Sep 05
Most folks pick up the pace or seek cover when the skies open up and it starts to pour, but that’s precisely when Gustavo Sousa takes to the streets to collect some creative inspiration.
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Sep 05
Does this video remind you of being drunk, dizzy, or in some woozy dream-state? Whatever feeling it conjers, you’ve definitely never seen animated photos like this before.
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Sep 05
If you come across a globe these days, chances are it was probably found at a flea market or antique store. But there is one studio in London that continues the tradition of building spherical maps of the world. And here’s a look at how it all goes down.
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Sep 05
Shooting Challenge: Prisms
Posted in: Today's Chili
Your 11-year-old self appears at your office. He or she takes a look at what you’ve become—some desk-jockey with yesterday’s Panera Bread crumbs on their cheek, some dystopian deformity of the 11-year-old who built their own time machine just to come see you. He or she doesn’t cry, but you can tell, they’re quite disappointed.
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Sep 05
Like Star Trek? How about fan art? Then you’d better head on over to our brother-from-another-mother website MightyMega and enter to win one of three books of cool Star Trek art created by illustrator Juan Ortiz.
Star Trek: The Art of Juan Ortiz is a 112-page hardcover book which features imaginative poster designs for each of the original 80 episodes of Star Trek. It’s as if each episode was a movie, the way Juan looks at it. The book is chockful of awesome images, and has recently hit store shelves.
Head on over to MightyMega now for your chance to win. The contest ends on 9/11/2013 at 11:59 CDT, and there are lots of ways to earn entries.
Sep 05
We’ve seen a website dedicated to videogame logos and another one obsessed with start screens. Redditor RudeBottie has another similarly niche collection of videogame assets: its devoted to the background scene in fighting games. While it’s nowhere near complete you can still lose hours just staring at the collection, because they’re presented as animated .gifs:
According to Redditor horse_you_rode_in_on, RudeBootie’s collection includes backgrounds from 16- and 32-bit fighting games, namely Street Fighter 2: Super Turbo, Street Fighter: Alpha 3, Street Fighter: Third Strike, The Art of Fighting, Last Blade, Garou: Mark of the Wolves, King of Fighters, Samurai Showdown and Vampire Savior.
Check out more of these awesome animations in the gallery below:
Dat shark. Quarter circle forward forward left click to Imgur to see all of RudeBootie’s images.
[via Reddit via The Fox is Black]
Sep 05
Unlike grown-ups who’ve had their wildest creative impulses edited, judged, and generally tamped down for years, kids are pretty fearless when it comes to facing down a blank page. Wielding crayons with reckless abandon ain’t no thang for the little ‘uns, but a bit of artistic guidance can be fun, too.
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Sep 04
22 Tantalizing Photos of Tattoos
Posted in: Today's ChiliTattoos are painful. They’re also beautiful—an aesthetic commitment that someone chooses to adopt forever. And in photography, they can make a wonderful bridge between the human form and the artistic touch.
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Sep 04
Wacom has just launched, or rather re-launched, a new line of graphics tablets targeted not just for professional artists but for hobbyists as well. But perhaps more importantly, the announcement reflects Wacom’s effort to simplify its naming conventions and consolidate its tablets under a single brand: Intuos. Wacom has had a long list of drawing […]
Sep 03
What’s going on in this picture? Did the photographer add some special lens? Is this some kooky Instagram filter? Is the camera defective? Was it photoshopped? Maybe folded over and over? Nope. The stripes inside the photograph are actually painted like that in real life.
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