Centripetal Notion: category

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This is my response to an image recently promoted to the top of social image bookmarking site, FFFFOUND!.

Called Chocolate Haas, this video was produced by designer Sander Plug in collaboration with Lernert Engelberts. Hypnotic and somehow metaphoric, I’m really digging this for some reason.

Erik Natzke’s generative paintings are made using Flash, sometimes from sampled photos and video and other times from scratch. He controls very specifically the environment in which his creations thrive, leaving the artwork’s specificities to the whim of the code. Generations of pixels live out their lives in quiet service of the master.

“Where forward thinking terrestrials share ideas and information about the state of the species, their planet and the universe, living the lives of science fiction.”

Figured out by hand no less, I’d love to see this reproduced with a computer.

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FFFFOUND! is a new-ish image bookmarking site, kind of like del.icio.us for whatever badass photography/art/design/etc. you find around the internet. Not only that though, the website itself is an aggregate cornucopia of beautiful, stimulating, cortex-crunching imagery taken from everyone else’s submissions.

Microphones record an ongoing conversation, graphing the audio in concentric rings, differentiating voices by color. The further inward the rings, the further back in the conversation. Patterns reveal themselves such as individual people not speaking, interrupting, dominating, etc. Arguments and group silences become immediately tangible. (…)

Due to the incredible response to Brian Dettmer’s work, I have information courtesy the artist himself regarding some upcoming events where you can see his work in person (…)