Evenings on the lake

Gallery of Computation | generative artifacts

 

Jared Tarbell creates some of the most consistently beautiful and computationally interesting code-generated art out there.  By writing algorithms and allowing the computer to process huge iterations thereof, he (through the medium of his computer) arrives at stunning images.  Like most conceptual artists, Tarbell's project favors process over results (by seeing the code as more akin to a living thing rather than a mere artifical process), but oh what results....

Link: Gallery of Computation | generative artifacts.

The Visual language of Scouting - uniforms, rotocol, popular culture, corporate identity

Historical Scouting memorabilia and ephemera has been a (fairly minor, but noted) thematic current here, so I would be remiss if I didn't include this small but nice collection of scouting imagery from fulltable.com.

Link: The Visual language of Scouting - uniforms, protocol, popular culture, corporate identity.

Le ramoneur de Bourg

 

Blog of Franck Martineau, French artisanal Chimneysweep
(Ramoneur,fumiste,chauffagiste,spécialiste en combustion), whose collection of historical 'sweep ephemera is interesting.   

Link: Le ramoneur de Bourg.

Sarah Pickering: Explosions

 

Sarah Pickering's series of explosions captured on film are both vaguely unsettling and quite lovely.

Explosions

BTW: this and the preceding link were found via Art MoCo, a branch of the excellent contemporary design site, MoCo Loco

 

Hurricane

 

Incredibly beautiful photographs of hurricane wave surges from photographer Clifford Ross.
Link: Clifford Ross | Hurricane I.

Arctic Architecture

From the Proceedings of the Athanasius Kirchner Society come this small collection of architectural photographs taken in the Canadian territory of Nunavut.

For a broader selection of photographs of the buildings of Iqaluit (the capital of Nunavut), please see Vincent Chan's photo gallery.

Link: Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society.

1964 World's Fair: a small postcard collection

 

A nice collection of (mostly architecturally themed) postcards from the 1964 World's Fair.

Found via the always entertaining Scrubbles

Link: 1964 World's Fair.