Archive for the ‘Art’ Category

The Johnny Cash Project

Friday, February 18th, 2011

Saved a quick blog post draft about the The Johnny Cash Project back in April of last year when I first learned of it. The collaborative project site describes it: Working with a single image as a template, and using a custom drawing tool, you’ll create a unique and personal portrait ...

Recording noise duo Toxoplasmosis with the Soundcloud iPhone app

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011

Toxoplasmosis at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 12/28/10 by divvied Put my iPhone on the table at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, fired up the SoundCloud app and recorded this Toxoplasmosis performance. To describe the duo badly: experimental noise.

Doc Pop’s “Daily App Experiment” created with iPhone image apps

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

Doc Pop wears many digital hats: iPad musician,  visual experimenter of mobile apps, blogger, yo-yo madman, game developer/designer, painter, illustrator, etc. etc. He's was also my first follower on the (primarily) iPhone (only) social photo app http://instagr.am. The good doctor does a Daily App Experiment where he takes an images and applies ...

Makeshift macro camera lens from a CD drive laser lens

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

A CD laser lens scrapped from a CD drive of an aged laptop + Quick and nastily taped onto a iPhone 3GS = iPhone macro lens Close up of an Arduino board Close up of the back side of a one hundred dollar bill After the jump, a write up about this hacked-up/modded iPhone camera rig and ...

Models of skylines made from old computer parts

Tuesday, December 7th, 2010

Central Park [via BuzzFeed]

World’s greatest billboard is not really a billboard

Monday, November 29th, 2010

I hate billboards.  Trash advertising trash, blocking scenery.  Interstate 70 in Missouri is particularly infested. This art installation, Non-Sign II by Seattle-based art collective Lead Pencil Studio, is made up of small steel rods.  It creates a blank/negative space, framing the natural landscape where it looks like a billboard should be. It could just make people think about ...

3 Videos: Sport, Projection Mapping, Digital-Architectural Music Video

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

While already ancient in Internet years, these three stood out after a recent video viewing catchup binge: Sport: If this hasn't been on repeat on ESPN can anyone really even utter the word "sport" anymore? Meatspace: The 600 Years from the macula on Vimeo. Video Projection Mapping for the 600th anniversary of the Astronomical Clock in ...

GPS drawings

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

Jeremy Wood makes digital marks -- drawings if you will -- by walking around with a GPS. From his site GPSdrawing: Jeremy Wood is a multidiscipline artist and map maker whose diverse work is an expression of the poetry and politics of space and reflects upon how we treat our travels and interact ...

Super high-res photos of famous paintings

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

A digital zoom into the hand-covered breasticles portion of Sandro Botticelli's, "The Birth of Venus," from haltadefinizione.com Full zoom into the high res photo of Sandro Botticelli's, "The Birth of Venus," at haltadefinizione.com Boing Boing offers this quote about the famous photo-goings-ons-of-famous-paintings at haltadefinizione.com: Their more recent image of Botticelli’s La Primivera consists of 28 billion ...

Ali Spagnola’s entirely free, original paintings (yes even shipping)

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

My free painting of Cheif Tyrol from Battlestar Galactica by Ali Spagnola Ali Spagnola will paint you an original painting for free, no stings.  Even the shipping is free.  With such an offer you can imagine how many requests he gets. He emailed: hi! i finished your painting!  sorry it took so long. i ...