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Many photos of Tiananmen Square overlayed to impressive effect. This is brilliant art–visually arresting while intellectually stimulating. Switzerland-based Corinne Vionnet is our guide to the world’s most famous landmarks, monuments millions have visited before. Her art is created not by acrylic, oil, or watercolor, each piece is made by combining hundreds of tourist photos . . . → Read More: Hundreds of Tourist Photos Woven into One  FILED UNDER: Imagine, Pictures & Videos, View  TAGGED: art, photography, travel  COMMENTS: Comments are closed
"Agony" by Arshile Gorky For those of you in LA/visiting LA soon, I highly recommend checking out the Arshile Gorky retrospective at MOCA (the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art). The museum has put together a great collection of beautiful and compelling pieces. Until I visited, I’d only been roughly familiar with Gorky’s work–the . . . → Read More: Gorky Retrospective at MOCA Just tried this “cloud art” using Wordle–a self-proclamied “toy for generating ‘word clouds’ from text that you provide.” You can pipe in your website URL, or paste in any text. Then you have a bunch of cool control over design, layout, color, and more. Here’s one of the pictures it made for SalvoLavis.com: . . . → Read More: Wordle – word cloud art FILED UNDER: Cool Sites, Pictures & Videos TAGGED: art, blogging, design COMMENTS: Comments are closedNathan Sawaya creates some amazing sculptures entirely from Legos.
Check out his “Art of the Brick” Gallery for more cool pictures. (Thanks to Andrew Sullivan’s blog for turning me on to this.) In the Wall Street Journal, Johah Lehrer explores the connections between youth and creativity in the sciences. For one, he notes the demographic shift toward older scientists: In 1980, the largest share of grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) went to scientists in their late 30s. By 2006 the curve had been shifted . . . → Read More: Fleeting Youth, Fading Creativity in Science FILED UNDER: Articles, Salvo's Thoughts TAGGED: art, creativity, education, labor, science COMMENTS: Comments are closedI love David Hockney’s work, especially his iconic photo collages like Pearblossom Highway. One of the best art exhibitions I ever saw was at MOCA years ago: a collection of many of Hockney’s original photo collages. They are huge, beautiful, full of energy, and awe inspiring. If you’re unfamiliar with his work, have a browse . . . → Read More: David Hockney | NYTimes.com Awesome video of Post-It notes in stop motion: (Thanks to Andrew Sullivan for the link) |
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