Going West, Maurice Gee. Stunning.

This is a short film made for the New Zealand Book Council, featuring an excerpt from Maurice Gee's novel Going West. It's very beautiful.

FYI. Maurice Gee is one of New Zealand’s ten greatest living artists (according to Arts Foundation of New Zealand 2003).

Before I saw this I didn't know there was a genre called 'cut paper animation'. But apparently there is. And this film was awarded plenty of glint, winning an international prize for paper cut animation by New York’s Museum of Art and Design,the grand prize award at Moving Paper, an international film festival of cut paper animation and two Axis Gold awards.

So, if you are not one of the 840,000 youtube viewings that've gone before, I highly recommend the experience. The 2minutes is well worth it.

Great Wall of Vagina. The world Premiere Brighton East Sussex, May 2011

Cast, over the course of 5 years, the vaginas (well the vulva area in fact) of hundreds of volunteers went into the creation of

The Great Wall of Vagina

which is an exploration of women's relationships with their genitals. Jamie McCartney has done such a fabulous job.

The final piece now has 400 casts arranged in 10 panels of 40.

I'm so impressed with the concept. I think it really DOES make a huge impact on women's relationships with their bits... remarkable positive work.

http://www.brightonbodycasting.com/design-a-vagina.php

For videos and more information.

A slightly obsessed genius - Melodyne inventor Peter Neubäcker

Much as I dislike some of the resulting music (over-produced, over-perfected, commercial nonsense) this software is incredible!!

The chap that developed it, Peter Neubäcker, is a bit of a mad genius who is utterly obsessed with the mathematics of music.

This documentary is fascinating. Not only because it tells the journey his life took, that led to the invention of an entirely new perspective on sound, but also his creativity based on mathematics.

He studied one note for about a year. Modelling it into a 3D sculpture. 

I learned a lot by watching this. I highly recommed watching it. It's worth the time investment.

Unusual and intriguingly artful

Wow. This chap is amazing. Not only is he creating gorgeous pieces of art. He's also keeping fit!

Talk about inspiring. I love when things come along that help me remember 'not everything is a reinvention'. There are new things out there still. (The little voice in my head is anticipating being told that in fact it's not unique... so do correct me if I'm wrong. Right now, I'm telling the little voice in my head to be very still).

So, "Mr Orrico's "Live Drawing" is contemporary and experimental. And Mr Orrico's art is beautiful.

He has been a dancer, which probably helps his incredible ability to be so balanced left to right and so graceful (I had a look at some videos on youtube), and has him able to create these works of art which he videos in four-hour sessions.

I would love to do this for a job. No doubt about it!!

"Like a different race of people because the damage is so incredible."

A photographic essay of Chernobyl by Paul Fusco. Moving, heartbreaking.