Best Street Art of 2011 December 27, 2011 | 72 Comments » | Topics: Art, Pics Hot Stories From Around The Web Other Awesome Stories Dream Worlds Revealed On Canvas Along with some magnificent dreams, Jacek Yerka finds inspiration for his masterful paintings from his childhood memories: the places, remembered feelings and smells of 1950′s Poland. He studied fine art and graphic design before becoming a full time artist in 1980… and we’re glad he did. His paintings will take you through incredible worlds of imagination, bending reality in captivating and clever ways fit to inspire a novel or film. See Also ENDEARING MONSTER DRAWINGS POP FROM THE SCREEN Via: hypeness.com.br Most Amazing Miniature Food Artworks by Shay Aaron Shay Aaron is a brilliant artist from Israel who makes the most astonishing miniature food jewelry. These foodstuffs look so beautiful that we would desire to eat them. Actually, there’s a whole market out there for miniature food. Not actual stuff you can eat, but beautifully hand made designs of steaks, burgers, pies, vegetables, eggs and pretty much food artworks you can think of. Comments comments
beatriz beatriz The uninhabited dress Creative Boys Club » Brilliant Light Sculptures by Makoto Tojiki Japanese artist Makoto Tojiki works primarily with light, exploring its use in installations, figurative sculptures, as well as kinetic pieces. His most recent “No Shadow” series is inspired by the interconnectedness of light and shadow and how they can be manipulated and controlled. Tojiki begins his creative process by breaking down the light and the shadow to capture the essence of their symbiosis resulting in fleeting images that are as ephemeral and enigmatic as shadow itself. About the artist: Makoto Tojiki is an artist and designer who uses light as his primary medium of expression. Tojiki, a 1998 industrial design engineering graduate of Kinki University, devoted his personal time to experimenting with light while employed as an ndustrial designer. 1975: Born in Miyazaki, Japan. 1998: Graduated Kinki University Kyushu faculty of engineering industrial design. 1998-2003: Inhouse designer. See much more over in his gallery.
Right brain vs left brain - Creative Collection October 19th, 2011. Both comments and pings are currently closed. (Click image for full size view) A fantastic series of illustrations from an advertising campaign by Mercedes Benz. Are you a lefty or a righty? PLEASE NOTE: To prevent spam, your first comment will be moderated so there may be a short delay before it appears. Smithsonian Digitizes & Lets You Download 40,000 Works of Asian and American Art Art lovers who visit my hometown of Washington, DC have an almost embarrassing wealth of opportunities to view art collections classical, Baroque, Renaissance, modern, postmodern, and otherwise through the Smithsonian’s network of museums. From the East and West Wings of the National Gallery, to the Hirshhorn, with its wondrous sculpture garden, to the American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery---I’ll admit, it can be a little overwhelming, and far too much to take in during a weekend jaunt, especially if you’ve got restless family in tow. (One can’t, after all, miss the Natural History or Air and Space Museums… or, you know… those monuments.) In all the bustle of a DC vacation, however, one collection tends to get overlooked, and it is one of my personal favorites—the Freer and Sackler Galleries, which house the Smithsonian’s unique collection of Asian art, including the James McNeill Whistler-decorated Peacock Room. (See his “Harmony in Blue and Gold” above.) via Kottke Related Content:
Sadly no electric sheep Google has revealed a set of images created by a computer while it was "dreaming". The strange pictures were produced by an artificial neural network - a from of machine intelligence - being researched in the depths of Google's labs. The search giant said it "trains" the network by showing it millions of images and gradually asks it to recognise features of them by stacking them into layers. The gradual analysis of the images (which could be of anything from trees, to animals, to people) then allows the machine to recognise an object. Where these weird images come from is when Google took just one aspect of the layer analysis and asked the network to enhance it. The company calls this technique “Inceptionism” "Instead of exactly prescribing which feature we want the network to amplify, we can also let the network make that decision,” said Google’s Alexander Mordvintsev. "In this case we simply feed the network an arbitrary image or photo and let the network analyze the picture.
Types of creative thinking - The Second Principle Creative thinking is much more than using your imagination to crank out lots of new ideas. Creative thinking is a lifestyle, a personality trait, a way of perceiving the world, a way of interacting with other people, and a way of living and growing. Gary Davis © Leslie Owen Wilson email To create – the most complex type of cognitive thinking: Since the 1950s cognitive psychologists and researchers have been trying to explain the differences in diverse types of types of thinking. To be frank the original progressive array never set quite right with me as I always thought to synthesize something surely one had to evaluate it first. Apparently I was not alone in this criticism because in 2000-2001 a revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy was put forth and reworked. Unfortunately much of what we do in school concentrates, not on creating, but on remembering, understanding and applying. Convergence and divergence – two necessary types of thinking for being creative:
Fiber Into Form: I Felt Realistic Animals From Wool I was introduced to the art of needle felting about five years ago after browsing through a small art supply store in Vermont where there existed a section devoted to this somewhat obscure form of art making. I immediately bought some supplies and set to work teaching myself this medium, which involves jabbing a bit of wool fluff with a special barbed needle that interlocks the fibers and allows for the creation of a three dimensional form. My first animal was a small grey rabbit. I enjoy creating both realistic portrayals as well as imagined animal characters who might differ in color or bear adornments that differ from their real life counterparts. I have always enjoyed making handmade gifts for my family and friends, and I love that my creations can travel miles to reach the hearts of people I’ve never met. More info: Etsy | Facebook | Instagram Dandelion Rabbit Red Panda California Quail Dragonfly Coyote Gray Wolf Easter Rabbit Barred Owl Making A Bunny Felted Acorns Easter Bunny Pink Fox Bear