Art History Through Sci Fi-Colored Glasses Pastiche? Mash-up? The best form of flattery? Whatever you want to call it, artists have enjoyed riffing on historical paintings for ages. For some, it’s a fun way to learn and explore issues of color, composition, and application of paint by intimately copying from a master. John Mattos took on Marcel Duchamp’s mechanically abstracted Nude Descending a Staircase and brilliantly reset it with C3PO. Tim O’Brien hears his master’s robotic voice. Abbott Handerson Thayer, often noted as a painter of angels, punked up a bit by Greg Manchess. Cyril van der Haegen inserts unspeakable evil into N. It’s a tough race to see what has been parodied more: the Mona Lisa, American Gothic, or Napoleon Crossing the Alps. Tristan Elwell invokes Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa for the cover to Jo Walton’s novel Tooth and Claw. Thanks to Zelda Devon for pointing me to this William Stout, an homage to Norwegian artist Theodor Kittelsen’s “The White Bear King.” Irene Gallo is the art director of Tor Books.
Ethereal Digital Paintings Loneliness never looked so depressingly good. Variations of glittered deformations form the basis for a grotesquely beautiful motif in the works of Japanese artist 非(xhxix). Digitally sketching, drawing, and painting everything using Photoshop alone, 非 visualizes loneliness in his subjects and decorates them with scars, layers of geometric abstractions and floral imagery. As most of his subjects are young men, the artist explains that “boys are more suitable to express loneliness as women are emotional and powerful.” Concocting images of isolated pain and an ethereal sadness into haunting depictions of young western men, 非 reveals a mystified insight into the depths of the Japanese psyche. Masterpieces Painted By The Chinese A Van Gogh? You’ve got it. A Dali? You’ve got it. A Rubens? 1 A painter eats his lunch in a studio at Dafen Oil Painting Village in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong province April 25, 2011. 2 Painting brushes are placed for sale at a shop at Dafen Oil Painting Village, in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong province, April 25, 2011. 3 Pigment tins are placed on the roof of a studio at Dafen Oil Painting Village, in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong province, April 25, 2011. 4 A painter works on an oil painting next to a portrait of China's late Chairman Mao Zedong in his studio selling the portraits of U.S. 5 A two-year-old boy, the son of a vendor, sleeps next to oil paintings at a gallery at Dafen Oil Painting Village in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong province April 26, 2011. 6 A vendor waits for customers in a gallery at Dafen Oil Painting Village in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong province April 26, 2011.
Photo Album Reflections of an English Language Teacher | Lizzie Pinard's take on teaching and learning - StumbleUpon Posted on 29th December ‘10 Translators: Vanessa Michal Dziekan — иллюстратор, дизайнер персонажей, аниматор и режиссер польского происхождения. В настоящее время живет и работает в Варшаве. Его работы впечатляют и в тоже время выглядят устрашающе. Michal Dziekan — illustrator, character designer, animator and director of Polish origin.
Graffiti Street Art View Tiny Mechanical Insects Made of Watch Parts Chicago-based artist Justin Gershenson-Gates, aka A Mechanical Mind, creates tiny steampunk insects by carefully soldering together gears, springs, and other watch parts. The mechanical bugs, many of which Gershenson-Gates can balance on just his pinky finger, are miniature, multi-legged creatures that each take the artist several hours to complete. Like a robotic army of creepy crawlers, the metallic mites invoke a sense of mechanical technology come to life. A number of Gershenson-Gates' mechanical insect sculptures are available to purchase through his Etsy shop. Justin Gershenson-Gates website via [from89]
A Multi-Colored Sprinkler Paints On-demand Rainbows Photo © Edwin Deen Photo © Niels Post Photo © Ampelhaus Have a blank white room in need of an instant color treatment? Consider this glorious rainbow sprinkler by Netherlands-based artist Edwin Deen. Jeux de société NL - patati@fedpatati@fed Pour apprendre une langue dans une bonne ambiance, jouez à des jeux de société! En jouant, vous relativisez plus facilement vos fautes. C’est juste un jeu et vous pouvez en rire. Rire et relativiser: c’est exactement ce dont vous avez besoin pour oser parler! Jouez avec votre Patati, avec vos collègues ou en équipe. Les jeux que Patati@fed sélectionne sont des jeux de langage et des jeux de discussion, mais tous les jeux peuvent être intéressants pour apprendre une langue. Cliquez sur les titre des jeux pour obtenir plus d’informations. Raconter une histoire Dixit Élu jeu de l’année un peu partout dans le monde ! C’est un jeu de 80 cartes illustrées de jolis dessins. Black stories Le maître du jeu prend une carte et lit (tout bas) une énigme lugubre et terrifiante avec la solution. Il existe 7 versions de ce jeu très populaire. Cyrano Inventez un poème à partir d’un thème et de rimes imposées. Blablabla Bla Bla Bla est un jeu de langage plus classique avec 240 cartes et un dé. Nonsense Buzz it
fields Fields is an experimental particle field sandbox. Millions of small particles are driven by force fields, which you can move, resize and change their parameters and this way create abstract compositions. This is a remake of my older but favourite experiment. Press "RANDOM SCENE" for new scene, then click to viewport and drag thumbs to change the field parameters. You can find new Fluidance motion effect or more experiments here. Controls: SCENE - move - drag scene with left mouse button - rotate - right mouse button (left-right) - zoom - right mouse button (up-down) or mouse scroll FIELD PARAMETERS - move field - drag the center thumb - field strength - drag thumb on horizontal line - first modificator - drag thumb on top line - second modificator - drag thumb on bottom line Tools: Keyboard shortcuts: Troubleshoot help: Found out that applet is not working with Chrome on some systems. Programmed in processing.