Now to feast the eyes a little

There are many, many sites that offer views of digital art.  To find some search on "digital art portal, "digital art gallery" (will bring up brick-and-mortar galleries, as well), and "digital art online gallery."  Many of these portals feature works for sale.  Here is a sampling of what I found today:

Abstract Digital Art and Fractals Gallery --  The front page of this site doesn't offer much visually, but scroll down to the middle of the page and you'll see "gallery 1, gallery 2 ... gallery n."  In gallery 1, I found this piece

"Support System" by Aeires

The CG Society Art Gallery features art by both professionals and amateurs. A lot of the work is 3D.

UNESCO Knowledge Portal: Digi-Arts -- This site shows some of the many ways that digital art can be used.  It features the artists that produce digital work, such as

Joe Davis, Microvenus (2000)

DeviantArt is one of my favorite sites.  There's a wide variety of artists' works with t-shirts, gear and prints of the works offered for sale.  Anyone can join and upload artwork.  Here's a post-apocalyptic one that's very good (in my view).

"castle NASA" by *ProgV

I hope you enjoyed this little foray in digital art. There's a lot more out there, some of it extremely beautiful. 'Til tomorrow then.

 --Marge

How about a laugh or two for your blog?

You can offer cartoons on your blog.

At Andertoons you can select a topic and get the HTML to paste into your blog's code.  Where you paste it will determine whether the cartoon is only in that post or a fixture on your blog.  In Blogger use Layout/Add a Gadget/Basics/<HTML/JavaScript> to show a cartoon daily.

Randy Glasbergen requires that you purchase a license to use his cartoons, but a reader can always just visit his site via a link.

Dave Walker offers links to individual cartoons.  Here's one on blogging:

Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.

In closing, here's a page from Cartoon Brew with animations and information about animation entertainment.  There's likely something there you'll like and want to see more of.

Have a great day ... and remember to laugh.

--Marge 

3D printing: you can print with chocolate, too

When my friend James OReilly in Second Life asked me to join a group called "Immersive Worlds & 3D Printing" I asked "so what's this about 3D printing...and why should I care?" As usual he immediately threw 3 URLs at me in rapid succession:

What is 3D Printing? http://ow.ly/aZuSk

Immersive Worlds & 3D Printing
   In Facebook http://ow.ly/aZuaK
   In Scoop.it http://ow.ly/bakid

Solid Learning http://ow.ly/aZudy

DIY 3D Printer & Crowd Funding
http://ow.ly/aZuiI

 O.K., maybe it was more than three.  Wikipedia has a good article on it too. You can even build your own printer or buy a kit for one.

With a 3D printer, the proper materials and a 3D drawing, you can print objects like these at Shapeways.  This site also has lots of information and offers the materials you need for forming objects.  

Services to do the printing for you are available as well.  Stratasys Learn category has good information.

If you want to do the whole thing yourself, you'll have to buy (pricey) and learn (steep learning curve) a 3D application, sometimes called CAD/CAM (computer-aided design, computer-aided modelling).  At Shapeway's site you can find a list of supported applications. 

Kinda brings to mind StarTrek's replicator.  "Earl Grey tea, hot."

-- Marge