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Ingeniously Composed Mashups Of Classical Art and Architecture by Davide Trabucco
Italian architecture student Davide Trabucco has designed a series of cleverly made compositions which intersect two different images together in perfect synchronisation. The highlight of this series is that the complementing images he uses to make each picture are from two different time periods, made in separate mediums and artistic genres and approached differently in style by the original artist.
The visual mashup series shows a fascinating coincidence of notable art throughout time being sliced in half crosswise and line up perfectly with one another. Trabucco calls this style “‘confórmi” which exclusively focuses on architecture and artistic composition. They seamlessly meld together to create their own meaning. Marina Abramovic’s unforgettable 2010 performance at MOMA is taken and juxtaposed perfectly with Julian Wasse’s infamous ‘Duchamp Playing Chess with a Nude’ and the image puts together two powerful moments in history occurring in the same frame. Robert Venturi’s ‘learning from las vegas’ fused with Caspar David Friedrich’s ‘Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog’, creates a scene of contemplation and discovery at two very different locations and time period.
Davide Trabucco has depicted how even two contrasting images from art and architecture can come together to devise a new meaning. His series reveals that artistic minds think alike, if not with the same end goal then in the way and image should be framed. The interesting and peculiar symmetry within the spliced images become a tribute to the artists and architects of both contemporary and historical times.
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It’s just when it comes to food, I have certain rules, okay? I mean, there are things you do… and you know, things that you don’t do.
(4/11) “These things are very hard for me to remember, but I try not to cry because I want to be strong for my mother. It was hardest for her because she had children. During the war she had to worry about herself, but she also had to worry about us. It made her very ill. Her blood pressure is very high now. Her hand shakes. She has bladder problems. But she is my hero because she always protected us. One time when my father wasn’t home, a strange man entered our house. But my mother pretended to be a man and screamed downstairs in a very deep voice. And she saved us.”
(Gaziantep, Turkey)
“Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time,” E.B. White observed in a wonderful 1969 interview. “You have to write up, not down.” What’s true of great children’s books is true of great science books, which must do three things for the reader — explain, enchant, and elevate. They must tell you what something is and why it matters, captivate you to care about it and tickle you into taking pleasure in understanding it, and leave you in a higher state of awareness regarding whatever subtle or monumental aspect of the world the book had made its subject.
The best science books of 2015, discussed on Science Friday here. (via explore-blog)
4yo: “How about we have a family show and beer night?” Me: “Sounds good! Wait - what’s that?” 4yo: “When we all watch shows and we all drink beer.” Me: 4yo: “I’ve never had beer before.” Me: “You can’t have beer.” 4yo: “So just a show then?” How did I get out-negotiated by a 4yo?
Put a bunch of fire ants into water, and they’ll link their bodies together to form a solid ball that can float on the surface, transforming into a raft-like assemblage. Put that ball of ants on dry land, though, and it will “melt” away as the ants decouple and scurry off.
These attributes—along with other amazing abilities, like creating bridges with their bodies that other ants can climb across—inspired a group of materials scientists and physicists to perform a variety of tests on the animals. Their primary question: Do ants act like liquids or solids?
The answer is they act like both.