shape+colour

i'm jeremy. i like art and motion and beauty. i'm a writer. i have an obsession with colour. i have a motion design and photography blog. when i post there it posts here.

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martin böttger: foliage shoal.

Staccato leaves and angry chlorophyll. Like plants calling out through static: “Foliage Shoal” is stunning, jarring work from Berlin-based animator and artist Martin Böttger.

Via…

ian stevenson + luke seomore: stare into the sun.

I’m always into exploring the sort of cruel paradox of hiding brutal life lessons inside the guise of children’s things. There’s always a witch heating up an oven just around the corner…

tom geraedts: eros.

My fascination with colour theory has led me into studying not just the science of colours but also their associated anomalies: colour blindness, synesthesia, and to total blindness itself. Make…

i used to love paul smith. i have a pair of glasses (he calls them “spectacles”, oh paul…) from him. the striped pattern is so perfect. classic. or would have been, if he hadn’t stretched his brand extension to a whole host of caché-destroying bullshit. the evian paul smith water bottle was a stretch. but this? it’s a fucking bicycle seat, paul smith! why you gotta do me like this…

“ clear water made blue-green in a pool is a fairly simple optical event. the white surface absorbs yellow, red, and other low-energy waves; the more energetic blue waves scatter and remain visible. blue has enough energy to escape complete absorption by water, snow, and glacial ice. its short wavelengths undergo the most scattering by atmospheric motes. it fills the sky with itself. in the family of light, blue is the fugitive. ”

- ellen meloy - “the anthropology of turquoise”

“ I can do this too.
(via shapeandcolour: lemitchell)
P.S. SHAPEANDCOLOUR DO YOU HAVE A FORMSPRING? ”

Blaaargh!

apparently i do.