Quick Pic: Mona Lisa and Golden Ratio

"Mona Lisa and Golden Ratio"

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Mona Lisa (also known as La Gioconda or La Joconde) is a 16th century portrait painted in oil on a poplar panel by Leonardo da Vinci during the Italian Renaissance. The work is owned by the Government of France and is on the wall in the Louvre in Paris. It is perhaps the most famous and iconic painting in the world.

Prevalent in the major works of Leonardo Da Vinci and underlying many of his design compositions, is the Phi relationship (also known as the Golden Ratio or the Golden Mean), a Ratio of approximately 1:1.618, found in Nature and Creation, and inherent in the Fibonacci sequence. The Golden Rectangle, the Golden Triangle, and the Golden Pyramid, all based on the Golden Ratio are all appear prominent in the work of Leonardo Da Vinci. He referred to the Golden Ratio as the “Divine Proportion.”

Also, certain Solar System orbital periods and relative planetary distances are also related to Phi. Some scientists say that the shape of the Universe itself is a Dodecahedron based on Phi.

Quick Pic: Trump is a perfect candidate

"That's why Trump is a perfect candidate" by YEPYEPYEPYEPYEPYEP

It's not about politics, just funny.

Link Round-Up: May 28, 2015

"Fighter Squadron" by Belarus-based Dmitriy Leonovich

Illustration for a collectible card game.

Interview: The Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow talks about the irony of putting the Indominus Rex on party plates.

All of her years writing about Dementors have set up J.K. Rowling to sass the Westboro Baptist Church on Twitter.

An argument for the golden age of sci-fi being 29.

Eric Adler of the Adler Vermillion law firm and the Legal Hackers group dives into the odd nuances of copyright laws as applied to video games.  Once upon a time Isaac Asimov wrote a short story about this.

Feminist Mad Max Tumblr: hey girl: you can use my shoulder as a rifle stand, as you’re the better shot of the two of us.

Hayao Miyazaki's - On Your Mark "In 1994, Hayao Miyazaki took a break from writing the script for Princess Mononoke to work on this music video from Japnese pop duo Chage & Aska" 

Shaun Tan is most identified with his distinctly surreal style of 2D still art, but he has also worked in sculpted and animated forms, as seen in his pieces inspired by recently revised stories of the Brothers Grimm, and The Lost Thing, a short film based on his book of the same name.

You won't regret that tattoo: A short, sweet first documentary by Angie Bird, via the Tattoo Historian at Tattoo History Daily.

Link Round-Up: May 27, 2015

"Girl in front of a painting." by megatruh

Inspired by the illustration "絵空事の世界"

Interview: Tansy Rayner Roberts discusses masculinity and femininity, chastity belts and scold’s bridles, and how to interrogate genre with Mad Max: Fury Road.  You may have noticed that a certain madcap romp named Mad Max: Fury Road has captured our hearts. Here’s one of the many, many reasons why.

Empire Magazine has the first images of Matt Damon in The Martian, which sadly looks more Gravity than Interstellar. (More here!)

I'm not really great with math, but there's something about visual proofs that I find fascinating.  Here's an animated visual proof that, for any positive integer n, (1 + 2 + … + n)² = (1³ + 2³ + … + n³) along with an unanimated version for people who hate gifs.  If you like color coded geometry, check out this 1847 version of The First Six Books of The Elements of Euclid where color is used instead of A/B/C for angle names.  Graphical arithmetic is also very cool.

In the summer of 1963 Jerry Gretzinger began drawing a map of an imaginary city. You can now use Jerry's Map to zoom in on any of the over 3,200 eight by ten inch panels of the original paper map, executed in acrylic, marker, colored pencil, ink, collage, and inkjet print. This short film by Greg Whitmore takes a fascinating look at the project and the artist's process, which "is dictated by the interplay between an elaborate set of rules and randomly generated instructions." Via: Google Maps Mania

Studied by the Greeks, the Golden Ratio is pretty much everywhere and is common accepted as aesthetically pleasing, and now it has been found to exist down into the nanoscale level, as a byproduct of investigating the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. We may not be able to nail down both position and speed, but it appears the macro ratio is an echo of the micro one. Its natural occurrences are often associated with beauty and health. But naysayers think the Golden Ratio is myth or even a scam.  Here's an interesting response to the "scam" article.

Whether you are a professional photographer or an avid Instagrammer, chances are that food is a frequent subject of your pictures—the Serious Eats team has recently put together a serious guide to food photography that could help you to up your game.

You know, sometimes life can be rough. We all got hard things to deal with, right? Sometimes we lose people. Sometimes people hurt us. And some days we're just not feeling it and we don't even know why. When I'm feeling down one thing I like to do is play a game. I feel like games can really bring us together. - Life got you down? Play a relaxing game of Dungeons & Dragons with action star Vin Diesel. 

Link Round-Up: April 20, 2015

"R'lyeh" by MarcSimonetti

The golden ratio has spawned a beautiful new curve: the Harriss spiral is a new fractal discovered by mathematician Edmund Harriss.

The Golden Ratio in Art Composition and Design  Graphic artists depict the golden ratio – in pictures  Alex Bello blogs about the book: Golden Meaning: 55 graphic artists reveal the maths of the golden ratio  Another look, from Creative Review

H.R. Giger lives on in this festival of rare and unseen films.

 

A Japanese whiskey company mills incredibly detailed ice cubes in shapes like Batman, Mario, Godzilla, and more.

Not art, but still interesting: The hidden FM radio inside your pocket -- and why you can't use it.  The app mentioned in the story to (potentially) unlock your smartphone's FM tuner for personal use can be found over here.

A professional photographer for more than 20 years, and published in Q, Melody Maker and Rolling Stone, Pat Pope has worked with many of the biggest names in pop and rock music, including Oasis, David Bowie and Radiohead. One act with whom he has worked several times are 90s indie titans Garbage. Indeed, they admire Pope’s work so much that recently, as they put together a forthcoming self-published book, their management asked his permission to use one of his pictures of them. So far, so good... Pat Pope’s row with Garbage.

Link Round-Up: April 15, 2015

"The Wall" by Sparth

15 tiny design features that show Apple’s insane attention to detail

Bart’s Blackboard is an archive of screen captures of everything Bart ever wrote on the blackboard in the intro of "The Simpsons"  

Creative Flip Books Made With A Hole-Puncher and other unique techniques

This Elevation Map Of Mars makes the Red Planet much more Colorful

The European Space Agency Is Being Littered With Pacman-Style Art

Graphic artists depict the golden ratio – in pictures.  Alex Bello blogs about the book: Golden Meaning: 55 graphic artists reveal the maths of the golden ratio.  Another look, from Creative Review.  Malika Favre's image on her blog.  The Golden Ratio in Art Composition and Design. Recent counterpoint from some guy writing for Fast Company. (Via)

One Man Is 3D Printing Models of Every Creature In D&D's Monster Manual

Posters: The Golden Ratio

"The Golden Ratio" by Daniel P. Cosgrove

Link Round-Up: March 23, 2015

"The Golden Ratio" by Michal Urbanski

3D Printed BattleMops and WarBrooms Bring Legendary Battles to Your Kitchen

But what would Interstellar be like without the tesseract?

A glance behind the curtain: How CreativeMornings runs their 106 monthly chapters.

Here's an in-depth analysis of the best scene ever committed to film ever!

The No-Stilettos Rule: My Approach As A Woman Creating Scifi Book Covers

Rainworks are positive messages and art that only appear when it rains. Peregrine Church watched a video showing off the properties of superhydrophobic coatings and got an idea uniquely suited to his environment: famously rainy Seattle.  Using a spray-on coating, he did a stencil at a bus stop. It's invisible in dry weather, but as rain hits it and the wet concrete darkens, the writing and art becomes clear. Since then, more have been added: tentacles, hopscotch grids, environmental messages, lily pads, and more.  Visit the rain.works site for videos and demonstrations, plus a brief FAQ.

Travel back to a time when dystopian cyberpunk futures were not yet our dystopian cyberpunk present.

Link Round-Up: July 22, 2011

The Apple Logo and the Golden Ratio

9 Classic Album Covers Re-Imagined With ‘Harry Potter’ Characters

Andrew Le puts the TARDIS in travel posters for fun.

Destroy Your Hard Drive is a handy sticker to help you when the secret police break down your door.

Harry Potter and the Rest of His Life

Pop-Cultured Currency - Technically, defacing US currency is a crime – but artist James Charles doesn’t seem to be in any legal trouble for his awesome series of Pop Culture Cash. His portraits, created on real money using ink, turn dead presidents into colorfully amusing pop culture icons. Alternate site with larger pics.

Running from Camera: 1) Put the self-timer on 2 seconds. 2) Push the button and run away.

Steampunk-Themed Office Space for Three Rings Design Office: Creative workspaces are clearly getting more noticed in a world where everyone needs to concentrate and enjoy their work. The Three Rings Design Office located in San Francisco was created as an intriguing steampunk-themed office space that inspires and fortifies the talent of the people working here.