Posted in Art and Design, Tech Stuff, iPad on Mar 6th, 2010 No Comments »
Microsoft’s Courier ‘digital journal’
Fantastic, and if they can build it, people will come.
This mock up reminds me of Apple’s concept movie of a future Knowledge Navigator done in 1987. More on the history of Apple’s project here.
[via Daring Fireball]
Posted in Art and Design, Objects, People, Photographers on Feb 2nd, 2010 2 Comments »
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Tim [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Macintosh, People, Tech Stuff, Video, iPad, iPhone on Jan 29th, 2010 No Comments »
Apple’s head of marketing Phil Schiller demonstrates the new iWork application on iPad including the use of multi-touch gestures for getting things done without a mouse.
This is a clip from the iPad unveiling which can be watched in its entirety here.
Posted in Art and Design, People, Places on Jan 23rd, 2010 4 Comments »
Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California. Alberto Giacometti is one of my mother’s favorite artists. Giacometti was 14 when my now 94 year old mother was born and this piece was probably cast around the time I was born.
Posted in Cartoons, Humor, Ideas, Politics, iPhone on Jan 18th, 2010 No Comments »
Slowpoke: The Terminatrix
Jen Sorensen is a genius, no doubt about it.
Note: If you’re not familiar with The Terminator this will make little sense. If you are I’m sure you’ll agree: it’s genius.
iPhone = Skynet
Palin = Terminator
Obama = John Connor
Jen Sorensen = Genius
Posted in Art and Design, Ideas, Objects on Jan 17th, 2010 2 Comments »
CARDnetics
Bryce Bell is a mechanical engineer who has made some fun “cards” that at this point, shoot pennies and tictacs. However, there’s something fascinating about the process.
Watch the videos of the Penny Shooter and the Cardapult.
I have no interst in shooting but I think he’s on to something with these cards that morph into tools. [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Objects, Video on Dec 14th, 2009 No Comments »
This is a wonderful process documentary of various steps in the making of shell chairs that Charles and Ray Eames designed for Herman Miller. Great music too.
[via kottke.org]
Posted in Art and Design, Creativity, Video on Dec 10th, 2009 3 Comments »
Between the Folds
The science and culture of origami.
[via Kottke.org]
Posted in Animation, Movies, Video on Dec 10th, 2009 3 Comments »
French Roast
Wonderful French animated short film. Check it out.
Posted in Art and Design, Photography on Nov 29th, 2009 No Comments »
Norman Rockwell’s Photographic Eye
Norman Rockwell is a familiar name. You probably know him for his illustrations that defined the rosy aesthetic of mid-century America. But what you might not know is that almost all of his paintings began first as photographs.
Posted in Art and Design, Food, Ideas on Nov 27th, 2009 No Comments »
Back to the Land
This is a wonderful Thanksgiving essay by the artist Maira Kalman. It’s a must read for anyone interested in food and how we think about it.
Her excellent New York Times column And the Pursuit of Happiness has an RSS feed.
Posted in Art and Design, Creativity, Ideas, People, Places on Nov 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
Absolutely incredible behind the scenes glimpse of a genius’s process. Zoom it out, full screen, you will not regret it.
[via Ken O'Connell]
Posted in Art and Design, Humor, Objects on Nov 19th, 2009 2 Comments »
Bio-Diversity
Christoph Niemann has some fun with leaves and language. Fun piece.
Posted in Art and Design, Objects on Nov 4th, 2009 No Comments »
My friend Hank Murrow has teamed up with his wife Bev to produce a wonderful tea bowl (chawan) in a wonderful bag.
Posted in Art and Design, Tech Stuff on Oct 25th, 2009 No Comments »
Teapots Have a Dribbling Problem—Who Knew?
To fix the issue, Duez and company made the teapot lip as thin as possible. And, being intelligent scientists with access to really cool shit, they also coated the lip with “the latest generation of superhydrophobic materials.” Even cooler, these materials can be controlled electronically.
Great, all that learning in [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Copyright, Photojournalism on Oct 17th, 2009 No Comments »
‘Hope’ Poster Artist Admits Error
Shepard Fairey, a Los Angeles-based street artist with a long, often proud history of breaking rules, said in a statement Friday that he was wrong about which photo he used and that he tried to hide his error. It was not immediately clear whether he would drop his lawsuit against the [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Cartoons, People on Oct 13th, 2009 No Comments »
New Yorker art editor Francoise Mouly talks about cover illustration for Money issue
Wonderful peek at The New Yorker’s process for putting a series of covers together. Mouly is married to the artist/illustrator/author Art Spiegelman. Her Wikipedia entry is fascinating: Françoise Mouly.
[via Boing Boing]
Posted in Art and Design, Joy Brown Sculpture, People, Slide Show on Oct 12th, 2009 2 Comments »
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A [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Audio, Ideas, NPR on Oct 5th, 2009 No Comments »
Faking Fine Art
This was a fascinating OnPoint show interviewing the author of a book on one of the biggest art frauds of the 20th century. A con-man hires a painter to reproduce period paintings and then passes them into the art world by forging provenance papers and more.
The piece I found most interesting was the [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Joy Brown Sculpture, Objects, Slide Show on Oct 1st, 2009 4 Comments »
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