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'Postcards to Alphaville' is a project dedicated to film characters featured in guest-made illustrations. Everyone participating in this adventure has to watch a film and make postcard portraying specific character from it. It is love-letter to films and those characters that brings us, the viewers, moments of joy, sorrow and revelation and sometimes seems more real than the neighbor next-door."
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posted by Sticherbeast
on Sep 28, 2011 -
7 comments
"You people bring matches for Mikey?" When people fondly remember TV's
Mystery Science Theater 3000 they commonly focus on the film riffing part of the show, but some of the best comedy to come out of the Satellite of Love involves the host segments that provided a break from the movie. MSTies over at Satellite News have spent the past ten weeks discussing the best host segments from each season of the show, analyzing what makes some segments work while others fall flat.
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posted by Servo5678
on May 23, 2008 -
66 comments
Teddy: A sketching interface for 3D freeform design (in Java). Noodle around with the
online applet (see the
tutorial for instructions; there's also a
demo in .avi format), or download the program so you can save your creations. An even niftier upgrade is available,
SmoothTeddy (
.avi demo), but SmoothTeddy doesn't have an online version to play with.
posted by Gator
on Feb 22, 2006 -
11 comments
Sketchplanet.com "is a new web service based around sketches. Taking some obvious cues from Flickr (e.g. tags, ability to comment etc.) Sketchplanet is an online sketching network where people can draw whatever they like, add titles, comments, tags, save favourites and more."
posted by gen
on Oct 11, 2005 -
17 comments
Subway Passengers: Underground Portraits From Ten Cities António Jorge Gonçalves rides the subway and sketches whoever happens to sit in front of him, from New York to Lisbon to Tokyo. I find his drawings interesting because there's nothing studied or selective about them. You feel you've already seen these people.
Mathowie recently linked to another Portuguese artist's drawings -
Jorge Colombo, who designed
O Independente with me, the newspaper I founded and edited in 1987. It's a small consolation for a small country like mine that urban sketches by fellow citizens are, as of now, practically a staple here on MetaFilter...[
Flash required; download may be slow for dial-ups at busy times and, whatever you do, don't hit your browser's Back button - use only the one provided.]
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Apr 11, 2002 -
9 comments
Play "police sketch artist" with this Flash project. You can select from dozens of different noses, jawlines, eyes, hair, and so on to create an image of your friends or foes. It's harder to recreate someone than you'd think.
posted by acornface
on Mar 13, 2002 -
65 comments
