I saw these Keith Loutits videos over a year ago but have been thinking about them quite a bit and had to go back and rewatch them. While some people fake the miniaturization technique in photoshop (cheaters) Keith uses a tilt shift lens and speeding up video to give the illusion of miniaturization.
I plan to do some research to figure out exactly how to do this myself but for now heres some videos, a link to keiths awesome website and his facebook page to follow his updates on his "Small World" project.
I watched Vanessa Goulds amazing documentary on Origami called "Between the Folds" recently. (it's availble on Instant Watch for you netflix junkies) While there are many great interviews with inspired folders Chris K Palmers work really stood out to me. Particularily his description of the process involved in his "Flower Towers" which unfortunately is missing from his vimeo post. Check the documentary for that.
However you do get to see some of the amazing recusrive geometry in the video.
While his blog says very little about him, I am in love with London based Dan Slavinskis' Architectural plans from the end of time. See his whole blog and follow his progress here http://findingslav.blogspot.com/
I mentioned v 1.0 earlier on the blog, but 2.0 looks pretty fresh. They've created GML (graffiti mark-up language) and stored all the data from some of the worlds best graff artists. Im feeling quite inspired to code an app in processing to normalize and send this data over OSC to synths and see what these tags sound like.
As a long fan of Ernst Haeckels work Kunstformen Der Natur – the forms of nature it was a real treat to find this Michael Hansmeyers platonic project this morning. Conceived in Processing, inspired by Ernst Haeckel, this project explores 3 dimensional subdivisions of topographic models recursively applying the subdivision process to a source form, which is restricted to one of the five platonic solids. A mouthful for you non-nerds I'm sure but the results speak for themselves.
Its been awhile since I've done graff but I still have a special place in my heart for it – This website / video is pretty amazing and actually accomplishes some of the things we used to talk about when we were geeking out on how letters could be bent into so many different manners.
Evan Roth took 2500 photos of Paris Graff, retraced and organized by letter and then put them all on this website creating a taxonomy of grafitti shapes
This sort of art is exactly why I love living in Portland – a shockingly refreshing mix of technological, organic, and emotional all played out in incredibly well balanced colors and form in these musings of polymer foam artist Meredith Dittmar.
