This brain slice from a human autopsy has taken on vivid color in the hands of a neuroscientist: green from infection by a lentivirus, red for neurons, blue for the nuclei of brain cells. Red and blue were introduced with a technique called immunohistochemistry, which uses antibodies that bind to specific proteins in order to highlight certain cells or parts of cells.
These final hours embrace at last; this is our ending, this is our past
Beautiful cut-out art inspired by The Night Circus.
Redone versions of pages 1, 2, 3 and 4 with a new one put in (2.5). Changed to purple to keep separate from the mini/one-day project images.
I added an actual character to show more familiarity and emotion but I think I still need to add something new to the narrative to develop it into something of my own.
Source: cjstamper-art
trailer for Robyn O’Neil’s new video “We, the Masses”
© Claire Yaffa, undated, Portrait of Henri Cartier-Bresson
“I was able to photograph Henri Cartier-Bresson because of the graciousness of Martine Franck. As I rang the bell to their apartment, overlooking the Tuileries, to say that I was nervous would be a complete understatement. The door opened for me and there was Martine — beautiful, warm and welcoming. She talked with me first and said no way should I use flash.
She then introduced me to Cartier-Bresson who was sitting at a table in their apartment. I was surprised there were no photographs of his or Martine’s on the walls, but there was the Leica camera next to him on the table. I asked if I could photograph them together and they graciously agreed. I witnessed the love and closeness they shared with one another.
They went on their terrace and when he was tired and had enough of me, he smiled and waved me away. He was tired when I was leaving and I took this photograph of him as he was rubbing his eyes.”
(via penguinist)
Source: burnedshoes
origin, departure
“If they be two, they are two so / As stiff twin compasses are two”: sacred geometries, international passages.
by Alyssa Pheobus & Murad Khan Mumtaz
commissioned through Triple Canopy’s 2010 call for proposals.
(thanks the-rx!)
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Source: canopycanopycanopy.com
Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality. Those who have the gift of creative expression in unusually large measure disclose the meaning of the individuality of others to those others. In participating in the work of art, they become artists in their activity. They learn to know and honor individuality in whatever form it appears.
(via buried-denmark)
Source: misswallflower
Study of the Skull
Leonardo da Vinci
cover art by Edward Gorey
Bland Boydston III, “Self-portrait” (2011)
Creativity is almost a mortal sickness. It’s not easy to be happy and creative: With creativity comes great anxiety, great effort, great desire for love. To be creative, you have to be curious, generous, to want to try to understand.
You also have to want to be loved.
Source: Wired
Letters to a Young Artist: Thomas Nozkowski
In the summer of 2005, artonpaper magazine published a special issue titled “Letters to a Young Artist,” inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Letters to a Young Poet.” It included a collection of twelve letters by established artists written in response to a letter from a fictional “young artist” – a recent art school graduate who is struggling with the moral and practical implications of being an artist in New York City.
Click through for letter.
Source: magazine.saatchionline.com
