things we like
Installment 3: Kymia Nawabi
Kymia Nawabi stood out at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Swing Space show. Her whimsical, yet somewhat disturbed drawings, paintings, and sculpture have the illustrative quality reminiscent of Tim Burton, giving characters multiple limbs or mix-matched bodies, and overlapping pattern over pattern –a complex world that begs to be dissected.
Maps!
We love the strangemaps blog, so coming across MAPCO (via the always-excellent Metafilter) really brightened up our Monday.
Rad aerial of Gallipoli inside.
Prodigal Suns
I met Russell and Carl at their store, RePOP on Washington Avenue in Clinton Hill, and then stumbled upon (or, kind of internet stalked them until finding more) this seemingly outdated, but wonderful website of theirs: Prodigal Suns.
ART edited by Julia Turshen
Found this little gem photocopied and folded while moving things around to fit a gem of a dumpster dive. Wish I could remember where it came from… This is some pre-Batali and Gweneth go to Spain Julia Turshen humor.
Playing hide and seek with Yinka Shonibare
I’ve never quite understood the concept of reassembling historic rooms, putting a red velvet rope around it, and funneling tourists on a counter-intuitive path through a house, castle, or museum. But once Yinka Shonibare placed child figures ducking under desks…
Ayo Technology
Lauren’s post on the awesome World Digital Library reminded us of another impressive online art collection, Google Earth’s Masterpieces of the Prado. These images weigh in at 14,000 megapixels, meaning you get closer to works by Dürer, Bosch, and Reubens in Google Earth than you would be able to in person. It’s pretty remarkable—you can see brushtrokes and cracks in the oil paint, but never any pixelation. Definitely best viewed in full screen Google Earth mode, but you can also check out some of these massive images in Google Maps.
fans in a flashbulb
Great vintage photography site, Fans in a Flashbulb.
Featuring:
45 RPM
The Butchers of Fort Greene Place
Let’s Eat
and more!
panoramaramaramama
We are realizing that we are suckers for gimmicky panoramas. After posting the Abbey of St. Florian library in Austria panorama a few weeks ago (big thanks to @BHPLibrarian on Twitter for id’ing the library!), we now present the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History Online 3d Panoramas. We recently visited this museum for the first time and were pleasantly surprised–with the dinosaurs, the orchid exhibit (tied in to Darwin and evolution), the ancient sea shells, and most of all, the incredible collection of crystals and gems.
More museum panoramas? How about the Panorama Museum (German). Or a real life Panorama, of NYC, at the Queens Museum (we’ll be visiting this summer in combination with a Mets game at Debit’s Field).
they don’t love you like i love you
In keeping with International Anatomy, Medicine, and Death Museum Day, we present an internet weblink to A Short History of Anatomical Maps. We hope these memento mori will help you remember to enjoy life before it sputters out.
belatedly, morbidly yours
We’ve been meaning to write about one of our favorite blogs, Morbid Anatomy, for some time now. Last night, our roommate came home and couldn’t stop talking about this amazing event at a new space just down the street in Gowanus, hosted by Morbid Anatomy, and we were like what WHAT WHATWHAT!?!
In honor of Morbid Anatomy, we are dubbing today International Anatomy, Medicine & Death Musuem Day. Follow up posts to follow (up)!
Pretty Art Robots
Jansen, who comes off as a mad scientist with a hint of a god complex, has been developing (“evolvingâ€) these things for almost twenty years, and his labor is evident in the creatures’ graceful movement. Most are made from PVC, but one particularly striking Strandbeest is made from 3.2 tons of what looks to be Corten steel. It’s so perfectly engineered that a single person can push it around, its many lumbering metal legs attached to an axis that somehow lets a person move forty times his body weight.
