Beautifully Imperfects

Art, Technology, Imperfection: Rosa Menkman and Aesthetics

roxen101 — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 16:53:03 +0000

“Glitches are the uncanny, brutal structures that come to the surface during a break of the flow within a technology; they are the primal data-screams of the machine. In the digital these utterances often take form following the “vernacular of file formats” (the encoded organizations of data). A file format signifies what protocols (formal descriptions and semantic rules) are used to structure or encode the information. Many different file formats exist, for different forms of information and every one of these formats possesses its own encoding structures, which can be understood as a grammar or idiom. When this idiom is broken, for instance by a glitch or a wrong encoding, the data in its basic/primal structures of encoding comes to the surface. Visually glitches show themselves through organizational structures like rasters, grids, blocks, points, interlacing vectors and frames and therefore often look complex, repetitive, discolored, fragmented and flickering”.

Source:http://dinca.org/interview-with-rosa-menkman-dutch-visualist/5323.htm

See also:Rosa Menkman

Evolution

MIC — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 16:52:37 +0000

Evolution is an advertising campaign launched by Unilever in 2006 as part of its Dove Campaign for Real Beauty, to promote the newly created Dove Self-Esteem Fund. The centre of the Unilever campaign is a 75-second spot produced by Ogilvy & Mather in Toronto, Canada. The piece was first displayed online on 6 October 2006, and was later broadcast as a television and cinema spot in the Netherlands and the Middle East. The ad was created from the budget left over from the earlier Daughters campaign, and was intended to be the first in a series of such online-focused spots by the company. Later pieces include Onslaught and Amy.Evolution was directed by Canadian director Yael Staav and Tim Piper, with sound design handled by the Vapor Music Group, and post-production by SoHo.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_(advertisement)

Contessa Rosafosca

katniss — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 16:15:29 +0000

Contessa Rosafosca is a laboratory where there are projects and strictly handmade items made with the belief that “beauty is not perfection: the imperfections, unique details, the mistakes make beautiful and personal collections of accessories, clothing and above all make it interesting and unique people. “ Contessa Rosafosca wants to shape an ancient tradition with new … joining present with future. Design and craft, a winning combination to propose new stimuli, creating shapes from harmonic lines capable of transferring the glass jewel a charming and elegant timeless style. Contessa Rosafosca is a trademark of OZ SIGN Cesaretto Silvia, a young graphic designer of Venetian origin. After working for seven years in the advertising agencies of Padua, Rovigo, Ferrara and Milan, in 2004 she moved to Switzerland, where she still lives and works as a graphic designer.

Source (in Italian): http://arredoeconvivio.com/arredo-e-design/limperfezione-e-bellezza____-contessa-rosafosca/

Giordano Morganti: The Beauty From a Different Perspective

roxen101 — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 15:56:24 +0000

The photographer Giordano Morganti shows the beauty from a different perspective. He gives the opportunity to observe the individual through the lens of a photographic lens that takes us away from the frantic search of perfection, beauty, eternal youth and happiness and require the acceptance of the limits.

Source (in Italian ):http://www.spaziotadini.it/Giordano_Morganti_Page.html

Blame the Nose

roxen101 — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 15:25:12 +0000

Source:Cyrano de Bergerac

When the Imperfection Tastes Good

roxen101 — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 14:55:26 +0000

Instagram is a free application that allows users to take photos, apply filters, and share many of the social networking features. Despite the few effects and the standardization of the product it is funny. Particularly interesting is the square format, even if much more difficult to manage than the classic 2/3.
The photos are imperfect but they ‘taste good’.

Source (in Italian): http://www.matteozanardi.it/Galleria-Fotografica/instagram

Gabi Trinkaus: Imperfection/Perfection in the Assemblage

katniss — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 14:53:12 +0000

Gabi Trinkaus is an Austrian photographer who uses clippings of female magazines to compose new faces and new people. Notwithstanding the use of a lot of not homogeneous paper’s pieces, every work of Trinkaus is ‘perfect and harmonious’.

Source: http://www.itsnotplastic.com/larte-dellassemblaggio/

The Imperfection of Love in the Animations

roxen101 — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 14:22:20 +0000

It’s a long time that the cinematography proposes loves not stereotyped, imperfect. Not only love between princes and princesses, performing men and sweet girls, but love between animals and commoners, ogres and princesses, retro robots and super technology.

Bald and Beautiful

MIC — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 14:05:04 +0000

With time, a shaven head has became fashionable as skinheads have eventually lost their shock value. Bald and beautiful is what these women would like to be called.

Source: http://weheartit.com/from/antm06.multiply.com

The Power Of Imperfection

Pa.Cla.Vi. — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 12:57:39 +0000

The Renaissance man puts himself at the center of the world and loves to be represented in all his fair power, not separated by a certain hardness.Piero della Francesca painted in the face of Federico da Montefeltro the expression of a man who knows exactly what he wants. The shapes of body do not hide the strength, nor the effects of pleasure: the man of power, fat and dumpy when is not muscular, flaunts the signs of the power he exercises. While the aesthetic theory engages with the rules of proportion and symmetry of the body, the powerful men of the time are living a violation of these laws: the male figure also lends itself to enhance the freedom of the artist of the classical canons.

http://www.cinemavvenire.it/i-corsi/il-concetto-di-bellezza-nei-secoli-2a-parte/l-arte-nell-evoluzione-e-nella-storia-umana