Jan 24
Shooting Challenge: Wood
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It’s a natural miracle, and each piece is a masterful, abstract piece of art. It’s wood. And for this week’s Shooting Challenge, we’re celebrating it. More »
Jan 24
Getting lost in a forest of trees sounds like a lot of fun but then you realize things like bugs and wildlife and poison ivy exist. Not so fun anymore! What’s guaranteed to be fun is to trap yourself in a cube of floating lights. 8,064 LEDs to be exact. More »
Jan 23
Need some classy geek art to decorate your place with? Try this awesome Darth Vader riding a Tauntaun painting. It’s like the Dark Lord is in the Imperial cavalry, mounted on his noble Tauntaun steed. In the desert. With a red cape. Makes perfect sense to me.
Actually, this image is a reinterpretation of Jacques Luis David’s classic Napoleon Crossing the Alps. This original piece of acrylic art on canvas was created by Etsy seller SteGentileNerdArt – who has lots of other amazing geek art to help geek up your walls.
This original painting measures 60cm x 80cm (~24″ x 31.5″) and will cost you $659(USD). Sure, that’s expensive, but it’s totally worth it to have Vader riding a Tauntaun on your wall.
Jan 22
Last June, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman published a scantly-worded analysis of Estonia’s “incomplete” economic recovery on his NYT blog. Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves was not amused. Now, a Latvian composer has set Ilves’ Twiraide to music. More »
Jan 22
Created as a performance piece for the 2013 Interior Design Week in Cologne, Tom Pawlofsky and Tibor Weissmahr figured it was a great idea to equip an industrial robot arm with a chainsaw to carve stools out of a tree trunk. More »
Jan 22
When you think about art, I’d wager most of us don’t think about digital media outside of photographs being used to create artworks that people would pay money for. A digital artist named Topher Straus has created a series of digital artworks printed on physical media using his iPad. The artist takes a photograph of things that interest him using the iPad camera.
He then uses digital fingerpaints to add color to the artwork. All of the work on the art is done using the iPad from capturing the photo to adding the right colors and digital fingerpaints. After the artist completes the art on the iPad, he has it transferred to a physical canvas.
The canvas that Straus chooses isn’t traditional cloth canvas like we are used to seeing artwork on. Straus has his iPad digital works printed on a raised metal frame measuring 20 x 24. He also adds an iPad home button at the bottom of the image.
If you see a piece of art that strikes you as something you have to have in your home or office, the pieces aren’t cheap. Each piece of Straus’ artwork costs $750.
Straus said, “I take a picture of something that captures me (using the camera on my iPad), then I use an app to fingerpaint a fresh, vibrant world. At the bottom of every image I paste an iPad button.”
[via Topher Straus]
Artist uses an iPad and digital fingerpaints to create art is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Jan 22
Is an iPad on a Pedestal Art?
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At the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, there’s a strange exhibit on show: a single iPad stands on a white pedestal. It’s not for visitors to play with; instead, it’s a piece of art by Li Liao. More »
Jan 21
MoMa Art Lab—a new app from New York City’s Museum of Modern Art—will teach a kid who Henri Matisse is at a very young age. And mom and dad might learn a little something too. More »
Jan 21
Nikolai Aldunin’s Teeny Tiny Sculptures are So Small They Fit Inside the Eye of a Needle
Posted in: Today's ChiliFor a moment there, I wasn’t sure if these sculptures were real, however, they are. These incredibly tiny sculptures were created by an artist using a microscope. They are incredibly detailed for art of this scale, and I imagine need to be quite careful when you’re around it, otherwise it could be crushed or simply blown away.
Russian artist Nikolai Aldunin has to keep his hands perfectly still in order to build his microscopic art. He takes inspiration about a Russian folk tale about Levsha, a left-handed craftsman so talented that the was able to put horseshoes onto a flea, and cues from the Bible.
Nikolai uses syringes, toothpicks, and superglue to make his art, and he works under a microscope as he crafts them.
[via Daily Mail via designboom]
Jan 20
Wi-Fi’s all around you. Chances are you’re in the middle of a big blanket of it right now, as you’re reading this. But what does it look like? Well, nothing; it’s invisible. But if it wasn’t it might look a little something like this. More »
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