fun installation show

Thought this looked like an interesting installation show.
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Trees and bottles

Thought this was a whole lot of work. dang. Looks interesting. i couldnt image moving it from show to show.
(brenton: thought of you when I saw this.)
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Rockwell and Photography

Interesting post on Gizmodo about Norman Rockwell's reference to photographs in creating his paintings/illustrations, describing them as a type of early "Photoshop."

Check out the full article at Gizmodo, HERE.

Article on Unique and Personal Design @ AIGA

"A Decade of Dirty Design"
by Steven Heller

"Post-nostalgia stress syndrome for the 1990s—a curious love/hate relationship with grunge type—is finally kicking in just as the first decade of 2000 is coming to a close. Nostalgia is so last century. It is time for design pundits to start looking forward, but not before looking back at the past 10 years in order to neatly categorize and define the design aesthetic of the era (assuming this can be labeled an era). Actually, I’m putting my dibs in to be the first to offer some viable categorization. I know it is cheating to do so before 2009 is officially over.. What’s more I hold that fairness is not an issue when staking out one’s pundit-turf. So let’s begin…"

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Eric Testroete

Eric Testroete
made this 3D papercraft head of himself just larger. It is rather nice he has some other fun work on his site.

See all about the project HERE

Simon Schubert

Simon Schubert. So this guy is pretty nuts he makes his work by folding lines in paper, no stylus not patterns just folding and opening. Check out his paper works HERE

Are you smarter than an art history major?

Think you know art history? Test your smarts on the Free Rice Famous Paintings quiz. They give you an image and title with four artists to choose from. As you get answers correct, you move up levels so the game always challenges you. Best of all, for every correct answer you get, grains of rice are donated so you can hone your art history skills and help feed starving people.

Test your smarts HERE

Pinhole Photography, Fall 2009

Here are some of the results from our Pinhole project in ART 120 Photography this semester. We each create our own cameras, shoot to RC paper, scan and digitally enlarger them to make paper negatives, and then contact print them to RC paper.

Follow the link HERE.

brilliant idea with flies

This is a video of some tradeshow in Germany where a company released flies with advertisements attached to them like those little planes at the beach. Great idea