Posts tagged art

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Posted 2 months ago
Sheikh Rihan mural The military ruling junta of Egypt has built walls around Tahrir square and its side streets to prevent protesters from accessing the square. Egyptian graffiti artists painted the walls away. Via Boing Boing Zoom

Sheikh Rihan mural

The military ruling junta of Egypt has built walls around Tahrir square and its side streets to prevent protesters from accessing the square.

Egyptian graffiti artists painted the walls away.

Via Boing Boing

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Posted 3 months ago
Glasses by street artist Pavel 183 Zoom

Glasses by street artist Pavel 183

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Posted 4 months ago

This is the feature length documentary PressPlayPause.

Watch it on Vimeo. Watch the trailer. Visit the web site to download. It’s pretty good.

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Posted 8 months ago
One in a series of posters for #occupywallstreet on September 17. Damien Hirst’s diamond skull is undoubtedly going to become the emblem of the age. Money. Death. Excess. Poverty. Slavery. Art…. heavy metal.

One in a series of posters for #occupywallstreet on September 17.

Damien Hirst’s diamond skull is undoubtedly going to become the emblem of the age. Money. Death. Excess. Poverty. Slavery. Art…. heavy metal.

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Posted 10 months ago

lookandlookagain:

A unique Pontiac with bodywork created entirely from see-through Plexiglass has sold at an American auction.

It’s said to have cost around £15,400 to build when new, which back in 1939 was incomprehensibly expensive. It sold at auction for a relatively inexpensive £189,300

I don’t quite understand why I love this so much. Function laid bare? The history of materials? A diagram leaps across dimensions of time and space? It’s rich.

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Posted 10 months ago
enochliew: Bunker 599 by Atelier de Lyon and Rietveld Landscape The seemingly indestructible bunker is sliced open, revealing its minuscule interior which is normally completely hidden from view. Zoom

enochliew:

Bunker 599 by Atelier de Lyon and Rietveld Landscape

The seemingly indestructible bunker is sliced open, revealing its minuscule interior which is normally completely hidden from view.

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Posted 10 months ago

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Posted 11 months ago
Which one of these pixel drawings, based on a photograph, infringes copyright? (There is no right answer. It’s anyone’s guess.) Personally, I’d say they were all too low resolution to matter. The image in the top left was created as cover art for a digital download album: an interpretation of Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue album using ultra low resolution synthesiser sounds from video games from the 1980s called, Kind of Bloop. It seems entirely appropriate that this artwork is for the cover of a jazz album. In many forms of music, the important thing is the originality of the song. In jazz - and hip hop, incidentally - the originality of the song is less important than your interpretation of it. The pixel drawing is a reinterpretation of a cover for an album that is a reinterpretation of a reinterpretation. However, it was also a legal bomb. The state of copyright at the moment is improving I think, acknowledging to some extent, the new digital, democratised media we now work with. But it is like a minefield that has mostly been cleared. Odds are good you can creatively act in good faith without worry of having to come up with a $32,000 settlement fee. On the other hand, if you are unlucky, you get hit and wonder if it wouldn’t be better working in a bank. Zoom

Which one of these pixel drawings, based on a photograph, infringes copyright?

(There is no right answer. It’s anyone’s guess.)

Personally, I’d say they were all too low resolution to matter.

The image in the top left was created as cover art for a digital download album: an interpretation of Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue album using ultra low resolution synthesiser sounds from video games from the 1980s called, Kind of Bloop.

It seems entirely appropriate that this artwork is for the cover of a jazz album. In many forms of music, the important thing is the originality of the song. In jazz - and hip hop, incidentally - the originality of the song is less important than your interpretation of it. The pixel drawing is a reinterpretation of a cover for an album that is a reinterpretation of a reinterpretation.

However, it was also a legal bomb. The state of copyright at the moment is improving I think, acknowledging to some extent, the new digital, democratised media we now work with. But it is like a minefield that has mostly been cleared. Odds are good you can creatively act in good faith without worry of having to come up with a $32,000 settlement fee. On the other hand, if you are unlucky, you get hit and wonder if it wouldn’t be better working in a bank.

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Posted 11 months ago
mrgan: I can’t comment with any credibility on the legal issues involved in Andy Baio’s problems with the Kind of Bloop album cover, but I must address one assumption I’m seeing in comments on the story: That cover is NOT the original photo, downsampled. It’s a hand-crafted, precisely drawn interpretation of the source. Anyone who’s ever seriously put pixels to screen will tell you that this is an actual artistic method, one with its own challenges, tricks, and yes, an aesthetic. To illustrate, here’s an object from The Incident. (No, I don’t know how Daimler-Benz feels about the inclusion of their iconic SMART car in our game.) I didn’t scale down the photo to start - that wouldn’t have even been helpful. I looked and I drew from scratch. That’s pixel art.

mrgan:

I can’t comment with any credibility on the legal issues involved in Andy Baio’s problems with the Kind of Bloop album cover, but I must address one assumption I’m seeing in comments on the story:

That cover is NOT the original photo, downsampled. It’s a hand-crafted, precisely drawn interpretation of the source. Anyone who’s ever seriously put pixels to screen will tell you that this is an actual artistic method, one with its own challenges, tricks, and yes, an aesthetic.

To illustrate, here’s an object from The Incident. (No, I don’t know how Daimler-Benz feels about the inclusion of their iconic SMART car in our game.) I didn’t scale down the photo to start - that wouldn’t have even been helpful. I looked and I drew from scratch. That’s pixel art.

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Posted 1 year ago
ninakix: Michael Craig-Martin (via On The Shelf & On The Table - today and tomorrow) Zoom

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Michael Craig-Martin (via On The Shelf & On The Table - today and tomorrow)

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Posted 1 year ago
Piranha (2010) One of my favourites from moviebarcode I haven’t seen the movie, but I can guess it ends with a bloodbath :-) Zoom

Piranha (2010)

One of my favourites from moviebarcode

I haven’t seen the movie, but I can guess it ends with a bloodbath :-)

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Posted 1 year ago

Teaser for hotly anticipated doc PressPausePlay. What’s more fun than letting someone inspire you?

(Source: youtube.com)