High-speed photos of small items being destroyed


High-speed photography

You normally wouldn’t expect a golf club to be a normal photographer’s tool lying around the gallery. Unless you happen to be setup for taking high-speed photographs of eggs, fortune cookies, jello, christmas decoration and many other things being destroyed by that wood driver of yours at a few thousand frames per second. Knuttz’s Stuff, another in the long-list of college humor sites, has a 3 page photo collection of strange objects being hit, dropped and shot during various high-speed photo sessions thoughout the past few years. Bah, egg yolks are gross to begin with, but seeing one destroyed at a few thousand FPS looks even worse.

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August 15th in Art, Interesting, Photos | | 7 comments
Counter-Strike crates on the streets of Berlin


Counter Strike crates in real life

Artist Aram Bartholl is obviously a fan of Valve’s first-person shooter Counter-Strike. Back in 2004, he created several life-size replica crates from the Counter-Strike map “de_dust”, complete with pixelated textures to match the legendary in-game cliché of including crates throughout a games level design. He then placed these crates throughout the city of Berlin, transforming an object whose original use was to complicate space into a fully functional part of the city landscape, giving Berlin not only a little bit of game-related variety, but also taking German gamers one step closer to living out their ego-shooter fantasies on the streets of Berlin.

Read more: Counter-Strike crates on the streets of Berlin | Video game clichés @ Wikipedia

August 15th in Art, Games | | 7 comments
Gallery of vintage magazine advertisements


Vintage ads

The college humorists over at Eat Liver have started a small, but growing gallery of vintage magazine and street advertisements from the golden-era of advertising. Ahhhh the days of showing kids shaving and people getting healthier from smoking a few packs a day…

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August 12th in Advertising, Art, Photos | | 8 comments
Ekosystem – Graffiti photo sharing network


Japanese graffiti

Graffiti social networking site Ekosystem is a brilliant example of technology furthering an art community. Users from around participate in the photo sharing community by submitting photos of graffiti, stencils and pieces complete with tags, which are then sharable and searchable quickly and easily. Pretty much every major city in the world is covered and as it’s an open community, so you graffiti photographers out there take note and get involved.

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August 8th in Art, Graffiti, Internet, Photos, Social | | 13 comments
Love Pixel – Crazy pixel world artwork


LOVE PIXEL

Taiwanese something or other (a design firm I guess) Love Pixel does some amazing things with their pixel art. One of the current pieces is a giant pixel metropolis which I guess is supposed to be Taipei? Very beautiful and very fun time waster to work out your scrolling finger.

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August 7th in Art, Cartoons, Internet, Pixel Art | | 45 comments
Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” recreated with Lego


Van Gogh's Starry Night with Lego

In the Spring of 2001, someone with much more patience than I have recreated Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” using only Lego, which then ended up hanging on the wall of their home. The project took months and an estimated 10,000 Lego bricks to complete, with the process being captured in pictures for all of the world to enjoy. Unfortunately, the Lego-hacker who created the piece seems to have moved on from his projects, with the last update of his site being in 2002.

Read more: Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” recreated with Lego | Mathematical Lego Sculptures | Henry Lim’s Lego art

August 3rd in Art, Crazy, Lego | | 6 comments
Gallery of travel posters from the 1920′s and 1930′s


Golden Age of Travel

The Los Angeles Public Library system is having a virtual art show featuring brilliantly drawn art deco (some futurist) travel posters from the 1920s and 1930. The Golden Age of Travel as it’s called, these posters emphasis that traveling was once a stylish and graceful experience, opposite of what we experience today on basically any flight with other people on it. Some of the highlights include the Orient Lines poster and some beautiful early airline travel posters (Air France is lovely). This is the first time that the LA Library System has shared it’s collection, which is quite exciting for the inner art-nerd in us.


Poster 3 Poster 2 Poster 1

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August 3rd in Art, Posters, Travel | | 11 comments