saturated pastels bring a whimsical touch to his impressive collection of images.
I realize this page has been passed around for some time, but in case you have been living under a rock for the past 10 years you will get a kick out of these amazing 3D pavement drawings. By distorting the actual dimensions of the drawing along a single axis he creates a simulated 3D perspective that makes drawings appear to be in, above, and below the pavement.
