Random Got Beautiful

Nikki Farquharson began Random Got Beautiful in March 2007.

This online collage of random photographs is open for public participation.

The idea is to take objects of various colours out of their original context and place them together to create a new one.

The title 'Random Got Beautiful' (RGB for short) was chosen once colour was decided to be the theme.

RGB relies on a collaborative effort while also supporting self promotion.

From the site, click an image to take you to the extermal site of the person who provided that photo.

www.randomgotbeautiful.com

Random Got Beautiful

Nikki Farquharson began Random Got Beautiful in March 2007.

This online collage of random photographs is open for public participation.

The idea is to take objects of various colours out of their original context and place them together to create a new one.

The title 'Random Got Beautiful' (RGB for short) was chosen once colour was decided to be the theme.

RGB relies on a collaborative effort while also supporting self promotion.

From the site, click an image to take you to the extermal site of the person who provided that photo.

www.randomgotbeautiful.com

Mafioso Chic

I caught a glimpse of this gentleman from my office window today. He was parking his blacked-out G-Wag outside our office, and I had to rush down and ask him if I could get a shot. He was on his way to his hat tailor when I approached him, of course.

I respect a man who's dedicated to his look. It was flawless down to the socks.

Diggit,

-S

Mafioso Chic

I caught a glimpse of this gentleman from my office window today. He was parking his blacked-out G-Wag outside our office, and I had to rush down and ask him if I could get a shot. He was on his way to his hat tailor when I approached him, of course.

I respect a man who's dedicated to his look. It was flawless down to the socks.

Diggit,

-S

Anémic Cinéma (1926)

Anémic Cinéma (1926) is a Dadaist, surrealist, or experimental film made by Marcel Duchamp. The film depicts whirling animated drawings -- which Duchamp called Rotoreliefs -- alternated with puns in French.

Rotoreliefs were a phase of Duchamp's spinning works. To make the optical "play toys" he painted designs on flat cardboard circles and spun them on a phonograph turntable that when spinning the flat disks appeared 3-dimensional. He had a printer run off 500 sets of six of the designs and set up a booth at a 1935 Paris inventors' show to sell them. The venture was a financial disaster, but some optical scientists thought they might be of use in restoring 3-dimensional sight to people with one eye.

In collaboration with Man Ray and Marc Allégret, Duchamp filmed early versions of the Rotoreliefs and they named the first film version Anémic Cinéma. - Wikipedia

...I think this film was best commented by a you-tuber who said, "If you are interested in the origins of contemporary art, you may want to study in depth the work of Marcel Duchamp."

Whether you like it/ choose to understand it or not, you must understand that Duchamp created an entire new realm of art. He was an inventor who paved the way for the use of film as a medium in art.

1926, think about it?

-S

Anémic Cinéma (1926)

Anémic Cinéma (1926) is a Dadaist, surrealist, or experimental film made by Marcel Duchamp. The film depicts whirling animated drawings -- which Duchamp called Rotoreliefs -- alternated with puns in French.

Rotoreliefs were a phase of Duchamp's spinning works. To make the optical "play toys" he painted designs on flat cardboard circles and spun them on a phonograph turntable that when spinning the flat disks appeared 3-dimensional. He had a printer run off 500 sets of six of the designs and set up a booth at a 1935 Paris inventors' show to sell them. The venture was a financial disaster, but some optical scientists thought they might be of use in restoring 3-dimensional sight to people with one eye.

In collaboration with Man Ray and Marc Allégret, Duchamp filmed early versions of the Rotoreliefs and they named the first film version Anémic Cinéma. - Wikipedia

...I think this film was best commented by a you-tuber who said, "If you are interested in the origins of contemporary art, you may want to study in depth the work of Marcel Duchamp."

Whether you like it/ choose to understand it or not, you must understand that Duchamp created an entire new realm of art. He was an inventor who paved the way for the use of film as a medium in art.

1926, think about it?

-S

INFLUENCE: Patrick Nagel

There are a few people who really POP out of my mind as great childhood influences when I was growing up in the 1980's. People like Helmut Newton, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Peter Gabriel, Madonna, and Boy George were pretty iconic for me. Particularly though, I was drawn to the images of Patrick Nagel.

Not only did Nagel's images embody the chic and sleek style of the 80's, but I think his work had a greater hand in creating what the 80's were becoming at the very time. What I'm trying to say is that Nagel was less an observer of the time and more so an influence to the time... Would the 80's be the same without his images? Would have Armani evolved YSL's "Le Smoking Tuxedo" to create the famous power-suit for women? ... Would have Donna Karan introduced her 'Essentials Line' for the 80's working woman if not for Nagel's images?

Nagel's vision of the iconic 80's woman was so influential that even today his images are popularly used. How many times have you seen a mom-n'-pop hair salon or nail shop use a window decal with a Nagel-esq picture? If you haven't noticed, I dare you to take a look... you'll be surprised at how many beauty shops use his images even today.

The man even influenced computer software applications like that of Adobe Photoshop. The simplifying tools on photoshop are like an undeclared homage to the working style of Nagel. You see, all of Nagel's illustrations were based in photography. "Nagel would start with a photograph and work down, always simplifying and removing elements which he felt were unnecessary. The resulting image would look flat, but emphasized those elements which he felt were most important." -Wikipedia.

One of the last influential artists of the 20th century, Patrick Nagel.

-S

SYI - Nagel's 1982 painting for the album cover of Duran Duran's hit album Rio would become one of his best known images.