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Category Archives: body
Choros: A Transfixing Experimental Dance Film by Michael Langan & Terah Maher | Colossal
Choros from Michael Langan on Vimeo. Released three weeks ago after a year on tour at various film festivals, Choros is the latest experimental art film from director Michael Langan the explores the movement of the human body, specifically the motion of dancer Terah Maher. Choros follows in the steps of Eadweard Muybridge, Etienne-Jules Marey, and Norman McLaren, all […]
Time-lapse Images of Nude Dancers Created with 10,000 Individual Photographs Colossal
Time-lapse Images of Nude Dancers Created with 10,000 Individual Photographs NY-based photographer Shinichi Maruyama created these lovely photographs using nearly 10,000 individual photographs of a nude dancer in motion. The abstract images remind me of Japanese ink wash painting, as if the figures were cread by the stroke of a thick brush, which is not unsuprising considering […]
Erwin Wurm
http://www.erwinwurm.at/
Franz Erhard Walther
http://www.artreview.com/m/discussion?id=1474022%3ATopic%3A1210905
Luke Evans & Josh Lake: I am a camera
We’ve seen some odd student projects in our time here at CR, but this must go down as one of the oddest: two Kingston students created human photograms by swallowing 35mm film, then, erm, expelling it, and recording the results Luke Evans (above) and and Josh Lake (below) are in the final first year of the BA […]
even*cleveland: placing them back in order
Found here: even*cleveland: placing them back in order. Reminded me of this project.
Bulles géantes by bubble-smith Sterling Johnson
even*cleveland: bulles géantes.
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Trisha Brown: Revolution
Trisha Brown, Revolution via Trisha Brown: Drawing on Land and Air | Exhibitions | USF CAM Contemporary Art Museum | Institute for Research in Art.
Whose picture is this?
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Things Organized Neatly
Things Organized Neatly.
Geoffroy Tory
Véritable icône bibliophilique, artisan du livre moderne, promoteur de la culture graphique, Geoffroy Tory reste et demeure un inclassable. Imprimeur officiel de François Ier, illustrateur attitré de Du Bellay, créateur de la cédille, de l’apostrophe et des lettres accentuées, ce maître de la mise en page est un père spirituel pour un grand […]
A North Korean anniversary and debut – The Big Picture – Boston.com
A North Korean anniversary and debut – The Big Picture – Boston.com.
Andy Goldsworthy, Rain and snow shadows
Andy Goldsworthy Via evencleveland: left behind.
Bodies in Urban Spaces – Photo Journal – WSJ
Performers form a “human sculpture” on Sunday during a piece entitled “Bodies in Urban Spaces” by choreographer Willi Dorner. (Bryan Derballa for The Wall Street Journal) Bodies in Urban Spaces – Photo Journal – WSJ.
Fingerings
Judith Ann Braun’ s Fingerings are done with fingers dipped in charcoal, sometimes using both hands simultaneously to the extent of arms’ reach. In this way they are gestural inscriptions of my body, developing a vocabulary of mark making with these simple means. http://judithannbraun.com/default3.asp
Help
The album cover features the group with their arms positioned to spell out a word in flag semaphore. According to cover photographer Robert Freeman, “I had the idea of semaphore spelling out the letters HELP. But when we came to do the shot the arrangement of the arms with those letters didn’t look good. So […]
Body Typography
Can anyone tell me anything about the context of this picture? I quite like how someone is being used as a furniture, just painted in white, as the spacing between words.
Camouflage and Day-Glo
Camouflage and Day-Glo, Picture of the week, by Daniel Eatock.
‘250cm line tattooed on six paid people,’ Santiago Sierra
Espacio Aglutinador Havana December 1999 Galerie Peter Kilchmann Zurich In 1999, Spanish artist Santiago Sierra paid six unemployed young men in Cuba to take part in one of his installation pieces. The men were offered $30 each to participate, and stripped to their shorts to become a part of another of Sierra’s human experiments, […]
Human type: YMCA
Human Tetris
Everyone’s favorite Soviet block video game has been brought to life using a roomful of people, taking on the roll of the various colored geometric shapes from the game. The stop-motion video by Swiss artist Guillaume Reymond of NotSoNoisy creative agency is the latest in his series of video game inspired clips, which first […]
Human Drawing
Arthur Mole’s Extraordinary Mass Photography
Published on 4/14/2008 under Art – 56,844 views Almost a century ago and without the aid of any pixel-generating computer software, the itinerant photographer Arthur Mole (1889-1983) used his 11 x 14-inch view camera to stage a series of extraordinary mass photographic spectacles that choreographed living bodies into symbolic formations of religious and national community. […]
Arirang in North Korea
In this photo provided by Korea Central News Agency via Korea News Service, opening of 2008 mass games, featuring 100,000 performers, is seen at May Day Stadium, Pyongyang, Monday, Aug. 4, 2008. North Korea launched a series of mass performances in Pyongyang as part of the celebrations surrounding North Korea’s 60th anniversary of nation’s founding. […]
North Korea human drawings
Shelley Jackson’s Skin Project
via Since August, 2003, artist Shelley Jackson has been “publishing” her 2095-word story, one word at a time. Volunteers to the project agree to tattoo a word that Shelly assigns to them somewhere on their bodies. The word must be in a classic font and large enough to be readable by the naked eye. The […]
Dennis Oppenheim
“Reading Position for Second Degree Burn,” 1970. Jones Beach, New York. Duration of exposure: 5 hours.
Vogue cover, August 1940
Raven Smith
Raven Smith’s performance-based photographs train a sharp eye on themes of identity, vanity, myth making and notions of the ideal. Smith’s work is both elegant and irrational—fundamentally stripping down complex notions of how we build our own image in the face of our personal and collective histories or myths. Smith catalogues his decisive misbehaviors with […]
Bill Durgin
Bill Durgin.
Type/Body
http://www.flickr.com/photos/itsmeklara/3314640589/.