Yay! Exit Through the Gift Shop is available on dvd/bluray on the sixth of September.
Archive of posts filed under the art category.
Awesome space colonies
Artists’ concepts of space colony studies conducted by NASA in the seventies.
Sense of wonder and belief in technology abound.
Periodic table of swearing
Featuring all the banned words. In multiple permutations.
Zero install programmable eye candy
sketch.processing.org – the Processing language available through Bespin.
Resist the invasion
Yet another entry in Steve Thomas’ awesome series of faux propaganda posters based on classic videogames.
GET LAMP poster
Looks good. And the release of the film is less than two months away.
Tea-bags for t-shirt fans
Sadly these tea-bags are only concept design, not something us t-freaks could buy.
[ via Preshrunk. ]
Truly extensible
Graffiti Markup Language. Either an elaborate hoax, or a new way of self-expression without spraypaint.
100 Games as Cupcakes
See how many classic games rendered as cupcakes you can recognize.
Awesomeness abounds: Tempest, Zork, Settlers of Catan and many, many others.
The entire hundred is available as a single image on flickr.
Ideas of 2009
As listed by New York Times, this is a prospective list of the ideas of 2009.
Sadly, the previous years’ lists are not available with trivial URL manipulation.
Adventures in packing tape
Mark Khaisman works his art in an unusual medium – layered packing tape.
Shown here is a scene from an Alfred Hitchcock classic, 39 Steps.
Constrained posters
Movie posters for minimalists.
A circle, lower case text and one or two unrelated images.
Priceless.
Simple amusements
As far as simplistic digital toys are considered, this circle-dividing flash app takes the top billing of the week.
Thursday Challenge 1.10.2009: Art
Bub, from Bubble Bobble. Possibly by Invader. Located in London, behind the Shakespeare’s Globe.
Reimagined movie posters
25 posters collected on one page, with plenty of links to follow onto the artists’ websites.
See It Sunday #198: Surreal
A statue by Keld Moseholm.
See It Sunday #198: Surreal
Word of the day: Ambigram
Ambigram = a design of one or more words that can be read from multiple viewpoints.
Nothing like the last moment
The just-closed surrealism-exhibit in Tennispalatsi was an interesting experience.
I expected to see a lot more Dali and Magritte, but the net of the hundred-odd works was a lot wider. Plenty of Man Ray and Duchamp, a lot of one-offs from more obscure artists.
No pictures. The museum personnel were very watchful of everybody brandishing any kind of electronics.
Typedia, a community-created database of fonts, foundries and designers.
Invasion of the inflatable fish
Stopped by Senaatintori on Friday to view the maritime show of Plasticiens Volants.
The helium-filled critters were indeed impressive and imposing. Especially the lobster was well-animated and pleasant to watch.
Having gone in on the Kauppatori side and exited through Kruununhaka, the hardships of fellow watchers as outlined in the Helsingin Sanomat fora went completely unseen.
The conditions were not optimal, and the quality of the images reflects this. A couple of snippets of video turned out better, and the best of the bunch is likely to land here.
Aesthetically ultimate jigsaw
Last week’s issue of Newsweek had a great article about high-end jigsaw puzzles.
The intricate designs of Stave Puzzles immediately struck me as something to seek out.
The jigsaws sure are not cheap, but closer to art than any other that I’ve seen thus far. That is art in cutting out the pieces from wood, not just plonking an image of a classical painting on boringly cut cardboard.
Awesome history lesson
On Benjamin Franklin, the founding father, multi-count inventor, author and all in all a true jack-of-all-trades.
Maira Kalman seems to publish only one entry a month, but if they are like this, this is yet another blog to follow.
I didn't know that, part n
Things that I learned today:
There was a sequel to Wasteland.
The Guns n’ Roses-pinball machine contains a song, Ain’t Going Down, that is unavailable anywhere else.
Avalon Hill’s Diplomacy is 50 years old. And there’s a presentation about the game in this weekend’s Ropecon.
Kolonists seems resemble Settlers of Catan (also headed onto the iphone) uncomfortably much.
Amnesty International creates awesome posters as seen to the right (this is an old one, so no link to the related campaign).
An umbrella is much more useful in the backpack than on the bed (this was actually not a new issue, but repetition works wonders).
Art of the titles
Yet another list of exquisite title sequences. Yes, Se7en is there, but so are a lot of previously unknown entries.
