Roger Bourland
writes about music and life

Look what appeared in our living room this morning.

Here is an image from a new collection by artist/designer Mate Steinforth. His website, beautifully made, is called Mate Universe and shows off his brilliant eye for color, design, and proportion.

Del Kolve just passed this video on to me — 500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art. Keep watching her eyes (I watched her left eye) and experience the magical morphing that occurs. The music is from an inner movement of a Bach cello suite (not sure which). The director is not credited here […]

Check out the amazing photography of Irene Müller. I’ve always loved watching cream as it pours into rich, dark coffee, and the patterns it creates. But Irene brings a whole new realm of symmetry that was too fast for my feeble eyes to catch. Holy moly!

[Photo: © Irene Müller; used with permission]

Love your animals and they will love you back.

This just in from the brilliant Robert, at flight404 ALL MANNER OF DISTRACTIONS, a fascinating interplay between matter, magneticism, and sound. Here is a description of the process, and here is part two.

Magnetic Sphere (audio by Karri O.) from flight404

Now here is a fairy picture I can get behind. It’s a piece called ENVY by artist, illustrator, designer, and blogger Christopher Cox. His own website, Change The Thought is full featured and his work is provoking, striking, magical, raw, and brilliant. His clients have included McDonalds, Ozzy Osbourne, Billy Idol, Meat Loaf, Black Sabbath, […]