Bill Dan Rock Balancing Gallery via KK

Edited: 07/16/2008 at 04:04 AM by WG

"Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt."

- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

http://www.contrariwise.org/

Fixate your gaze on the center of one of the figures and stare at it for some time (20-30 seconds) while it cycles (without moving your eyes). After several iterations you'll start noticing that the empty outlines fill in with ghostly redish or bluish colors! These illusory colors are called "afterimages". Interestingly, the colors of the afterimages vary, which is puzzling because they come from the same original figure. Moreover, the shape of the outlines determines the filled-in color, which is complementary to the color of the same shape in the original figure."


What's happening?

Edited: 06/19/2008 at 06:00 PM by WG

neatorama

Edited: 05/15/2008 at 07:54 AM by WG

Allen Finsberg



Edited: 03/20/2008 at 06:32 PM by WG

'To promote an exhibition by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, the Museum of Contemporary Art put up a billboard. Not long after it went up it was tagged by graffiti artists, and the billboard was quietly taken down.




According to LA Weekly, it turned out that Murakami himself saw the billboard on the Internet and found it "so wonderful, he had to have it for his collection.""

neatorama

Edited: 02/09/2008 at 09:14 PM by WG

Buzzes SF
youtube

"Whenever we ask consumers to cite a great retail experience, the Apple store is the first store they mention," said Jane Buckingham, president of the Intelligence Group, a market research firm in Los Angeles. "Basically, everything about it works. The people who work there are cool and knowledgeable. They have the answers you want, and can sell you what you need. Customers appreciate that. Even the fact that they'll e-mail you a receipt makes you feel like you're in a store just a little bit further ahead of everyone else."



NYT

Edited: 12/31/2007 at 08:54 PM by WG

Jan Kempenaers

Edited: 12/28/2007 at 06:49 PM by WG

more

Edited: 12/26/2007 at 03:52 PM by WG

This celebrated picture-book tells the Biblical story in Norman French, with the help of copious illustrations of everyday 14th-century England. Originally intended as a visual aid for popular preachers, it is now a fascinating glimpse of real life in the time of Chaucer.



The Holkham Bible tells highlights of the Bible story, from Creation, through the life of Jesus, to the Last Judgment. It is only loosely based on the Bible, and includes plenty of apocryphal episodes, especially about Jesus's early life. It does this with brief text that is part prose, part poetry, and most importantly, with a unique sequence of illustrations that draw many of their details from everyday life.

The book was probably made in London in the mid-14th century, round about the time of Geoffrey Chaucer's birth.

The Dominican friar for whom the illustrations were made, perhaps as a teaching aid for the rich and powerful, is depicted at the opening of the Bible instructing the artist, 'Now do it well and thoroughly, for it will be shown to important people'.

online gallery

Edited: 12/25/2007 at 08:37 PM by WG

5'7" quad fish
available at Neilson shop



Edited: 12/25/2007 at 08:38 PM by WG

gallery




Edited: 12/21/2007 at 08:05 AM by WG