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nelson : Thomas Kinkade formula - Direction to filmmakers: be insipid in 16 easy steps
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Rod Begbie : Poolga. iPhone and iPod Touch wallpapers for the rest of us. - Some gorgeous photos and illustrations, at just the right size to be your iPhone wallpaper. [via] #
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veen : The ecstasy of influence: A plagiarism - "All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated. . . ."
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deusx : girl takes world's longest shit at the cranbrook academy of art - "In February 1995, working in conjunction with nutritionists at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, I adopted a super fiber-rich diet which allowed me to successfully produce a single extruded excrement the exact length of my colon: 26 feet. I doc
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Andy Baio : The Unfinished Swan, beautiful indie game in an all-white world - oddly, announced at the same time as the Whitewash tech demo in Unity
deusx : The Unfinished Swan - "The Unfinished Swan is a first-person painting game set in an entirely white world. Players can splatter paint to help them find their way through an unusual garden. "
Rod Begbie : The Unfinished Swan - Video preview of a really interesting looking new indie game where the world is completely blank until you fire at it with your one weapon: A paintball gun which helps you "see" the obstacles. Watch the video to see it make sense. [via] #
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Andy Baio : Frotzophone, making music with interactive fiction - don't miss the MP3 of him playing Zork [via]
deusx : Frotzophone - "The Frotzophone is an interface for making music with interactive fiction. The topography simulated in the game is used to generate sound, as is the player's path through the game. A Frotzophone "performance" looks just like playing a
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2 month ago
veen : Psychology Today: The Creative Personality - "Perhaps the most important quality, the one that is most consistently present in all creative individuals, is the ability to enjoy the process of creation for its own sake."
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2 month ago
veen : How Rothko's Seagram murals found their way to London | Culture | The Guardian - "Mark Rothko was an unknown abstract expressionist when he won a plum commission - to provide paintings for New York's swankiest restaurant. So why did he pull out and give them to the Tate? Jonathan Jones investigates."
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2 month ago
joshua : Flickr: The Diagram Diaries Pool - shiny
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2 month ago
joshua : How to read a movie - Roger Ebert's Journal
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3 month ago
joshua : Guilloches - Mathematical approach. Staggering to think these were done initially with rose machines
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3 month ago
nelson : Understanding Joshua - Disturbing art. (Some slightly NSFW)
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3 month ago
deusx : thedetroiter.com - re: splash image - having seen this alignment of church and rencen on many morning commutes, I've always wondered if it was intentional.
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3 month ago
Andy Baio : Joshua Callaghan's sculptures based on charts & graphs - very minimalist, stripped of labels and axes [via]
veen : joshuacallaghan.com: Graphs - "Assortment of sculptures based on graphs and charts"
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3 month ago
Rod Begbie : Braid's ending explained - SPOILER, natch. Internet theorising about a non-obvious subtext to Braid's story. If Portal was a video-game short-story, is Braid a video-game poem? [via] #
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3 month ago
Linkorama : Nathan Oliveira sculptures in Palo Alto - great review of an exhibit curated by my mom
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3 month ago
nelson : War of the Worlds tripod - Sculpture tribute to Wells' novel
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4 month ago
nelson : 3d printer output - Beautiful little art; love the colour
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4 month ago
nelson : George Hart sculpture - More by the artist; apparently he dyes the nylon laser printed objects
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4 month ago
philgyford : Chris Gilmour - Wonderful lifesize (I assume) sculptures of everyday objects (bikes, cars, dentist's chair, etc.) made entirely out of cardboard. (via Kottke)
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4 month ago
nelson : Thomas Kinkade / AT-AT - totally awesome bit of image work
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4 month ago
nelson : Greg Pass' blog - One of the Summize guys; very interesting eclectica
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4 month ago
philgyford : 'Grand,' but No 'Godfather' - WSJ.com - On why 'Grand Theft Auto IV' is very good but isn't great art in the way the best films are. (via Infovore)
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5 month ago
Linkorama : Social Media at the Podium - Media Writing and Media Studies students walk through exhibitions and designated spaces, twitters aggregate the thoughts in a Socialtext wiki where the composite viewpoint helps create a 600-word critical review of the artwork or space.
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