I took my camera surfing
Los Campesinos! - The Sea Is A Good Place To Think Of The Future
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Dumb Art
I'm enjoying myself far too much just collaging and colouring silly drawings for the hell of making something beautiful. Reckless creativity is always the best. Also, this.
Marina And The Diamonds - Teen Idle
Quintessence
Just a few textures made from melting silver into nickel.
In my tumblr's description I say it's about ‘the beauty in subtlety and the wonder in greatness’, but I think I prefer the subtle part. It's always the organic accidents that product the most enchanting, unique detail.
Freelance Whales - Follow Through
Oxidysed Pyramid Ring
During one restless night in Croatia I had an idea for a pyramid ring whose edges curl round to form the band, so I scribbled it in a notepad at 4am and went back to dozing. Discovering the sketch yesterday (on the back page of my graphite sketchbook no less) I decided to go ahead and make it.
This would be so simple to make in wax and then cast but I don't have access to any casting things and having made a pyramid before I know how difficult/rewarding it can be to make by hand with sheet metal. The mathematics involved in making the flat blueprint - documented here - are mindbending so I made a mockup in copper to check the measurements were correct. But then I messed up my last piece of thick silver so had to go with a thinner stock.
Since it has a thick band I wanted quite a punky finish, so firstly I brushed and lightly polished the piece and then oxidised it, then finally I buffed the edges for a worn effect. It looks great worn with the small onyx ring (top) or alone as a thumb ring.
Two Door Cinema Club - Undercover Martyn (acoustic)
Geometry Daily
A triangle-based selection from the blog Geometry Daily.
About half the inspiration for my new tumblr Field Notebooks that catalogues my constant note-taking; there's something really beautiful about the imperfections made while recording and although the sketches above are all digital they're clearly more appealing than black on white (plus all the geometry constructs kicks ass).
Matt & Kim - Let's Go
Schematics: A Love Story
This may just be the most evocative, enigmatic books I've ever read, or perhaps explored is a better word. Julian Hibbard pairs geometric schematics with simple prose to form a beautiful narrative. Hibbard explains that the diagrams are found by googling words derived from the essence of the right-hand text, thus enhancing their meaning and relating abstract human concepts to equally confounding scientific ones. I'm terrible with words so I'll let David LaRocca further explain below but above are my favourites of the book, I'd truly recommend it to anyone. Buy it on Amazon here
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.We encounter in Schematics: A Love Story a portfolio of nebulous black and white diagrams alongside solemn poetic observations that subtly suggest a novel apprehension of the nature of transformation.
Schematics operate simultaneously and two distinctive registers: the deeply personal (a love story between if the narrator and the objects of his affection, desire, and confusion) and the profoundly anonymous (a love story within matter-subject of gravity, magnetism, genetics, mechanics, electricity, and this space time continuum). The first-person voice, though, should not necessarily be assumed to reveal the authorial confession; rather, consider how the voice is structurally and tonally autobiographical. The “self” it references is fluid, permeable, expansive. The prose, then , is not dissimilar to the drawings: they are lines in pursuit of the expression of form, activity, character, and position. Just as the diagrams chart ethereal, often invisible phenomena, so the narrator’s prose strains to articulate mysterious forces of the heart, head and hand. As the drawings made the indeterminate concrete, the narrator transforms a private sentiment into something sufficiently generic to be useful to all readers, an aid to our own reflections.
Drawn together, these two strands the personal and the anonymous – reveal how Schematics is primarily about the experience of attraction, repulsion, and resistance, and getting nearer to some objects while moving farther away from others. It is, in other words, a story of love – love as a force of nature – and the pursuit of knowledge.
excerpt from 'Out Of Nowhere' afterword by David LaRocca
Walk Off The Earth - Somebody That I Used To Know
Cross-View Stereopair
Cross your eyes and focus on the third image in the middle
Walk The Moon - Anna Sun
Bertie Boots and Every Flavour Jeans
Boots - Bertie
Socks - Tabio
Jeans - both Christian Lacroix
Jacket - Vintage Moschino
Top - Synonyme, Georges Rech
Life is more fun when you look absolutely ridiculous. I've been wanting to post about these boots since I got them ~6 weeks ago and the yearning to reference Harry Potter overruled rationality. On top of that there's nobody around to take pictures so I took a video hoping to get at least one good still, but I didn't actually stop singing through this whole ordeal so there weren't any caps without a bizarre facial expression. Screw it, gifs are way cooler anyways (apart from I can't put it on LB. sob). Back to the boots - Socks - Tabio
Jeans - both Christian Lacroix
Jacket - Vintage Moschino
Top - Synonyme, Georges Rech
Terabyte Frenzy - Harry Potter And The Half-Dub Remix
Dream Collection
Mania Mania's new Rêve collection featuring Abbey Lee Kershaw, photographed by Barnapy Roper, found at fgr
Passion Pit - Moth's Wings
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