ArtRage Home. Alchemy | An open drawing project. "Good Artists Borrow, Great Artists Steal" Thus go words that Pablo Picasso may have uttered, although (1) I cannot find definitive attribution anywhere and (2) a great many other writers, poets, songwriters and visual artists have supposedly said almost the exact same thing. (You can read the last word [pun intended] on that which T.S. Eliot said here, and kudos to Nancy Prager for her detective work.)
Anyway. Within the past week I've read about both the source of Shepard Fairey's Obama-HOPE head shot (hint: the artist didn't shoot it himself, nor did he pay to use it) and a lawsuit filed against Richard Prince for lifting a photographer's series of portraits, putting daubs of paint on them and selling the results as his own original work. Now, I am not a copyrights lawyer, merely a visual artist who's always liked to stay on the happy side of the law. However, my layperson's eye, in looking at the original sources for HOPE and the Canal Zone series, sees little that would deem either of them "transformative" works. The Anthology Project - Home. NASA's dizzying concept art imagines ribbons of farmland in space. @lavardera: Have you checked Peter F. Hamilton's "A Second Chance at Eden"? I believe you would enjoy it. I found that book at a hotel's "give one, take one" book section when I was 8.
I still have it 18 years later and read it from time to time, awesome book. @The Overmind: oops - never heard of it. I'll add it to my bottomless list... @lavardera: In a nutshell the important part is the habitat. And it is described as looking like these pictures but with a layer in the middle that projects a fake sky since people found it disorienting seeing people walking on the sky. @The Overmind: Sounds very similar to the "bitec" habitats in Reality Disfunction. Art Appreciation 101: The two rules of awesome SF/fantasy art. Since I got my Kindle last year, I've purchased, hmm, 5 book-books, and only because they weren't available on the Kindle and I required them immediately. So, I often forget about cover art, these days, which is a shame. There's some great stuff out there. Sometimes, however, when I see the cover art for books I've read on the Kindle, I'm taken aback.
Like those Mercy Thompson covers. Still, I browse the Chris McGrath site now and then and I get samples of everything he's made a cover for - I figure if he's making the art, it's gotta be a decent book.
25 Font Management Tools Reviewed - Smashing Magazine. If you are one of those people who work with fonts on regular basis, then choosing, comparing and analyzing fonts is a serious business for you. Font management is not always as easy as a walk on the cake. Font management issues like installing and uninstalling fonts, handling missing fonts, taking care of font conflicts always keep graphic designers and typographers on their toes. Also hundreds or thousands of fonts activated on the system can use up considerable amount of system resources which in turn reduces efficiency and productivity. Mac, Windows and Linux platforms have their own font management utilities, but these utilities are not sufficient in a specialized or professional environment.
This is where professional font management tools come to the rescue. Below we have reviewed 25 free/commercial font managers for Mac, Windows and Linux. Suitcase (Win) / Suitcase Fusion (Mac) Link With both Suitcase Fusion and Suitcase for Windows you get FontDoctor. Main features: Artists for hire.
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