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The Art of Nandan Ghiya

Artist creates works using vintage portraits with physical modern-day digital distortions.

More info and examples of the artist’s work can be found at Ocular here and Galerie Paris-Beijing here

The Photographic Portfolio of Anjali Bhargava 

Photographer based in New York explores concerns of the modern Indian woman and femininity.

I fell in love with photography while in high school and discovered my passion for portraiture while a Photo major at Syracuse University. New York City has been home ever since and I’m definitely a Brooklyn girl but I love to travel and never miss a chance to experience a new place. My passport is always in need of a new stamp!
Photographing people is absolutely a passion whether it’s in the studio or on the subway. The process of making portraits, at its best, becomes an empowering one for my subjects. The skill I value most as a photographer is the ability to make people feel safe enough to unveil something of their self, enabling me to capture unguarded moments that communicate a feeling. It may be revealed in something obvious as a sense of style or it may be something they didn’t realize they had within them.

You can check out her portfolio site here, as well as her Tumblr blog here

Art for After Hours

Project that aims bring more to urban mural chalk art experiences by incorporating Augmented Reality. Above are photos from a recent project in Mumbai.

Artists  Anthony Cappetto and Shawn McCann from Art for After Hours designed and executed an intergrated project using large outdoor 3D street murals and 3D chalk art with animated augmented reality (AR) for the Techfest 2012 event in Mumbai, India, drawing over 80,000 attendees in a three day time frame from January 6th through January 8th, 2012.

This was the first time that 3D street painting using animated augmented reality had ever been brought to India and we were very happy to share our art with the huge amounts of students eager to see the blending of traditional art and emerging technologies.

More about the project can be found here

Le Chal: A haptic feedback based shoe for the blind (by Anirudh Sharma)

Navigation aid inside footware to aid the visually impaired - ‘Le Chal’ is Hindi for ‘Take Me There’:

At present people with limited or no vision depend either on walking canes, which help them detect obstructions, or seek help from friends and other people for assistance, or using voice-based navigation aids. The existing form of voice-based navigation aids can be very distracting for the blind as they mostly depend on their sense of hearing. Such devices are prohibitively expensive to buy too.

Le-Chal is way finding aid for the visually impaired that uses a language of vibrations, complementing their natural adaptations and extends their limitations.

The unobtrusive design of Le Chal is its most significant feature. The system comprises of a mechanism that condenses complex geographical navigational information and lets the user feel the directional and proximity information through vibrations. The vibrators and proximity sensor put in one shoe of the pair enables the user to walk without any physical aid.

More information, including documents and videos, can be found at Anirudh Sharma’s site here

Chitra Bharti Kathamala - Manasputra via JHALAL DRUT

Panels from an Indian comic book series from the 80s.

More Here

The Musalman - the last handwritten newspaper in the world (via Creative Roots)

Follow this link for more photos and a documentary

The Diaroma Paintings of Jerry Judah (via Data Is Nature)

Jerry Judah’s sculptural relief paintings depict haphazard structures, shanti-town sprawls, decaying settlements and the temple complex ruins. Taking inspiration from the landscapes of India, his monochromatic dioramas are generated from recollections of the ornate temple architecture he encountered there growing up as a child.

Many of the works appear to have been generated by a kind of emergent accretion, perhaps mimicking the organic growth of unplanned towns and urban self-organisation. The ’settlements’ are surfaced by a multiplicity of recognisable elements - aerial masts, satellite dishes and phone lines.

More here at Data Is Nature

Gerry Judah’s paintings can be found here

This is one of the graffiti mottos placed around the offices of Facebook in Hyderabad, India. More mottos (and photos) can be found here. (via Skeptic Geek)

thepublics:

‘First they called me a joker, now I am a dangerous thinker’

You can’t be here just to see Bollywood flicks?
No, I am here to study how the modern systems like the IT industry in Bangalore, and traditional way of life co-exist amid contradictions of globalization. I have more hopes from India than China. In China, we are witnessing the rise of authoritarian capitalism. That’s very scary.