Callum Cooper: Sculpture for the Moving Image
London/Melbourne-based artist and filmmaker Callum Cooper (I think he has the best artist home page in the history of time, some of you will get vertigo) creates bizarre sculptures with embedded cameras meant to capture video from pretty astounding angles. His Full Circle piece creates the illusion of a jumprope that shifts space and time on every jump.
“You’ll never fly until you learn to float… Well, by ‘float’ I mean ‘jump’ and that jumping will involve a decent amount of flour getting in your eyes and hair, but have I ever told you that I love you? Please? Oh god, just jump and I’ll take the photo and we can go home and you can play more Football Manager. I’m sorry about your jean, but honestly, you shouldn’t have worn dark ones. What? No, this isn’t my fault! Stop looking at me like that. Just jump. Jump! Jump! Goddamnit, jump! What are you, a stupid dog? No, no, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m just frustrated. Ugh, I’m being such a bitch tonight. Ok, you’ll never fly until you learn to shut the hell up, that’s my motto. Let’s just get this done.”
- Alex Nursall, 2012
I keep expecting to find more flour all over myself today.
Source: toseeclearly
The Boy Who Played With Fusion
Taylor Wilson is, at age 14, the youngest individual on Earth to achieve nuclear fusion.
… imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, ‘This is an interesting world I find myself in - an interesting hole I find myself in - fits me rather neatly, doesn’t it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!’ This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it’s still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything’s going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise.
