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POPSArtists Using the Full Spectrum "I’m excited by artists who are finding ways to adapt the rainbow spectrum in their work.The color field (or chromatic abstractionist) artists of the 50’s often painted with bold swaths of color but rarely used as many together as the featured artists of this article. In the 60’s, psychedelic art used colors and patterns together too. The modern artists I’ll cover in this post use color in an undiluted, anything but soft array of graphic lines and shapes resulting in work that is both vivid and alluring. Their work circumvents the boundaries their predecessors put in place to arrive at a new and bold take on prior styles."
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POPSBeautiful and Delicate Photos by Sakura Abduzeedo is a wonderful site for inspirational works of art. They cover everything artistic from photography to web design. These shots are amazing. I just love the colors, and on the Abduzeedo site there are a few that just melt into the black background.
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POPSBut is it art ? what makes a science-inspired image truly "art"? "that question prompted quite a bit of debate : what makes a science-inspired image truly "art"? Perhaps there is a debate, not so much because Frankel is blurring boundaries, but because she has raised the standard for scientific visualization to an unprecedented high level, making it much harder to tell the difference."
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POPSCD and DVD cover searchengine I found some covers that I was surprised were there. The results can be narrowed with title and artist. Some of the searches can give the idea how many names can be used by so many people, in different ways. I tried Face to Face, because it was a 70's Australian Album and wasn't sure if it was a CD. The range of results can be wide. Can make surprises more likely
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POPSPaperback & Digest Covers Thanks for all your comments have taken the advice offered by several clippers and linked accounts; CM/Amplify link test. Have slowed right down on the clipping, though. Have a great Sunday, y'all
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POPSact,build,eat,invent,learn,live,move Laky’s text treatment really seems to declare once and for all that the best solutions might literally be right in our own backyards and communities, with materials and practices that simply need to be re-examined and better utilized. As the artist openly states, “Natural materials are very expressive…they also connect me to nature which is a deep love of mine.” According to her artist website, Laky considers herself to be an environmentalist, with her work often employing materials harvested from nature and/or agricultural sources with select recycled elements incorporated. “She is attracted to humble materials and simple, direct methods of hand construction…Laky has (also) been a strong advocate for the establishment of an environmental sustainability curriculum in design and art at UC Davis.”
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POPS"The Art of the Book" Russian Sci-fi / Fantasy cover art; no info on titles or artists. Apparently Russians still love to read and have a voracious appetite for detective & sci-fi novels. "Thousands published every week"
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POPSThe Press Photographer's Year 2008: Guardian winners Sean Smith winning the multimedia category to add to his successes in the British Press and Royal Television Society journalism awards. Smith's winning entry consisted of stills and video from his time spent with US troops in Baghdad last year. The Press Photographer’s Year, organised in association with the British Press Photographers' Association, is a competition for photographers working around the world
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POPSMiss Universe Says Guantanamo Bay Is 'Fun,' 'Calm,' and 'Relaxing'
Toward that purpose, Camp 4 offers a number of diversions, courtesy of American taxpayers. There is an outdoor basketball court, and a 6,000-book library, from which detainees can check out everything from hobby magazines like Bird Watcher's Digest, to commentaries on Islam, to Agatha Christie thrillers. The latter come complete with white stickers blocking the author's photo, lest the detainees deem the grande dame of the mystery novel too much of a seductress. Detainees can also check out DVDs--nature documentaries and international soccer matches are particularly popular--and a flat-screen television is available at the camp for viewing. And, just as American troops stationed on the base can take academic and vocational courses, Camp 4 has a special classroom where detainees can learn English, Arabic, or Pashtu. But damn those American psychos - how dare they not provide each and every murderer with a chef, yoga classes, and self-esteem training.
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POPSWhat do you think: appropriate or not? This is the current cover of GQ magazine on the racks now. Yesterday at Target, I was looking at DVDs with my 5-year-old daughter. The magazine racks were by the movies and I heard my daughter say "Mommy, look at this naked man!" I turn around and see this cover. Is this an appropriate cover in a store where children are often shopping? If it was a picture of the statue David, I wouldn't have cared, but his bothered me. Is it art? Should this issue have had a wrapper or should Target have put it behind other magazines to reduce the amount of exposed cover? Would it have mattered if it was a woman? I think it might have bothered me more.
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POPSJumping Portraits Philippe Halsman defied gravitas: The freezing of motion has a long and fascinating history in photography, whether of sports, fashion or war. But rarely has stop-action been used in the unlikely, whimsical and often mischievous ways that Philippe Halsman employed it. ... Halsman's pictures of politicians, celebrities, scientists and other luminaries appeared on the cover of Life magazine a record 101 times, and he made hundreds of other covers and photo essays for such magazines as Look, Paris Match and Stern. Because of his vision and vigor, our collective visual memory includes iconic images of Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Robert Oppenheimer, Winston Churchill and other newsmakers of the 20th century.
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POPS24 hours in pictures - 17th April 10 Simbach am Inn, Germany: A sculpture of the river God Aenus looks out over the town. The sculpture caused controversy in the border area between Bavaria and Austria because the sculpture's buttocks point directly at the neighbouring Austrian town of Braunau 5 Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo: People gather near newly dug graves of the victims of an air crash
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