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Silk — Interactive generative art. Massachusetts Museums. Sure, you’ve been to familiar museum favorites like the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston or the Museum of Science, Boston, which are certainly always worth a visit with their ever-changing programing, and modern exhibitions, but did you know that Massachusetts contains many other world-class, must-see museums?

Massachusetts Museums

The winter is a great time to trek out and see them! Modern Art For the Rest of Us Just outside of Boston, located in Lincoln, the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum is a magical place where the sculptures are strikingly new, yet warmly accessible. You can wander through their extensive park, and discover sculptures hidden in the woods and along the grounds, some of which even move in the wind. The deCordova features a kids activity center, as well as interactive programs like snowshoe tours — not to mention, plenty of free visitor days. Photo by Kindra Cline Photo by Mass MoCA. We declare the world as our canvas106 of the most beloved Street Art Photos - Year 2012. Click on a photo and you make it bigger and can post a comment on it.

We declare the world as our canvas106 of the most beloved Street Art Photos - Year 2012

And thats some of the most beloved Street Art Photos posted in 2012 on Street Art Utopia! A member of Street Art Utopia on Facebook wrote two year ago this nice piece about the future: – My son, do you want to hear something strange? – Yes! What? Underlined Book Quotes Become Clever Illustrations. Bookworm or not, you can't help but enjoy these black and white illustrations of literary quotes by Evan Robertson.

Underlined Book Quotes Become Clever Illustrations

The New York-based graphic designer has taken some of the cleverest lines written by famous authors such as William Faulkner and Oscar Wilde and turned them into wonderful posters. These literature-inspired fine art illustrations are currently being sold on Etsy under the name Obvious State. Robertson would see a "little jewel of a sentence" and he'd underline it.

Then, he would take those "snippets of text and ideas" and "let the words be a springboard for an illustration. " As he told Huffington Post, "The illustrations incorporate and interact with the text and hopefully add up to something that engages the mind as much as the eye. " Here are 12 of our favorites. Update: Check out more clever illustrations in Part II of this story. Obvious State on Etsy via [Quipsologies], [Huffington Post] Neonflames. The color of: an attempt to find out the color of anything. What is the color of happiness? Now you have an objective answer with 'The Color Of' app. When you search for something, the app will grab pictures from Instagram and overlap them to form an abstract image with a dominant color, which you can share on Facebook and Twitter, save as your phone's wallpaper, or even send as a postcard.

You can even explore the creations of other users. 'The Color Of' project adds on to the emerging field of new media and data art, where the work goes beyond a static medium by co-creating an art piece together with the user, the photo community and their ever-changing data. As a mobile app, users now have a piece of the project with them for an extended art experience anywhere and anytime. From its creation till today, thecolorof.com web experiment has over 300,000 visits. Book recommendations from readers like you.

DarkCopy - Simple, full screen text editing. 33 Ways To Stay Creative. The quiet place. Communication with the quiet place will be operated via the [spacebar] keycommunication with the quiet place will be operated via your fingergently squeeze that key, nowgently touch the screen, now in order to get the most out of your experience please silence your phone, turn on your speakers and press the [f-11] key or [cmd+shift+f] on macin order to get the most out of your experience turn up the volume and rotate landscapeagain, press [spacebar] to continueagain, tap to continue seriously though, silence your phone. it's pointless otherwisedon't worry - this is *not* one of those places that scare the crap out of youdon't worry - this is *not* one of those places that scare the crap out of you welcome to the quiet placeagain, press [spacebar] to continue in the quiet place, there are no capsletters that are all big and yell at you also, there are no facebook notifications or twitter google+ foursquare email messenger etc wow have you ever noticed how many things require your attention?

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Little. Ghost in the machine: Incredible images use cassette tape to create must-see likenesses of stars from film and music. Artist's stunning images examine "where music exists" - and look incredible Iris5 An artist that was inspired by the sight of audio cassettes laying on top of a canvas has produced stunning images of musicians and film stars by using spools of the format’s tape.

Ghost in the machine: Incredible images use cassette tape to create must-see likenesses of stars from film and music

Erika Simmons’ ingenious series of works titled ‘Ghost in the Machine’ is more than a collection of pretty pictures, though.