Saturday, December 11, 2010

Klunk Garden By Gelitin


I found this piece of art being exhibited in Tokyo called Klunk Garden by Gelitin. It appears to be a massive garden with people (real that is) propped underneath. Gelitin is comprised of four Austrian artists who have been exhibiting internationally as a group. A very clever collective who deal with topics such as childhood, the functionality of objects, scale and absurdity. 




Sunday, December 5, 2010

REphotographing...


Rephotography is the act of repeat photography of the same site, with a time lag between the two images; a "then and now" view of a particular area

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

PINK RABBIT





High in the Italian Alps, there rests a huge pink rabbit that can be seen from space.

The 200-foot-long knitted rabbit is the creation of Gelitin (a group of four artists). It took nearly 5 years to knit and is supposed to portray a toy rabbit that was cast off by a giant toddler. It was intended to look like it was knitted by the toddler's grandmother.

To get an idea of how big this rabbit is, in the picture, you will notice a dot that looks like the bunny's belly button. That is a person.

To see the picture from space via Google Earth, see this link. For more information about the rabbit itself, follow this link to the Gelitin art site.

Friday, October 22, 2010

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Extracts of Local Distance

I found this in one of the blogs that I was reading. I think is really interesting how abstract images are created from architecture and photography.

Description:
Countless fragments of existing architectural photography are merged into multilayered shapes. The resulting collages introduce a third abstract point of view next to the original ones of architect and photographer.
Digital scans of analogue architectural photography form tiny pieces of a large resulting puzzle. The original pictures are being analysed and categorised according to their vanishing-points and shapes. Based on this analysis, slices are being extracted from the source image. These slices retain the information of their position corresponding to their original vanishing-point and thus form a large pool of pieces, ready to be applied to new perspectives and shapes.
Using the extracted image segments, it is now possible to form collages of originally different pictures with a new common perspective. In order to compose a collage, a perspective-grid is defined and a lining of matching image segments is being applied. The segments are not altered to match the frame but fitting ones are chosen from the sheer mass of possible pieces. By defining additional keywords which describe the content of the original photographs, the selection of segments used for the final composition can be influenced. Thus a contextual layer is added through the semantic linking with the source material.
The recompositions mix and match the views and perspectives of both the architect and the photographer with a third, newly chosen frame. The resulting fine-art prints are entirely unique each time.

Check out more images at: http://www.localdistance.org/