Cornelia Konrads - Moment of Decision (2004) - Snow, steel rope and fishing line
Drawing can be another way of seeing.
For SFMOMA’s Slow Art Day event, artist Erin Mitchell created brief sketches of the featured works, noting the pieces and the ways in which the group observed them.
Visiting Lecturer Tess Thackara led this Slow Art Day session with Mark Rothko’s painting No. 14 (1960).
Todd McLellan must have a lot of fun at his job.
How else to explain someone who meticulously dismantles, then painstakingly rearranges hundreds of tiny parts of machinery. And that’s before he throws everything into the air.
The Toronto-based commercial photographer was the kind of kid who always took things apart, including an entire 1985 Hyundai Pony in secondary school. He said that if an object interested him, it would soon be in pieces.
“I’ve always had a technical grounding trying to figure out how things work,” he said in a phone interview.
That fascination followed him into adulthood, when he decided to disassemble 50 design classics for his book Things Come Apart: A Teardown Manual for Modern Living. The objects range from modern “smart” technology to older things that he collected on the street and at thrift shops. He looked for objects that were outdated but still functioned.
“I remember thinking, ‘Wow, all this technology still works,’ ” he said.
To photograph the objects, he first tried conventional portraits but found the results “boring and stuffy.” Eventually he decided to take the objects completely apart and lay out all of the pieces on a white backdrop.
Things Come (Very, Very) Apart
Photo Credit: Todd McLellan/Courtesy of Thames & Hudson
(Source: nprradiopictures, via npr)
No female reporter before her had ever seemed quite so audacious, so willing to risk personal safety in pursuit of a story.How to pack like Nellie Bly, pioneering Victorian journalist who raced around the world in 80 days.
UPDATE: By popular demand, the illustrated packing list is now available as a print.
Mount Etna blows a smoke ring during volcanic eruptions.
United States Pottery Company. “Niagara Falls” Pitcher, ca. 1855. Porcelain, Height: 8 1/4 in. (21 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Arthur W. Clement, 43.128.56. Creative Commons-BY
Three women watch the rushing waters of Rainbow Falls in Hilo, Hawaii.Photograph by Richard Hewitt Stewart, National Geographic
Zoe Pawlak
It Was Never Spoken
Oil on Canvas
32” x 52”
Here is a little sneak-preview of the works chosen for Slow Art Day at Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. You still have two whole days to sign up!
I love galleries hung this way.
Know were you stand: Modern Day Locations blended with Major Historical Events by Seth Taras
1. The Hindenberg Disaster of May 6, 1937
2. Allied soldiers rushing the beach at Normandy in June 1944
3. The Fall of the Berlin wall in 1989
4. Adolf Hitler touring Paris and standing in front of the Eiffel Tower in 1940
(via pbsthisdayinhistory)
The Book Vase (by YOY Design)
