(Source: iu2)
Kim Alsbrooks uses trash as her canvases. This demonstrates how much garbage collects around us and is readily accessible as a material. This also promotes the use of bricolage, which is when you create using just discarded items around you.
Look Slowly. What do you think about these pieces? What have you created with items around you?
Experiments with Ink by Paccastudios
Charles Morgan. Emissio.
Emissio is a series of images that show the interrelationship between the everyday, and banal, through to the sublime. A series of images of what at first appear as nebulae from distant regions of our galaxy, are, on closer inspection, images of iridescent oil spills on road surfaces.
The series explores the aesthetics of astrophotography through using conventions derived from Hubble images and highlights the ways in which the astrophotograph itself is highly constructed.
Representation through photography even scientifically can be highly altered and manipulated and not be a true representation of the scene observed.
Emissio explores the discussions around the indexicality of the medium, expounded by Charles Sanders Pierce, and the ways in which changing technologies capture light colour and the temporal.
The title Emissio is derived from the Latin: Emission and is defined not only by emissions of petrol but also to energy, such as heat, light or radio waves, emitted from a source.
At the intersection of science and art, Dr. Kai-hung Fung is using CT scans to build 3d models of the inside of the human body. He got the idea after noticing a CT scan of a woman’s nose resembled an orchid, and realized that medical images could be art as well.
The Inside of Your Body is Filled With Crazy Imagery
via Slate
If grandmothers around the world had a rallying cry, it would probably sound something like “You need to eat!”
Photographer Gabriele Galimberti’s grandmother said something similar to him before one of his many globetrotting work trips. To ensure he had at least one good meal, she prepared for him a dish of ravioli before he departed on one of his adventures.
“In that occasion I said to my grandma ‘You know, Grandma, there are many other grandmas around the world and most of them are really good cooks,” Galimberti wrote via email. “I’m going to meet them and ask them to cook for me so I can show you that you don’t have to be worried for me and the food that I will eat!’ This is the way my project was born!”
The project, “Delicatessen With Love”, took Galimberti to 58 countries where he photographed grandmothers with both the ingredients and finished signature dishes.
Galimberti said many of the subjects for the project were selected serendipitously, picked while he was working on a project about couch surfing that explored the global phenomenon of staying in other people’s houses. Since Galimberti never slept in hotels while working on the project, he was able to come into contact with people who introduced him to grandmothers in the area.
Galimberti acted as photographer and stylist during each shoot with the grandmothers, taking a portrait of both the women and the food they made for him.
From top to bottom:
Inara Runtule, 68, Kekava, Latvia. Silke (herring with potatoes and cottage cheese).
Grace Estibero, 82, Mumbai, India. Chicken vindaloo.Susann Soresen, 81, Homer, Alaska. Moose steak.
Serette Charles, 63, Saint-Jean du Sud, Haiti. Lambi in creole sauce.
The photographer’s grandmother Marisa Batini, 80, Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy. Swiss chard and ricotta Ravioli with meat sauce.
Normita Sambu Arap, 65, Oltepessi (Masaai Mara), Kenya. Mboga and orgali (white corn polenta with vegetables and goat).
Julia Enaigua, 71, La Paz, Bolivia. Queso Humacha (vegetables and fresh cheese soup).
Fifi Makhmer, 62, Cairo, Egypt. Kuoshry (pasta, rice and legumes pie).
Isolina Perez De Vargas, 83, Mendoza, Argentina. Asado criollo (mixed meats barbecue).
Bisrat Melake, 60, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Enjera with curry and vegetables.
[ I was going to post a long rant about some arrogant white yoga girl who insist people are ignorant for using olive oil to cook and should not eat fish or drink milk or eat cheese because of all sorts of problematic food issues, instead I said, let me focus on those who celebrate food. If you still want to see the link of the article she was waving on her Facebook, there you go. Privileged white people…ugh]So cool:)
the third set is calling my name. i’m calling my mama after work.
My mom brought home some of mi mama’s cooking for dinner tonight!
Nicole Kidman, photographed by Irving Penn for Vogue US, May 2004.
