This delicious new confectionery uses cutting edge Sensory Substitution Technology to transmit vivid emotive images into your mind’s eye.
Available in six flavors, each helping you achieve the right state of mind by projecting specially created evocative imagery into your field of vision.
Each of your senses (touch, smell, sight, taste, hearing) sends information to the brain at a different frequency. The brain determines where the sensorial information it receives comes from by the frequency at which it resonates, it can then process it in the appropriate way (e.g. turn sight information from the eyes into pictures in the mind). An array of resonators positioned on the surface of an Eye Candy transmit information from the tongue to the brain at the frequency that the eyes usually send visual information to the brain. A pleasant sensation of soda bubbles can be felt on the tongue as the mind decodes this sensorial information as vivid pictures.
This process is called sensory substitution and can be used to supplement peoples senses, enabling them to see the evocative images contained within Eye Candy.
Taking the idea of recycling to its logical conclusion, Italian architect, designer and art director Gianluca Soldi presented the Ovetto Recycling Bin, a recycled recycling center, last week at the London Design Festival. Made from recycled polypropylene (the same material used in ropes and carpeting), the bin offers three separate receptacles to make recycling easier and more organized while taking it a stylish step up from those standard blue bins.
No Escape Parking at Old Memorial Stadium; Baltimore, Maryland
Pilot and photographer Alex MacLean has flown his plane over much of the United States documenting the landscape. Trained as an architect, he has portrayed the history and evolution of the land from vast agricultural patterns to city grids, recording changes brought about by human intervention and natural processes.
Dinghies Clustered Around Dock; Duxbury, Massachusetts
His powerful and descriptive images provide clues to understanding the relationship between the natural and constructed environments. MacLean’s photographs have been exhibited widely in the United Sates, Canada, Europe and Asia and are found in private, public and university collections. He has won numerous awards, including the American Academy of Rome’s Prix de Rome in Landscape Architecture for 2003-2004 and grants from foundations such as the National Endowment for the Arts and Graham Foundation.
I was asked by the lovely folks over at Etsy to be a featured buyer on their blog. My picks were inspired by the current top colors here on colourlovers. Reposted from here.
This week’s Featured Buyer is Davey Sommers, editor of the art and design blog for color trendspotting site COLOURlovers.com. In addition to analyzing color palattes, Davey is a member of the The Post Family — a group of Chicago gallery and event curators, an artist collective and a print shop all rolled into one. He also sometimes makes stuff out of recycled things. Here’s Davey.
I love Etsy because it is an unbordered community that brings artists and art lovers together. It’s a great example of a market economy, too: one without lobbyists and tax cuts for nonlocal businesses.
Using the Colors tool on Etsy, these picks are inspired by the top colors currently on COLOURlovers.
Blue, or ‘balls’ blue in this case, is a reoccurring hue in the work of Mike Best, aka BestArtStudios2. It’s a nice match for the thoughtful, and at times vulnerable, facial expressions of this character seen throughout his work.
Not eaxtly the same as ‘The Order of the Wen’, but it shares the same warm color composition as this wonderful illustration by ashleyg.
In TheaCphotography’sBounty, she melds shades of green, allowing the deep color of the berries to pull the viewer’s eye. As many of her photos contain a single prominent color, and since they are all sized 8×8, you could easily create a cohesive color palette made up of her work.
The Luminodot packs a super-dense 70×50 grid, which accommodates 3,500 light pegs on a slick HDTV-looking frame. And as shown by the appropriately hallucinogenic demo video (skeletons riding donkeys, etc), its programmable backlight animation function makes the perfect pixel-art canvas. Only available in Japan - boooo.
- gizmodo
designboom features these colorful photos of ‘product dissections’ toothpaste tubes:
we have stumbled across a similar series with a slightly more morbid feel. ‘product dissections’ is a series of photographs by american artist erik boker. in the pieces, boker applies dissection techniques normally used in the science lab on specimens, to a variety of different toothpastes. the results are presented on a black background and lab tray. the dissected tubes take on the appearance of flesh, albeit multicoloured and minty.
I am interested in the notions of art as commercial product, art as artifact, and the nature of the museum, and I continue to explore our understanding of their roles, and the inherent beauty, humor, and horror that lies within them.
- designboom
For more than twenty years, David Maisel has chronicled the tensions between nature and culture in his large-scaled photographs of environmentally impacted landscapes. In the multi-chaptered series Black Maps, Maisel’s aerial images, printed at a scale of up to 48″x96″, become sublime meditations on what the curator Anne Tucker has termed the “engaging duality between beauty and repulsion.” Black Maps is a touring museum exhibition available through 2010.
While books with colorless pictures may be the favorites amongst most color lovers, here are a few other colorful books that might be worth checking out. Whether you are searching for the perfect color palette or brushing up on some classic color studies, one of these books is bound to grab your interest.
Color Visualizations: Exploring the Circle, vol 02
by Dr. Woohoo!
New Mexico’s finest – In search of the perfect color palette, Dr. Woohoo’s artwork explores the visualization of colors. Woohoo uses software he developed to generate his artwork by extracting millions of color pixels in each image, analyzing and organizing the color data and then building the composition with absolute precision.
Embracing the past, Woohoo uses archival pigment inks when printing the 16 x 10″ (40.64 x 25.4 cm) single editions onto art-, rice- and Japanese papers using a variety of techniques including underprinting, overprinting and gelatin transfers onto frescos. Included with each book is a secret web address that enables you to enter a private gallery that displays the final prints, special editions, as well as the opportunity to purchase the single editions.
The bikini has been raising blood pressures and making people blush since its modern creation in 1946. It has gone through a few changes over the years in style; different patterns, plummeting waist lines, disappearing amounts of fabric and fluorescent fishing lure-like colors, but like most things in fashion, things tend to come full circle, and designers look for something new by looking at something old for inspiration.
To celebrate these liberating two pieces of fabric, and as a reminder of the fleeting summer days, we’re taking a look at the colorful history of the bikini, Styles from then and now, and the most famous (or infamous) bikinis known in pop culture.
The Most Famous Bikinis of All Time
Brigitte Bardot
Credited with creating the bikini market in the US with her provocative role in the 1950’s film ‘And God Created Woman.’
Ursula Andress
The most famous bikini scene in the history of cinema, from the 1962 James Bond Classic ‘Dr. No.’ In the scene Andress ermerges from the water wearing an off-white bikini.
S.I. Swimsuit Issue
The first issue was published in 1964 and is credited with legitimizing the bikini. The popularity of the annual magazine, which features supermodels in bikinis in exotic locals, has grown steadily since its first release, peaking in 1989 with the 25th anniversary issue with Kathy Ireland. In 2005 the single issue carried $35 million in advertising.
Raquel Welch
“Discover a savage world where the only law is lust!” In One Million Years BC (1966), a strange caveman adventure film, Welch is seen wearing a torn, fur-lined brown leather bikini.
Polyvore is a member based web application that allows its users to sort through uploaded images or those grabbed from around the web, to create collages for inspiration and to share with others.
The site’s main focus is fashion, but also includes interiors and whatever else people can come up with. Filter through the images by garment or accessory type, brand and color. With the color sorter it would seemingly make it very easy to put together the perfect outfit palette, making it a useful tool for any color lover.
Polyvore was founded by ex-Yahoo executive Pasha Sadri. While branded as fun creative collage site that makes use of the infinite amounts of content available on the web, Polyvore also allows its users to shop the products that they use in their collages. Click on any item, and a product description will appear along with the original link where the item can be found.
The direct engagement of real products and brands with its users is some what of a dream for marketers, as the model is basically user-generated advertising.
Not that we didn’t expect it but hypercolor is making its comeback into the fashion mainstream. Thanks to the uber-hipster flagship of American Apparel leading the way along with a few smaller designers. Though I don’t know who exactly it was that first started this whole thing over again, regardless, once again it will be obvious how hot you really are. For people who like to highlight their body areas that give off the most heat, hypercolors will create the perfect little two color palette of heat exhaustion.
History of Hypercolor
Hypercolor was originally popular in the U.S. in the 80’s and early 90’s. The ’secret’ is thermochromic pigment in the dye that was originally manufactured by Matsui Shikiso Chemical in Japan. Being temperature sensitive, hypercolor shirts were always getting messed up by those of us who forgot to wash it in cold water or just couldn’t bear to wear it wrinkled and would decide to straighten the fabric out with a little ironing, only to find out that the shirt now included a suspect iron shape design.
New Hypercolor
The companies who are bringing hypercolor back are American Apparel and the boutique fashion duo Anzevino & Florence, plus Puma with their chameleon shoe.
American Apparel’s offering includes four colors (Hyper Vermillion, Hyper Fast-Blue, Hyper Fast-Black, Hyper Green) in unisex t-shirts, that change from color to white.
When scientist first started working to genetically modify Zebra fish, it was in the hopes that a small mutation would allow the fish to identify certain pollutants in waterways wherever they were introduced.
In 1999, Dr. Zhiyuan Gong and his colleagues at the National University of Singapore extracted the green fluorescent protein (GFP) gene from a jellyfish that naturally produced bright green bioluminescence. They inserted the gene into the zebrafish genome, causing the fish to glow brightly under both natural white light and ultraviolet light. Their goal was to develop a fish that could detect pollution by selectively fluorescing in the presence of environmental toxins. The development of the always fluorescing fish was the first step in this process. Shortly thereafter, his team developed a line of red fluorescent zebra fish by adding a gene from a sea coral, and yellow fluorescent zebra fish, by adding a variant of the jellyfish gene. Later, a team of Taiwanese researchers at the National University of Taiwan, headed by Professor Huai-Jen Tsai (蔡懷禎), succeeded in creating a medaka (rice fish) with a fluorescent green color.
The fish were first introduced into the U.S. market in 2003 after FDA approval:
Because tropical aquarium fish are not used for food purposes, they pose no threat to the food supply. There is no evidence that these genetically engineered zebra danio fish pose any more threat to the environment than their unmodified counterparts which have long been widely sold in the United States. In the absence of a clear risk to the public health, the FDA finds no reason to regulate these particular fish.
- FDA
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