Artist Andy Goldsworthy is one of those artist I can’t believe I didn’t know about until recently. What he does is unique and amazing to see. He creates artwork from what he finds at a specific place in nature. He creates the work on-site. He doesn’t just use bits of nature from all over, or take his “ingredients” home to create.
My personal favorite Andy Goldsworthy piece
About Andy Goldsworthy from his website:
Using a seemingly endless range of natural materials—snow, ice, leaves, bark, rock, clay, stones, feathers petals, twigs—he creates outdoor sculpture that manifests, however fleeting, a sympathetic contact with the natural world. Before they disappear, or as they disappear, Goldsworthy records his work in suburb color photographs.
Check out some of these awesome photos of Goldsworthy’s work. Also make sure to check the clip from “Rivers and Tides,” a documentary about Goldsworthy, below.
Four Awesome Slow Motion (slow-mo) Videos
Do you ever like to look at the world in a different way. Here are four great videos where the framerate is set to super slo mo. Normally video is recorded at around 24fps. When slow motion videos are recorded the framerate is increased, then they are played back at regular speed. Thus, super slow motion.
As one blog pointed out, slow motion takes the mundane and makes it extraordinary.
This video is from Discovery. They have a whole section of “Time Warp” videos that you can watch on their YouTube page. I love how the balloon literally wraps around the dude’s head.
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