Archive for the ‘Art’ Category
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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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