Archive for the 'Art' Category

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Map Marker Death Tshirt

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Stephen Wiltshire Drawing New York Panorama From Memory

Stephen Wiltshire the British born autistic artist who draws incredible city panormas entirely from memory is currently working on New York. He started Monday this week and is due to finish tomorrow so the embedded live webcam will probably only show anything for a short time.
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Stephen Wiltshire is an artist who [...]

Belated

From the Bent Objects gallery by Terry Border at the Telegraph.

Photo Montage from Simple Sketch – Sketch2Photo

Looks like an interesting idea, can’t wait to have a play. Basically you draw a sketch and give a search term to each of the objects, it searches flickr. filters the images and then does some tasty manipulation to composite the images together and sort out the lighting.

Sketch2Photo: Internet Image Montage from Tao Chen on [...]

The Astronomer’s Dream

Superbly stylish yet utterly bizarre animation. Love it.
When a hungry astronomer falls asleep while working on a problem, he discovers a solution not in outer space, but in the surreal food-chain of his subconscious mind.
An animated film by Malcolm Sutherland, with sound by Leon Lo. Made in 2009.

The Astronomer’s Dream (2009) from Animalcolm on Vimeo.

Free Fiction – Web Novel (Wovel) : Exit Vector

A free bit of fiction in the form of the slightly dodgily named ‘wovel’ or web novel.
Anyway it’s a nice idea, throwing up a short installment of fiction and then asking for the readers to vote on the direction before the next installment is published.
I’ve no idea what the story is about but [...]

Free Documentary – The Linguists

Found this fascinating documentary recently whilst watching a few things. It can be watched in full at Babelgum but you can see a short trailer below.

Like modern-day explorers, the two academics featured in The Linguists travel to forgotten places around the globe to unearth rare treasures—in this case, endangered languages. On a shoestring budget, professors [...]

Wiispray – Virtual Graffiti

WiiSpray Teaser from Martin Lihs on Vimeo.

Digital Comics & ebooks at the Literate Machine

Literate Machine is a handy looking site allowing the authors of various digital media (magazines,ebooks,comics,art) to upload and distribute their work either free or for a charge with the site taking a small cut.
I love platforms for media that might not necessarily find homes with traditional publishers and something like this could be great for [...]