Photography and Imaging 2

I'm a sucker for fluidity within art works. Here are two examples:

1) Sachiko Kodama makes these sculptures out of magnets:

2) Theo Jansen: this guy is one of those mad scientist artist types and this piece was actually featured in an article I read entitled "Five Pieces of Art That Can Probably Kill You."

He creates these creatures that are built to live autonomously and forever, able to traverse anything. They're also apparently very hard to destroy and they're powered by the wind. His dream is to release an entire flock of them onto a beach somewhere and have them live there forever.

Take a look:

Quote from the article:

"What would you do if, out enjoying a peaceful beach getaway with your loving wife and adoring children, you saw that thing charging towards you, charging on its thousand scuttling legs? Was your first answer "kill my sweet family immediately, in order to spare them the horrors of the beasts that come?" Because ours was."

Here's a link to the article with the other four that I don't find nearly as interesting, but you may nonetheless:

http://www.cracked.com/article_15963_5-works-art-that-can-probably-kill-you.html

Also today in Visual Thinking we talked about typefaces and I brought up the "Champion" font.

Here's a link to that article:

"http://parachutefonts.blogspot.com/2008/02/making-of-champion-script-pro_8686.ht

Essentially it's an important (supposedly world record breaking) font because of its intelligence. It has many versions of the same letter and places certain ones in certain places so that what you're typing winds up looking like actual handwriting.

P.S. This has nothing to do with art, but it does with your life. Has anyone heard of the Large Hadron Collider? I know this is no place for scientific chatter but I was discussing it with someone today because I've been researching it since it's initial construction. Basically, it's the largest particle accelerator ever created and physicists worry that when it's fired up it could possibly create a black hole and destroy the Earth (or even the Universe).

I know, sounds completely absurd, right?

But take a look at it...
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/05/14/science/15cern.xlarge1.jpg

In this picture, look for the man to give you an idea of scale:

http://a1.vox.com/6a00c2251c28f3f21900cdf7e74979094f-500pi

To read more about your imminent doom...

http://www.lhc.ac.uk/