Previously Unseen Andy Warhol Art Work Unveiled

Looking for the right statement piece?  The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts is auctioning off about 350 paintings, photographs and prints of the artist through Christie’s auction house in New York. Prices range from a few thousand to the millions with money going to support of the visual arts and make donations to museums. 

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Ontario, Canada-based photographer Matt Molloy recently created a gorgeous series of sky images by stacking multiple photos onto one. The individual photos are most often taken from the timelapses he shoots. The final photo has a stunning painterly effect, almost as if someone had taken a paintbrush to the sky and smeared its beautiful colors.

When asked at 500px how many photos it took to create the one seen above, he replied, “I’m not exactly sure, but I used hundreds of photos to create this one image.”

via My Modern Met

See more of Molloy’s photography in various styles here at 500px

Captivated by photographer Thomas Jackson’s “hovering sculptures” featured in this series, “Emergent Behavior.” Inspired by self-organizing, “emergent” systems in nature such as termite mounds, swarming locusts, schooling fish and flocking birds.. These images create an uneasy interplay between the natural and the manufactured, the real and the imaginary.” 

View full collection here.

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The Beauty Hidden Within Blackboards at Quantum Physics Labs

Today, in an age of dry-erase whiteboards and write-on wall paint — an age that has produced surfaces and markers that allow writings to be undone with the ruthless efficiency of a single swipe — blackboards have taken on the wistfulness of the outmoded technology. And the semi-erased chalkboard, in particular — its darkness swirled with the detritus of unknown decisions and revisions — compounds the nostalgia. Its spectral insights mingle in the bright dust of calcium carbonate.

Alejandro Guijarro sees that blurry beauty better than most. Over the last three years, the Spanish artist has visited some of the world’s most prestigious blackboards: the ones housed at the quantum mechanics labs of places like the University of Oxford, UC Berkeley, Stanford, CERN, Cambridge, and the Instituto de Física Corpuscular. At each place, he used a large-format camera to capture the markings left on the boards, just as he found them.

See more. [Images: Alejandro Guijarro]

The mysteries of hidden maths.

While Merriam-Webster has made some unfortunate additions to their Collegiate Dictionary for 2012 such as sexting, F-bomb (vote on whether or not you agree with this at this LA Times Poll) and systematic risk, Irish illustrator Fuchsia Macaree introduces a delightful series of ‘untranslatable words’ from languages all around the world, present and past. 

Check the full collection out here. Much better, right?

(via Design Taxi)