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Archive for the 'Art' Category
Design: Polly Verity’s paper sculptures
If you ever wondered what’s possible with paper folding have a look at “Polly Verity’s paper sculptures”. She has made larger scale images of her work available on her outstanding “Flickr Paper sculpture photo set”…
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Image: 1300 fluorescent tubes lit by overhead power lines
An image of 1301 glowing fluorescent tubes powered only by the magnetic field induced by overhead power lines on a field in England.
More information and a DVD of this art project at “Richard Box web site”…
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Video: Hokusai An Animated Sketchbook
Most westerners will only know one of Katsushika Hokusai’s print work - the wave or “In the Hollow of a Wave off the Coast at Kanagawa” (that’s the full title of this woodblock print)
This “short film” animates some of his work and introduces you to the life of this great Japanese artist. Animation designer Tony White created this video 30 years ago - it won him the British Academy Award for Best Short Factual Film - and it’s still an outstanding piece of animation…
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Art: Erik Natzke
At the “OFFF” (Online Flash Film Festival) that for the first time came to New York this weekend you might have seen some of Erik Natzke’s work or watched his presentation.
Erik Natzke, who has achieved almost celebrity like standing in the Flash and dynamic design communities continuously manages to impress audiences with his performances and images. After years there is still the Whoaw! effect every time we see some of his work…
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Art: Subtext’s Kokeshis for Bunka-No-Hi
To celebrate Bunka-no-hi - the Japanese national culture holiday - San Diego’s Subtext together with Christina Conway, have selected 75 artists from 13 countries to create Japanese Kokeshi dolls. Featured artists include Audrey Kawasaki, Julie West and many more….
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Art: Dan Witz Kilroy Variations
If you you live in Brooklyn, N.Y. you might have seen some of Dan Witz’s street art around your home.
Have a look at Dan’s “Do Not Enter” series at…
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Art: Da Vinci’s Last Supper available online
If you always wanted to see the painting “The Last Supper” - one of Leonard da Vinci’s masterpieces - but never had time to go to Italy or you did not get through the queue at Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, you now have the possibility to please your art desires online.
Since last night (site is sometimes not reachable) the Italian group “HAL9000″ has a giga-pixel version of the painting online
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Video: Ne me quitte pas
Jacques Brel’s ultimate classic covered in many languages from Afrikaans to Greek…
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Design: Moleskine notebooks on the web
Note- and Sketchbooks from the manufacturer “Moleskine” have for two centuries been a daily companion of artists, writers and designers.
The legendary notebooks were originally produced by French bookbinders who mainly supplied Parisian stationery shops until 1986 when the last of these family run businesses shut down in France. In 1998, a Milanese publisher brought the Moleskine brand and revived the tradition. Since then the Moleskine books have again found many friends around the globe…
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Best HDR images on the web: (Introduction)
We recently mentioned that one of us will soon be going on a long travel around this planet so we got a professional digital camera to capture some of the impressions and share them later.
During the research for the latest in Digital Photography we also came across what is now called High-Dynamic-Range (HDR or HDRI) photography and tone mapping.
There are a few pretty good tutorials on the web how to achieve these effects and software is now also available to substantially reduce the process steps required (If interested we can provide a list of the best links we found).
But we thought that it might be best to introduce this technique by pointing you to the best HDR images and their creators we found on the web.
So following this post we will put together a small series of articles for each of the web sites we found the most interesting…
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