372 // MSN1 / Happy Organs

Hugs Keep Us Alive!

By Lim Heng Swee. Found on Threadless.

371 // MSN1 / Robot by Jim Henson

BRILLIANT!

Jim Henson made this film in 1963 for The Bell System. Specifically, it was made for an elite seminar given for business owners, on the then-brand-new topic — Data Communications.

370 // MSN1 / Horst Kiechle

Geometric Paper Torso with Removable Organs

Australian architect and paper artist Horst Kiechle recently constructed this geometric paper torso complete with modular organs including lungs, intestines, kidneys, pancreas, stomach and more. The piece was made for the Science Lab of the International School Nadi, Fiji. Awesome!

Have a look at the whole Flickr set as well as at his webiste:
www.amorphous-constructions.com

Found via www.mymodernmet.com

369 // MSN1 / Bunny

Man run by a bunny…?

Found on www.bunnylicious.org

368 // MA-P / MASS prints

Prints from my MASS musicvideo are now available.
My Visual Assistant of this video, Charlotte, has set up a set of 7 images on artflakes.

367 // MSN1 / TV-Eye

Sadly, I cannot credit this image properly. But I like it and obviously it fits to the topic of the industrial man – although slightly more modern.

Nevertheless the old-school way of the Man as Industrial Palace was at least a bit more active, not just viewing passively…

366 // MSN1 / The Cosdon Head

I like this sculpture…

The Cosdon Head was one of the first sculptures made by the British artist Dame Barbara Hepworth in the Trewyn studio in St.Ives and she considered it one of her finest works. The two sides of the face are opposites, one flat, one rounded, one eye a simple hollow, the other a flourish of lines drawn with the point of a chisel. These two sides converge into the ridge of the profile to make a single entity which still retains the quality of a natural boulder.

Hepworth took nine weeks to carve the stone. Explaining her carving technique she said:

‘ Brute force has nothing to do with it. It is a question of movement, of rhythm. It is rather like tennis – the movement follows through from the right hand holding the hammer to the left hand holding the chisel. One feels the movement right through the arm.’

More information of the website of the Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery.

365 // MA-P / Horloge en Gare

My brother Paul just showed me some pictures he took at the new train station in Besançon Franche-Comté for the TGV.

It is not only a brand new, environmentally friendly station, but they have also a huge clock running in the entrance hall… an open clockwork with a big pendulum. The project’s name is “La matrice” and that the motor of the clock is a TGV motor.

Wow… this is really nice!

The clock was realised and produced by this company: www.lamatrice-utinam.fr

364 // MSN1 / Music On The Mind

Music On The Mind… A new illustration by Christopher David Ryan:

363 // MSN1 / Skeleton

If it is not moving, click on it… as it is an animated gif:

Found on Who killed Bambi?

362 // MSN1 / How wings are attached to the back of angels

“In an automated world drained of all emotion, a man is tortured by vague longings.”

Wow… this is creepy, uncanny, weird, and I like it.
Published by the National Film Board of Canada.

361 // MSN1 / Dead Man

Dead Man – an installation by Clark Goolsby.

Found on Who killed Bambi?

360 // MA-P / Electrical shock stickers

Lovely stickers from Gecko…

Found on Who killed Bambi?

359 // MSN1 / Glenys Barton

A nice sculpture by Glenys Barton. More about the artist can be found here www.sculpture.org.uk/GlenysBarton/

358 // MA-P / Guido Mocafico

“Absolutely stunning are the first two words that come to mind when I gaze at the pages of this generously proportioned book cultivated by French photographer Guido Mocafico.”
J.Edwards

If you are interested in clockworks – get this book! French photographer Guido Mocafico has made these wonderful pictures published in the book MOVEMENT.

…and there is much more in the book!

All the images are © Guido Modafico

357 // MSN1 / Locomotive

A human machine by Department. What a great solution for this spatial context…

“‘Locomotive’, the most recent addition to the mosaic screen installation in the foyer of Place des Arts, is a fantastical portrayal of a human machine. (…) Human flesh makes up a patchwork of glittering metallic members – which have the luster of new pistons and bolts – engendering a hybrid mass.”

More information here.

 

356 // MSN1 / István Orosz

Weird illustration by István Orosz, Hungarian painter, printmaker, graphic designer and animated film director.

István Orosz (born 24 October 1951; Kecskemét) is known for his mathematically inspired works, impossible objects, optical illusions, double-meaning images and anamorphoses.

355 // MSN1 / Levi van Veluw

Levi van Veluw is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in the Netherlands…

The only thing I can say is that he seems to work a lot with textured heads… and I like this. For more information it is the best to go to his website.

Also, I am really impressed by his work “Origin of the Beginning”…

354 // MA-P / Architekton Zeta

Simple shapes – great result! I really like this construction…

Architekton Zeta by Kazimir Malevich, 1926

Found in the book: Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935 by Jean-Louis Cohen and Christina Lodder

353 // MSN1 / Kyle Bean – You are what you eat

And here is another nice piece by Kyle Bean. A rather unusal way of depicting the human body…

You are what you eat
Vegetables as human organs

Reminds me of the International Vegetarian Union.

352 // MA-P / Kyle Bean – The Sea of Time

A wonderful work by Kyle Bean who  is a Brighton based designer specialising in hand crafted models, set design and art direction.

Have a look at his other awesome work: www.kylebean.co.uk
Kyle is represented by Blinkart.

“I have been working on a project inspired by the Beatles song ‘The Sea of Time’ from Yellow Submarine. I really liked the idea of the sea being like a giant watch mechanism.”

I already got in contact with him as I am sure it can be thrilling to animate this piece.

351 // MA-P / Why Man Creates

Why Man Creates – I just came across this movie on The Curious Brain.
Wow! I just watched the beginning so far… but this is already really awesome. More information about this film on Wikipedia.

As my machinatorium-project was based on the idea of a tower, a growing matrix, I decided to rebuild the evolutionary beginning of this film within one long image… and it became pretty long: 738 x 18450 pixel. Have a look and click on it to enlarge:

The Edifice

And here is the movie…

350 // MA-P / GLS Bank

A nice pictogram-based illustration from the GLS Bank for their magazine *Bankspiegel*. Thanks for sharing, Paul:

349 // MA-P / Francis Picabia

I just realised that I have never mentioned Francis Picabia on this blog. Weird… as I came across his work quite a while ago. If you look at my work with all the gears and machine parts being animated, you will know why this artist should not be missing…

Francis Picabia (born François Marie Martínez Picabia, 22 January 1879 – 30 November 1953) was a French painter, poet, and typographist, associated with both the Dada and Surrealist art movements.

348 // MSN1 / Machinerie

Another version of the human body as a machine… this time from a French children’s book from 1956 – although I am not 100% sure about this information.

Found on Agence Eureka

347 // MSN1 / Vladimir Gvozdev

Awesome illustrations by the Russian artist Vladimir Gvozdev. A series of – let’s say – mechanical steampunk-wunderkammer animals.

There are also wonderful dolls, animations and paintings at the website of this artist from Moscow.

© Vladimir Gvozdev

Found via http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com

346 // MSN1 / Brain

Nice image found on ffffound…

345 // MA-P / Typographic Gears

Typographic Gears – a nice project by Mario Klingemann.

…and here is a similar approach, this time based on Muybridge’s horse motion study:

344 // MA-P / Ruben Toledo

Today I came across a postcard by Ruben Toledo with a nice illustration, the “The Fashion Wheel”. Would be nice to see it animated…

“Ruben Toledo was born in Havana, Cuba in 1961 and is at once a painter, sculptor, illustrator, fashion chronicler and critic, and surrealist. His work has been exhibited in museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the textile museum at the Louvre and the museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology.”

343 // MSN1 / Left brain … Right brain …

Also found on http://streetanatomy.com … an advertisement for Mercedes-Benz by Shalmor Avnon Amichay/Y&R Interactive Tel Aviv, Israel.

Left brain:
I am the left brain.  I am a scientist.  A mathematician.  I love the familiar.  I categorize.  I am accurate.  Linear.  Analytical.  Strategic.  I am practical.  Always in control.  A master of words and language.  Realistic.  I calculate equations and play with numbers.  I am order.  I am logic.  I know exactly who I am.

Right brain:
I am the right brain.  I am creativity.  A free spirit.  I am passion.  Yearning.  Sensuality.  I am the sound of roaring laughter.  I am taste.  The feeling of sand beneath bare feet.  I am movement.  Vivid colors.  I am the urge to paint an empty canvas.  I am boundless imagination.  Art.  Poetry.  I sense.  I feel.  I am everything I wanted to be.

342 // MSN1 / Aaron Kuehn

A radically literal graphic abstraction of anatomy by Aaron Kuehn:

Found via http://streetanatomy.com

341 // MA-P / Time…

A modern view of what playing with time is.

Nice! By David Salaices.

340 // MA-P / JimJam Graphics

Wonderful! Simple and visually awesome… I like motion graphics like that.

This video is by the Sheffield based designer Jamie Bradshaw:

339 // MA-P / The Astronomers’ Ball

And another great and simplified illustration by Simon C Page. Have a look at his website as there is loads of nice stuff going on…

“To celebrate London Science Festival the Royal Observatory Greenwich presents an evening of astronomy, fun and music on the Prime Meridian of the world.”

338 // MA-P / Year Of Astronomy and Chemistry

Simple, minimal, awesome… Two poster series, one for the International Year of Astronomy 2009, the other for the International Year of Chemistry 2011.

The passion for minimalism of graphic designer and illustrator Simon C Page is nicely shown in these two series of prints…

337 // MSN1 / Man as Machine

I found this depiction on a website about Chinese medicine and their approach to health compared to the Western world. Have a look at their site as it is quite interesting, especially as it seems that our Western idea of the body seems to be quite similiar to the one of Fritz Kahn and his mechanical illustrations:

The body is
like a machine
that can be dismantled
into the heart as pump,
the lungs as bellows,
the joints as gears and
levers, the nervous system
as electrical circuitry,
the brain as computer,
the eye as camera,
the stomach as chemical
beaker, the intestines
as plumbing, and the liver
and kidneys as filters.

336 // MSN1 / Executive of the Future

I just came across this funny illustration by Boris Artzybasheff, a depiction of an “early bionic man” called ‘Executive of the Future‘.

“Boris Artzybasheff (25 May 1899 – 16 July 1965) was an American illustrator active in the United States, notable for his strongly worked and often surreal designs.” [Wikipedia]

…and I just found this video based on this illustration, animated by Steve Harrison. Cool!

335 // MSN1 / Pixel Anatomy

Nice one! By Diego B.

334 // MSN1 / The Human Factory

I just came across this English version of the Industrial Palace on Lestaret’s Blog. Interesting!
It looks like it was published by the British company Adam, Rouilly who are producing medical and anatomical models and charts for over 93 years.

Click on the image to enlarge…

333 // MSN1 / Photoautomat

This is a nice illustration for a special photo booth company – www.photoautomat.de
This must have been inspired by Fritz Kahn!

332 // MSN1 / Music Robot

A nice poster illustration for the Moogfest 2011 by Spike Press.

331 // MSN1 / MEKKANIKA

I just came across this nice steampunk-typeface project by Italian designer Riccardo Sabatini (http://www.behance.net/riccardosabatini).

Have a look at the whole alphabet…

“Mekkanika is a typeface inspired by old mechanics technical drawings, the steampunk visual world, and modern machinery, mixed and merged all together to form letters completely made by these elements, creating a mechanical look like typeface… All based on the letter shapes of the Din Alternate Black font.”

330 // MA-P / The Architect of Ruins

The Architect of Ruins… Wonderful paintings by Minoru Nomata.

“Nomata was born in Tokyo in 1955 and studied design at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. He constructed a unique artistic world in his paintings of imaginary buildings that is called ‘fantasy architecture.’ He paints buildings standing quietly in natural settings with no human figures present. They exude a sense of deja vu even though they do not exist in reality. The severe precision of these paintings gives these fantasy buildings a strong sense of presence, revealing the artist’s predilection for the mechanical forms of modern industry. The exquisite draftsmanship and unique formal imagination of these paintings produces strong, ebullient architectural forms that transcend real time and space.”
Text from Art Gallery Tokyo Opera City

More images can be found here.

329 // MA-P / Christoph Niemann

A nice illustration by Christoph Niemann depicting different ways to reach the unavoidable…
Great style and nice humor:

Published in Forecast: Nozone X by Nicholas Blechman

328 // MSN1 / Watura Yoshida – Add-On

And here is another illustration by Wataru Yoshida from his series ‘Body>’ .
There is more to see on his website but I just like this one best:

327 // MSN1 / Wataru Yoshida

Similar to the project shown before, this is a series of artworks by Wataru Yoshida.

326 // MSN1 / Inside/Outside

Inside/Outside – a series of photographs by the American artist Katherine Du Tiel – projecting scientific drawing onto real human bodie. Nice!

“With the projection work, I am projecting the interior onto the exterior with the intention of inverting and confounding insides and outsides. “

Found via Dream Anatomy as well.

325 // MSN1 / Visible Human Project

I read about this project quite a while ago in the book by Dream Anatomy. Now, I came across this short, but interesting and thrilling animation based on the same data from the Visible Human Project.

In addition to that, the book was also mentioning the Finnish artist Jussi Ängeslevä who created this clever installation from 2001 called ‘Bodyscanner’…

“Body Scanner is an attempt to make abstract medical data more meaningful to a non-expert user. It uses body-awareness to intuitively map the content to an understandable frame of reference. Instead of abstraction and rationalisation, the user can access the content directly through bridging their own posture to the displayed imagery.”

324 // MSN1 / Clockwork Atomics

“…Clockworks and Machinations That Never Were”

These drawings were made by Scott Wilson. You can find much more of his great artwork on his website CLOCKWORK ATOMICS: Most of these images were drawn on napkins and coffee shop tissues. Amazing! Have a look…

323 // MSN1 / The Human Body in HTML & PHP

Geeky!

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