Art

Frank Moth is an Artist duo based in Veria, Greece. "They explore universal concepts of love, humility, truth, nostalgia and forgiveness in colorful, surreal floral portraits and futuristic retro compositions." Much of it is fantastic, in both senses of the word.

"Over almost a decade, Guillaume Simoneau has documented high school students from Lévis, Quebec, on graduation night, resulting in a series of formally posed portraits that belie the emotional and alcohol-fuelled chaos of the actual “bush party” event."

More on Simoneau's site.

I first saw Guillaume Simoneau's work yesterday: Untitled (Kanazawa 02), Ishikawa prefecture, Japan at the Bulger Gallery in Toronto. Stunning piece, which you can see below.

Yesterday, after injuring my toe yet again, I hobbled over to the exhibit, People, Places, Things — Part II at the Stephen Bulger Gallery in Toronto. It was recommended to me by David Liss and it was great. There's a wonderful variety of work. Well worth a visit.

Dear Photograph is a site where people can submit photos held over their original locations and address the picture with thanks for the memories it holds. Lovely idea well executed.

Many, many more at the Dear Photograph website.

Via Naive Weekly.

I was reminded of this little masterpiece today. All the characters are made of wood and animated frame by frame.

Two Aussies have decided to share poetry with the world. Not their own poetry, just poetry they like.

The poems are presented beautifully and they provide links to purchase the books the poems are from.

Simple. Words Like This.

Some lovely illustrations by Katja Lang.

Some are available as limited edition prints in Lang's shop.

Many more on Lang's site.

Kelli Anderson, creator of This Book Is a Camera and This Book Is A Planetarium, has a new font-focused pop-up book on Kickstarter: Alphabet In Motion. I backed this when it launched but forgot to post about it here. Only 3 days left to back!

Here's videos of her previous books:

Kelli's books make fantastic gifts. I've given them multiple times.

Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in "Send to YouTube" button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives.

The quote's from Riley Walz's IMG_001.

Walz made a bot that crawled Youtube in search of these videos and found five million of them. You can watch them, in seemingly random order, at IMG_001.