Sk-etchbook

These are a few bits n pieces I have come across randomly while browsing the internet:
Harold Edgerton: Faster than a Speeding Bullet (Studies in Motion)
5.5. - 30.6.2001

I like this photo firstly just for the aesthetics, the way the photo has been taken gives the golfer an ethereal, ghostly look and how the golf club has been captured so it is only visible at intermittent points seems to draw the eye deeper into the center of the image (it also reminds me of spirographs or the parabolic line designs you made as kids). I also like this photo because it also has purpose and creating works which contain both beauty and purpose is something which a designer nearly always needs to be considering. The image is a motion study, something which is evident in the way the distance the club has traveled and the path has been caught at timed intervals. This fills the image with more hidden secrets, things not immediately noticeable but to the trained eye would disclose results about, inertia, gravity, physiology etc. I am also reminded, for some reason, of the Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man!