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In-Camera Photo Manipulations - Using a Mirror : 

When i encounter things like these, i wish i’d have thought of it sooner, but it’s a beautifully bent perpective that i can’t help but appreciate more than a damn good idea.

Julianne Swartz gives us a surreal look at what holding a piece of nature in one’s hand looks like. While many of the illusionary works in her series titled Placements looks as though the photographer is holding the moon in her hand, she is actually just presenting a circular reflection of water and sky. With a mirror gripped in her palm, Swartz is able to deceptively display two points of view simultaneously. The artist thereby presents a composite image, using in-camera and on-site photo manipulation.

Swartz takes cues from artist Robert Smithson’s late 1960s Displacements series, which explored the reflective properties of mirrors, pointing out that “the mirror in a sense is both the physical mirror and the reflection: the mirror as a concept and abstraction; then the mirror as a fact within the mirror of the concept.” So, within any given image of Placements, we’re looking at a number of things—the background scenery, Swartz’s interjecting hand, the mirror as a physical object, the scenery visualized through the mirror’s reflection, and the illusion of that reflected pattern being held in Swartz’s hand as something other than its true form. The series presents a complex, multilayered view of perception. 

Rune Guneriussen’s First US Solo Exhibition of Magical Lights : Magical Fields, Magical Landings.

 “The process involves the object, story, space and most important the time it is made within. It is an approach to the balance between nature and human culture, and all the sub levels of our own existence.”

Alumni: Loughborough University Honors List!

Knighthood - Sir Quentin Saxby BLAKE, CBE.  Illustrator.  For services to Illustration.

Known for his work on the BBC animated series as well as illustration for Roald Dahl books we’ve all grown up reading and being entranced by his drawings. His own heavily illustrated and quirky books include Mister Magnolia, Zagazoo and Loveykins.

So proud to be part of Loughborough Uni.’s alumni in this aspect!

> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20849907

In an exquisite collaboration with couture hat designer Philip Treacy, Moritz Waldemeyer created a collection of kinetic LED hats for the Treacy’s catwalk show at the Royal Courts of Justice. 

Spinning above the model’s head, the kinetic LED lights create a magical halo effect. Another extraordinary piece envelops the model in a net of light, having her presences disappear entire.

(via Kinetic LED Millinery by Philip Treacy & Moritz Waldemeyer)

Canadian photographer Joel Robinson has enchanted us in the past with his surreal imagery involving books and teacups wrapped in fairy tale themes. While we’re most used to the imaginative photographer working with homely materials, Robinson also has a recurring appearance of hands in his body of work. In fact, hands are so frequently featured in his images that it has caused him to separate his work into a series titled Put Your Hands Up.

Within the plentiful collection, Robinson has a selection of shots that reveal a darker and somewhat more romantic side to his aesthetic while retaining his signature essence of magic and surrealism. Hands and arms reach into the frame and emerge from the ground with some form of plant or flower extending from the isolated limb’s veins. Through these manipulated displays, the photographer creates a visual connection between the human form and nature, intriguing our senses.

(via Surreal Plants Emerge as Extensions of the Human Arm)

Located at Swarovski Crystal Worlds, a crystal-themed indoor theme park in Austria, the dome is lined with 595 mirrors that give visitors the feeling that they’ve stepped inside a crystal. The multi-faceted walls not only refract light, that shines in various colors, they also gradually reveal hidden works of art.

As Swarovski states, “The Crystal Dome is a kaleidoscopic, precision-cut journey into the heart of crystal – right in the middle of the homeland of crystal itself.” Looks like something out of a dream.

(via Stepping Inside a Sparkling Crystal - My Modern Metropolis)

today i finally have access to a computer, i decide to check my usual spots for music, and there on the front page - mala in cuba - something in the stars must be feeling right +