Friday Disco!!!

 

  

 

Friday Inspiration

 

Illustrations by the amazing KILIAN ENG of DW DESIGN, you'll need a couple of spare hours on your hands to marvel through his work. Disco Sci-Fi all the way!!!

Svankmajer the great!!!

Chaotic Order

Here's the latest from Japaneses artist Mirai Mizue's beautiful abstract cell animations.
Go watch it and many others here.

Sara Teasdale 1884- 1933

I am not yours

I am not yours, not lost in you,
Not lost, although I long to be
Lost as a candle lit at noon,
Lost as a snowflake in the sea.

You love me, and I find you still
A spirit beautiful and bright,
Yet I am I, who long to be
Lost as a light is lost in light.

Oh plunge me deep in love-put out
My senses, leave me deaf and blind,
Swept by the tempest of your love,
A taper in a rushing wind.

john muir 21 Apr 1838 - 24 Dec 1942

Born in Scotland, then emigrating to America he was one of the most influential naturalist and conservationist of his time.

Through his writings as a wilderness explorer in a quest for nature's beauty, he taught the people of his time and ours the importance of experiencing and protecting our natural heritage.

Muir had once described himself, perhaps most accurately, as a "poetico-trampo-geologist-botanist and ornithologist-naturalist etc. etc. !!!!"

Clarence Schmidt

 

  

In Queens, New York, Clarence Schmidt made a mansion of a small house, and covered it in aluminum foil. The House of Mirrors was destroyed by the very tar Schmidt used to secure the foil, a fire razed the structure in 1968. Undeterred, he began another building on the property the next year. When the second house was also destroyed by fire, Schmidt turned to sleeping in doorways, eventually being placed in a nursing home.

GALAKSIJA!!!

' GALAKSIJA was a  monthly magazine popularizing science and science fiction, published in Yugoslavia from 1972-1990s.

In other words lots of spacematic artwork, how I wish I had a copy? go check!!!

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'Things that have not yet happened, things that will never happen again'

Zanis Waldheim

'Incredibly complex systems turn out to be governed by few and very easily comprehensible rules, where the complexity is totally invisible until the system is examined as a whole'

Artist, philosopher and thinker Zanis Waldheim 1909-1993

Alexandro Garcia.

UFO-inspired works of Uruguayan artist Alexandro Garcia.

All hail Fischinger!!!

Oskar Fischinger was born in Gelnhausen, on June 22, 1900. He studied organ buildung and then mechanical engineering in Frankfurt, successfully completing his studies in 1922.

Fischinger devoted his major energies throughout his life to abstract animation and radical experiments in non-objective imagery — from sliced wax to multiple-projector light shows. 

Fischinger synchronized his abstract films to phonograph records and live musical accompaniments, because he found that the analogy with music helped audiences to grasp and accept the nature and meaning of his “universal”, absolute imagery. Oskar never meant to illustrate music, and often screened his “sound” films silently.

Stills from Fischinger's animations.

Islamic Indian Architecture

 

From the 1970 book Living Architecture: Islamic Indian by Andreas Volwahsen

Brodsky and Utkin

“Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin are the best known of a loosely organized group of Soviet artists known as Paper Architects, who designed much but built little in the early days of Glasnost in the late 1980s.”

Brodsky and Utkin worked at the same time as Lebbus Woods and Zaha Hadid, but rendered their work using the techniques of older papertects like Boullée or Ledoux.

Dan Slavinsky

 'Elevation of the Absynthe Bar'

 'Chandelier- Cornish Ornament'

'The Architectural Possibilities of a Stairway' 

All illustrations by Dan Slavinsky.

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