It’s always interesting when artists explore intimacy because of how it affects us all on a primitive and emotional level. Japanese student-artists Ayako Kanda and Mayuka Hayashi have created a prize-winning series of images that explore our relationships with each other in an interesting way – by using x-ray images to strip away the skin, hair and flesh that we usually associate with intimate contact.
Math and art may appear, superficially, like two disparate fields, but they’ve been in conversation for millennia. One recent example of the synergistic possibilities between the two comes from Canadian scientists Christian Ilies Vasile and Martin Kryzwinski. The pair have utilized the data visualization software Circos to create beautiful and colorful visual representations of mathematical constants π (pi), φ (phi), and eusing transition probabilities and color-coded digits on Archimedean spirals.
This surreal short video made by Gentleman Scholar for Whales and Dolphin Conservation (WDC) is so striking, you have to see it.
Here are some of the world’s most bizarre statues and sculptures.
What do you get when you mix a photographer and a master of animation? These Cinemagraphs are more than a picture, but not quite a video. Cinemagraphs are different from a GIF (Graphics Interchange Format). An animated GIF is usually a sequence of stills pulled from a video, combined together and repurposed into a .gif. Cinemagraph is a single photograph with a living moment added within it.
Graffiti works inside an abandoned nursing home by an artist Pete One who is a huge Batman fan.