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As proven on a couple of occasions, I enjoy photo galleries taken by high speed cameras. The latest gallery is thanks to the work or Martin Klimas that feature ceramic figures being dropped and captured by a super fast camera as he captures the transformation of the figure from one form to another albeit from whole to broken. The Morning News Article features and interview with Klimas where he briefly discusses the process and how the photos are captured. |
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While certainly impractical for holding large quantities of flowers, these outline vases garner at least a second look. Designed by Yuko Tokuda last year, these vases allow you to place a flower in the outline of familiar shapes creating a unique way to store it. The vases are made in Japan and are available from the Museum of Modern Art Store for $34 for the small vase and $48 for the tall vase if you are not a member. |
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This gallery of shots were taken at the Ackland Art Museum in 2001 and show the three and a half week process of two Buddhist monks creating a sand mandala. The monks first drew the five and a half foot outline of the Medicine Buddha and then spent the remainder of the time pouring the colored sand through their traditional funnel referred to as a chak-pur aided by an additional metal rod to help the sand flow like a liquid. Fourteen different colors of sand are used in sand mandalas: black and white and three shades of red, yellow, green and blue. After the mandala was completed, the ceremony was completed by its distruction. The sand was swept from the table into an urn and then dumped into the nearby Bolin Creek as a metaphor for the impermanence of life. Mandala in general are showing up more frequently in western culture, there is even a Mandala Project for people to share Mandala they have created. I find the intricacy of these sand paintings to be quite impressive and mandala in general to be pleasing to look at. |
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