Color and Motion: Fire Rainbows
Fire rainbows or circumhorizon arc is caused by the refraction though ice crystals in cirrus clouds of light from the sun. Refraction happens when the speed of light is reduced inside a particular medium. This particular refraction happens when light goes from air without cloud to air containing cloud. In this case it is vital that the cloud is cirrus in shape.
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“For the last 500 years, the locals of Nongriat in Meghalaya, India have grown several hundred bridges across the region’s numerous water channels, using just the roots of local ribber trees. Some of the bridges extend over 100 feet in length and are strong enough to support more than 50 people at a time.”
Beth Hoeckel. Point of View. April Showers.
I want this.
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Be careful how you support Kony 2012. Make sure you know all sides! http://visiblechildren.tumblr.com/post/18890947431/we-got-trouble
nemobearxo:
“There is an invisible war in Africa: one man, Joseph Kony, terrorizing 4 countries.” Kony is a Ugandan guerrilla group leader. He has abducted more than 30,000 children from their homes and has forced them to become children soldiers. Forcing them to kill their own parents and fight for him. He turns the young girls he kidnaps into sex slaves and the young boys into children soldiers. Kony is not supported by anyone nor is he fighting for a cause. He is just fighting and killing to maintain his power. Make this the year Kony is captured. Visit the site: http://www.kony2012.com/ and on March 5th, watch the documentary. Share it with your friends, family, anyone who is willing to watch. Wear the bracelets and don’t take them off until Dec. 31, 2012. Tell the 20 Culture Makers. Tell the 12 Policy Makers. Show them this is something you care about. If they care about it, then America cares about it. Make Joseph Kony famous!
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Art of the Toilet Paper Roll by JUNIOR FRITZ JACQUET
French artist Junior Fritz Jacquet has been fascinated by paper since a very young age. Among various other paper and cardboard creations, he transforms plain toilet paper rolls into remarkable miniature masks. His technique is inspired by origami, in that it uses a single piece and folds it into a shape, but has a unique smoothness that deviates from the sharpness and jagged edges of origami, creating shapes that are astonishingly human. The masks are sculpted by hand, then coated with shellac and different pigments. A testament to the power of taking something incredibly simple and transforming it into something impressively expressive, each piece exudes a complexity of human emotion conveyed in just a few brilliantly orchestrated folds.
Just released my whole plexi glass series
the whole thing can be seen on my blog
This was for an assignment in my color photography class and this was my choppy and poorly put together artist statement
this is my home series aka the plexi glass series
“The word home is so malleable to me. It can change shape, morph into different places and states of mind. It’s too vulnerable to tack onto one single location. It’s too valuable to limit to a plot of land. Home isn’t a single space, because if it were I would be hard pressed to keep it occupied. I am sporadic, impulsive and spontaneous; I am always in motion and I need a compact home that can keep up with me, that goes through life with me. I need an idea, not a physical location. I need something impenetrable, stronger than any structure can be.
Therefore, I took “home is where the heart is” and created a visual metaphor using a sheet of Plexiglas lined with a wooden frame. The small frame represented the small space I keep around myself that I call home. More figurative than literal, it can withstand any storm or swell. The glass creates a barrier between the world and myself but still allows an audience to peer into my world. It represents safety with a dose of freedom. My home keeps me protected, it’s where I rest, where I love others and also miss them. I photographed my frame in different locations to show that I take home with me wherever I go, during positive and negative times. For me, home is everywhere at any time because home is buried deep inside me.”
Ryan built this beautiful frame for me and I carried it around in my car for weeks, I know this isn’t quite done yet, I’d like to continue to pursue it when I have more time (shooting while in school full time and working part time can be difficult) and more of an idea of what I want
but for now the finale is my favorite and I’d like to let it rest for a little while
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The Light / Shadow Art of Rashad Alakbarov
Installations using mundane objects with incredible creative outputs.
That’s the COOLEST THING.
