I’ve gone too long without posting links to some of the trés cool art I’ve been seeing across the web. Let’s get started!
◊ SLOW DANCING.
David Michalek is a Los Angeles-based photographer whose project Slow Dancing (2007) is pretty phenomenal. Here is one of the video portraits from that project, focusing on the dancer Herman Cornejo (my favorite part starts at 6:45). After the clip is a description of the project.
Webcomic Wednesday* is a series of posts I’ve been thinking about for a while, as I read a lot of webcomics and want to share them with you so that you too will read them. This series will probably be irregular, but who knows?
*No, Webcomic Wednesday isn’t the most original name, but when you love alliteration….
Let’s start with a few of the regular, self-contained webcomics I read. I usually share these on Magpie Mondays, so you may recognize them.
A Softer World. A great three-panel strip by Emily Horne (the photographer/designer for the strip) and Joey Comeau (the writer). I love their description of what A Softer World is:
A Softer World is a comic that was created by Emily Horne and Joey Comeau so that people would recognize them as important artistic geniuses. Sometimes the “comic” is sad or harsh. It should be noted that this is in the tradition of George Simenon’s ‘romans durs’ (or ‘hard novels’) and not in the lesser traditions of comics like Peanuts or anything else not French. Comeau is a French name. (Pronounced kuh-moe, by the way. Joey is very important, please say his name correctly. Emily is also very important but her name is easier to pronounce.)
Everything works together so well—the layout of the panels, the division and sometimes repetition of the photographs, the tooltips (used also by Wondermark and xkcd–by the by, a tooltip is the technical term for mouseover text: a caption appears when you run your cursor over the image. It’s the zinger punchline.). Here are two strips from last week that I particularly enjoyed:
Tuesday is for tasty tidbits on your telemetric taste buds!
◊ LET THEM EAT CAKE!
I opted to open with this picture for all my Whovian readers, but, man, if this isn’t my favorite cake of recent memory. The Weeping Angels just make me so happy (while, of course, terrifying me), and this cake version by Mike’s Amazing Cakes is, well, amazing! Click the links or the picture to see more detailed shots.
Weeping Angel cake by Mike’s Amazing Cakes
Photo by Yoo Chung | CC-BY-SA-2.5
Ah, the last few days of July, soon to give way to what will possibly be some true dog days of Summer.
In light of that, let’s stay indoors and enjoy the treasures brought to us by the interwebs all week long. I’ll have a post every day this week, but, alas, I’ll not have a Magpie Monday post on August 5th. Yes, a week of posts is my spoonful of sugar.
♦ MAKE WITH THE FUNNY!
Once Upon a Blog… first turned me on to “Ask Baba Yaga,” an advice column by Taisia Kitaiskaia at The Hairpin. Baba Yaga’s advice might not be for everyone, but I adore this column. And the comments! You need to read the comments, too. Here are a couple examples (click the image to go to the original page):
Today’s video is pretty great. The Flying Man by Marcus Alqueres examines the idea of a “superhero” with wonderfully disturbing results (imagine if Superman had Batman’s personality, basically).
From the press release (which you can read here):
The Flying Man is a short film envisioned, financed, produced, directed, edited and co-written by Marcus Alqueres. The short depicts the first appearances of a super powered vigilante, his impact in a modern society and its ethical discussion.
Like I said, Batman crossed with Superman. Enjoy this in fullscreen!
Found via Colleen Doran’s blog.
