http://www.metafilter.com/tags/CloudGate Posts tagged with 'CloudGate' at MetaFilter. Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:43:43 -0800 Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:43:43 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/75983/Trevor%2Dand%2DRyan%2DOakes%2Dperspective%2Deasel <a href="http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/oakesbros/">Twin brothers Trevor and Ryan Oakes have a new technique for drawing perspective.</a> Unlike the <a href="http://brightbytes.com/cosite/what.html">camera obscura</a> and <a href="http://www.gilai.com/books/articles/cl.htm">camera </a><a href="http://physics.kenyon.edu/EarlyApparatus/Optics/Camera_Lucida/Camera_Lucida.html">lucida </a>(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockney-Falco_thesis">allegedly</a>) employed by Renaissance masters, their method uses an easel with a curved steel frame which splits the artist's view into a grid and a skullcap to lock his head into place. By employing an optical trick similar to magic-eye stereoscopy, the artist can superimpose what he sees onto a <a href="http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/oakesbros/gallery/">thin strip</a> of his paper. The result? Richly detailed line <a href="http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/oakesbros/gallery/2/">drawings </a>on <a href="http://machineproject.com/engine/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/dish-drawing.jpg">concave </a>surfaces. <a href="http://www.oakesoakes.com/index.htm">Their website.</a> (Look for Trevor's pipe cleaner weavings and the see-through concave cardboard wall). <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/arts/chi-twin-oakes-0803aug03,0,3817335.story">More</a>, <a href="http://www.theiff.org/lectures/20.html">more </a>and <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/09/head_controlled_art.html">more</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.75983 Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:43:43 -0800 art CloudGate concave drawing easel Oakes perspective hydrophonic