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Calligraphy on Girls – Tania

Calligraphy on Girls // Tania
Calligraphy: Senia aka “Pokras Lampas”
Photo: Alexandr Popov aka “el Nalima”
Video: Fierce Frog
Model: Tata Aleksandrovna
Make up: Veronika Kalinina

The idea of painting and writing on the nude human figure is a very old one, with traditional dance forms in Japan including it and even modern art forms taking up their mantle, from films to photography. This collaboration between calligrapher, model and photograpger produces some striking images, and the process is its own meditation. Typography meets body adornement. A fashion trend I’d gladly see taking over. —S

via Calligraphy on Girls // Tania | Facebook.

How To Think More About Sex – Alain de Botton

Not surprisingly, the brain plays a much larger role in de Botton’s suggestions than in your typical Cosmopolitan-type fare. But it’s not all grey matter. Sex is symbolically purifying, he notes, due to the unclean nature of what’s being entrusted to another person’s mouth.

In his typically cerebral and utterly human fashion, philosopher Alain de Botton tackles the subject of sex as part of a promotion for his book How To Think More About Sex. His suggestions are both more frank and revealing while also being a lot less nuts and bolts than the usual sort of advice one hears on the subject. —S

via Philosopher Alain de Botton’s Top Tips for Super Hot Sex | Open Culture.

Massimo Vignelli on Book Design

Massimo Vignelli discusses his approach to book design in a video produced for Mohawk’s "What Will You Make Today?" campaign. Video design by Michael Bierut/Pentagram.

“A grid is the underwear of the book.”

“The scale and pacing of the images is what makes the book. It’s like a film …”

In this short little segment, designer Massimo Vignelli talks about how he designs books, giving what is likely one of the simplest and most elegant introductions to design based on a grid that you are likely to come across. I love how he describes the white space around an image giving it reverence. I’ve never heard it explained quite that way and now it seem like the best visual metaphor.
—S

via Massimo Vignelli Makes Books on Vimeo.

The Decisive Moment – Henri Cartier-Bresson – documentary film

I started with painting, and drawing, and for me photography was a mean(s) of drawing. That’s all.

Immediate sketch, done with intuition, and you can’t correct it. …

For me it’s a physical pleasure, photography, doesn’t take much brains. Doesn’t take any brains, takes sensitivity, a finger and two legs.

… ‘Cause a camera is a weapon. You can’t prove anything, but at the same time, it is a weapon. It’s not a propaganda mean, photography, not at all, but it’s a way of shouting the way you feel.
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You see, the camera, it can be a machine gun; It can be a psycho-analytical couch; it can be a warm kiss; It can be a sketch book, the camera.

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Decisive Moment is an 18-minute film produced in 1973 by Scholastic Magazines, Inc. and the International Center of Photography

via Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Decisive Moment | Open Culture.

Amazing snake drawing!

Amazing snake drawing! – YouTube.

Arena profiles photographer Robert Mapplethorpe – 1988

The BBC’s Arena programme covers Robert Mapplethorpe’s life and controvercial work. It includes a conversation with Patti Smith, noted rocker and one of the photographer’s closest friend, along with various people who posed for him.

via The Life and Controversial Work of Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe Profiled in 1988 Documentary | Open Culture.

John Cleese on Creativity

Circa 1991, John Cleese of Monty Python fame was called upon to give a lecture on creativity. In this wonderfully serious and delightfully humorous lecture he delves into what science has learnt about creative ability, tying in cultural norms and comedic timing. Cleese lays out "the 5 factors that you can arrange to make your lives more creative".

via John Cleese on Creativity – YouTube.

How Ink Is Made

A Chief Ink Maker shows how colour and ink is created from the raw ingredients–powder, varnish, and passion. Everything designers and printers need to know about the process, the challenges and joy of ink making.

2010
Presented by Peter Welfare, president and head inkmaker, The Printing Ink Company.

Written and produced by Ian Daffern
Directed and Edited by Tate Young
Photographed by Tony Edgar

Via How Ink Is Made – YouTube.

Harry Potter Poster – Making-Of Video

A process video of a poster design for the Silver Screen Society’s feature of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

Illusration by Dominic Flask
Music: Hedwig’s Theme by John Williams

via Harry Potter Poster Process Video.

Whale Fall (after life of a whale) for Radiolab

When a whale dies, the story has just begun.

Directed by Sharon Shattuck and Flora Lichtman for Sweet Fern Productions [sweetfernproductions.com]

Director of Photography: Artem Agafonov
Music by Rachel’s [rachelsband.com]

A video compliment to Radiolab’s ‘Loops’ episode, in collaboration with producer Lynn Levy [radiolab.org]

via Whale Fall (after life of a whale) [Radiolab] on Vimeo.