warhol polaroids of 70’s sporting champions

currently showing at danziger in NY

a young jack nicklaus looks uncannily like an old chris tarrent

Theo Jansen – Kinetic Sculptor

and on TED:

Simon Schubert

Simon Schubert is a German-born artist whose two-dimensional works are created entirely by folding sheets of paper. Rather nice.

NY Times data visualisation

Courtesy of Made by Many some weirdly beautiful data visualisations on flickr from an experiment with the New York Times data API.

The one below is of the frequency of the words ‘hope’ and ‘crisis’ in the New York Times, between 1981 and 2009.  The visualization reads like a clock, where 12pm is 1981 and 12 midnight is January 1, 2009 and interestingly, the word ‘crisis’ has surpassed ‘hope’ on only a handful of occasions. Most clearly, in August of 1990 in April of 1999, and most clearly and substantially – right now.

 

The visualisations, along with others, are available from Jer Thorp on Etsy.

Jer Thorp is a generative software artist from Vancouver, Canada. His work explores the boundaries between science, mathematics, and art using custom-written computer programs.

Moleskine art – collection of doodles