Posts tagged Bruno the visual artist:
Tex Avery’s “The Early Bird Dood It!” (1942)
Wow. This is one of the greatest takes I have ever, ever seen. Impeccable timing! Tex Avery is a MONSTER! This is exactly what I aspire to do when I animate.
Ultraviolet Vision for You and Me
People who remove the lens of their eye (mostly as a treatment for cataracts) are called aphakic.
… Aphakic patients report … an unusual side effect: they can see ultraviolet light. It is not normally visible because the lens blocks it. Some artificial lenses are also transparent to UV with the same effect. The receptors in the eye for blue light can actually see ultraviolet better than blue. Military intelligence is said to have used this talent in the second world war, recruiting aphakic observers to watch the coastline for German U-boats signalling to agents on the shore with UV lamps.
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An illustration of how ultraviolet appears is provided by the Impressionist painter Claude Monet. Following cataract surgery in 1923, his colour palette changed significantly; after the operation he painted water lilies with more blue than before. This may be because after lens removal he could see ultraviolet light, which would have given a blue cast to the world.
—From Let the light shine in, an article in The Guardian
This blows my mind. Wether I need it or not, I will have this procedure done in my lifetime. I’m not kidding. When I’m an old man, I will voluntarily remove the lens of one of my eyes so that I can see ultraviolet. I will not wait for cataracts to justify it. I’m just going to do it. It’s going to be awesome.
Just so we’re extra clear here, this is not some Generation Y ironic overstatement for comedic effect. I am going to do this.
Thanks to Kottke for bringing this to my attention.
Awesome Illustration by Malika Favre, some French woman.
S.968 [The Protect IP Act] will be completely ineffective at preventing copyright infringement or any other kind of undesired activity. Every measure it takes is trivial to circumvent, and will not deter the people doing the vast majority of illegal content distribution. It does, however, provide a set of tools that are not only easy to leverage for private or nefarious purposes, but also align the US with the human rights abuses of oppressive regimes.
The bill is transparently the work of an entertainment industry which, failing to raise itself to the standards of demand, wants to drag the law down to its level with more avenues for litigation and greater weapons at its disposal. That we are even entertaining the idea of government-ordered blacklists of certain websites is repugnant and un-American.
—Kill Switch - An article by Devin Coldewey that perfectly expresses the outrage that is the “Protect IP” Act. This thing is such an absolute fucking travesty it’s not even funny.
Photographer Peter Menzel’s book, Hungry Planet, features families photographed with a week’s worth of food.
(via the-super-ego)
r.i.p.
Bureaucratics: A Portrait of the World's Red Tape — Brain Pickings ★
Really cool photo series.
Amazing work from dvdp.
Amazing photots made with a really interesting process! (via Flavorwire – The New Spirit Photography: Light Painting With a Cadaver Scan)
(Source: project1231.com)
Woah. This image is EPIC. Hats of to this Japanese guy, whoever he is.
via Signalnoise.
