Reblogged from godzuki-deactivated20111023
Fox Den
Welcome to Fox Den! This is pretty much a place to put all of my serious artwork and find art that inspires me. My other tumblrs: Kittime & AnjeFox
Doctor, this is why I love you. Right here.
Vincent van Gogh was a man who is somewhat famous for his mental instability. He later ended his own life. For the Doctor to go and show him that his art mattered, and that his existence mattered…is amazing. And I wish someone could have shown this amazing artist how much he contributed to the world.
I wish the Doctor could show everyone how they mattered, because everybody does matter. In our own small way, we change the world simply by existing.
Oh God the tears.
(via hannahbananafeefifofanna)
I usually hate street performers.
Unless they’re good.
Like this guy.
wow
this made me just sort of
stop and
put my chin in my hands
and smile.
seriously, just listen to this.
I probably would have thrown my whole wallet in his case…
Can I marry him?
I’ve never seen any thing like this. He’s his own symphony.
This beautiful thing is on my dash again.
…
MUST REBLOG
i love Secrets by OneRepublic and i love violins so this is going on my blog
WOW.
Why don’t I have this musical talent?
:’D
(Source: mahaldaddy, via hannahbananafeefifofanna)
Tweenbots by Kacie Kinzer:
Given their extreme vulnerability, the vastness of city space, the dangers posed by traffic, suspicion of terrorism, and the possibility that no one would be interested in helping a lost little robot, I initially conceived the Tweenbots as disposable creatures which were more likely to struggle and die in the city than to reach their destination. Because I built them with minimal technology, I had no way of tracking the Tweenbot’s progress, and so I set out on the first test with a video camera hidden in my purse. I placed the Tweenbot down on the sidewalk, and walked far enough away that I would not be observed as the Tweenbot––a smiling 10-inch tall cardboard missionary––bumped along towards his inevitable fate.
The results were unexpected. Over the course of the following months, throughout numerous missions, the Tweenbots were successful in rolling from their start point to their far-away destination assisted only by strangers. Every time the robot got caught under a park bench, ground futilely against a curb, or became trapped in a pothole, some passerby would always rescue it and send it toward its goal. Never once was a Tweenbot lost or damaged. Often, people would ignore the instructions to aim the Tweenbot in the “right” direction, if that direction meant sending the robot into a perilous situation. One man turned the robot back in the direction from which it had just come, saying out loud to the Tweenbot, “You can’t go that way, it’s toward the road.”
The Tweenbot’s unexpected presence in the city created an unfolding narrative that spoke not simply to the vastness of city space and to the journey of a human-assisted robot, but also to the power of a simple technological object to create a complex network powered by human intelligence and asynchronous interactions. But of more interest to me, was the fact that this ad-hoc crowdsourcing was driven primarily by human empathy for an anthropomorphized object. The journey the Tweenbots take each time they are released in the city becomes a story of people’s willingness to engage with a creature that mirrors human characteristics of vulnerability, of being lost, and of having intention without the means of achieving its goal alone. As each encounter with a helpful pedestrian takes the robot one step closer to attaining it’s destination, the significance of our random discoveries and individual actions accumulates into a story about a vast space made small by an even smaller robot.
holy fuck that’s so cute
I remember talking about this project in one of my art classes. Usually I am not a huge fan of experimental art like, but this one is actually touching and meaningful, unlike most that I have had to study.
(via 26381)
