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Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Monday, March 07, 2016

The art of Stephen King

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The Dark,Tower, vol.7, Wikipedia *** A friend of mine once told me that she read S. King's The Stand every year. That made quite...
Wednesday, March 02, 2016

Art: Loving Vincent

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*** Loving Vincent is a most pleasing combination of painting and film produced by Polish studio BreakThru Films and Trademark Films. ...
Monday, February 29, 2016

Afghanistan's poet-martyrs

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Afghan women, AsiaSociety.org *** Eliza Griswold , a poet herself, wrote an article  Why Afghan Women Risk Death to Write Poetry tha...
Monday, February 22, 2016

Art: two contemporary artists

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Dima Rebus, "I've been out walking,"  dimarebus.com *** Taking a break from posts on technical topics, here are two a...
Monday, December 14, 2015

Art and design: Christmas websites

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Christmas wallpaper, iSkysoft *** Today's mission was to find some of the best non-commercial websites online in the last 2 years...
Monday, November 30, 2015

Art: exploring Bon Exposé

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*** A recent post on Google+ led to my discovery of the site Bon Exposé .  In August 2012 Leodor Selenier announced their new site . ...
Monday, November 09, 2015

The beauty trap

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Hedy Lamarr, Life Magazine (1942), reddit *** As you probably know, Google is featuring Hedy Lamarr with its current doodle. Beauty ...
Monday, September 21, 2015

Art: Zaha Hadid's flowing architectural shapes

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Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid is an architect known for remarkable buildings like this one:  *** Heydar Aliyev Centre (photo by Iwan Baan)...
Monday, September 14, 2015

Exploring WikiArt

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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. --Pablo Picasso WikiArt , aka WikiPaintings, is o...
Wednesday, August 05, 2015

Gone fishin'

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Not really fishing, fish avoid my hook. But it's summer and I'm easily distracted. Here are a few images to fill in the gap. Some...
Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Question: what is the difference between art and craft?

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Concept Art, Guild Wars 2 *** This may seem to be a trivial question to those of you who are marginally interested in art; but a numb...
Monday, July 06, 2015

Fluid stone

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It's time for me to take a break, so here is some lovely artwork to feast your eyes on. Adam Schallau: The 2nd Wave of Coyote Buttes ...
Monday, April 20, 2015

Art: murals old and new

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Since the time we lived in caves, we've been drawing on the walls. Sometimes Mom gets mad, sometimes the drawings are works of art. The...
Monday, April 06, 2015

Art: flowing ink

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ink wash, Marco Polo TV series, Mill+ *** For an artist ink can be both satisfying and frustrating to work with--not to mention the i...
Monday, February 16, 2015

Suspended leaps, controlled spins

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Sergei Polunin-David LaChapelle, "Take Me to Church" by Hozier, YouTube *** A video of Sergei Polunin dancing, directed by ...
Monday, January 26, 2015

Art: some 2D animation for inspiration

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Asuka Langley Soryu, sampaikini *** There are so many ways to approach animation (a discipline/art form I'm trying to learn), tha...
Monday, December 29, 2014

When art lost its way

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Marcel Duchamp, "Fountain" (1917), Tate *** The art movement called  Dada  produced some works that challenge the viewer...