http://blog.thenorik.com Blog of Artist / Graphic Designer Norik Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:57:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After 15 years since his last release, a wicked new video and song By the legendary Gil Scott-Heron, off his new album I’m New Here. http://blog.thenorik.com/music/gil-scott-heron%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cme-and-the-devil%e2%80%9d/ From Toy to King from kreisone on Vimeo. Really well put together typographic animation about how to become a writer. What is also nice is that each letter is hand drawn and then vectorized. http://blog.thenorik.com/typography/from-toy-to-king/ Some late night scribbling with my roommate. More on Flickr. http://blog.thenorik.com/painting/paroxysm-of-thought/ The work of David Ope, found via Kervin Brissaeux's blog. http://blog.thenorik.com/inspiration/david-ope/ In particle physics, supersymmetry (often abbreviated SUSY) is a symmetry that relates elementary particles of one spin to other particles that differ by half a unit of spin and are known assuperpartners. In a theory with unbroken supersymmetry, for every type of boson there exists a corresponding type of fermion with the same mass and internal quantum numbers, and ... http://blog.thenorik.com/inspiration/supersymmetry/ Kandinsky, a russian artist, who was a design instructor at The Bauhaus. His work is so energetic. A simple Google image search is quite inspiring http://blog.thenorik.com/inspiration/wassily-kandinsky/ BNE 12.10.09 from ANIMALnewyork.com on Vimeo. One of the most prolific and mysterious graffiti artists of the last decade, BNE; whom you've more than likely seen his super adhesive stickers somewhere in the world, is having his first exhibition tomorrow in NYC. Sponsored by the online zine ANIMAL and the ad ... http://blog.thenorik.com/inspiration/bne-12-10-09-nyc/ I recently stumbled upon these striking photos by NYC photographer Julia Chesky. The model's name is Chris, and even though he would be considered homeless by most, Mercer street has been his home for several decades. Chris really has too much style to look like your average homless person, his ... http://blog.thenorik.com/inspiration/the-original-hipster/ Had a great weekend of stuffing my face with turkey and resizing images to update my site, I also updated the homepage to spotlight certain pieces and give the viewer more of a visual of my body of work. In the last four months since I redesigned my site, I made ... http://blog.thenorik.com/news/winter-refresh-new-work/ I've been a huge fan of this type of scientific illustration for a while, and today i finally immersed myself into the history of one of the artists: Ernst Haeckel.  The organisms are living abstract art, and Ernst's level of detail and color palette are just amazing. What is also amazing ... http://blog.thenorik.com/inspiration/ernst-haeckel/