Melting the World

Sunga Park, South Korean designer and illustrator creates these lovely watercolor landscapes of various cities across the world including London, Paris, Busan, Istanbul, venice and Oxford.  These paintings are stunning in numerous manners; obviously aesthetically brilliant but also in a more resounding way.  One looks at each of these pieces and feels a lost memory, something everyone can relate to.  Something you wish you could remember perfectly, but is hazy with a few lines of details that you cannot shake.  The creation of a memory is a beautiful thing in and of it self, but I feel that Park truly captures these moments on paper.  I wish she could do a time-lapse of making these pieces, and truly save the movement and flow of a memory.

The Power of Empathy

This powerful short helps us understand the difference between "empathy" and "sympathy".  These words often get misused and miscommunicated in our daily lives.  The animation encompasses the two words in a simple, clear manner and allows the audience to truly understand (and enjoy) the power of empathy as opposed to sympathy. 

"Dr Brené Brown reminds us that we can only create a genuine empathic connection if we are brave enough to really get in touch with our own fragilities." 

Voice: Dr Brené Brown

Animation: Katy Davis (AKA Gobblynne) www.gobblynne.com

Floating Underwater

We all remember the glorious Japanese artist who painted photorealistic goldfish -- not on a canvas, but literally within the folds of their natural habitat.  

Well the impressive technique continues to thrive under Boston-based artist Jessica Dunegan's very talented hand.  "Working with epoxy resin, poured in layers with acrylic paint, the artist's creations are almost sculptural works of art as the pigments are encased within different levels of the translucent material." via MyModernMet

月

to the moon

Art thou pale for weariness

Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,

Wandering companionless

Among the stars that have a different birth,

And ever changing, like a Joyless eye

     That finds no object worth its constancy?

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) 

Photography: Klaus Kampert