The Art of Painting with Light, Part 1: the Gonzo Sector
Light Tartans Fountain Park #4 by Vicki DaSilva via Whitehot Magazine I wasn’t long out of high school when I saw a painting of light — …
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The Agony and the Ecstasy and the Wrath and the Sigh
Maybe you heard that Apple was bringing out a new Mac Pro tower? Well it wasn’t strictly true. New wheel covers, new turn signal maybe, …
Maybe the 100 Most Beautiful Words in English
A long time ago a friend opined that the most beautiful word in the English language was syphilis. You could hear in his delivery that …
Allegory
Allegory by Maskull Lasserre (steel, wood, textile, industrial sewing machine) via his website This arresting work by Canadian artist Maskull Lasserre is titled Allegory. …
Spirits Put in Places
They’re poles apart yet somehow kindred. Eyvind Earle and Charles Burchfield both created landscapes that could speak philosophy. Earle’s serigraphs speak of the still-point, the intoned …
Recording What Is, Until There’s More of It
Up until about 150 years ago the only recording devices on earth were humans. We notched bones, painted caves, tracked the planets, told history in …
Catching a Wave — with a Camera
Storm waves. Think of the power — to pulverize, shove, snap to pieces. There are photographers who face these seas. The images they return with …
A Neophyte Blogger in Tight Shoes
an ideal room imagined by Sloan Nota artwork and furniture are actual pieces but their sizes are as unreliable as the perspective Maximo Riera‘s octopus chair …
Wood
Maybe I was unduly influenced by JRR Tolkien’s Ents in childhood. Huge trees seem like powers, nearly personalities. You put your hand on a trunk and …
Meaning and Versions
Man Alone with Someone Else’s Thoughts, video and still (click link to activate in new window) by Sloan Nota 2011 I hit on a new …
Design and Pattern
Riffing off of yesterday’s post about fluidity. Again an image by Shinichi Maruyama, now compared with one by a 19th century Japanese artist, the master Utagawa …
Fluidity
from Shinichi Maruyama’s Kusho series (copyright the artist) Fluidity. Flow, gush, meander, mingle. There’s something about freedom in a lazy curve. Water – like air, earth, fire …
Geekery
Path, Sloan Nota 2011 This blog will look at a lot of things Geek — software, sources, maestros. Take the image above. Right off the bat …
Zoomorphic Furniture…
both chest and lamp by Paulo Gouveia Useful objects inspired by animals? Too often cutsie-pie affronts to adult taste. But not the furniture we’ll look at …
Let the Gambol in the Goodies begin
In this launch of the Green as Sky blog I welcome you to all I find fascinating — and hope that you’ll find delight here …