November 27, 2007 – 2:36 pm
Liz Henry: If I were a computer manufacturer or a media conglomerate I’d be doing stuff like putting Buffy DVD collections onto fancy Buffy themed bracelets.
Elizabeth Perry has my favorite iPhone image so far, from her watercolor sketchbook. And yes, I went and bought one last night. The one I get at the end of July will go to Cynthia.
February 12, 2006 – 11:12 pm
Cyn and I found a cool print at John Lotter’s booth at Wondercon. Since it reminded us of the Tiptree Award’s mascot, I bought a copy to pass along to Ellen Klages for the auction at WisCon. Other than that, the show was a press of too many people in too small a space, [...]
October 9, 2005 – 10:33 pm
[ via Misha ] Friends don’t let friends knit ugly.
August 17, 2005 – 9:14 pm
Nina Rosenberg’s looking for people to help knit small red sweaters, one for each American solider who has died in Iraq, for an art project.
One of the people at the MoveOn vigil for Cindy Sheehan in Mountain View held a placard advertising the site. She said that the sweaters are easy to knit and an [...]
A friend found Autostitch, a UBC Computer Science Department project for ’stitching’ together photos into panoramas, and threw some photos from the Apollo Moon landing missions into it.
Some of the results, like the Sea of Tranquility seen from the window of Eagle (above) are amazing. We put the results up as a Flickr photoset.
More like this: art, space
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January 2, 2005 – 12:00 am
The biggest structures in the known universe are the distribution of galaxies as found in the Sloan Survey: clusters and threads of galaxies, light and dark matter, megaparsecs in size.
Bathsheba Grossman etches that 3-D map into a cube of crystal using a laser.
A friend received one of these for a Christmas present. It’s a wonderfully [...]
December 10, 2004 – 12:00 am
Just watched Rivers and Tides, a documentary about the English landscape artist Andy Goldsworthy.
He creates short-lived pieces, and few permanent works, out in the field, using the materials (leaves, driftwood, ice, pigments made from plant and minerals) at hand.
Some observations about why I think he’s good at it:
He embraces Wabi Sabi.
He’s not afraid of screwups.
In [...]
More like this: art, whimsey
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April 23, 2004 – 12:00 am
Paul Ford meets Freddie Baer.
More like this: art
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I have to link the story of Banksy’s prank because it involves the British Natural History Museum, which is a wonderful building, and ties into King Rat.
The graffiti artist Banksy has managed to smuggle in his latest work, a dead rat in a glass-fronted box, into the Natural History Museum where it was exhibited on [...]
Kees Veenenbos made beautiful renders of what a wet Mars may have looked like.
He used radar altimeter data from the Mars Orbiters and fed it into the Terragen program.
More like this: art, mars
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September 13, 2003 – 12:00 am
[ via Bitflux Blog ] An online exhibit of Edo Era (17th to Early 20th Century CE) woodblock prints is not as ‘pretty’ as Hiroshige’s work. Instead, these are annotated illustrations of the news of the day (as far as I can tell.) Some are rough sketches, others are detailed, colorful images of fires, battles, [...]
This year at WisCon, Terri Windling, Delia Sherman, Heinz Insu Fenkl and others kicked off a project discussed at last year’s convention: the Interstitial Arts.
They’re interested in creative work that happens between boundaries (genre and mainstream fiction, commercial and ‘fine’ arts).
Heinz Insu Fenkl wrote an essay for the Interstitial Arts Foundation’s site trying for a [...]
Delaunay-Terk and Cendrars’ La Prose du TranssibÈrien et de la petite Jehanne de France was a small bit of the Art Deco exhibit at the Victoria and Albert, but it facinated me. The piece is a long, folded piece of cardstock with a prose poem travelouge of Cendrars’ train trip from Moscow to the Sea [...]
April 27, 2003 – 12:00 am
[ via Frank Paynter ] The 2 Blowhards describe themselves:
In which two graying eternal amateurs discuss their passions, interests and obsessions, among them: movies, art, politics, evolutionary biology, taxes, writing, computers, these kids these days, and lousy Ivy educations.
They blast modernist architecture in the same cheerful, catty manner in which Trinny and Susannah destroy their [...]
