MOLE THE WORLD — international art project
Mole the World is a global connection of artists from many countries through photos, drawings, graffiti, graphics and any other creative use of the project symbol: Mole. The goal of the project is to spread the idea of ‘moling’ — using the symbol in artistic ways.
Feeling creative? Visit the website: Mole the World.
My thanks to Katya for her post about the Mole the World project.
I’ve been messing about with the polar coordinates filter in Photoshop and getting some nice results. Some photos definitely work better than others but even the ‘failures’ are interesting. Quite a few people (and I’m one of them) use the filter to create weird little planets but I’m interested in seeing what else I can do with it.
This is the original photo before it was duplicated, flipped horizontally to create a mirror image, resized into a distorted square and transformed into spheres.
My thanks to Leanne Cole for posting a tutorial on the polar coordinates distortion filter.
It’s been two years since the first big earthquake shook Christchurch awake in the middle of the night on September 4th, 2010. Parts of the city are fine (and always have been). Other parts are slowly recovering. Some are still a mess or are now empty — blank canvases waiting for something artistic and wonderful to happen. Or not.
The September earthquake was not the worst (we’ve had a number of more destructive quakes since then) but that’s when it all started. And even though it’s been relatively quiet lately — well, we’ve been here before and we know not to get too comfortable… don’t we?
‘My life is a disaster movie’ (ink on paper) was drawn for a student project about the 2010/2011 earthquakes (previously posted here — about halfway down). The little tornado character represents how confusing and unsettling it is to have the expression ‘solid ground’ removed from your vocabulary.
Various sketchbook entries and illustration ideas for the project.
This is one of the mosaic sculptures at The Giant’s House in Akaroa. Artist Josie Martin has transformed her garden with sculptures and mosaics to create an exceptional and magical place. I took lots and lots of photos (as you can imagine) when we visited a few years ago, but this one is my favourite: a larger-than-life Marcel Marceau leaning on thin air.
This is New Zealand artist Len Lye’s Water Whirler in motion. The kinetic sculpture was built posthumously on its own pier in Wellington, 2006.
I haven’t posted many photographs lately (possibly because I haven’t taken many I really like), so I thought I’d remedy the situation by posting a selection of slightly older images.
This photograph was taken in Nelson several years ago using my (then) brand new Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ20. It may not be brilliant quality by today’s standards, but I still quite like this shot of a New Zealand native wood pigeon (kererū).
Anna Cull ~ Art & Music 