The curious avian creations of artist Calvin Ma – sculptural iterations of a character camouflaged as various birds: from owls and pigeons to Mandarin ducks.
The ceramic figures are part of an ongoing series entitled ‘Blend In: Making Home’ wherein each species represents an emotion or experience tied to social anxiety, which Ma bolsters with corresponding environments, like a birch cage or a flower-lined nest.
With a nod, if not a deep bow to Rick And Morty , this short by Stefan Schumacher tells the tale of Trevor and Gleb – two alien sharks who camouflage themselves to blend in after crash landing on a strange planet.
And therein lies a grim message about the plight of real sharks on earth.
In the debut episode of the Wired Masterminds season, Jonna Mendez, former Head of Disguise at the CIA (an epic job title, in fairness), explains how masquerade is used in espionage. To wit:
With women, you have a broader range of what you can do. You also have one extra step: you can turn a woman into a man. I would mention that it’s almost impossible to turn a man into a woman. What we do is always additive — we can make you taller, we can make you heavier, we can make you older — we can’t go the other direction. You want to be the person that gets on the elevator and then gets off and nobody even remembers that you were really there. That is a design goal at the disguise labs at CIA.
A short by London-based French illustrator and animator GEORGE(S) concerning a guy who likes to hide himself everywhere he can.
Knitted Camouflage: an ongoing collaboration between friends photographer Joseph Ford and knitter Nina Dodds.
This morning.
Finglas, Dublin 11
Gavin Kenny tweetz:
I saw this plank of wood just floating down the road this morning….
Thanks Duke
A photo taken by Canadian farmer Liezel Kennedy which looks, at first, like empty Saskatchewan winter tundra…
…but turns out…
…on closer examination.
…to contain 550 sheep.
Initially believing her flock to have scarpered, Kennedy says that she only spotted the ovine ninjas once she got within 50 feet of them.
It’s a problem she also faces in Spring and Summer.
‘sup?
Spotted ‘somewhere in Wicklow’ yesterday.
(Thanks Conor Burns)
