Umm, gorgeous-ITY.

The Cannes Film Festival just released their poster for this year’s festival and it is utterly beautiful, isn’t it? A remastered photo of Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman, it was taken during the shooting of A New Kind of Love, by Melville Shavelson (1963).

You can read more about the poster here.

- Heidi

One way to paint a child’s face or a pair of birds or four crosses or a skull.

Tomorrow’s interview is with Mohsin Hamid, the author of How to Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia. The business that Hamid’s main character in the novel finally makes his money in is … (you guessed it if you watched the video above) … water. Bottled water, however, in this case. A sneak peak at what Hamid has to say on the subject of water:

Water-born illness is everywhere. It affects the poor and it also affects the affluent in a place like affluent in a place like Pakistan. … Basically you get it either from drinking water, brushing your teeth with tap water or perhaps somebody prepared your food and they had washed their hands in that water or touched the water or handed washed their hands at all. The mode of transmission is what’s called oral-fecal and that sort of unsavory term really sums up how you get it.

theatlanticvideo:

A Jaw-Dropping Time-Lapse Video of Optical Illusions in Abandoned Houses

Multimedia artist Jeff Frost’s Flawed Symmetry of Prediction isn’t your average time-lapse study of the Milky Way. Frost paints massive geometric shapes on walls so that they function as optical illusions, blurring the line between 2D and 3D when captured on video.The experimental piece unfolds to reveal a haunting, post-apocalyptic world where flickering wildfires and industrial plants illuminate desert vistas. Frost’s sci-fi vibe is inspired in part by actual science — one painting draws on a NASA diagram of evidence for the Big Bang and the soundtrack uses clips recorded by Voyager 1. Be sure to watch it full screen in HD to appreciate the crisp visual detail.

Your afternoon art break. Wow, just wow.

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Space sleeve by Dan Henk

Pretty much the most intense shoulder ever.

Pretty much out of this world.

laughingsquid:

3D Printer Photo Booth Makes Figurines Instead of Photos

Tokyo’s stylish Harajuku district will soon be home to an unusual pop-up photo booth - customers will walk away not with photos, but with 3D printed figurines of themselves. The customers is first 3D scanned in a process that requires them to stand still for 15 minutes. A 3D model of the customer is then refined on a computer before output to a 3D printer. The figurines are available in sizes ranging from 4 to 8 inches. The 3D printer photo booth will be open November 24 to January 14, 2013. It is the work of Japanese creative studio PARTY.

It’s the democratization of the figurine… No need to be famous or a superhero to have a miniature version of yourself, to put on a shelf.

newyorker:

“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”

Picasso giving a drawing lesson to his children Paloma and Claude, and two friends. Photograph by Rene Burri/Magnum.

Happy Birthday, Pablo Picasso! See a slideshow of portraits of the artist.

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likeafieldmouse:

Michel Blazy - Final Bouquet (2012) - a kinetic installation that oozes sheets of foam into a monastery in Paris

Coooool.

Inspiration for your Halloween decorations this year…

(Source: likeafieldmouse)

Pretty pictures of the Earth.

NASA | Best of “Earth As Art” — Top Five (by NASAexplorer)

bathtubginrummy:

When Scientists Get Accidentally Artsy

Smithsonian museum specialist Sandra Raredon has been making radiographs, or X-ray images, for some 25 years. And although she doesn’t necessarily consider herself an artist, per se, she’s not surprised to see her work on display in that context. “I wanted people to see that they’re not only scientific, but they’re beautiful as well,” she says on the phone.

Planet Money’s Minimalist Economic Posters

(via Minimalist Econ Posters : Planet Money : NPR)

Happy Weekend! See you Monday, Internet.

WPA poster: port of Philadelphia (by BanjoHead)

It’s marvelous when we’re surprised by coincidences. Light or sound, in our presence. That’s one of the beautiful things about hunting mushrooms — is that they grow up and are fresh at just a particular moment, and our lives are actually characterized by moments.

— John Cage, on experiencing the world as if it were art. [full interview here]

New York’s Museum of Modern Art is currently hosting the first major Willem de Kooning retrospective. Critic Lloyd Schwartz says the exhibit traces the development of de Kooning’s entire career, along with the little detours he took along the way.

Woman I (1950-52) is one of the works featured in de Kooning: A Retrospective. The exhibit is on display at the Museum of Modern Art through Jan. 9, 2012.

Lloyd Schwartz went to see Degas and the Nude at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He says the paintings are “full of the awkwardnesses of real life.”

Degas’ Dancers: Behind The Scene