320° Licht: A Repurposed 112-Meter High Gas Tank Converted into a Cathedral of Light
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Thomas Wolf © 2014
Thomas Wolf © 2014
Gasometer Oberhausen / Wolfgang Volz / Urbanscreen
Thomas Wolf © 2014
Thomas Wolf © 2014
Thomas Machoczek © 2014
German creative studio Urbanscreen have just unveiled ‘320 Licht,’ a massive light projection inside the cathedral-like interior of the 20,000 square meter Gasometer Oberhausen in Germany (the same space that housed Christo’s Big Air Package last year). Urbanscreen utilized both the ceiling and 320 degrees of the interior space of this former gas tank to project a 22-minute loop of digital animation with 21 high-powered Epson projectors.
“This experience is based on the vastness of the Gasometer,” sound designer Jonas Wiese told the Creator’s Project. “We tried to work with that expression to make the space bigger and smaller, to deform it and to change its surface over and over while not exaggerating and overwriting the original effect of the room.” He continues, “the age of the screen is coming to an end, digital interfaces will dissolve and merge into the social space [...] we poetically contribute to this through art.”
320 Licht is part of the exhibition The Appearance of Beauty and will be on view through December 30th, 2014. Watch the included video above from the Creator’s Project to learn more about how it all came together.
Large-scale Graphite Drawings of Surreal Adventures, Dreamers, and Heroes by Ethan Murrow
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“All Mine”/ graphite on paper 28″ x 28″ 2011
“State of Massachusettes” / graphite on paper 48″ x 48″ 2014
“Wanderer above the sea of fog” (homage to Caspar David Friedrich) / graphite on paper 36″ x 36″ 2013
“Betrayal” / graphite on paper 48″ x 48″ 2012
“State of Alaska” / graphite on paper 36″ x 36″ 2014
“State of Nevada” / graphite on paper 48″ x 48″ 2014
“Lovers Film Proposal” / graphite on paper 24″ diameter 2013
“Early Warning System” / graphite on paper 48″ x 48″ 2013
“The Old Aristocratic Colors Break Through” / graphite on paper 48″ x 48″ 2013
Heavily influenced by both film and photography, artist Ethan Murrow creates grandiose theatrical narratives manifested as large-scale graphite drawings. The artworks are populated with adventurers, inventors and dreamers, in what Winston Wachter gallery calls “characters as outrageous innovators and absurd explorers capturing a sense of adventure, satire, fun and defeat.” Murrow’s latest works involve a series of drawings set in different American states for his show State Flag currently at Winston Wachter in New York through May 2014. You can see much more of his work here and on his website. (via Illusion)
A Single Drop of Seawater, Magnified 25 Times
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You know when you’re horsing around at the beach and accidentally swallow a nasty gulp of salt water? Well I hate to break it to you but that foul taste wasn’t just salt. Photographer David Littschwager captured this amazing shot of a single drop of seawater magnified 25 times to reveal an entire ecosystem of crab larva, diatoms, bacteria, fish eggs, and even worms. Read more about what you probably don’t want to know at Dive Shield. (via Lost at E Minor)
Mark Rubenstein
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Photos by Los Angeles-based photographer Mark Rubenstein. More below.
View the whole post: Mark Rubenstein over on BOOOOOOOM!.
Photographer Laurent Lavender Plays with the Moon
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In his ongoing series of photos titled Moon Games, French photographer Laurent Lavender has subjects play with a rising moon, effectively tansforming it into a balloon, a painting, and even a scoop of ice cream. The dreamlike photos have been turned into a calendar and a (French-only) book of poetry as well as a few other objects. You can see more of his work over on Facebook. (via IFLScience)
