I know we’ve finally arrived to “the future” when we can make colour dance.

Dentsu London just launched a project in collaboration with photographer/biochemist, Linden Gledhill, to reinvigorate the Canon brand and promote the PIXMA colour range printer. The project “brings colour to life” through “sound sculptures” made of paint droplets captured in vivid detail as they “dance” in response to sound waves.

Using a high-speed camera – the Canon 5D Mark II, to be exact (with a  100mm lens) – Gledhill will be capturing more mesmerizing formations of vibrant water-based paints. When you see it on video, it really looks like rigged animation, but it’s not; what you see, is really what happened in real life.

How do they do it? Dentsu explains on its blog: “The ‘colour sculptures’ were created by stretching a balloon over a speaker to form a membrane.  A few drops of paint [...]]]>

Sound sculptures by Linden Gledhill.

I know we’ve finally arrived to “the future” when we can make colour dance.

Dentsu London just launched a project in collaboration with photographer/biochemist, Linden Gledhill, to reinvigorate the Canon brand and promote the PIXMA colour range printer. The project “brings colour to life” through “sound sculptures” made of paint droplets captured in vivid detail as they “dance” in response to sound waves.

Using a high-speed camera – the Canon 5D Mark II, to be exact (with a  100mm lens) – Gledhill will be capturing more mesmerizing formations of vibrant water-based paints. When you see it on video, it really looks like rigged animation, but it’s not; what you see, is really what happened in real life.

How do they do it? Dentsu explains on its blog: “The ‘colour sculptures’ were created by stretching a balloon over a speaker to form a membrane.  A few drops of paint were then placed in the centre of the balloon and a single sharp note was played through the speaker, causing the paint to erupt for just a fraction of a second.” You better believe it!

Tidbit: Want to see more? Take a look at Gledhill’s Water Figures project.

Thank you to Bruce for calling attention to this uber cool phenomenon that as a lover-of-all-things-paper, I must share with you.

We’re a bit late on the intake since it happened last March, but we thought some of you may have also missed the story of the mysterious paper sculptures.

Twitter was flooded with this story when library staff in Edinburgh came across a spate of these beautiful pieces of paper art, each accompanied by a dedication to the respective library’s twitter address. The first of the poetic notes paid homage to the Scottish Poetry Library (though dozens of sculptures surfaced in the following months):

It started with your name @byleaveswelive and became a tree.… … We know that a library is so much more than a building full of books… a book is so much [...]]]>

A "poetree", one of the miniature paper sculptures found, paying homage to libraries and "all things magic".

Thank you to Bruce for calling attention to this uber cool phenomenon that as a lover-of-all-things-paper, I must share with you.

We’re a bit late on the intake since it happened last March, but we thought some of you may have also missed the story of the mysterious paper sculptures.

Twitter was flooded with this story when library staff in Edinburgh came across a spate of these beautiful pieces of paper art, each accompanied by a dedication to the respective library’s twitter address. The first of the poetic notes paid homage to the Scottish Poetry Library (though dozens of sculptures surfaced in the following months):

It started with your name @byleaveswelive and became a tree.… … We know that a library is so much more than a building full of books… a book is so much more than pages full of words.… This is for you in support of libraries, books, words, ideas….. a gesture (poetic maybe?)

So, “whodunit with the paperknife in the library”? It’s still inconclusive, though, I think, this adds to the message’s strength and charm.

Tidbit: Today’s entry is dedicated to selfless acts of kindness, the best kind of all.

Here’s her blogspot:

http://lauracarlin.blogspot.com/

She just won an award for a lovely book called the Iron Man:

http://www.walker.co.uk/The-Iron-Man-9781406324679.aspx

This is one hell of a shot…imagine the load in?

Enter the art opening. Same idea, different medium.

I recently finished some sculptures for a couple of shows at Soho Billiards in Vancouver. My buddy Arin Sieber has been putting up group collections there every few months, so she’s been a good motivator for me to [...]]]> Animation in a field driven by deadlines: Everything has a due date, from bidding through rough sketch work to final delivery.  As much as I curse this structure I know that without it, every project would be lost in a never ending spiral of revisions, second guesses, and self criticism. Nothing is ever really “done” unless it has to be. A wise artist once told me that he was like an oven: If you left something in his hands for too long, it would eventually get burnt and end up tasting like shit.

Enter the art opening. Same idea, different medium.

I recently finished some sculptures for a couple of shows at Soho Billiards in Vancouver. My buddy Arin Sieber has been putting up group collections there every few months, so she’s been a good motivator for me to bang out some new work.

I work in polymer clay and acrylics. Click the images to enlarge them.

“Dogs”  20″ x 12″

“Backsmith”  12″ x 12″

-Ken