Ink Calendar, Girls, and nonsense.

Beautiful design, concept, idea.
Not only is it soaking up the ink from the bottle calculated to fill one number in the month per day, but the ink itself is based on some sort of temperature spectrum, so the colors change with its perception of the weather. Darkest blue in December, Light green hues in Spring/Summer. I can only imagine how beautiful this would look. Definite eye candy... why yes, I would like this on my wall.

Its not for sale, but its on exhibit at Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, Spain.
As one gizmodo reader asked, "How good is the security at this Círculo de Bellas Artes?"

Click here for the article, and a much better breakdown of the technicalities.


//via Gizmodo






'100 Girls on Polaroid' by Alexander Gnädinger

Looks like a great collectors book for anyone who is fan of polaroids or just even the feminine mystique aesthetic. Gnädinger, who is famous mostly for his commercial high fashion photography, took on this two-year project to photograph (using only a polaroid camera) women from all over the country, choosing models on the basis of their natural beauty and own unique personality as opposed to their transformability through makeup and fashion. I feel like the result is a fantastic visual commentary on the industry that he works in everyday. And for us, it leaves us with 100 photographs with amazing composition and lighting - it definitely leaves me wondering why my polaroids never look that good.

Obviously inspired from Tina Berning's 100 Girls on Cheap Paper from a while ago, and I think its awesome that he even credits her on his website. Click here for Alexander's view on the polaroid medium and its real-time appeal versus the heavily retouched visual language that saturates today's society.

//via LesMads




Oh. and tonight i'm going to see harry potter. who wants to come with?