Banksy Inside « The Drop Kings
The mysterious Banksy just released some new paintings on his website. You heard it right, Banksy painted on a canvas. All Banksy fans will appreciate. Here are a few of my favourites.
Dear Pixar: Leave 'Toy Story' alone
Because there is perhaps no longer any such thing as an untouchable or sacred property in Hollywood, not that there were many in the first place, Toy Story 4 is happening. It’s not surprising, what with 2010’s Toy Story 3 opening to near universal acclaim en route to crossing the billion-dollar mark worldwide. But for some viewers, it’s depressing all the same; for a franchise that started as a means of putting Pixar Studios on the map in 1995, heralding Disney’s new renaissance, audiences have come to feel an intimate connection with a film about friendship and sentient toys that also just happened to launch its own massive toy craze. This is ironic given the first film’s message about the importance of remaining loyal to one’s simple childhood diversions, even as toys were getting flashier and more elaborate with every passing year of the ‘90s. Perhaps most cynically (and appropriately), Disney revealed the film’s planned 2017 release in the midst of a conference call last week.
artwork by lawrence yang
*UPDATE* - I've been working on a new site so haven't been keeping this up to date -- in the meantime if you'd like to see my latest work, please find me on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. And as always, you can email me with any questions! Thanks, Lawrence Prices for original work ranges from $200 to $1000. Please email me for more details. Limited edition prints are also available here. "Encounter" - ink and watercolor on paper - 20" x 16" - SOLD "Hydra" - sharpie on bristol- 24" x 17" - not for sale "Aqua Teen Triptych" - ink, watercolor and pastel on paper - each panel is 3" x 12" - SOLD "Tiny Space Ghost" - ink, watercolor and gouache on paper - 2" x 3" - SOLD "Tiny Space Ghost" - ink, watercolor and gouache on paper - 2" x 3" - $100 "Tiny Zorak" - ink, watercolor and gouache on paper - 2" x 3" - SOLD "Tiny Brak" - ink, watercolor and gouache on paper - 2" x 3" - SOLD "Rooster Tree" - ink, watercolor and gouache on paper - 9" x 12" - $450 "Invasion" - gouache on mat board- 8" x 10" - $300
Science & Nature - Human Body and Mind - Spot The Fake Smile
How to Create Photorealistic T-Shirt Mockups
When designing for apparel, presentation of your proofs is very important. A detailed image of a piece simply will not suffice as an adequate proof. You want to hit the design home, and mocking it up on a t-shirt is what’s going to do the job. Now here at Go Media, we’re always mocking up something – many of them tees – and after a while we realized that providing a pack of tees geared towards designers for presentation purposes would be very cool. In this tutorial, I’ll be using a design that I created for Kick Rocks – an up and coming apparel company. Author’s note: This process will also cover how I mocked up the “Designing on a Budget” tutorial’s end result (Vomit Whistle) onto a tee – which is the very thing that helped spark the idea to make the pack and this accompanying tutorial (thanks “nobahdi” who asked the initial question of how the shadows were applied to the tee, and everyone else who commented on the tutorial!). Now focus on your layer panel. Now we import our art.
In a Perfect World… | SadAndUseless.com
Created by Catrina Dulay (there are few more, so it’s worth to visit).
Is Pixar's Run of Greatness Over?
I’ve written before (more than once, I’m afraid) about the dispiriting decline of Pixar over the past few years. After a run of success over its first 11 films unparalleled by anything else in contemporary cinema—a run that culminated with the astonishing trifecta of WALL-E, Up, and Toy Story 3—the studio seems largely to have lost its way. It began with 2011’s Cars 2, the leading contender for the worst Pixar film to date. Things improved with Brave the following year, and then regressed again in 2013 with Monsters University. This summer proved to be the first since 2005 in which Pixar did not release a feature at all: The Good Dinosaur, which was slated for release in May—having already been relocated from a 2013 date—was pushed back yet again, until late next year. Which is a long way of saying that this week’s announcement that Pixar will be releasing another Toy Story installment in 2017 strikes me as very bad news indeed. The future slate looks still grimmer in this regard.
11.20.11: A Weekly Gallery of Images
Accidental Mysteries is an online curiosity shop of extraordinary things, mined from the depths of the online world and brought to you each week by John Foster, a writer, designer and longtime collector of self-taught art and vernacular photography. “I enjoy the search for incredible, obscure objects that challenge, delight and amuse my eye. More so, I enjoy sharing these discoveries with the diverse and informed readers of Design Observer.” Editor's Note: All images are copyright of their original owners.
Zero-emissions Mercedes-Benz F-CELL car a hit with green celebrities
Emitting nothing but water vapor as it cruises around the city on hydrogen power rather than fossil fuels, it's no surprise that Mercedes-Benz' new B-Class F-CELL vehicle has attracted the attention of eco-conscious celebrities. One of those green celebrities is actress Diane Kruger, known for her recent performance as Marie Antoinette in the film "Farewell, My Queen." Kruger has been spotted driving her F-CELL around the Los Angeles area. "I'm excited to be driving the F-CELL. It's environmentally conscious, fun to drive and gets lots of attention on the streets," says Kruger. The vehicle hit the streets of Southern California in a limited release in May, and the car will be available to the rest of the country by the end of the year. The B-Class F-CELL converts compressed hydrogen into electricity, and gets a range of about 240 miles per charge. The new F-CELL is based on the automaker's small, family focused standard B-Class vehicle.
55 incredible examples of photo manipulation
We present collection of 55 incredible examples of photo manipulation. Some of them... you may know already, but another ones... could be new for you. What I'm sure about... all of them are simply worth of your attention.
Letters From Strangers
What Google’s New Study Tells Us About Why People Go to the Movies
Nobody likes feeling irrelevant, and when steering people towards good movies and away from bad ones is part of how you make a living, it’s more than a little dispiriting when it seems no one’s listening. But if the grosses for Trans4mers and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 weren’t enough, now here’s this: Google conducted a study, analyzing nearly two years of search data, to determine what makes frequent moviegoers choose which movies they’ll see. As you may have guessed, the carefully composed missives of yours truly (and my critical brethren) don’t really figure into the equation. The study, which Google conducted with Millward Brown Digital, was focused on “how moviegoers research and choose the films they watch.” Now, the wording of this statistic should be carefully parsed, as that 39 percent figure is apparently a portion of the already narrowed-down demo of “moviegoers who use video sites to look for more information about a film.”
