We Elevate http://www.we-elevate.com Things We Are Passionate About Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:03:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Helen Frankenthaler; Renowned abstract expressionist died this week at the age of 83. Her imagery consisted of spreading pools and washes of luxuriant pinks, blues and greens nudged here and there with a sponge. http://www.we-elevate.com/2011/12/28/helen-frankenthaler-renowned-abstract-expressionist-died-this-week-at-the-age-of-83/ http://www.we-elevate.com/2011/12/28/helen-frankenthaler-renowned-abstract-expressionist-died-this-week-at-the-age-of-83/#comments Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:54:32 +0000 Michele http://we-elevate.com/?p=2692 Helen Frankenthaler was one of my all time favorites. She painted extraordinarily beautiful oversized canvases full of richly pigmented color fields.
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In 1953 Helen Frankenthaler, who died this week at age 83, received a visit [...]]]> http://www.we-elevate.com/2011/12/28/helen-frankenthaler-renowned-abstract-expressionist-died-this-week-at-the-age-of-83/feed/ 0 What’s wrong with our world, and what can we do to make it better? – I AM http://www.we-elevate.com/%3Fp%3D2675 http://www.we-elevate.com/%3Fp%3D2675#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:24:05 +0000 Michele http://we-elevate.com/?p=2675 Last night I was trying to tell some friends about the film “I AM” which was released earlier this year. Unfortunately I couldn’t quite articulate how profound the message of the movie was. Clearly, this is one of the best reasons for having a blog! I AM is a movie that I could [...]]]> http://www.we-elevate.com/%3Fp%3D2675/feed/ 0 Don’t forget to stop and smell the flowers; The intricate world of pollen and pollinators http://www.we-elevate.com/2011/12/14/dont-forget-to-stop-and-smell-the-flowers-the-intricate-world-of-pollen-and-pollinators/ http://www.we-elevate.com/2011/12/14/dont-forget-to-stop-and-smell-the-flowers-the-intricate-world-of-pollen-and-pollinators/#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:57:52 +0000 Michele http://we-elevate.com/?p=2666 The hidden beauty of pollination

Pollination: it’s vital to life on Earth, but largely unseen by the human eye. Filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg shows us the intricate world of pollen and pollinators with gorgeous high-speed images from his film “Wings of Life,” inspired by the vanishing of one of nature’s primary pollinators, [...]]]> http://www.we-elevate.com/2011/12/14/dont-forget-to-stop-and-smell-the-flowers-the-intricate-world-of-pollen-and-pollinators/feed/ 0 The Structure of Living Things; Stylish Vintage Chinese Public Health Posters http://www.we-elevate.com/2011/12/14/the-structure-of-living-things-and-vintage-chinese-public-health-posters/ http://www.we-elevate.com/2011/12/14/the-structure-of-living-things-and-vintage-chinese-public-health-posters/#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:39:03 +0000 Michele http://we-elevate.com/?p=2085

]]> http://www.we-elevate.com/2011/12/14/the-structure-of-living-things-and-vintage-chinese-public-health-posters/feed/ 0 Emotive Photographs of Elderly Animals http://www.we-elevate.com/2011/12/08/emotive-photographs-of-elderly-animals/ http://www.we-elevate.com/2011/12/08/emotive-photographs-of-elderly-animals/#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:20:14 +0000 Michele http://we-elevate.com/?p=2599 For her project titled “Elderly Animals“, photographer http://we-elevate.com/?p=2590

by photographer Miika Järvinen

]]> http://www.we-elevate.com/2011/12/06/incredibly-beautiful-capture-of-a-frozen-statue-by-photographer-miika-jarvinen/feed/ 0 How Hilary Berseth Makes His Beeswax Sculptures http://www.we-elevate.com/2011/12/06/how-hilary-berseth-makes-his-beeswax-sculptures/ http://www.we-elevate.com/2011/12/06/how-hilary-berseth-makes-his-beeswax-sculptures/#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:37:02 +0000 Michele http://we-elevate.com/?p=2559 The Hive Mind

How Hilary Berseth makes his buzzworthy sculptures.

Artists from Rodin to Warhol to Mark Kostabi have outsourced the construction of their work. Hilary Berseth goes them one better: He constructs basic frameworks of wire and wax, then lets teams of tiny yellow-and-black art fabricators finish the [...]]]> http://www.we-elevate.com/2011/12/06/how-hilary-berseth-makes-his-beeswax-sculptures/feed/ 0 Hush; A Banksy Meets Gusatv Klimt Melange http://www.we-elevate.com/2011/12/05/hush-banksy-meets-gusatv-klimt/ http://www.we-elevate.com/2011/12/05/hush-banksy-meets-gusatv-klimt/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:10:13 +0000 Michele http://we-elevate.com/?p=2393

Cocoon Detail, Hush

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Hush is a UK graffiti artist who whose work has taken him around the globe. For my taste, his pieces from the Cocoon series (shown above) and some of the other recent works [...]]]> http://www.we-elevate.com/2011/12/05/hush-banksy-meets-gusatv-klimt/feed/ 0 Rinus Roelofs; Geometry = Art http://www.we-elevate.com/2011/12/05/geometry-art/ http://www.we-elevate.com/2011/12/05/geometry-art/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 02:42:42 +0000 Michele http://we-elevate.com/?p=2494 In geometry, a spidron is a continuous flat geometric figure composed entirely of triangles, where, for every pair of joining triangles, each has a leg of the other as one of its legs, and neither has any point inside the interior of the other. A deformed spidron is a three-dimensional figure sharing the other properties [...]]]> http://www.we-elevate.com/2011/12/05/geometry-art/feed/ 0 WE Wish List; Fun + Fab Gift Ideas http://www.we-elevate.com/2011/12/03/fab-under-20-gift-ideas/ http://www.we-elevate.com/2011/12/03/fab-under-20-gift-ideas/#comments Sat, 03 Dec 2011 22:49:58 +0000 Michele http://we-elevate.com/?p=2225         

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Pralus Pyramid des Tropiques is a stunning gift made of a stack of ten bars of high cocoa content 75% dark chocolate single-origin from choice Plantations around the world: Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Sao Tome, Trinidad, [...]]]> http://www.we-elevate.com/2011/12/03/fab-under-20-gift-ideas/feed/ 0