The Original Star Wars Trilogy As Maps. Maps are an easy path to the heart for several geeks I know, but I haven’t seen enough of them that pertain to the Star Wars universe. Artist Andrew DeGraff created a series of them, but instead of showing you the galaxy, they take you on the path of the films in the original trilogy. For example, in the above map for A New Hope you go from Tatooine to Alderaan to Yavin. It’s very Family Circus and very cool. I wish I could buy a set for my walls. Check out the maps for The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi after the break. (Andrew DeGraff via Geek Tyrant) Tagged as: art, map, star-wars. Artist Takes Every Drug Known to Man, Draws Self Portraits After Each Use. This is all kinds of cool, and everything your mother told you not to do. Bryan Lewis Saunders is an artist from Washington D.C., not just any artist though. Saunders prefers to take a more unconventional approach to his artwork.
Arguably his most interesting project, entitled DRUGS is described as follows: Below, you can view a collection of portraits Saunders drew while under the influence of various substances ranging from cocaine, to marijuana, to DMT. Abilify / Xanax / Ativan 90mg Abilify 1 sm Glass of “real” Absinth 10mg Adderall 10mg Ambien Bath Salts 15mg Buspar (snorted) 4 Butalbitals Butane Honey Oil 250mg Cephalexin 1/2 gram Cocaine Computer Duster (2 squirts) 2 bottles of Cough Syrup 1 “Bump” of Crystalmeth 4mg Dilaudid 1 shot of Dilaudid / 3 shots of Morphine 60mg Geodon Hash Huffing Gas Huffing Lighter Fluid 7.5mg Hydrocodone / 7.5mg Oxycodone / 3mg Xanax 3mg Klonopin 10mg Loritab Marijuana (Kine Bud) G13 Marijuana Morphine IV Psilocybin Mushrooms (2 caps onset) 2mg Nicotine Gum Nitrous Oxide 2mg Xanax.
How to create a scifi comic cover (with dystopian design maven Brian Wood) Darkness. Minimalist posters explain complex philosophical concepts with basic shapes. Sure, and sometimes a swastika is just an ancient Greek, Hindu or Native American symbol. But sadly everything exists in a historical context and, as such, some symbols are charged with more emotional and negative associations than we'd like. Am I the only one who never would have thought "gay" except that it was complained about here?
Well, we learn something new every day, right? Yes. today, I learned that far to many people are aware and care about symbols, rahter than looking and saying. huh. triangle. pink. minimalism usually fails, and this is an example thereof. I find no fault in myself for not immediately jumping to gay. if that was the intent of the artist, then I find myself having all kinds of pride in not jumping to that, because a) he did it for a reaction he didn't get from me, and B) it means I didn't and don't draw any kind of parallel between the two things. An autistic savant spent 20 years designing an entire city on paper.
Primal Trails When the worlds of art and science... This Is How Artists Draw All That Amazing 3D Street Chalk Art. Clever Google Maps Manipulations by Christoph Niemann. By amanda Mon, 04/12/2010 - 09:25 Tell me this isn't the most original thing you've seen all week. And don't expect anything less than original from Christoph Niemann, a regular illustrator over at The New York Times online with his own opinion blog - Abstract City. Christoph illustrates in the cartographic style of Google Maps, and he does it with wit! I love it. So much so that I'm having a hard time picking a favorite right now. Share your favorite with me on twitter! And be sure to head on over to his portfolio for more clever illustrations.