Land.
A short and compelling video about the pre-production of the feature film Land. here! “Taha sets out on an epic 600 km journey along the Moroccan Atlantic coast to Europe—on a windsurfboard. More about the film.
Tantra Song by Franck André Jamme
From a recent interview with Franck André Jamme for the Paris Review‘s blog: It could be a cult classic: the debut edition of Siglio Press’s Tantra Song—one of the only books to survey the elusive tradition of abstract Tantric painting from Rajasthan, India—sold out in a swift six weeks. Rendered by hand on found pieces of paper [...]
Rebecca Solnit’s A Field Guide to Getting Lost
The world is blue at its edges and in its depths. This blue is the light that got lost. Light at the blue end of the spectrum does not travel the whole distance from the sun to us. It disperses among the molecules of the air, it scatters in water. Water is colorless, shallow water [...]
Valérie Buess
Swiss-born artist, Valérie Buess, gives old books new life by creating these amazing three-dimensional sculptures that look like sea creatures.
Robert Smithson, Mirror and Crushed Shells
On July 9, 1969 Robert Smithson wrote the following letter to Andy Warhol about Mirror and Crushed Shells: Dear Andy, This is to certify that the Mirror with Crushed Shells (Sanibel Island) is an original work of art. It consists of three mirrors which may be restored if broken, and one burlap bag of crushed shells collected by the artist at Sanibel [...]
Maggie Nelson’s Bluets
In German, to be blue—blau sein—means to be drunk. Delerium tremens used to be called the “blue devils” (Burns, 1787.) In England “the blue hour” is happy hour at the pub. Joan Mitchell—abstract painter of the first order, American expatriate living on Monet’s property in France, dedicated chromophile and drunk, possessor of a famously nasty tongue, and [...]
Skyspace
This is actually my last post on this blog so I’m gonna go out in style with one of my favorite artists, James Turrell. If you still want more awesomeness you can always follow me on twitter @lundhansen.
Sunsets by Ann Woo
Minimalistic photographs by the Chinese artist Ann Woo. See more of her work at annwoo.com
Into the rainforest
A little video I did with Erik Gustafsson and Deborah Moss for a Costa Rican rainforest ecolodge called Lapa Rios.
Tipping Barrels
Follow surfers Arran and Reid Jackson on a trip into the Great Bear Rainforest on the Pacific coast of Canada, one of few untouched forests of the world and an area threatened by the oil industry. Learn more at pacificwild.org
Great Pacific Garbage Patch
It’s pretty easy to disconnect from the impact our plastic habit has on the environment. But when you find yourself swimming in floating bits of garbage (as I did last summer in Far Rockaway), or you see an image like the one above, the impact is immediate and unavoidable. To learn more and bring awareness [...]
Repositories
Costa Rica is known for its holes, and in particular following the rainy season on the roads. I have a fondness for holes and a collection of mounds. These mounds range in material composition, but they tend to be made from organic matter. In composition they are created and range from additive to subtractive processes.
Water, Water Everywhere
PHANTOM WATER EDIT on Vimeo. Amazing footage by Australian cinematographer, Chris Bryan.
BARBS DOLED
There are many things that run deep in still waters. In the Pacific, things run even deeper and one is advised when one is spending time in the surf to shuffle their feet as you move across the ocean floor. Adhering to this logic is a purposeful measure against being barbed by a stingray. Rays [...]
Murmuration
A shared moment with one of natures greatest and most fleeting phenomena. Watch the video here:
Earth Time Lapse
Here’s an incredible time lapse made from photographs taken by the crew onboard the International Space Station (ISS) from August to October 2011. Shot from an altitude of around 350 km the earth looks like one big living organism and really puts human civilization in perspective. The video was edited together by Michael König.
A Life Underwater
For a lifetime 75 year-old Ray Ives has been collecting artifacts he found on the bottom of the sea while working as a professional diver. Everything from bottles, jars, propellers to swords, guns and gold. ”The sea is the biggest rubbish-dump in the world…” he says.
Postcard from the Farm
Greetings from the farm in Garza, Costa Rica where it is hot and humid. We’ve officially returned to the Nicoya Peninsula for the winter season where we were blown away by these beautiful plants: fresh ginger (gingibra in Spanish) from the huerta (garden) in Garza! That ginger goes into making a vodka infusion (see below) [...]
Nautilus News
“A horrendous slaughter is going on out here,” said Peter D. Ward, a biologist from the University of Washington, during a recent census of the marine creature in the Philippines. “They’re nearly wiped out. The culprit? Growing sales of jewelry and ornaments derived from the lustrous shell. To satisfy the worldwide demand, fishermen have been [...]
Gail Potocki
“I know of no other artist who wields insight, emotion, and intellectual heft—not to mention gorgeous technique—to examine the environmental ills besetting us today. Gail Potocki‘s landscapes are catastrophes unfolding before our eyes—in the sea, in the air, and on the land. Yet her human subjects, shattered and vulnerable, are creatures of exquisite hope… precisely [...]
Sand Dollar!
Walking down the beach in Guiones you can still find sand dollars at the waterline. These little critters are beautiful and fascinating but because they are typically pretty motionless, some tourists pick them up thinking of them like “seashells” and leave on the beach to dry out and inadvertently kill them. Here’s a short clip [...]
Wolfgang Bloch
The ocean is the inspiration and essence to my work. Its size, its constant physical and visual movement, fascinates me. It’s beautiful, powerful, quiet, mesmerizing and grand. Rather than recreating something I’ve witnessed, in my paintings emotion dictates the pace. —Wolfgang Bloch in interview with Project Be Bold
The Sheltering Sky
“Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler, belonging no more to one place than to the next, moves slowly, over periods of years, from one part of the earth to another.”― Paul Bowles
