This is insanely incredible…
“The new short film by Blu, an ambiguous animation painted on public walls. Made in Buenos Aires and in Baden (fantoche).”blublu.org/ blublu.org/sito/video/muto.htm
“Neil Harbisson is a color-blind artist who can now paint - in color
- thanks to a cybernetic device called the Eyeborg which converts 360
colors into different sounds:
As an art student at Dartington College of Arts in
Devon, he painted only in black and white because that is all he saw.
But three years ago he met Adam Montandon, a cybernetics expert who
came to give a lecture at the college.After the talk, Montandon was told of Harbisson’s condition and
he took up the challenge of solving the problem, enabling Harbisson to
paint in colour. The artist suffers from achromatopsia – or complete
congenital colour blindness.Montandon decided to harness the way in which different colours
reflect light at different frequencies, with light vibrating fastest
from violet and slowest from red.The first device fitted to Harbisson’s head was fairly
primitive, letting him “hear” only six colours. His current model is
far more sophisticated, giving him access to 360 colours.Montandon created the Eyeborg system, manufactured by HMC
Interactive, the design company in Plymouth that he co-founded. It is a
head-mounted digital camera that reads the colours directly in front of
it. The camera is connected to a laptop computer, carried in a
backpack, which slows down the frequency of light waves to the
frequency of sound waves. The computer then sends the “sound” of each
colour to an earpiece worn by Harbisson. Montandon expects the system
eventually to be as small as an MP3 player.”
So our proclamations of “That looks like a 2-yr old painted it!” have been justified!
“Meet Freddy Linksy, a 2-year-old who managed to fool the art world into buying his tomato ketchup artwork:
To the untrained eye, they appear to be simple daubs
that could have been created by a two year old. Which is precisely what
they are.But that didn’t stop the supposed experts falling over themselves to acclaim them.
The toddler in question is Freddie Linsky, who has fooled the art world into buying and asking to exhibit his paintings.
Freddie’s efforts, which include works using tomato ketchup
composed while sitting on his high chair, were posted by his mother
Estelle Lovatt on collector Charles Saatchi’s online gallery.She claimed her son was an art critic and and a familiar face at
major exhibitions, and added ludicrously overblown captions to his
offerings.One creation of random red and green splodges called Sunrise was
captioned: “A bold use of colour. Inspired by the ‘plein air’ habit of
painting by Monet, drawing on the natural world that surrounds us all.”And his black scrawlings in a work entitled The Best Loved Elephant are captioned:
“The striking use of oriental calligraphy has the kanji-like
characters stampeding from the page, showing the new ascent of the
East. It is one of Linsky’s most experimental works.”
And the modern art people ate it all up! LINK (Photo: Julian Andrews)
This is an amazing photoshop job….hit the larger pic…
“Shane Willis’MC Mechanic - Hand Fixing Hand (left) is a fantastic and futuristic homage to MC Escher’s iconic Drawing Hands (1948):
Link to larger pic - via BB Gadgets
Now that’s some friggin paper-folding…
“Master origamist Eric Joisel has created this stunning set of
papercraft Lord of the Rings figures, each folded from a single, uncut
sheet.”
(via Neatorama)
Watching a play online…now this I could get into…
Oscar prize-winner Kevin Spacey will be appearing exclusively on the
virtual stage on the 16th of May 2007. On this day his short play “The
Interrogation of Leo and Lisa” will be shown for the first time for the
internet community, concerning itself with a single question: what is
the secret of Mona Lisa’s smile?
Holeee crap…
Neatorama: “If you’ve ever used MS Paint, you probably will agree that it as one of the most frustratingly simple paint programs ever invented. The lack of colors, features, and brushes make Jason’s 2+ hour rendering of the Mona Lisa even more amazing. Hit play or click on the Link [YouTube] to watch.
Jason is also the painter behind the Supersize Me painting with Ketchup. Talk about talent!”
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