Walk No More?

On Silence by Morgan True

I’d like to call attention to every explosive moment of silence that ever altered the course of humanity. Such as, the moment when you look in someone’s eyes and see the volumes of data encoded in the flecks of color in their iris, any twitch, no matter how minuscule is violently powerful. A pregnant pause when your parents chose to conceive you, or brushed past one another on the street and met eyes without even pondering your existence. Silence is crucial.

Apollo 13

Elias Stern

The piece is a play on letter association, A for Apollo, where the red lettering is the spacecraft which is traveling around the moon. The text is from a news brief on the space mission.

The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones, that is, the only convincing conclusions. Fortunately existence is in this instance more kindly and more faithful than the wise maintain, for it excludes no man, not even the lowliest, it fools no one, for in the world of spirit only he is fooled who fools himself.

Kierkegaard. Fear and Trembling.

And It Radiates…

super bright hardcore, shadows rule the dance floor

Royksoop on French Express

A little funkier with Private…

And last…Never age with Miami Horror

Tow

Justin Suriano directed, filmed and edited the short film below. The characters exchange meaningless words which creates a greater contrast to the ending act of affection.

A Certain Combination of Fragility and Resilience

Camera clicks flutter from Bosco’s Canon Rebel XSi. Once his eye is on a frame, he employs the photographer’s  alveolar trill to capture the slightest second of a moment.

I think my initial interest in photography started at home. As a kid, my mother had converted a small we’d used for storage into a darkroom…I’d occasionally go in and watch her develop pictures… at the time the whole process seemed short of alchemy to me (images appearing on empty paper!), I think that photography always felt somewhat familiar because of it.

Bosco Lliso has been actively pursuing photography for five years. Starting in high school, he originally took an elective in black & white photography as an easy way out, but soon he found himself in the darkroom every moment he could spare. Sure enough, the black & white medium is where Bosco’s light manipulation finds most expression.

Un Homme Français

From A Lil’ Lil’ town Called Jersey…

Their vision is to preserve music. But what does this mean?

This Jersey duo We Are The HEROES sets out to combine a ’systematic knowledge of music, engineering skills’, and overall knowledge of music technology to create a new sound. They hope this caliber of sound will carry forth in today’s often depressed radio waves. Comprised of Anthony ‘Antmaestro’ Edwards (above right) and Van ‘Hollywood’ Holland III (above left), the two praise and work off of the oldschool sounds they grew up with,

“while reinventing the new…an oath materialized with the duo’s greater ideal of safeguarding music.

Hollywood brings raw creativity and spunk, while Antmaestro brings a candid refined touch based on his classical knowledge of the arts. Together these masterminds create a ‘Heroic’ sound.”

Check out their MySpace to hear their current resume. RECOMMENDED: Kaisha Jones “I’m Me”.

Casey Poehlein: Collages

Man often relates to religion through referencing an icon. This is a material connection which sprouts from the need to connect with something tangible, something that is quite like our physical selves. In this way it is a man made creation. Here, BU art student Casey Poehlein explores this idea through a collage of photographs taken by both herself and by others. She argues here that in placing primacy on religion, he often loses site of natural beauty.

The below is a self-portrait done in oils, branching downwards into a collage of photographs. A self-connection to nature.

Touching the Surface

Her photos are so highly textured it seems as though the images would be rough to the touch. In this way, Richardson has a fantastic ability to draw out the rough grain of our world. The images are ultra-real, aggressive and tantalizing.

Megan Richardson is a freelance photographer and is currently studying film production at Emerson College. She is ultimately working towards being a cinematographer but hopes to in between work as a gaffer or in camera departments for feature films.

In her photography, the focus of this article, she shoots film in 35mm and medium format, and digital Nikon D50. After she takes the exposures to Lightroom or Photoshop. This is arguably where her vision comes alive. Click “Read More” for a selection of her breathtaking work.

Synthetic Chemistry Borders Nature and Art

In his organic chemistry courses, BU undergrad Henry Feng “noticed how synthetic chemistry, especially in topics regarding natural product synthesis, establishes itself on a very narrow line between hard science and nature and art”

Henry saw this process in “a pictoral of how electrons move during the course of a chemical reaction to make new bonds, and in turn a new chemical compound… which was named “The Butterfly Mechanism”.

“I have had a hard time picturing a butterfly in the mechanism, but a revelation occurred and I saw it…

I have generated a sequential pictogram depicting the slow transition from an intensive chemical reaction to a simple sketch of a butterfly”.

Click the image to see it in full size.

PLQ

By Bosco Lliso

Sometimes

Sometimes it’s enough to simply exist. Not always…but sometimes. Sometimes I am utterly content just knowing I’m a part of humanity. Sometimes I need more. Sometimes I feel cold and alone in the torrents of humans scuttling and lumbering about me in massive waves. Other times being just another face in the crowd is warm and cozy as though humanity is a bonfire where I warm my hands.

By Morgan True

Geometry of Circles

The sound is unnecessary, but the visual display is extra-ordinary.