Topic: ART - on June 13, 2009 at 1:02:00 PM CEST
Banksy pulls off his most audacious stunt yet... a secret exhibition in Bristol museum
Banksy has pulled off his most daring stunt yet by staging his biggest-ever British exhibition in complete secrecy.
The covert graffiti artist snuck into Bristol's City Museum and Art Gallery and replaced many of the artefacts on display there with 100 pieces of his own work, including a burnt-out ice-cream van.
The spray-painted van, which sits under a giant melted cone, appears alongside dozens of sculptures, oil paintings and his trademark stencils from today.
dailymail.co.uk bbc.co.uk In pictures: Banksy's Bristol show
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Topic: ART - on June 1, 2009 at 2:01:00 PM CEST
100 Extraordinary Examples of Paper Art
Paper art can be traced back to Japan, where it originated over a thousand years ago.
From complex paper cutting to book carving, this is an ever expanding area of design that is hardly talked about.
These intricate paper designs grace museums and exhibitions throughout the world and is becoming yet another exciting medium of expression for many designers.
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Topic: ART - on May 18, 2009 at 12:52:00 PM CEST
Shit We're Diggin': Ginou Choueiri's Potato Portraits
I chose the potato to portray human faces because of the many striking parallels. Not only is their skin porous like ours, but their skin texture and color is very similar, and like us, they come in different sizes, shapes and forms. Potatoes grow, live, and then decay, mirroring the ephemeral existence and fragility of our own human nature.
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Topic: ART - on May 3, 2009 at 2:15:00 PM CEST
Banksy Costume
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Topic: ART - on May 3, 2009 at 1:08:00 PM CEST
40 Amazing 3D Fractals Using Apophysis
Today we’re featuring 40 fractal images created using Apophysis. It’s a free Windows program for designing and rendering fractal flames. You can download the software for free at SourceForge
Recently, Apophysis has been getting more and more popular among the community of DeviantArt. Apophysis, and competing fractal product UltraFractal, are the most popular fractal software used by fractal artists on deviantART.
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Topic: ART - on May 3, 2009 at 1:05:00 PM CEST
Marco Tempest's Augmented Reality card trick makes David Copperfield look positively ludditic
Illusionist and augmented reality artiste Marco Tempest has put together a video preview of his newest act, called (aptly enough) "Augmented Reality Magic 1.0," and has been kind enough to share it with us. In the video, Tempest uses AR to demonstrate what's going on in his fertile imagination as he performs a card trick -- cards levitate, Jokers dance, and the birthday cake?
engadget.comVirtual Magic: Augmented Reality Card Tricks with Marco, OpenFrameWorks
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Topic: ART - on April 17, 2009 at 12:27:00 PM CEST
Pirate Bay server becomes museum artefact
A server used by notorious BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay that was seized by police has been added to Sweden’s National Museum of Science and Technology’s collection.
The museum said today it has bought the server from The Pirate Bay for 2,000 kronor ($243). It’s understood the artefact has been added to the Stockholm-based museum’s “Inspiration Imitation” display, which aims to to stimulate interest in finding out more about the area of intellectual propety rights."
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Topic: ART - on April 6, 2009 at 10:35:00 AM CEST
I Dream the Clothing Electric
THE crew installing the new exhibition at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts here had all the usual tools of the trade: ladders and dollies, levelers and tape measures, hammers and screw guns. But the artist featured in the show, the Chicago sculptor Nick Cave (not to be confused with the Australian musician of the same name), had one unusual request.
“Could someone bring me a hairbrush?” he asked.
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Topic: ART - on March 18, 2009 at 2:53:00 PM CET
Extreme Sheep LED Art
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Topic: ART - on March 18, 2009 at 2:51:00 PM CET
cactus design scenario
probably the most famous cactus is the saguaro, with its hard and solid spines which grow from the stem. generally speaking, a cactus is a symbol of patience, endurance, persistence and nostalgia. its cultural imaginary is portrayed in the emphasis of the many design applications.
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Topic: ART - on March 17, 2009 at 12:04:00 PM CET
March 17, 1948: William Gibson, Father of Cyberspace
William Gibson is born in Conway, South Carolina. He later blossoms into legend with the prize-winning fiction that gives the world the term cyberspace.
The death of his father and a move to rural Wytheville, Virginia, propelled Gibson at age 6 to withdraw into his books, especially science fiction. In the 2000 documentary No Maps for These Territories he called this his "native literary culture."
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Topic: ART - on March 15, 2009 at 9:53:00 AM CET
Graffiti Fanmags und Banksy Bücher online
Die Website Zinelibrary hat jede Menge Fanmags und Underground-Magazine zu allen möglichen Themen von Kochen bis Anarchismus, die Graffiti-Sektion ist eine wahre Fundgrube.
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