NERVOUS SYSTEM

A design duo based in Massachusetts, Nervous System works in generative design to produce beautifully intricate and complex forms.

Informed by the biological processes and patterns found in nature, Nervous System reproduces these natural algorithms digitally.

These digital forms are then manufactured through technologies such as 3D printing or laser cutting, resulting in stunning art, jewellery and housewares that play on the juxtaposition of the natural and the manufactured. 

The above body of work, 'Orbicular Lamp', is based around the process of veins forming in leaves.

'Bring the spring back' Byron Dauncey

This gorgeous photograph is by Vancouver based photographer Byron Dauncey. It is currently on display in an exhibition called 'Cameraman' which is a part of the annual Capture photography festival that is currently on in Vancouver. 

'Over Time' - Johnathan Zawada

Landscape topographies derived from graph data were modeled in 3D and then oil paintings created from those 3D renders.

http://www.zawada.com.au/2013/01/02/over-time/#more-399

Over Time was presented at Prism Gallery, Los Angeles from December 16, 2010 – February 28, 2011.

'Room with My Soul Left Out, Room That Does Not Care'

Bruce Nauman, Room with My Soul Left Out, Room That Does Not Care, 1984
Celotex, Rusted Steel, Yellow Light; 973,8 x 1206 x 1446 cm 

http://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/2010-bruce-nauman-hamburger-bahnhof/2086

Community Hammock

'Net' was designed by Numen/For Use - a Croatian-Austrian design collective working in the fields of scenography, industrial design, spatial design and conceptual art. 

Net consists of multiple layers of flexible nets suspended in the air. The flat layers of the net are subsequently connected to one another on counterpoints thus forming a “floating landscape" open for visitors to climb in and explore. The result is an op-art social sculpture (or a community hammock) relating to topics of instability, levitation and regression. 

Hertta Kiiski

Hertta Kiiski is an artist from Finland, and this image of herself and her two daughters was part of an exhibition called '2000 & 11 SELF_PORTRAITS' that was on display in Turku, Finland in 2012. 

Little Is Drawing

Portraits By Carla Fuentes

EMMA WHITE

Emma White's everyday objects require a double take - formed carefully from polymer clay, she replicates everyday forms to a fine level of detail.

I love the way she is able to draw attention to the function of the objects she reproduces, and question the idea of the 'real'.

find out more here

Mapping Dreams Across the World

When I was in Stockholm at the end of last year, I was lucky enough to stumble upon an artwork by Eva Frapiccini. 

Set up outside the Arkitekturmuseet, the artist invited passers-by to take their time to share their dream from the night before or a dream with particularly striking imagery, inside her inflatable room with a tape recorder.

She travels the world with her inflatable structure in a suitcase, collecting an archive of dreams in many different languages from people across the world. 

These dreams will be preserved and reopened in 10 years time, analysed by professionals and sent back to their owner - a study on the collective unconscious, and Jung’s idea of shared archetypes across the world. 

 More information on Dreams’ Time Capsule here and here.

RGB Wallpaper by Carnovsky

RGB is a work about the exploration of the “surface’s deepness”.

RGB designs create surfaces that mutate and interact with different chromatic stimulus. 'Carnovsky's RGB is an ongoing project that experiments with the interaction between printed and light colours. The resulting images are unexpected and disorienting. The colors mix up, the lines and shapes entwine becoming oneiric and not completely clear. Through a colored filter (a light or a transparent material) it is possible to see clearly the layers in which the image is composed. The filter's colors are red, green and blue, each one of them serves to reveal one of the three layers.'

Underwater Stillness, Annie Leibovitz

Salvador Dali in Paris, Age 80

Photographs by Trevor Triano

Check out more here.

Elisha Bones - "Guts" (Official Music Video)

A Tricycle Home

http://au.businessinsider.com/chinas-tiny-new-tricycle-house-2013-1?op=1#a-cross-section-of-the-tricycle-home-shows-the-structure-with-all-the-furniture-folded-away-6

wintery afternoon sun

COOKIES+MILK

Nestled between the dim and dusty antique furniture shops that line Newtown's King St. is Cookies+Milk.

Glass jars filled with freshly baked goods adorn the counter, the décor simple and light, with old fashioned milk bottles lining the pastel walls, and biscuit shaped cushions atop milk crates.

The coffee is smooth and flavoursome and the cookies are rich and homely.
We highly recommend the jammy dodgers and the walnut and chocolate moustaches. Absolutely devine!

Atmosphere: 4/5
Food quality + taste: 4.5/5
Price: 3/5