More and Less from This White
Ultrawhite paint could cool buildings and combat climate change This sciencemag.org bulletin talks about a new kind of paint that can condition …
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Annals of Imaging, Premiere
A lens can focus light to form an image, unlike a prism, which refracts light without focusing. Devices that similarly focus or disperse waves …
13, or 2, Ways of Seeing
Buddha, by Nam June Paik TV Buddha by Nam June Paik via paikstudios TV Buddha by Nam June Paik via thefaketory Buddha …
A Powerful Pattern-Making Venue Online
I’m a pattern-making maniac and can personally vouch for the company we look at today, Artlandia. I’ve used their software since at least 2006 …
Slitscan for You
This is the third in a series about photography techniques that provide artistic distortions. Dali re-constructed, a slitscan photo by Duncan Creamer …
Slitscan
This is the second in a series about photography techniques that can provide artistic distortions. Slitscan photography and videography. Artists are already at work in …
Distortion As a Skill
Panning Peripheral Portrait of Linda by Andrew Davidhazy via his website Look at this photograph and ask yourself, Could Picasso visualize such distortions in …
Lights Out for advanced.aviary.com
Last day of a going-away tribute to advanced.aviary.com‘s Peacock I feel like singing The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. Never had much use for Dixie …
Peacock V – People, Visions
Day 6 of a going-away tribute to advanced.aviary.com‘s Peacock Outfolding by Sloan Nota, made in Peacock Time is running short for Peacock — it’s …
Peacock – Sidebar, stevek
Part of a going-away tribute to advanced.aviary.com‘s Peacock Underwater by stevek, using Peacock’s Shape Draw feature on advanced.aviary.com [The topic yesterday was …
Peacock III
Day 3 of a going-away tribute to advanced.aviary.com‘s Peacock Have you ever heard of a Coons patch? I hadn’t til it showed up in Peacock. Here’s …
Peacock II
Day 2 of a going-away tribute to advanced.aviary.com‘s Peacock Most people know of Photoshop, that Big Daddy of artmaking software. I love Photoshop, rely …
Have a Favorite Tool?
made in Peacock by bassp (Sloan Nota) If you’re an artist there’s likely to be a tool that your hand knows how to reach …
Running My Cat through My iPhone
There’s a new cat around here. His name is Cosmo. Remember Cosmo Topper? If you get the feeling he’s a little out of focus, …
All in a Day’s Work
I want to share some of my new adventures with the 3d scans that were done of me at SIGGRAPH this month. Because I want to …
3D and You
3d is here. Movies, games — artistic power. To my readers who are artists and to those who care about fine art, here’s yet …
Levitated – but Elevating?
Levitated Mass by Michael Heizer via Wikipedia [Nature abhors a vacuum, your bifurcated blogger abhors an absolute. Be advised that I patrol both sides …
Greetings from LA
Plastic Just as the world is trying to recover from its plastics binge here comes a new wave of gadgets that everyone and their …
SIGGRAPH Blitz of Links
So I was hoping to give you fulsome looks at the technologies I’m seeing but LA Conference Time is warp speed. Here are some technologies …