February 2012
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“Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your...”
– jonathan coulton
January 2012
31 posts
Anonymous asked: Hey there, I just wanted to take a moment to thank you guys for the amazing work you've done. I only discovered you guys this past November by accident while cruising Pandora studying for finals (law school finals, they be a harsh mistress). Mr. B came on, and I thought to myself that this song represented everything I love about music. I've since picked up your discography, and it is...
my inner simon cowell
I like finding new, streamlined workflows for my creative projects. In fact, if I think of each creative endeavor that I embark on, there is a different workflow for each, although there are certainly common principles and elements. Things usually start with some sort of sketching process. shooting wide. casting a big net. catching as many ideas as possible. whether this is physically drawing...
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Anonymous asked: This is a somewhat non-related statement repsonse to your 'the more art I see' post. When I hear music that doesn't appeal to my tastes... country comes to mind, or maybe hard core rap that doesn't appeal to a country fan, let say, I think of the passion I feel when I listen to the music I like, and realize that's the passion they hear when they listen to the music they...
using makeup to avoid face-detection →
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the more art i make, and the more i learn about art, the more i see how many different approaches there are. and when i think about moving through the timeline of art history, i see a strange evolution of not only the artists, but of the art buyers, viewers, patrons, collectors and curators.
i think about the art before the 20th century. there is so much religious art. there are so many...
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how to see trees
we went to an art museum here in budapest a few days ago. one of the temporary exhibits was the work of a hungarian artist, Sándor Hollán, who has lived in Paris since 1956. the exhibit was full of his drawings and paintings of trees.
there was a short film before hand, which showed him working, painting trees plein-air. he painted quite slowly. and he pushed the brush sort of backwards,...
el greco and the mummies
today we went to a museum down at hero’s square. there was an el greco exhibit, as well as some stuff on mummies. there was also a temporary exhibit by a french artist who drew trees.
the mummy part started with a 3d movie. basically it was a CG walkthrough of the scientific process of x-raying and imaging the mummies. budapest had four mummies in their collection, each one in a different...
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December 2011
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Use an iPad to Play With Real Pigs -- Without the... →
[brightcove video=”1331956964001” /] A Dutch gaming company is testing a game called, Pig Chase. It will connect users to real live pigs that they can interact and play with on their iPads. How does it work? Check out the video above to see it in action. Would you play with pigs if thi…
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Life-saving haikus →
Artist John Morse makes haikus for NYC’s Dept of Transportation.
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