For Use / Numen

Numen/For Use is a Croatian-Austrian design collective working in the fields of scenography, industrial and spatial design and conceptual art. A particular piece of work that has caught my attention is their use of tape to create architectural forms within a structure.



The tape concept developed further towards a more sculptural architectonic form. It was practically "found" through the act of chaotic wrapping, where a one-dimensional line (“tape”), slowly turned into two-dimensional plane, which then finally curved into volume.
The installation was envisaged as a site specific, parasitical structure invading an arbitrary location. The straight lines of main trajectories are stretched across a given area and these tendons are then wrapped diagonally with layers of elastic tape, giving shape to a complex organic form through a process similar to the emergence of such structures in nature.
With the further layering of the tape, the figure becomes more and more corporeal as it picks up on the slow increase of the curvature. The interior of the structure is supple, elastic, and pliable while the form itself is statically perfect, as it ideally follows the trajectories of forces, being literally defined by them. In the moment when the audience enters the installation, what started off as a sculpture seamlessly morphs into architecture.

Josh Ritter

A little stop frame animation but the kind of twist i really like. Josh Ritter created a stop frame animation using 12000 laser cut pieces of colour paper. You could be mistaken for think that just makes it that much easier, however each one of the 12000 shots need to have been drawn on the computer and then sent to the machine for cutting just as time consuming as doing it by hand. The final effect though is pretty damn good.


Josh Ritter - Love Is Making Its Way Back Home from Josh Ritter on Vimeo.

A Little Look At Portraits

I have chosen to post these portrait examples because of the intensity of the colour and the full frame effect. This first guy Georgs Kamelakis is a young ish photography starting out but his main inspirations are those below him you can clearly see. 

George Kamelakis. Born in the USA and living in Heraklion Crete since 1992








Peter Hapak, 1973, Hungary, is a versatile photographer based in the US. He works for commercial and editorial clients, but his main focus lies on portraiture and the human body.








Martin Schoeller

Born Munich Germany 1968, works in New York.

Martin Klimas

I don't have any info on this guy so check his images and website, this seems relevant to some of my students.

Stefano Bonazzi

Born in Ferrara in 1983, Stefano Bonazzi is self-taught, and a fan of modern art, video art, digital graphics, architectural design. Stefano tends to use charcoal drawings, photo editing and digital photography. check out his site here. His best work is through digital photography and photo manipulation and i finf his smoke photos some of his best.

 

 

 

Drinking Fountains

The latest work from Luzinteruptus is a piece on drinking fountains in Madrid, or the lack of. In Madrid, in less than 30 years, more than 50% of the public fountains in service have been lost, which now are seen to be dismantled, broken, without a tap to drink from or simply dry.
Check out thee site for more info listed on the right, some great images though yet again, their work with light is stupendous and highly effective.

Willis Elkins

Some objects get disregarded without notice and others people have now idea they carry them let alone throw them away. But when 2 and half billion people smoke in the world the lighter is an object that probable outs sells most disposable item. Willis Elkins is an artist from outer Brooklyn that collected lighters washed up on the shore and photographed the spectrum. simple but effective.