Saturday, December 29, 2012

Creating Indoor Clouds

This is not Photoshop. The Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde has developed a way to create a small, perfect white cloud in the middle of a room. It requires meticulous planning: the temperature, humidity and lighting all have to be just so. Once everything is ready, Smilde summons the cloud out of the air using a fog machine. It lasts only moments, but the effect is dramatic and strangely moving. It evokes both the surrealism of Magritte and the classical beauty of the old masters while reminding us of the ephemerality of art and nature...



pOstScripT AdAM YaUch NYTimes arTiCLe :  http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/12/30/magazine/the-lives-they-lived-2012.html?view=Adam_Yauch&ref=magazine
Rock history — human history, really — is full of evidence that we’re not here long, that we should get our houses in order and do something of value with our time. The lesson of Adam Yauch’s life was that it is possible to make that happen.