Archive for the ‘Art’ Category

Looking for iPhone wallpaper? Try Poolga

Monday, August 10th, 2009

The Creator by Jolby If you are still searching for creative, one of a kind images to use as wallpaper for your iPhone or iPod touch, head over to Poolga.  Not only is everything free, but you'll get wonderfully unique backgrounds that fit the screen perfectly.  (I ran into this site ...

Jennifer Maestre’s colored pencil sculpture

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Luna by Jennifer Maestre Jennifer Maestre creates a type of sculpture from colored pencils.  Hundreds of pencils are cut into one inch sections and a hole drilled through allowing each to be fastened together.  An article about Maestre, including several examples of her work, is up at Dailymail.co.uk.

The Wire characters portraits by Blake Hicks

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Here's a great set of characters portraits from the HBO show The Wire by Blake Hicks.  It's worth checking out if you're a fan of the series.  (via Laughing Squid)

Building Rome in a Day: Animated 3D model city built from Flickr

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

The University of Washington's Department of Computer Science and Engineering has reconstructed Rome in a day. By harvesting thousands of images from the web and then matching common points in the photos, they were able to compute 3-D visualizations.  All in the span of 24 hours.  I am vastly oversimplifying, so ...

Fund Endeavors and Ideas with KickStarter

Monday, July 13th, 2009

Kickstarter is a fairly new way to fund various ideas and undertakings.  People who wish to fund a project -- say a musician, a filmmaker, an artist, etc. -- sign up on Kickstarter and anyone who wishes to pledge toward it can do so and may receive "rewards" (such as ...

Civilization by Marco Brambilla

Friday, June 19th, 2009

This video, if you can even call it that, is jaw dropping. Maybe it should be called work from a Motionographer or something.   It's by Marco Brambilla, I believe, and at Motionographer.com there's a lager version with more apparent detail and a write up.

Meet Jess, the first interview of ‘Interview Project’ at DavidLynch.com

Monday, June 1st, 2009

The first interview is available in the originally titled "Interview Project" hosted at DavidLynch.com. Directed by Austin Lynch and Jason S. the project spans 20,000 American miles over 70 days to interview 121 people.  A new interview is promised every 3 days. The subject of the first interview, now showing at http://interviewproject.davidlynch.com, ...

Art vs. Design from Artists Wanted.org

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

ArtistsWanted.org is currently running a contest pitting art vs. design.  For $25, artists and designers can submit their work up until 11:59pm Sunday, May 31st, 2009. The grand prize is "a vintage Vespa, a trip to London or a fully loaded MacBook Pro." On the site, every visitor is asked to ...

Music site We are Hunted focuses on album art

Friday, April 17th, 2009

Found out about We are Hunted from the 37signal's Signal vs. Noise Blog, who say, basically, the real draw here, the thing that sets We are Hunted apart from other similar music sites is its large album art.  But the S vs. N Blog doesn't point out what the site ...

Using my blog as a bookmark

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

Here are three things I'm currently looking forward to checking out in more depth; that is, spend some more time on: David Lynch Foundation Television -- The psychologically macabre director has launched a video intensive site promoting his love of transcendental meditation.  Good Magazine blurb here. Stereofame -- Chance to win prizes ...