kateoplis:

Alejandro Guijarro - Momentum (2010-12)

“The artist travelled to the great quantum mechanics institutions of the world and, using a large-format camera, photographed blackboards as he found them. Momentum displayed the photographs in life-size. 

Before he walked into a lecture hall Guijarro had no idea what he might find. He began by recording the blackboard with the minimum of interference. No detail of the lecture hall was included, the blackboard frame was removed and we are left with a surface charged with abstract equations. Effectively these are documents. Yet once removed from their institutional beginnings the meaning evolves. The viewer begins to appreciate the equations for their line and form. Color comes into play and the waves created by the blackboard eraser suggest a vast landscape or galactic setting. The formulas appear to illustrate the worlds of Quantum Mechanics. What began as a precise lecture, a description of the physicist’s thought process, is transformed into a canvas open to any number of possibilities.”

1. Cambridge (2011)

2. Stanford (2012)

3. Berkeley I (2012)

4. Berkeley II (2012)

5. Oxford (2011)

Via: likeafieldmouse

(Source: likeafieldmouse)

businessoffashion:

Black and white theme for this week’s Creative Eyes from AnOther Magazine and Garage Magazine.

showslow:

tristetriste - Scans from Paper Faces (1968) by Michael Grater

These DIY children’s paper face masks are select excerpts from one of the many books created by the very talented Michael Grater, entitled Paper Faces. While many of his photographed examples of masks had certain sinister qualities to them, he somehow managed to portray a simple step-by-step guide which made the seemingly vexing task of creating his masks fun for the children interested in doing so.

(Source: jonyorkblog)

livelymorgue:

Dec. 21, 1933: From the Mid-Week Pictorial. Americans visiting Paris celebrated the end of Prohibition in the United States in a “real two-fisted manner,” its original caption stated. Photo: The New York Times

showslow:

Photography by Matthew Brandt. This work is from his ‘Lakes and Reservoirs’ series in which ‘color photographs are soaked in the specific lake or reservoir water that they represent’.

showslow:

Put a camera in Matthias Heiderich‘s hands and expect to discover unique everyday-life masterpieces ! Currently living and working in Berlin, Matthias is a young, self-taught and very talented German photographer. Whilst exploring the city of Berlin, he sublimates the beauty of it, bringing to light new urban landscapes, perspectives, colours, geometry and minimalist architecture. Brillant, clean, soothing …

kateoplis:

22-year-old Diane Sagnier

wgsn:

Check out the brilliant November Books, specialists in rare and out-of-print fashion titles, magazines and look books as well as photography, fine art, youth and counterculture.

Fashion fans and obsessional avid collectors alike will delight in the store’s varied and beautiful resource archive, which maps out fashion history from the Roquette rockers in Paris to the beat scene of Haight Ashbury, as well as designers Kansai Yamamoto, Bodymap and early Boy London and photographers such as Corinne Day, Deborah Turbeville and Johan Van Der Keuken to name just a few. However with many items getting snapped up within hours of their listing, you’ll have to be quick!

themissionvision:

Ruined Polaroids. Taken by William Miller, with a second-hand Polaroid SX-70 (snapped up at a yard sale for $20), which turned out to be broken.

beyondneptune:

Tracy Kestler

from the Sin Reservas series, 2012