Latte Art*

While flipping through television channels earlier today, I came across a very interesting show called "1000 places to see before you die" on show discovery channel. This episode was dedicated to Canada's best sights to visit and one of the sights was this well known cafe "Delany's Coffee House" that was exclusively famous & known for their latte art, bringing in professionals to create different artistic designs and techniques to appeal to coffee lovers and consumers. I found this very intriguing and loved to share with other coffee addicts. I really think it is amazing how you can create art out of absolutely anything, in this case simply MILK!

Above are a couple of pictures that caught my attention the most, for all coffee lovers enjoy these pictures and if you have the talent to do such a thing then pursue IT, its truly an amazing talent!!

Check out the video to see how latte art is made, just remember to ignore the music and enjoy (:!

The Beauty Department

Who needs make up or hair lessons today when you've got the internet! The beauty department is an independent website where you get daily beauty tips from your hair, make up, nail trends, skin issues current obsessions, inspirations, and even homemade beauty recipes. Check out this website beautydepartment to get an insight of something you wont be able to find on a shelf at the store. This website comprises of a group of beauticians (Lauren Conrad, Kristin Ess and Amy Nadin) living in Los Angeles, California that post daily releasing new things every day including videos, printable photo tutorials, promotions, and new beauty products. There are no fee subscriptions to access the beauty department and the bloggers are open to any questions and are easy to communicate with through email, Facebook & twitter. 

Below are a couple of pictures that I wanted to share with you to get a glimpse of what i was talking about. Hope you enjoyed seeing them as much as I did!
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"We want to make beauty as accessible as possible"

The Beauty Department 

Who'sThatGirl

              

"Who's That Girl" is the September Lookbook sneak peak of this fall's Free People's store line. I just received this catalog in the mail a couple of days ago and I realized that not one image in the catalog was of a normal sized body type that reflected the "real" world. I realized the model appeared to be thinner than most of the models Free People typically feature. Advertising extremely skinny girls just sends the wrong idea to the targeted audience, especially teenagers in this generation that are experiencing many eating disorders. What I also realized is that the photos in the catalog make you believe that by shopping at their store and wearing their apparel you are living a specific lifestyle and are welcomed in a special cult. "Free People" are setting a bad image to their line with the photos having Kate Moss as their inspiration. Even though Kate Moss is known to be one of the best supermodels in the world and having a very successful line,she still has a very bad reputation with abusing drugs in order to keep her body in shape. Martha Fox, the model in the photo shoot clearly is posing like Kate Moss wearing the same style and having the same "heroine chic" look that Kate Moss is known for. Brand personality is very important for customers and I believe in influencing the good rather than bad through products and trying to help people rather than take them down the wrong road.

Models: Martha Hunt and Danny Fox 

Photographer: Guy Aroch 

Hair: James Rowe 

Make-up: Ayumi 

Julianna Baggott*

"We live with blinders on. We miss people who have things to teach us. I know i do. I know I'm so rushed and overwhelmed that I don't take the time to talk to people who might change me in some elemental way, for the better. And I don't mean those assigned to my case - in whatever way that can now be perceived. I mean the people you pass by. In fact, I think one of our greatest stupidities and, in some cases, sins is our ability as human beings to keep passing each other by." - Julianna Baggott

Fendi Video & Grid Art Advertisement*

Video Art*

Strip Tease

3D Projections For H&M

Joseph Beuys

 

Painting By Andy Warhol Of Joseph Beuys

Joseph Beuys is one of the most well known German artists who was very influential during the 20th century, which has inspired many artists today simply because of his creativity and his work. Joseph was born in 1921 and passed away by 1986. When he was a fighter pilot in the army, he had an accident and almost died but because of the help of fat and fleet, Joseph survived. These two materials later became important features in the Joseph's work. Before becoming an artist, Joseph practiced medicine during the 1940s. He was inspired by The main concepts that Joseph includes in his work is anthropology, humanism, and social philosophy. For four years, Joseph studied sculpting in an art academy. In 1961, Joseph was introduced to the Fluxus movement during an event. Joseph had also experienced many types of drugs, alcohol, sex..etc. Under the influence of drugs, Joseph killed his wife trying to aim the gun on the glass on her head. When reading about the beat generation, i felt that the Fluxus movement was similar, they were both very artistic and do not sound like the usual society during their time. They have both influenced and inspired thousands of people around the world and you can simply see it in people's art. While watching his performance arts video in class i found it very bizarre, but while i was thinking of my piece it was something that was very personal to me and I wouldn't expect anybody to understand. Art really is a beautiful way to express one's feeling or emotions and I believe that is exactly what these artists were doing during the 20th century, simply thinking out of the box. 

How to Explain Paintings to a Dead Hare 1965

Infiltration homogine pour piano a queue

I Like America and America Likes Me 1974

Animal Woman 1949

The Beat Generation*

When referring to the beat generation or the "hip generation", we refer to the women and men writers, thinkers, philosophers that were forming groups in San Francisco after WW2. These groups of people changed a lot of things during the 1940s, the beat generation threw out old cultural traditions and introduced new ones that has affected a large amount of the population within the US and other countries as well. This group faced a lot during the war and many people believe that this group was formed due to the war. The beat generation also introduced new rules of literature, sex, religion, and many other important aspects in our lives. The beat generation had influence on all of the arts. Jack Kerouac , a famous writer at the time was found as a king of the beat generation at that time. It was Jack who came up with the term "beat" for the generation which derived from the word "beatific" & "beautiful". Jack and the rest of his group explored New York and experimented with many things such as drugs, girls, alcohol, and everything they thought was rebellious at their time.  People were just bored of their daily repeated routines and wanted change. By the 1960s, the hippies took over the beat generation. Jack Kerouac died in 1969 after he left the beat group. Many people know about the beat generation because of the book that he has published "On The Road" which explains their experiences and what different things the group had done after the war in Times Square.

Xerox Project

Grid Project*

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"Skin Put"

Wireless Air Guitar Hero

Mark J Stock

Exploring Mark J Stock's website www.markjstock.com , i came across many interesting pictures that amazed me! Here are some of my favorite pictures:

"Sunset On Squares"

"Inside The Bomb"

& my all time Favorite is 

"Droplet"

"In my observance of fluid motion in nature, certain shapes and patterns most often come to mind: the thin wispy structure of an old cloud, a candle flame, roiling smoke from a smokestack, or wavy mirages in a pot of water soon after I turn the heat on. These patterns, and their manifestations, are still multilayered physical systems, with the effects of viscosity, inertia, baroclinicity, combustion, heat transfer, surface tension, reflection, and refraction all playing a role". (Mark Stock)

I found Mark J stock's art very interesting because the viewer doesn't understand what the artwork actually means when they first look at it until you read the caption below each picture. You can tell that his artwork is very personal and that only the artist can relate to it. His art pieces are mostly different, and as you can see in this picture below, he is using the grid technique for his art. Using a grid always helps you draw better because that way there is more symmetry, especially when drawing a human face or cartoon. I also noticed that Mark Stock doesn't use a lot of color in his work and sticks to more basic colors like black and white.

Mark J Stock

Iphone 4S

The Fastest Computer

The fastest computer in the world today is found in Japan called the "k" computer. This computer was built by Fujitsu and is said to have 8 quadrillion calculations per second (petaflop/s). In this article, the author mentions that the K computer is three times faster than the next fastest computer! The features of the K Computer is that it is made out of 672 computer racks, 68,544 CPUS, and scientists would are willing to add more gadgets to help the computer become faster and more powerful. The K Computer is expected to be used in 2012 by Japanese scientists and engineers to study important issues such as natural disasters, climate changes, and even medicine research. 

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Videos From The Brain*

I read the article "Videos From The Brain" and i was really shocked to see where technology is heading today. Just thinking of how someone can have that much power or access to somebody's brain and can visually see pictures of what they're thinking of by entering an fMRI machine is just unbelievable. The new (Fmri) machine that the Berkley research group have come up with scans your brain for images that you have seen once before between a given brain pattern and a given image while watching a movie correlating the images to the screen. The results that were conducted from this experiment is that a great amount of youtube video clips were traced (18,000 worth of random videos) back to the single image/pattern. You never know what kind of technology we will be faced with next, we will forever be surprised by the outcomes. Reading the last paragraph on how this technology might be used is scary, being able to read someone's mind or erasing someone's memory. The advantage i guess would be recording people's dreams, that way you could analyze them and look back at them even though dreams last 3-7 seconds.