Tag: art
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Consume less, create more
We should spend less time reading and more time writing online. Dan's comments on an inspiring essay.
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Passport Photos
Passport photo rules make self-expression impossible. Or do they?
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Metropoloid: A Metropolis Remix
Yaz Minksy and Joe Blair use classic videogames to produce a contemporary soundtrack for epic 1927 silent film Metropolis.
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The International Flag of Planet Earth
The International Flag of Planet Earth
Inspirational, well thought-out proposal for a flag for unified, "for Earth" projects. The website is terrible, but the artwork's great, and it's always nice to see an artist focus on the idea of "uniting humanity" in spite of our politically-fractured world. -
Community characters in Monkey Island-style/minipops pixel art
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/7e/4f/6c/7e4f6c029f3cad4c9aa685874c36a3f0--community-series-monkey-island.jpg (i.pinimg.com)
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The Bad Hair, Incorrect Feathering, and Missing Skin Flaps of Dinosaur Art
llustrating long-extinct creatures is difficult, but important work. With no living specimens to observe, it’s up to “paleoartists” who draw, paint, or otherwise illustrate the creatures of prehistory as we think they might’ve been. Their work is the reason that when we talk about velociraptors, stegosaurs, or even woolly mammoths, we have some idea … -
seriously, the guy has a point
I got metaphorically spanked a couple of days ago. Folks have been talking about the Fearless Girl statue ever since it was dropped in Manhattan’s Financial District some five weeks ago. I have occasionally added a comment or two to some of the online discussions about the statue.
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![Image representing post: Work Calendar [NSFW?]](https://bcdn.danq.me/_q26u/2011/08/IMAG0023-1-978x480.jpg#17585)
Work Calendar [NSFW?]
Dan is momentarily alarmed by an abstract art piece - supposedly inspired by a flower - that appears in his office's calendar. Might be NSFW?
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The Shark
This morning, I left Earth to go to nearby Headington. This trip was primarily to put money into the back, register with a GP, and get some keys cut for the new lock in the garage door. However, I also took the excuse to re-assemble my bike since the move and get out and about …
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Silliest Thing I’ve Seen All Week
As this hilarious BBC news story tells it, an artist came home to his Liverpool house to find that:
(a) A criminal had broken in to his home.
(b) Mistaking a piece of his artwork as a human head in a jar, the criminal turned himself in to the police to tell them about it. He also … -
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #49:
Tear apart a pile of stolen computer keyboards to make a cool name plaque for your door, with real pressable buttons for each letter of your name, and not-pressable ones that say Enter, and Compose Character, and Do, and Lock, … -
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #47:
Steal some old VT-320 keyboards from the skip outside the Llandinam Extension and smash them up to make a cool nameplate for your door out of the keys. It reads:
[D][A][N][I][E][L], then lower, [Enter], and then by the lock, [Lock]. Not …