Mad Quickies: Arctic Banks, NASA Contest, Palette Portraits, Kubrick Supercut and More!
Happy Monday, my little Earthlings! Take five and grab your coffee/tea/soda/almond-milk and surf your cares away. In moments, it will feel all better…
- Attention Environmental Designers and Space Nerdz: NASA’s got a cool $2.25 mill for the winner of their competition to design and build 3D-printed space habitats.
- Help send Michele Banks aka @artologica to the Arctic for SCIENCE …and ART. Here’s her Indiegogo page and you can always help out by buying something from her Etsy store.
- Artist Marija Tiurina illustrated a gorgeous series of posters for words with no English equivalent.
- Henrique Alvim Corrêa’s pen-and-ink alien drawing from 1906 edition of War of the Worlds sold for $32k at an illustration auction.
- Beauty and homage for you: photographer Matthias Schaller shot a photo series called Das Meisterstück — photographic portraits of famous artists’ pain palettes. [I find this deeply reverential and, in fact, own a much-used palette that belonged to my beloved painting teacher.]
- Photographer Niall Patterson has created the photo series “Beauty Is Not Only Ink Deep”, a positive narrative to help counter what he perceives to be the negative social commentary on tattoos. {via Courtney C.}
- In China, local artist Bi Heng installed a giant panda staute in an Iron Man suit. And why not.
- To celebrate its silver anniversary, Adobe has a game for you: REAL or PHOTOSHOP.
- Bonus Diversion: Jobs I’d Be Well-Suited For by Dan Abromowitz.
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If I could dispense arty PhDs, I’d give one to Rishi Kaneria for this.
Red: A Kubrick Supercut
from the page
A supercut examining Stanley Kubrick’s use of the color red.
I have always been fascinated by color as a form of non-verbal communication. Color has a profound and powerful psychological effect on us and it makes the perfect tool for providing subtext in film—as well as supporting a certain theme or providing the right mood.
Kubrick has always used red to great effect—not only for atmosphere but for the fact that the various meanings ascribed to red echo many of the themes in his films.
Red’s many meanings include: death, blood, danger, anger, energy, war, strength, power, determination…but also passion, desire, love, and sex. All prominent themes in Kubrick’s work. But more importantly the very dualistic nature of red (the fact that it can mean anger but also love) plays right into the grand “Jungian” theme in all of Kubrick’s work which is this notion of Duality: sex and violence, birth and death, war and peace, fear and desire…
In the end my motivation to make this piece was simply to contribute to the growing collection of deconstruction surrounding Kubrick’s work found on the web and to inspire people to revisit or discover his catalog of films and to think more critically about color in film.
Edited by Rishi Kaneria (@rishikaneria).
Music from Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9.
Footage from:
Spartacus
2001: A Space Odyssey
A Clockwork Orange
Barry Lyndon
The Shining
Full Metal Jacket
Eyes Wide Shut
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Featured image is the Palette of Francis Bacon, 2007, 190x156cm, Copyright: Matthias Schaller, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin..
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