Posts tagged: Art
I made myself a Manga
What do you think?
Apparently you’re no longer cool on Twitter unless you have one of these “Face Your Manga” self-manga-portraits as your avatar. Well, I’m not changing my Twitter avatar just yet, but I do likes me a self-portrait generator.
Crazy Christian Campaign Comic
It would seem Oklahoma Commissioner Brent Rinehart is going all out in an attempt to get re-elected county commissioner. He’s even gone as far as mailing out his campaign manifesto in the form of a comic. Sounds like a great idea until you discover Rinehart is a fundamentalist bigot who wants to impose his Christian sense of morality on everyone else. He also seems to be wholly obsessed with the gay sex.
Rinehart says the comic strip took him two months to script out and is “more or less a story of my experiences of the last four years of being the county commissioner of District 2.” No one seems to have noted how long it took Shane Suiters to pen the 16 page masterpiece.
Keith Gaddie, a University of Oklahoma political science professor, called the book “one of the strangest things” he’d ever seen.
“I’ve never seen a comic book with the phrase ‘anal sodomy’ in it before. That was a new one for me.”
Regardless of my personal feelings about this ass-obsessed clown, I’m not knocking Rinehart’s comic book approach at all. Far from it, I think its a novel idea that can have excellent results when done politely and with an actual sense of humor, like Kansas pro-education, pro-science candidate Sean Tevis did for his campaign.
Download Brent Rinehart’s full campaign comic here.
Via: The Freethinker, Tulsa World
I Got Inspired
Every once in a while, I get inspired to create something. Sometimes it’s a music idea and sometimes it’s something more tactile. I was watching Brian Eno’s 77 Million Paintings last night and got a surge of inspiration. One of the combinations of art produced a silhouetted figure with various degrees of splatter art making up the insides. I didn’t get a screenshot of the Eno art but here are 3 small pieces inspired by it.
I’ve always liked working with the shapes of people without going into the details of those people’s appearances. I like leaving out things like facial expressions and emotional body language on purpose so you can focus on the overall common shapes and attributes that go along with those commonalities. I might do more of these but there’s a ‘tactile’ bug approaching me and I thing I’m going to be doing something more hands-on next.
Brian Eno On Evangelical Atheism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2shEwFjhzA4
Animated Wall Painting by Blu
Large-scale street artist Blu made this animated wall painting and it’s awesome. It also looks like a fantastic high school art project for a city wanting to clean up an area’s graffiti.
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
Click here if you don’t see the video above.
Brian Eno’s ‘77 Million Paintings’
I’ve been hooked on watching Brian Eno’s latest visual music installation, 77 Million Paintings, quite a lot lately. Since the actual installation is still making its way through museums and galleries across the globe, I’ve been enjoying the PC/Mac DVD software version that lets you experience the installation on your computer’s monitor.
I’ve always been fond of Eno’s generative work (Ambient 1, Neroli, Thursday Afternoon) and the art generated by 77 Million Paintings is no exception. I love the concept of self-generating music that never ends. The songs on albums like Ambient 1: Music for Airports are but fractions of the actual music created during those sessions.
One of the things that is interesting in this, and about generative work in general, is that the artist doesn’t actually know exactly what the result is going to be.
I really think Eno missed a golden opportunity with this software though. Instead of creating a stand-alone art program, he could have created an open software system for creating generative paintings in addition to the stand-alone program. He could have opened up the basic rule sets and image choices, letting users create their own paintings or share ’sets’ of paintings over the internet. I’m sure the basic functionality could be designed in Flash using PNG transparencies and various overlay effects. I would love to see an open project for software like this develop on the web.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRkNrWp6tLg
Brian Eno – 77 Million Paintings
Upside-down Church Causes Stir
A sculpture by American artist Dennis Oppenheim titled Device to Root Out Evil has been causing a bit of a stir in its current home in the Harbour Green Park on Cordova Street, Vancouver. It was placed there as part of the 2005 Vancouver Biennale sculpture festival.
… residents said it simply offended their Christian beliefs to see a church turned upside-down.
I’ll say it again. If you’re offended, look away. Leave it for others who have the intellect to look it over and respect the art for what it is. Personally, I think it’s a pretty neat sculpture and I wouldn’t mind having a miniature version in my yard. I wonder how it’s mounted.
Via: The Province
