It’s Like They Knew All Along

From: graphjam

You look pretty as a picture: Body Paint Festival draws in the artists who believe their skin is a canvas

Some artists like to get under the skin of their subjects but others - like the ones that created these stunning pieces of body art - prefer to use it to create the art itself.

The models in these pictures braved an unkind day of wind and rain to bare all and become works of art.

They were taking part in the fourth annual UK Body Paint Festival outside Ashford in Kent. 

I'm made up: Jade Webb, 20, was painted for the nursery rhymes themed contest with this design entitled There Was An Old Woman

Jade stands as still as she can as two painters go about covering her body with an image linked to the theme of nursery rhymes

Ann Igwell is one of the festival’s main organisers, said she was delighted with the turnout of some 400 people.

An experienced body artist herself, Ann has been painting bodies for years, and enjoys some of the unique artistic challenges it brings up.

She said: 'It is a challenge, not just because of the bumps and lumps.

'Painting on skin can be difficult and you’ve got things like sweating you have to take into account. 

'You have to think about the person’s shape and you might have to hide a few things.'

Artists, models and vendors came from as far as Belgium, Leeds, Dorset, Brighton, London, Hampshire, and Bristol and all over Kent for the two day event.

The unusual suspects: The models stand before the judges at the nursery rhymes themed competition

That's a nice coat: Miss Webb, left, had a separate design on her front, Oranges And Lemons, while the images on Ilka Evers, 27, were inspired by Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary 

The high points of the festival were the two daily competitions in which artists have to summon up all their creativity in a timed challenge to be judged at the end of the day.

On the first day artists are given pre-warning about the theme, which this year was musicality, but on the second day the theme is chosen in the morning and artists have to think creatively on the spot.

They then had five hours to design a painting to suit the theme, which this year was nursery rhymes, and turn their vision into a reality.

'This was the fourth UK Body Painting Festival and its aim was to encourage everyone to accept this medium as a respectable form of art expression and not associate it with any form of titillation,' said Ann.

'The skin is just a canvas. The theme for day one was Musicality and for day two, Nursery Rhymes and both days produced a colourful riot of talented paintings. The standard was incredibly high.'

Fae Marie Morgan, left, used the rhymes of Jack And Jill as well as Little Miss Muffet for her look. While Jess Harling, 18, models her Humpty Dumpty image. On her front she opted for an interpretation of Hey Diddle Diddle

'I bought my daughter Botox jabs for her 18th birthday'... says mother who has spent £45,000 on plastic surgery

Most mothers would aspire to pass on something of themselves to a teenage daughter.

But for Margaret King, that didn't mean offering young Jodie advice on the opposite sex or even guiding her on her wardrobe choices.

For her 18th birthday, she bought her Botox injections to get rid of the 'wrinkles' on the teenager's forehead.

Jodie King and mother Margaret, who bought her daughter Botox injections for her 18th birthday

Mrs King, who has spent £45,000 on cosmetic surgery procedures for herself, said: 'Jodie's forehead is like mine - she gets pronounced lines when she makes a facial expression. I knew Botox would solve the problem.'

Many surgeons do not recommend using Botox under the age of 30 because the skin has not sufficiently wrinkled and it could lead to an unnecessary loss of facial expression.

But Jodie, who had been worried about her complexion, is now addicted to the jabs and has spent £1,000 on them.

Her mother, a 49-year-old housewife who has had regular Botox injections for 11 years, has no qualms about her daughter inheriting her habit.

In fact, she is planning to buy Jodie a nose job for her 21st and has taken her for a consultation about breast enlargement.

Jodie, now nearly 20, earns £800 a month as a model, using the money to pay for Botox jabs.

Jodie admits she is hooked on Botox injections, which she started because she was concerned about her 'wrinkly' forehead (picture posed by model)

She first became concerned about her wrinkly forehead as a 17-year-old schoolgirl. She grew a fringe and bought expensive anti-ageing creams but still felt uncomfortable with the way she looked.

So for her 18th birthday in May 2007 her mother bought her £160 Botox injections. Jodie said: 'Nothing else seemed to work.

'My friends' faces all looked much smoother. Although when I said "my forehead is wrinkly" they told me it was OK.'

The teenager admits her mother is her role model when it comes to looks.

Mrs King, who is separated from Jodie's father, has been under the knife for a nose job, two breast enlargements, a tummy tuck and a mini-facelift.

Jodie said: 'My mum's always looked so glamorous and she uses cosmetic surgery and Botox to keep her looking young. I plan to follow in her footsteps.

'So what if I'm a teenage Botox addict? I can't think of anything worse than looking old. I'll always find a way to pay for Botox. Now I've started I can't stop.'

Six months after the first session, her smooth frozen look started to wear off, and Jodie feared her natural lines would come back. So she made the next appointment herself, and she and her mother now regularly go for jabs together at the private Anti-Ageing Clinic in South Woodford, North-East London. Each time, the dose is higher.

Jodie said the doctors expressed no concerns about her age. One of the clinic's doctors said there is no legal age limit for Botox, adding: 'The decision is based on each individual patient.'

But another cosmetic surgeon sounded a note of caution. Alex Karidis said: 'It sounds like this young lady is on a dangerous spiral. She's obviously getting encouragement from her mother who sounds like she might be addicted to Botox as well.

'It is very very unusual to have Botox at that age and 18-year-olds should only have it if there is a real facial deformity, not just normal lines when they frown.

'There is a real psychological danger. This is setting a precedent for using anti-ageing procedures for many years to come. The mother needs to be taking responsibility if she is encouraging her daughter to have injections into her face.'

for the apple geek of the day!

I’m sure this concept is going to bring smiles to many iGeeks (me included) and keep us lusting for it to become a reality! The Docking and Storage Base is a convenient tray that fits under the screen of the iMac or PC and docks everything ‘i’; iPod, iPhone, iPad. It covers the area below and to the back of the screen allowing you to sync, charge, store and display up to 3 devices. Two of the docks are towards the end of the ramp so that they don’t obstruct the main screen, allowing them to be used as secondary screens (clever!).

The tray also provides easy access to USB ports that are located in the front, plus all the wiring is concealed to give it a clean look. The only wires you’ll see are the ones for a firewire and a power source. Two storage cabinets for other smaller electronic devices, documents and pens, complete this panel’s features.

Totally Awesome!

salon nemetz (designliga)

Christina Nemetz is the ringmaster of Munich‘s hair fashion scene. Disarming, spontaneous and a polarizing force, she brings the full extent of her passion, expert advice and craftsmanship to each individual client.Workshop, stage, social space. These were the criteria and objectives of the functional, content-based and visual guidelines for aesthetic implementation.

designliga - Working Ideas

designliga is a multidisciplinary design company based in Munich. Founded in 1998, today we are a team of experienced designers, consultants and interior designers. Our work focuses on the analytical development of ideas. We feel, think and work across disciplines and realise projects in the sectors of Communication- & Interior Design.

Awards

nominated - Designpreis der B.R.Deutschland 2009
if communication design award GOLD 2006, 2005
if communication design award 2007, 2004
reddot design award 2007, 2004
100 beste Plakate 2003

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MTV
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Richemont - Northern Europe
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Universal Music

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Subverting the LiDAR Landscape: Tactics of spatial redefinition

This one is, imho, equally as fascinating as The Fortress of Senses but it is also strikingly different. Subverting the LiDAR Landscape: Tactics of spatial redefinition for a digitally empowered population is a speculative project which questions the way we interact with digital and physical versions of our cities.

The project is based around LiDAR technology - 3D scanning but on a city scale. Google Earth and Streetview have now become people's most trusted tool for exploring and researching urban space. Moreover, the tools are now taken as virtual fact by a global internet population. They will soon be replaced by intricate 3D modeled versions of our cities derived from mobile 3D scanning units - LiDAR equipped vehicles.

Matthew Shaw's project aims to subvert this mapping, by arming the population with the tools to edit the way their city is scanned and recorded. These tools are not digital hacks but physical interventions. They manipulate the scanning process and act as waypoints and markers linking the physical world to the digital.</DIV>

I'm leaving you with Matthew's description of the project:

A subverted scan of London

The Surveillance series are drawings that explore the city from stealth locations. They see what a LiDAR unit sees, what through wall radar can sense, what an IRA bomber may have thought, what AL-Qaida may be watching. They hide, see through walls, bend light and look round corners.

Surveillance

Surveillance

The Scan series are hybrid landscapes of real and imagined LiDAR data. They take actual 3D scans of the parliament area of London and breed them with speculative LiDAR blooms, blockages, holes and drains. These are the result of strategically deployed devices which offset, copy, paste, erase and tangle LiDAR data around them. They show the route of stealth drills carving LiDAR data in the public redecoration zone. They show boundary miscommunication devices - hotspots of spatial truths and mistruths. They show the deployment of flash architecture and toolpaths of stealth mechanics. Parliament is offset to St. James Park; protestors shelter under a LiDAR shield on the Mall, an urban transplant replaces Downing Street with an insurgent gateway and a Huas-MattaClarkian vista.

Scan

Scan

A series of prototypical objects explore the form and materiality of stealth and subversion. Each object starts life as an intuitively carved wooden sketch. These then become 3D notebooks on which to design precise insertions and additions. The objects are then 3D scanned using a self built scanner to enable precision inserts to be machined and added to the originals. These objects are then scanned and their digital siblings cast and machined from the scanned data.

Prototype

Prototype

Prototype

The Surface Error series compounds the slight errors implicit in the scanning process and shows the distortion, mistruth and beauty that repeated error can create. A base SLS printed target is repeatedly scanned, 3D printed and re-scanned for 12 iterations. This micro test of distortion could be applied on a city scale, altering its digital appearance .

Surface Error

Surface Error

The Parliament series is made of subverted terrestrial laser scans and their respective tools, tool paths and deployment diagrams.

Scans taken in Westminster, London between 7:23pm on June 3 and 11.56pm on June 17 showing pointcloud data collected near the Houses of Parliament. The facade of Parliament is visible in a swarming clouds of scanned noise and subverted data. These mistruths are engineered through a series of strategically placed disruptive objects positioned in the scan path.

 

 

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[The first three series of works are from the masters project 2008/09 and hypothesise the subversion of large scale terrestrial laser scanning. The final two series test these ideas using a £70k Faro Photon 120 terrestrial laser scanner on loan to the Bartlett from the manufacturers. The scanner is capable of scanning 360 degrees of intricate 3D data in full colour and up to a distance of 150 meters. This research is continuing along with other scanning projects as part of ScanLAB@theBartlett, more info to be revealed shortly!]

For further information please contact matthew.shaw at ucl.ac.uk.