by atmara | Aug 27, 2015 | Art, Creativity, Inspiration, TED Talks, Video
According to TED.com: “Artist Theo Jansen demonstrates the amazingly lifelike kinetic sculptures he builds from plastic tubes and lemonade bottles. His creatures are designed to move — and even survive — on their own.”
“Dutch artist Theo Jansen has been working for 16 years to create sculptures that move on their own in eerily lifelike ways. Each generation of his “Strandbeests” is subject to the forces of evolution, with successful forms moving forward into new designs. Jansen’s vision and long-term commitment to his wooden menagerie is as fascinating to observe as the beasts themselves.”
“His newest creatures walk without assistance on the beaches of Holland, powered by wind, captured by gossamer wings that flap and pump air into old lemonade bottles that in turn power the creatures’ many plastic spindly legs. The walking sculptures look alive as they move, each leg articulating in such a way that the body is steady and level. They even incorporate primitive logic gates that are used to reverse the machine’s direction if it senses dangerous water or loose sand where it might get stuck.”
Enjoy.
For those of you not familiar with TED Talks here is a brief summery from www.ted.com: “TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences — the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK each summer — TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and Open TV Project, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize”
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by atmara | Aug 20, 2015 | Art, Creativity, Inspiration, TED Talks, Video
According to TED.com: “In art school, Phil Hansen developed an unruly tremor in his hand that kept him from creating the pointillist drawings he loved. Hansen was devastated, floating without a sense of purpose. Until a neurologist made a simple suggestion: embrace this limitation … and transcend it.”
“Hansen challenged himself to create art using unconventional materials (dandelion puffs, matches, live worms, hamburger grease) and canvases (a stack of Satrbucks cups, his torso, bananas). The resulting time-lapse videos of his creative processes are his meta-art, showing that art is action, not just results. Through an integrated view of what sparks creativity, Hansen has devoted himself to teaching others the approaches to creativity that have changed both his outlook and his artistic endeavors. You can read more in his 2012 book, Tattoo a Banana.”
Interesting talk.
For those of you not familiar with TED Talks here is a brief summery from www.ted.com: “TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences — the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK each summer — TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and Open TV Project, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize”
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by atmara | Jul 27, 2015 | Art, Forgiveness, Healing, Inspiration, Mandala Monday, Mandalas
And, finally (there were a lot of mandalas in this set!), Part 6 of the Mandalas of Forgiveness and Release.
Mandalas of Forgiveness and Release 1-5 can be found at https://nwcreations.com/mandala-monday-mandalas-of-forgiveness-and-release-part-1, and 6-10 at https://nwcreations.com/mandala-monday-mandalas-of-forgiveness-and-release-part-2, 11-15 at https://nwcreations.com/mandala-monday-mandalas-of-forgiveness-and-release-part-3, 16-20 at https://nwcreations.com/mandala-monday-mandalas-of-forgiveness-and-release-part-4, and 21-25 at https://nwcreations.com/mandala-monday-mandalas-of-forgiveness-and-release-part-5.
Enjoy this final set!
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Purchase Prints, Canvases, and gift items made from these images at New World Creations’ Zazzle Store. See the entire set at https://nwcreations.com/galleries/mandalas/
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