Monthly Archives: January 2019

Graphically Designed Ceramic Vessels Form Zoetrope Animations When Spun on a Pottery Wheel

After years of work as a ceramic artist, Kenny Sing of Turn Studio has created a series of shallow vessels which double as zoetrope animations when spun. His project, Trepō, transfers digital patterns onto the one-of-a-kind curves of his ceramic platters. The patterns are then either precisely … Continue reading

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Filhos de Gandhy – Padê – Carnaval 2018

Saída dos Filhos de Gandhy – Carnaval 2018 – Domingo, 11.02.2017 – Lindo de se ver! “Padê de reverência a Exu, para abrir os caminhos; saudação a Ogum e a liberação das pombas para Oxalá, simbolizando a paz! Ajayô!!!”

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PROIBIDO O CARNAVAL (CLIPE DE BASTIDORES)

Daniela Mercury Feat Caetano Veloso Composição: Daniela Mercury Produção Musical: Daniela Mercury e Yacoce Simões Imagens: Mídia Ninja e MVM Edição: MVM LETRA: PROIBIDO O CARNAVAL (Daniela Mercury) TÁ PROIBIDO O CARNAVAL NESSE PAÍS TROPICAL ESTÁ PROIBIDO O CARNAVAL NESSE … Continue reading

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Rodrigo Lorio – Ijexá [ Clipe Oficial ]

Ijexá. Além de uma nação que vem do continente africano, Ijexá é também um RITMO. Um pouco de história… ” Assim como ocorreu com muitas outras expressões musicais praticadas nos grupos negros, o ijexá, presente nos cultos afro-religiosos, principalmente no … Continue reading

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THE MEMORY COLLECTOR

Originally posted on – MIKE STEEDEN –:
Since Dawn of Time’s first chilly mists were devoured by a greedy, rampant Orange I have been collecting the apt recollections of those poor wretched souls about to lose their minds to the…

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Maracatu Rural de Aliança – Pernambuco — Brazil Photo Hub

Encontro de Maracatu Rural em Aliança, Pernambuco. Acontece na terça-feira de carnaval. via Maracatu Rural de Aliança – Pernambuco — Brazil Photo Hub

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A Disaster Overlooked …

Originally posted on Filosofa's Word:
The Washington Post and New York Times both carried multiple stories about the ‘end’ of the government shutdown, about Roger Stone’s arrest, about Venezuela’s current presidency conundrum, and about the Trump ego-wall.  Neither carried,…

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Finding Hope: A Balloon Mural by Mehdi Ghadyanloo Brings Levity to the 2019 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting

Iranian muralist and fine artist Mehdi Ghadyanloo is the creator of the poetic mural recently installed in the lobby of the Congress Centre in Davos, Switzerland, where the 2019 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting is currently taking place. After participating in the forum last year … Continue reading

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The disarming case to act right now on climate

Stockholm native Greta Thunberg first heard about climate change when she was 8 years old. She absorbed the solutions adults threw at her — recycle paper, study the data, train to be a climate scientist. None of it felt like … Continue reading

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Aerial Images of the Earth Animated into Fast-Paced Sequences by Kevin McGloughlin

In EPOCH, the new short film by Irish director and animator Kevin McGloughlin, aerial images of the Earth are pieced together to compare the structural similarities of various suburbs, highways, and fields. When flashed one after the next, buildings and roads form … Continue reading

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