Colossal Archives – Page 2 of 9

25 Jul 2020

Portrait Within A Portrait

Artist Seamus Wray wins for quarantine project of the year. Seeing this first photograph of Wray painting a portrait of himself wearing the exact same outfit is impressive to say the least, but don’t think that it starts and ends with this. He repeats this process of painting portraits of himself five times and the end result is too good. I don’t want to spoil it for you so I’m going to send you to [Colossal] for the full effect.

“Wray hopes the potentially infinite project begs the questions, “What comes next? Another painting. Are we all just living in a painting? What if this is a painting, within a painting?”

Design

21 Jul 2020

Bright Comet NEOWISE Shot Above Mount Hood

I never grew up spending a lot of time outdoors, but these are the types of shots I aspire for. I recognize not everyone gets to capture a comet in action like [Lester Tsai], but even being under the stars or catching the sunrise would be enough for me. In these incredible shots, we see Comet NEOWISE in action! Portland-based photographer Lester Tsai traveled to Oregon to capture the comet from the highest mountain at Mount Hood in this incredible set. Since the beginning of July, Comet NEOWISE has been visible to those located in the northern hemisphere. It happens to be one of the brightest comets from this decade, but we won’t see it appearing for another 6,800 years after this.

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Design

14 Jul 2020

Taiwan’s Wooden Orb with LED Lights

It was coincidental that I was having withdrawals this week thinking about last year’s trip to Taiwan. When I came across this post on [Colossal] I knew that it was serendipitous. Created for this year’s Taiwan Lantern Festival, artist Ling-Li Tseng crafted an installation that is “a whispering between human(s) and nature.” Located in the forest of Houli, “The Search of the Glow” is a wooden sphere dressed in LED lights. Instead of being your standard spherical shape, the pieces are a series of connected ovals.

At night, the sphere lights up the space of the forest, while in the daytime mist or fog, it appears to give a more subtle glow.

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Design

09 Jul 2020

Illustrations By Felicia Chiao

Many of the conversations I’m having with friends and family are showing me a wide range of how each of us is handling quarantine. It’s not always simple to talk about and unless you’re there, it can be hard to grasp. The best way to support each other is just that – through kindness and empathy. While I find that these conversations, don’t always paint a clearer picture for me, these illustrations by Felicia Chiao did. They are what I imagine how those closest to me might feel in their own homes and even without text, the illustrations say enough. Her illustrations typically cover anxiety and emotions that we find complex and that’s exactly what we’re seeing.

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Music

23 Jun 2020

An Audience of Plants For Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu

Phase 4 and what we know to be live performances like the one above are still far off. However, there may not need to be a reason for events to be postponed any longer if we can ensure they are done in a safe manner. Instead of performing to a crowd of people, Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu filled the venue with 2,292 plants. All participants involved were safe and it resulted in the best photo op.

Can you imagine what it would have been like to be in this opera house with your sense of sound, smell, and sight all being ignited? Following the performance, all plants were donated to health care workers who have been in the trenches tackling the virus.

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Design

20 Jun 2020

I Am Square

More than ever these days, when I’m checking in with my friends I receive back a wide range of emotions. These aren’t normal times. We acknowledge that while we work from home and that we’re grateful for the flexibility, there is a lot that prevents us from doing our best work. None of us have ever lived through a pandemic before. The country is hurting in many ways and because of that our emotions flip flop by the day, sometimes hours. Watching this animation by Paris designer, [Benoit Leva,] sums up what I often times, can’t articulate about how I’m feeling. Using a white paper carton, we see this shape into every emotion with the help of other animations and the use of sound.

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Design

16 Jun 2020

Oikumene Church, Indonesia

We’ve been mentioning how intrigued we are by religious structures and places of worship. Though I attended a private Catholic university, I don’t necessarily consider myself religious. When in college, many of my friends and I would consider ourselves spiritual and this was widely accepted by our university – a university that was already considered progressive.

Though we admire traditional religious spaces, I gravitate towards the modern. The Oikumene Church in Indonesia is made entirely of locally sourced wood waste. Since the roof is constructed at different height levels, it means that the space inside can remain cool even when temperatures rise to 90 degrees Fahrenheit and high humidity.

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Design

06 Jun 2020

Oghalé Alex’s New Series for Cold Laundry

One of my favorite things on social media this week, amidst a very challenging week, was the spotlight on African American creatives. Whether it was in fashion, music, art, design, or photography, it was the positive light in stream of some posts that weren’t always so. My favorite of the bunch and what I’m choosing to share on Yow Yow! today is this series by [Oghalé Alex] This series is for the fashion brand, [Cold Laundry,] where he’s actually the Director of Photography. However, I think this series is the calm that some of us needed to see this week. These images are stunning.

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Design

27 May 2020

These Wooden Doggies

It has been a terrible 48 hours in the world so to keep things light-hearted this evening, we’re sharing another post by [Colossal] Since we’ve been shelter-in-place the amount of doggies I’ve seen around the city have been few and far between. Seeing these wooden pieces of different breeds by Misato Sano was enough to cheer me up. Joy from these pieces span a number of reasons for me. I think they’d make great one-of-a-kind home decor pieces for one. They also have the best expressions and there’s a piece for everyone since they come in a variety of breeds. Here are just a few of my favorites:

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Design

26 May 2020

If We Could Bake…

We still would not be producing pies that even match a 1/4 of what these pieces of work are. In quarantine, my friends fall into two categories. Everyone is spending much more time in the kitchen and while half are cooking meals for themselves, the other half lean more into the baking. I keep hearing the same thing. Bakers are more skilled. Everything they make has a greater level of detail and precision. With cooking, you can kind of throw things together with it still working. The same cannot be said for bread, pastries, and all of the above. That statement continues to ring true as we dig into the work of Karin Pfeiff-Boschek’s pies.

I’m stunned as I view photos of these pies because they are truly pieces of art. I would feel intimidated just having a slice; I’m not even sure if I could! Each one of her pies is topped with some kind of intricate design whether it’s done with fruit or more dough. To view more of what she’s been creating during quarantine, visit her [Instagram]

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