MetaFilter posts tagged with art

EyeWriter Initiative

brundlefly — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:32:53 -0800

"The EyeWriter project is an ongoing collaborative research effort to empower people, who are suffering from ALS, with creative technologies." From the site:

Members of Free Art and Technology (FAT), OpenFrameworks, the Graffiti Research Lab, and The Ebeling Group communities have teamed-up with a legendary LA graffiti writer, publisher and activist, named Tony Quan, aka TEMPTONE. Tony was diagnosed with ALS in 2003, a disease which has left him almost completely physically paralyzed… except for his eyes. This international team is working together to create a low-cost, open source eye-tracking system that will allow ALS patients to draw using just their eyes. The long-term goal is to create a professional/social network of software developers, hardware hackers, urban projection artists and ALS patients from around the world who are using local materials and open source research to creatively connect and make eye art.

Book 'em, Mikey!

You Should See the Other Guy — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:33:10 -0800

Mike Stilkey paints on books.

This art is no good, attack the radical!

dubold — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:45:42 -0800

Tom Sanford, a NY based artist, has created paintings depicting pop-culture icons before, but none have created a "regular trickle of hate mail/criticism" like this one. The 2005 painting - a depiction of the 2004 shooting of "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott by ex-Marine Nathan Gale (previously) - is being auctioned in November. Some fans of Dimebag are a little worked up (see comments). Other interviews with Tom Sanford. Other art (quicktime movie) inspired by Dimebag Darrell (previously)

Forgotten Objects

homunculus — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:31:42 -0800

Forgotten Objects. Found objects from an imagined past. [Via]

Fumiko's Confession

flatluigi — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:18:22 -0800

Fumiko's Confession - a short film animated completely by one person. (via)

Club Internet

carsonb — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:54:22 -0800

Club Internet, curated by Harm van den Dorpel

Theme Park Maps

Wild_Eep — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:43:35 -0800

Theme Park Maps showcases those hand-drawn brochures that showed where the roller coasters and bumper cars were at your favorite theme park.

FOREVER begins when you say yes

deafmute — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:27:48 -0800

A LOVE LETTER FOR YOU is a series of 29 murals visible along the westbound El in Philadelphia. A project of the (sometimes cheesy) Mural Arts Program.

The Morae River

HumanComplex — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:18:59 -0800

Brynn Metheny is a freelance illustrator based in Oakland, California who loves to draw imaginary creatures. Metheny has taken this fascination with made-up animals and extended it to the point of conjuring up an entire continent, Orcura, through which flows The Morae River. The river basin has a bestiary and a Classification of Species to describe the animals that inhabit it. (via) (speculative zoology previously)

Vintage Mouse Porn

kuujjuarapik — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:25:42 -0800

Vintage Mouse Porn (NSFW). Pre-1970 pornography, redrawn with cartoon mice. Tempe, AZ artist Jon Haddock (previously) shows us the seedy side of classic cartoons. Some of his other projects include a strangely Davey and Goliath looking automata called Andrew Meyer (Don't Tase Me, Bro) and the grin suppressing Cartoon Violence, very traumatic events retold as cartoons. (via Hallwalls).

Efficient Mondrian

brundlefly — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:09:02 -0800

"Efficient Mondrian is a tongue-in-cheek art installation which generates HTML table compositions in the style of Piet Mondrian's Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red from the text of The Principles of Scientific Management by FW Taylor. It does this every two minutes, posting the results to twitter." [via mefi projects]

Hey Oscar Wilde! It's Clobberin' Time!!!

marxchivist — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:06:02 -0800

Hey Oscar Wilde! It's Clobberin' Time!!! is a blog featuring gobs of drawings by comic book artists of their favorite literary authors or characters. [via] Ernest Hemingway by Eddie Campbell Walter Gibson by Alex Toth The Shadow by Michael Kaluta (natch) Wilfred Owen by George Pratt Algernon by Mike Choi Lots and lots more.

I know what I like.

JoanArkham — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:36:35 -0800

The Greatest Velvet Paintings of Science Fiction Icons Previously. Previously, previously.

Golden Penny

dirtdirt — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:57:25 -0800

In March of 2007 Seattle artist Jack Daws (unrelated previously) went to a newsstand in LAX and bought a Hustler magazine, with cash. The cash included a counterfeit penny he had made from 18 Karat gold. Two and a half years later, 2,798 miles away, at the C-Town Supermarket on Manhattan Avenue, in Brooklyn, artist Jessica Reed found the penny.

“The crowd is his domain, just as the air is the bird’s, and water that of the fish. His passion and his profession is to merge with the crowd.”

ocherdraco — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:41:28 -0800

The 65-Year-Old Virgin: Robert Bergman’s photographs, finally revealed. "The last time Robert Bergman had a gallery show, it was 1964, and he was 20 years old. The college dropout and his best friend, Danny Seymour, took their earliest photographs, produced in a 'lint-filled darkroom'—a.k.a. his mother’s laundry room—to a 'rinky-dink bookstore' in Minneapolis’s run-down West Bank. 'Me and Danny just threw some pictures up on the wall,' he says. 'You couldn’t even call that a show.' Bergman is 65 now, and making a real debut in not one but three venues, at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center; Chelsea’s Yossi Milo Gallery; and, extraordinarily, the National Gallery of Art. (This is the National Gallery’s first artist’s debut show ever.)" An interview with Robert Bergman, and a slideshow of some of his work.

Comrade Draper, we have a new account from Acme Caviar.

grumblebee — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:23:47 -0800

Mad Men: Soviet Style. Beautiful advertising posters from the USSR.

HAPPINESS HAT 2009

boo_radley — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:31:28 -0800

The Happiness Hat. A project designed to put a smile on your face. From Lauren McCarthy.

They're Made of People!

You Should See the Other Guy — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:17:08 -0800

Philip Bloom's: Venice's People; Dublin's People; San Francisco's People; Sofia's People. Vimeo vids.

Some People...

Taft — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:52:24 -0800

"Some People" is a comic about perspective, misunderstanding, and people. The artist writes a lot of interesting comics.

SkeleCANS

flapjax at midnite — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:34:46 -0800

Enrich your Halloween experience with some seasonally appropriate art: the whimsical and charming SkeleCANS (flapjax recommends: slideshow viewing) from New Orleans' indefatigable Skeleton Krewe.

Angels & Dirt

fire&wings — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:09:09 -0800

Sir Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) was a British painter. Spencer studied at the Slade in London, but he spent most of his life in the village of his birth, Cookham in Berkshire. Deeply religious and obsessed by resurrection, Spencer viewed Cookham as a "village in heaven" where everything was invested with mystical significance. Inspired by his idol Giotto, he took scenes from the Bible and restaged them in this tiny village by the Thames. Christ carries the cross through Spencer's front garden. Jesus heals in the attic of his house. Stanley and his brother watch from behind the shed as Christ is betrayed at the bottom of the garden. He is crucified on telegraph poles in the high street. In the village churchyard, the dead are rising. Spencer served in Macedonia during the First World War and, deeply affected by the experience, spent 9 years from 1923 onwards decorating the specially commissioned Sandham Memorial Chapel (inspired by Giotto's Scrovegni Chapel) with intricate murals documenting his experiences [photo gallery] [video tour.] He was officially commissioned as a war artist in the Second World War, and spent 7 years documenting the work at Lithgow's shipyard in Glasgow in a series of monumental canvasses. An exquisite draughtsman who was equally at home painting everyday subjects, for too long his eccentricities overshadowed his art. The reputation of this "divine fool of British art," who turned up for his knighthood with a carrier bag, sketched on toilet paper, and pushed his easel around Cookham in a pram, has in recent decades been radically reappraised. The frank and intimate approach seen in his domestic works, often exposing his turbulent personal life, influenced a generation of artists. His astonishing nudes of the 1930's (nsfw - he was almost prosecuted for obscenity over these in the 1950's) provided the template for the work of Lucian Freud. He created an invaluable record of two World Wars. "Half a century ago, Spencer seemed old-fashioned; today, art has caught up with him. It no longer seems outlandish to call him the most important British painter of the last century." 251 of his works. Critical writings on Spencer by Kenneth Pople. Peter Ackroyd on Spencer and the Thames (video.)

Dear Catherine, Hello, how are you?

creeky — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:37:05 -0800

"In April 2009, we sent a personal, handwritten letter to each of the 467 households in the small Irish village of Cushendall." Now, Michael Crowe and Lenka Clayton (previously on MeFi) intend to send a letter to everyone on the planet.

Artist vs. Copycat

Marky — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:44:23 -0800

Sculptor creates, copycat copies. We'll settle this in court! Bizarro world court that is... (via Consumerist) Sculpter John Ungar makes firepits from recycled propane tanks. Rick Wittrig copies them. Wittrig sues Ungar to strip him of his copyrights because...

"Defendant's Fire Pits are functional, utilitarian and useful articles that are not subject to copyright protection."

(from Federal Court Filing)

Art of Noises

fire&wings — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:32:46 -0800

Luigi Russolo was a futurist painter, experimental composer, and instrument builder. In his 1913 manifesto "The Art of Noises" he declaimed the death of traditional Western music and foresaw the dawning of a new music based on the grinding, screeching, moaning, crackling and buzzing of mechanical instruments. He and his assistant Ugo Piatti built the Intonarumori to bring these new sounds - "the palpitation of valves, the coming and going of pistons, the howl of mechanical saws, the jolting of a tram on its rails, the cracking of whips, the flapping of curtains and flags" - to life. Listen to them, then and now.

An' you get to tend the rabbits

cjorgensen — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:04:43 -0800

Rabbit Tarot by Nakisha Elsje VanderHoeven. She sells prints and original paintings from the Rabbit Tarot, along with other animal paintings and sculptures in her Etsy shop. She has a blog, can be followed on twitter, and many of her images are on flickr. Original paintings from the Rabbit Tarot will be on display at City Trees Gallery in Seattle in November along with quilts based on the Rabbit Tarot by Cindi Glinski of Cottontail Quilts.