Archive for the ‘Art’ Category

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 ...

The Sketchory

Monday, February 16th, 2009

The Sketchory offers over 250,000 drawings -- like the bizarre one above -- to share, remix, tag, embed, etc.  While most are not jaw droppingly good many are amazing enough for the price.

Jennifer Steinkamp’s Moving, Projected Code Art

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

Oculus Sinister (left eye) by Jennifer Steinkamp Today's Daily Dose [beta], a "filtered" everyday email about global culture from Flavorpill, brings word of visual artist Jennifer Steinkamp.  Writer Paul Laster says Steinkamp: . . . crafts computer-animated projections for site-specific spaces, Jennifer Steinkamp uses her work to explore new means of producing ...

Flickr Set from Multicolr Search Lab

Monday, December 1st, 2008

The mighty Signal vs. Noise (blog) just posted about Multicolr Search Lab: We extracted the colours from 10 million of the most ‘interesting’ Creative Commons images on Flickr. Using our visual similarity technology you can navigate the collection by colour. The above chooses three colors: red, white and black.  Ten is the ...

Daum Museum: Contemporary Art in Mid-Missouri

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Perhaps the most unusual aspect of the Daum Museum is not the mind-binding contemporary art it houses, but where the museum itself is situated: at the State Fair Community College in Sedalia, Missouri. From what I gather the majority of its permanent collection originates from the acquisitions of Hal Daum, ...