prosthetic knowledge

Machina by Claudia Hart

Framed digital art piece is a 3D animation of a sleeping female nude subject in the classical pose of Venus / Odalisque - a two minute example of the twenty minute work:

“Machina” (2008) by Claudia Hart from bitforms gallery on Vimeo.

“Machina” is a 3D animation portraying the compressed time and space of painting, shows a dreaming character whose slow, drowsy movements articulate all of the minutia of a single moment. “Machina” uses the most advanced techniques of virtual reality simulation, and a series of animations that result in a representation that is sensual and organic. Occasionally, Machina opens her eyes to gaze at the viewer, in a moment of transformation, allowing the object of our gaze to subject us to hers. Based loosely on works such as Titian′s Venus and paintings by the Baroque artist Peter Paul Rubens, “Machina” is meant to introduce sensuality into the virtual realm by employing an idea of beauty as defined by a woman.

More about the artist’s work at Bitforms Gallery here

Related - earlier this week I discovered a similar (though glitchier) idea in Georgie Roxby Smith’s piece “Uncompossed” [link]

Mo Farah does ‘The Bolt’, Usain Bolt does ‘The Mobot’, on the Olympic Podium 

Via London 2012

[Usually, I have absolutely no interest in sport at all, but somehow my usual cynicism has melted with this event …]

Overlapping Images by Ho-Ryan Lee

Series of oil paintings featuring women in clothed yet provocative poses.

From the MYU Gallery from 2010:

I-MYU PROJECTS PRESENTS ‘OVERLAPPING IMAGES’, AN EXHIBITION OF NEW WORKS BY A KOREAN ARTIST, HO-RYON LEE.

AN IMAGE OVERLAPS ANOTHER AS IF IT IS SLOWLY MOVING BY THE INVENTIVE USE OF OIL PAINTS, WHICH DELIVERS DREAMY AND CHEERFUL FANTASY OF FEMALE FIGURES.

More information about the artist can be found here

Slingshot Camera (via Yanko Design)

Camera designed like a slingshot to make people pose differently when their photo is taken:

Don’t smile, don’t say ‘Say Cheese’ and definitely don’t strike a pose! All these are a taboo when you are using the Sling Shot Camera, a real fun concept that aims to capture the real you…. when you are digging your nose, sticking your tongue out and scratching your butt! What ever happened to lighter side of life; thankfully this camera will bring back the spunk to natural photography! And as you guessed it works like a slingshot; yippee what fun!

Designers: Sung Young Um & Jung Eun Yim

More images can be found here

Basic Pink - Goes With Absolutely Nothing via What Makes The Pie Shops Tick?

Vintage Make-Up Ad photo from 1965 [Link Here]