MetaFilter posts tagged with art and images

The beauty of roots

escabeche — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:18:21 -0800

The beauty of roots. From Dan Christensen and Sam Derbyshire via John Baez. If you like algebra: these are plots of the density in the complex plane of roots of polynomials with small integral coefficients. If you don't: these are extravagantly beautiful images produced from the simplest of mathematical procedures. Explore the image interactively here.

But are there any nude photos of Socko the Snake?

Artw — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:47:25 -0800

Some images of rare and obscure Alan Moore material from Slovobooks.

Pictures don't lie

Miko — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:27:24 -0800

Photomontage timeline, 1850-2007. Spirit photography, trick photography, comic montages, Photoshop, etc. I only wish you could enlarge these images. But I'm glad to have learned about the Cottingley Fairies.

That would make a good band name.

flatluigi — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 08:17:26 -0800

Wikipedia Names Your Band. (flickr pool) _{For reference:

1. Your band's name is the first random article from Wikipedia
2. Your album's title is the last few words of the last random quotation from QuotationsPage.
3. Your album's cover is the third image on Flickr's Explore the Last Seven Days.
4. Photoshop and mix to your taste.}

Polyvorous

divabat — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:42:56 -0800

Polyvore is a website that lets you mix and match online images to make fashion sets and collages. While it has received favour from Web 2.0 pundits, fashion bloggers, and major craft blogs, it has also drawn massive ire from artists that claim copyright infringement and use of personal photos. The anti-Polyvore pressure mainly comes from Etsy sellers, with some support from artists on DeviantArt, Red Buddle, and independent artists - all coming together on Flickr. We Heart It and Ffffound! are also seen as suspect. While Polyvore tries to assuage copyright fears, amidst growing pressure to shut down, many of Polyvore's current users are counter-petitioning for the site to stay.

Demarco Digital Archive

jack_mo — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:04:05 -0800

The Demarco Digital Archive holds 10,000 images and documents gathered by Richard Demarco, gallerist, Beuys collaborator, founder of the Traverse theatre and a key figure on the Scottish arts scene since the '60s. Thanks to the archive's annoying interface, I can't see a way to link to specific images, but this piece in the Scotsman offers a few highlights.

Mad artist in ancient sinister house draws things. What were his models? Glimpse.

Artw — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:10:13 -0800

"Mirage in time—image of long-vanish’d pre-human city." - "Ancient and unknown ruins—strange and immortal bird who SPEAKS in a language horrifying and revelatory to the explorers." - "A very ancient colossus in a very ancient desert. Face gone—no man hath seen it." - Images based on the commonplace book of HP Lovecraft. "As dinosaurs were once surpassed by mammals, so will man-mammal be surpassed by insect or bird—fall of man before the new race." - "The Italians call Fear La figlia della Morte—the daughter of Death." - "Death lights dancing over a salt marsh." - "Daemons, when desiring an human form for evil purposes, take to themselves the bodies of hanged men." (2) - Talking rock of Africa—immemorially ancient oracle in desolate jungle ruins that speaks with a voice out of the aeons". - "Azathoth, hideous name." - "Shapeless living thing forming nucleus of ancient building." - (2, 3) - "Life and Death Death--its desolation and horror--bleak spaces-sea bottom-dead cities. But Life-the greater horror/Vast unheard-of reptiles and levia-thans-hideous beasts of prehistoric jungle-rank slimy vegetation-evil in-stincts of primal man--Life is more horrible than death." - "An sint unquam daemones incubi et succubae, et an ex tali congressu proles nasci queat?" - "A very ancient tomb in the deep woods near where a 17th century Virginia manor-house used to be. The undecayed, bloated thing found within." - "A monstrous derelict—found and boarded by a castaway or shipwreck survivor." - "Monsters born living—burrow underground and multiply, forming race of unsuspected daemons."

Pleasing Blog. Some Monsterism.

zamboni — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:34:04 -0800

Captured Monsters, a classic monster movie screencap blog. Suggested serving size contains your RDI of B movies, axe murderers, kaiju, mad scientists, and 60s bikini girls.

Art Image Bank

Rumple — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:39:35 -0800

Art Images for College Teaching is a searchable, browsable collection of 2,027, well, art images for college teaching, and appears to be mainly the personal collection of Art Historian Allan Kohl (previously on MeFi), and thus represents his interests and specialities, not to mention the variable quality of his photographic skills. Rather strong in Ancient and Medieval, especially architecture, but tapers off as you become more distant from Europe or closer to the 20th century. Nice sets include the Lion Hunt from Ashurbanipal, Iraq; the exterior sculpture of Chartres; and grave stele.

Cheer up, sleepy Jean

klangklangston — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:07:40 -0800

James Jean shows how he creates the painted cover for Fables. His blog is full of gorgeous figure studies and sketches that show influences from Lucian Freud and pop/manga design. His eponymous site also includes a broad cross-section of his works: Dive, Tigerlily, and his great recess series.

The Visual Arts Data Service

paduasoy — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:56:10 -0800

VADS is a resource for visual art, a huge range of things from students' work to collections of historical art and design. I particularly liked the Bookbinders's Women's Suffrage banner and the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture

"Teenage Stories."

Soup — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:32:01 -0800

"Teenage Stories." Award-winning photography by Julia Fullerton-Batten (flash). With in ter views (pdf).

Hi. Bye.

jmhodges — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:52:01 -0800

Silhouette Masterpiece Theatre

Remarkable persons

madamjujujive — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 12:24:14 -0800

If you are a fan of longtime MeFite peacay's extraordinary blog, BibliOdyssey - and who isn't? - you can now get the coffee table version, The Annotated Archives of BibliOdyssey. (Or, in the U.S.) Forward by artist Dinos Chapman (NSFW). Kudos, peacay! Via.

High Quality Photos of Scilly.

Effigy2000 — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 05:10:31 -0800

Scillywebcam. A frequently updated website with high quality photographs of Scilly. Here are some of my favorites.

What are those mefi artsy types up to now?

madamjujujive — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:09:59 -0800

First, interrobang got the ball rolling with his cool illustrations that can be shuffled in any order to create a new continuous panorama. Cortex added some coded widgetry to automate the process, creating a neat little toy. Then taz and iconomy joined in with their own creative spin. It's nice to see a contemporary techno version of the polyrama, a fine creative tradition dating back to the mid 1800s.

Mandolux - photographic desktop wallpapers

nthdegx — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 03:04:46 -0800

Mandolux - photographic desktop wallpapers. Just keep hittin' previous.

Inner City Youth, London

tpl1212 — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 07:24:34 -0800

Inner City Youth, London "In 2002, Simon Wheatley began photographing London's publich housing developments...and was able to obtain a level of intimacy with his subjects that provides a true picture of the daunting project of growing up in the intimate confines of drug use, societal neglect, and poverty." This (Flash-based) narrated slideshow features Wheatley's work, and is a look at the culture...and also the music (grime) "as an artistic response to the place and circumstance, an expression of the violence, bleakness, and neglect..." (via Future Feeder)

Art of Science

dhruva — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 00:27:16 -0800

Art of Science 2006 'images, videos and sounds—produced in the course of research or incorporating tools and concepts from science.' Previously on MeFi.

Seamless pictures

Mitheral — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:04:18 -0800

Seamless images. Two distinct images in one transitioning without a definite border. [via MoFi]

Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006

Colloquial Collision — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 05:05:03 -0800

At the end of this short film, you'll see a graphic illustration of Christopher Walken. If you can stomach zombie babies bursting forth from women's wombs. A short film by Paul Robertson. An artist who also made the music video for Architecture in Helsinki's Do the Whirlwind. [MPG : Alternate Link : Torrent]

360-degree panoramic galleries of European cities

funambulist — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 04:07:33 -0800

Arounder has an ongoing collection of high-quality full screen Quicktime VR panoramas of European cities, focusing on famous artistic and cultural landmarks (in Rome, Florence, Köln, Barcelona, Cyprus), with interactive maps and travel information. A collaboration with national tourist offices by Swiss company Vrway Communication, which also publishes Vrmag, a bi-monthly review of panorama photography, and the FullscreenQTVR directory in collaboration with the well-known panoramas.dk (previously mentioned on metafilter: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).

Slow Mosaic

sjvilla79 — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:45:50 -0800

Slow Mosaic is a mosaic generator powered by the Web. Feed it a word and watch it create related mosaics in front of your very eyes. Requires Flash. [MI]

News Nishikie

plep — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 03:49:20 -0800

News Nishikie. The art of Meiji mayhem. 'Graphic true stories from Japan as portrayed and reported by woodblock artists and writers '

Cool Image Whizzyness

zeoslap — Fri, 13 May 2005 12:26:08 -0800

Great collection of java image manipulation thingies by Paul Schmidinger