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The demands of touring and writing several articles for other people has prevented me from updating this blog as often as I’d like, which is, I think, a good problem to have. Today I break the streak of non-posting with an art-related post, an installation at the New York City Ballet, which the artist – Dustin Yellin – calls Psychogeographies. Consisting of found objects and paint sandwiched between pieces of glass, they are spectacular: The process of them being made is quite beautiful, too: I love the beautiful sweeping forms, the snapshot of motion frozen in the glass. They almost look as though they are moving, which I’m sure was the intention.

Zoetropes may have been invented thousands of years ago (Wikipedia says around 100 BCE), the technology can still be used to today for some very cool effects. I first saw the 3D zoetrope effect at a Blue Man Group show with “dancers” off the side, and again at the Animation building at Disney California Adventures. However, I’ve not yet seen anything as cool as this, from designer John Edmark, professor of design at Stanford University: Fibonacci Zoetrope Sculptures from Pier 9 on Vimeo. The sculptures are 3D-printed, then animated under a strobe or a camera with an extremely fast shutter speed to achieve the movement effects. Cool. I highly recommend looking around his site, his mathematics-inspired sculptures are eye-catching as… Read More »Zoetrope Sculptures are Cool, Trippy