and here we have some birds playing the guitar

Tags: , , , , — by meredith on January 29, 2010 @ 11:45 am

birdguitar

Now, I’ve been to my fair share of performances and I think I can say, with some degree of authority, that there are humans with less guitar-talent than these zebra finches:

by French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, via rebel:art.

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your eyes can be so cruel*

Tags: , — by meredith on January 26, 2010 @ 11:34 am

saltpyramid

This guy, from Hiroshima, makes labyrinths out of salt.  leading up to salt mountains. where the salt children play. or something.  Regardless, I have never wished to be an ant more than I do currently.

labyrinth_up

via kottke

* yes, I am a nerd.

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cgi, cg-you

Tags: , , — by meredith on January 19, 2010 @ 2:40 pm

In case you, too, were visually offended by Avatar’s graphical gluttony*, here’s some CGI-therapy.

It is “A FULL-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal” (from here).  Blablableebop, artsy-farsty talk… it is just plain pretty:

The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

* not to mention the white-man-swoops-in-to-save-indigenous-group-and-breed-with-warriorprincess colonialist bullcrap.

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