olga mink: fragments from atlantida.

Time for a walk on the experimental side. Interactive and new media artist Olga Mink’s “Fragments From Atlantida” is a a lot of things: a nature study, a motion triptych, a mind-blowing amount of work in Final Cut, a conversation piece, an oddity, a puzzle, and a stony, misty, cerebral look at the mystique of the outdoors. All that, and it has a balloon in it. I’m a sucker for balloons.

Mink says it’s “an imaginary journey through the seven islands experienced as an interchange between image and sound charting a conversational movements of colour, light, texture through the natural world.”

We’re too used to things that are so easily and quickly understood. Most of all, I love this because it challenged me to think.

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sølve sundsbø: perroquet.

Inspired by nature documentaries and science photography, fashion photographer Sølve Sundsbø created “Parroquet”, a series of photographs and short videos exploring the sleek, mutli-hued avian beauty of the parroquet, a type of long-tailed parrot. Presented by SHOWStudio, the pictures are stunningly beautiful. Interesting how nature and evolution have created a palette of colour as gorgeous as, arguably more gorgeous than, any art created by human hands.

The only thing more beautiful that the photographs are the eight videos; little slow-motion epics of the perroquets in flight. The colours are so deep and brilliant it’s almost hard to believe that they’re only feathers.

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