{"id":9764,"date":"2015-06-30T01:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T05:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=9764"},"modified":"2025-09-15T15:47:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T19:47:32","slug":"swell-things-no-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/30\/swell-things-no-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Swell Things No. 24"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"stno24a\"<\/a><\/p>\n

1. I recently saw a few of\u00a0Richard Baker<\/a>‘s painted facsimiles of vintage paperback books. In these realistic paintings he leaves no detail unnoticed\u00a0down to the\u00a0tattering on the paper covers or the wrinkling from age. I also love the visible text block edge on the tail side.
\n2.\u00a0This raw and distorted, geometric portrait is apart of a larger series of work from Boston-based painter Josh Jefferson<\/a>.
\n3. I love these lush and whimsical illustrations from Helsinki-based designer Eero Lampinen<\/a>.
\n4. Photographer Chris Buck is best known for his celebrity portraits until recently when he had a 10″ figurine of himself 3D printed by start-up Doob<\/a>. Now he’s taking dozens of pictures of his miniature self in the most unlikely places. Check out the PetaPixel article<\/a>.
\n5. Sarapes are blanket-like shawls worn in Mexico and are often woven with brightly colored threads and fringed at the ends. In his series called Sarapes<\/em><\/a>, artist Adrian Esparza has been exploring his own Mexican heritage by deconstructing these blankets and transforming them into large scale geometric string art.<\/p>\n

\"stno24b\"<\/a><\/p>\n

6.\u00a0This is by far the weirdest motion sensor device I’ve ever seen. PomPom Mirror<\/em>\u00a0was created by Daniel Rozin<\/a> and includes over 900 faux fur pom poms, which are manipulated by 460+ motors to create a reflection in real-time. Check out the mirror in action in this video<\/a>.
\n7. Papers for Characters<\/em><\/a> is a wonderful series by design studio Atipo, in which a single sheet of paper is manipulated in a simple way to represent a famous movie. The one above is… Dracula<\/em>!
\n8. Every Monday Elvira Johanna Duives<\/a> uploads the next “portrait of the week”. Her fantastic miniature portraits are sized at 5.5cm x 4cm and are not painted (nor are they latch hook as I thought), but created through the use of Copic markers and colored pencils. The fat markers offer the desirable soft edges that she gets with each portrait. I love them and apparently she does commissions!
\n9. The Getty Museum put together this\u00a0concise, yet informative video on how manuscripts were made<\/a>. The video includes the production of parchment and how it is transformed into a workable surface for the scribe before finishing off with one way the parchment signatures would have been bound. The binding demonstration is done by the great William Anthony.
\n10. Idiot Box<\/em> is a photography series from Donna Stevens<\/a> capturing the glazed expressions of children while watching television. Their zombie-like stares are glowing from the light of the screen; some are caught in mid-expression. But overall the portraits are quite chilling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. I recently saw a few of\u00a0Richard Baker‘s painted facsimiles of vintage paperback books. In these realistic paintings he leaves no detail unnoticed\u00a0down to the\u00a0tattering on the paper covers or the wrinkling from age. I also love the visible text block edge on the tail side. 2.\u00a0This raw and distorted, geometric portrait is apart of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[633],"tags":[1821,1825,1829,1823,1827,1830,1822,1828,1826,1820,1824,1819],"class_list":["post-9764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-swell-things","tag-adrian-esparza","tag-atipo","tag-chris-buck","tag-daniel-rozin","tag-donna-stevens","tag-doob","tag-eero-lampinen","tag-elvira-johanna-duives","tag-getty-museum","tag-josh-jefferson","tag-papers-for-characters","tag-richard-baker"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-2xu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5496,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/30\/swell-things-no-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":9764,"position":0},"title":"Swell Things No. 4","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"April 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"1. These brilliant and mystifying jellyfish are captured by artist Alexander Semenov, who studied Zoology from Moscow State University and specialized in invertebrate animals.2. Indigo: The Color that Changed the World\u00a0by Catherine Legrand follows her search to reveal the few remaining communities that continue to harvest and produce indigo, tracking\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "swell things"","block_context":{"text":"swell things","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/category\/swell-things\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/stno4b.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/stno4b.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/stno4b.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":10712,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/30\/swell-things-no-34\/","url_meta":{"origin":9764,"position":1},"title":"Swell Things No. 34","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"June 30, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"1.\u00a0Painting the same portrait over and over using slight variations in scale and palette, one can get a sense of how colors can play off of one another or evoke different moods. Hayley Mitchell has done just this with the face of a woman with round cheeks, a floral headdress\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "swell things"","block_context":{"text":"swell things","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/category\/swell-things\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/stno34b.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/stno34b.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/stno34b.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":7080,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/30\/swell-things-no-10\/","url_meta":{"origin":9764,"position":2},"title":"Swell Things No. 10","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"November 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"1. My husband is an animator for the Planetarium at the Museum of Science in Boston. At a recent event called Cosmic Loops,\u00a0the planetarium became the stage for musician Ian Case. As a treat from the regular space imagery, the animators got to play around with ethereal visuals to compliment\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "swell things"","block_context":{"text":"swell things","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/category\/swell-things\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/stno10b.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/stno10b.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/stno10b.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":10121,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/31\/swell-things-no-27\/","url_meta":{"origin":9764,"position":3},"title":"Swell Things No. 27","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"October 31, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"1. Korwin Briggs is a comic book artist and created this delightful infographic, Mummy Brown and Other Historical Colors, detailing historical colors and where they came from, like Mummy Brown, yes it was derived from actual mummies. 2. Mikael Takacs\u00a0creates these wildly abstract and alien-like portraits using marbling techniques. 3.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "swell things"","block_context":{"text":"swell things","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/category\/swell-things\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/stno27b.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/stno27b.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/stno27b.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":7313,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/31\/swell-things-no-11\/","url_meta":{"origin":9764,"position":4},"title":"Swell Things No. 11","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"December 31, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"1. Purely a fashion find: Three Floor, offers up some unique and interesting garments with unusual structural elements.\u00a02. The Bristol Central Library just celebrated its 400th anniversary and as a tribute to its history installed a massive living sculpture cleverly referred to as Book Hive. Robotics collective, Rusty Squid, designed\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "swell things"","block_context":{"text":"swell things","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/category\/swell-things\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/stno11b.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/stno11b.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/stno11b.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9917,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/31\/swell-things-no-26\/","url_meta":{"origin":9764,"position":5},"title":"Swell Things No. 26","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"August 31, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"1.\u00a0Recently installed at the Shatin Park in Hong Kong is Kaleidome, a structure for children to play on. But the real beauty lies in its design. The brightly colored, stainless-steel dome is angled in a way that alters your perception of the\u00a0surrounding city; just like viewing the world through a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "swell things"","block_context":{"text":"swell things","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/category\/swell-things\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/stno26b.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/stno26b.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/stno26b.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9764"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9771,"href":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9764\/revisions\/9771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}