If you’re looking for a little creative motivation today, all you have to do is ask yourself one question: does it float?
But does it float is a remarkable web gallery of creative goodness, to say the least. Curated by two gents that go by the names Folkert & Atley, the web gallery features posts in a peculiar fashion: often using a quote or famous insight as a title, followed by a few photos or images by a featured artist or creator or thinker.
To fuel your creativity this week, and to demonstrate exactly how incredible the But does it float gallery is, I’ve gone ahead and picked out several of the absolute best articles. Take a look and be inspired:
“For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time” – Acoustic listening devices developed for the Dutch army as part of air defense
systems research between World Wars 1 and 2.
“I’m too sad to tell you” – Dutch/Californian artist Bas Jan Ader was last seen in 1975 when he took off in what would have been the smallest sailboat ever to cross the Atlantic. He left behind a small oeuvre, often using gravity as a medium, which more than 30 years after his disappearance at sea is more influential than ever before.
“A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine” – Drawings by Jorinde Voigt.
“Morphologically disturbed” – Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, scientific illustrator and science artist, …has collected, studied and painted morphologically disturbed insects, which she finds in the fallout areas of Chernobyl as well as near nuclear installations.
“Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge” – Prints by Derek Faust.
“Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn” – Bridget Louise Riley (1931) is an English painter and one of the foremost proponents of op art.
“Now we are aiming our technologies inward where they will start to merge with our minds, our memories, our metabolisms, our personalities, our progeny, and perhaps our souls” – Generative drawings by Leonardo Solaas.
“The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it” – Photography by Jürgen Bergbauer.
“Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe” – Paintings by Lesley Vance.