Phase Change

Julia Dault: Crystal Powers, 2011 Oil on canvas 18” x 14”

Plato’s Symposium

claudette: Surface of Mars, photographed by Mars Express, 10 April 2008.

On the Vastitas Borealis. Believe this image runs about 660 km from 79°N 55°E to 68°N 62°E.

Composite of 3 visible light images for colour and one monochrome for detail. Colour balance is not naturalistic.

Jacub Gagnon, “Worlds Collide.”

Opening Saturday, June 21st at Thinkspace Gallery in Culver City, California is Jacub Gagnon’s show “Worlds Collide" which features an array of brand new work by the Toronto based artist where animals and human objects are staged in specifically playful situations, often causing confusion.

For Uber Film Nerds Everywhere

These images are from The Unseen Seen. The Discovery of the Film Reel Portrait by Reiner Riedler.

"A friend of mine, Volkmar Ernst, works in the big German movie archive…I was infected by his passion for the archive, the archive as a representation of culture and historical identity," Riedler explains. "My first movie in theaters was Bambi. When I found the film reel and had it in my hands, I immediately thought about my first cinema visit.”

When films are archived they’re saved to 35mm safety film (even new releases).  Digital and video formats are a constant moving target — from VHS to DVDs to Blu-ray to MP4s. When archivists save movies to safety film, they know that if they take it off the shelf in 100 years and hold it up to the light, that the image will still be there.

Glass curiosities by Steffen Dam

Dam on his work: