Category Archives: art
fractal architecture
Medieval tower fractal, Aexion, 2007 (via @mactonnies)
Obamafied
Links are cropping up all over the place to this flash-based gizmo that will transform any given picture (or webcam input) into a Shepard Fairey style Obama poster. I’m reasonably pleased with the result here. The result is rather fuzzier … more…
Rock Art of England
Gled Law, Northumberland New site which aims to catalogue the rock art of northern England. (via Guardian)
The price of Bacon
Triptych, Francis Bacon, 1976 Bacon Triptych Auctioned for Record $86 Million – New York Times I didn’t believe I recalled seeing this triptych before, but considering how different it looks in the following image — I’m not really sure anymore. … more…
The (other) Singing, Ringing Tree
Sound sculpture at Crown Point, near Burnley, Lancashire, by Tonkin Liu (architects). BBC news on the work, which is part of a larger project of public art works on the Pennines. More here… (via Cynical C)
Hina Aoyama
Insanely fine paper cutting art. Not much information to be gleaned by the non-Japanese speaker, either on the main site, nor on Hiroshi’s blog, which is where I found it — but there’s lots more in this Flickr slideshow…
deadlicious: Joe Coleman – The Mystery of the Woolverine Woo-Bait
There’s a few pages of Joe Coleman’s comic book work, The Mystery of the Woolverine Woo-Bait over at deadlicious. Page down or scroll past the rakishly attractive but oversized masthead block. The scans areappear to be clipped about the borders, … more…
competitive bifurcations
Finery, Chris Oldfield, 2007 from amongst the 2007 Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest winners. UPDATE: and another one: Mountains, Lilliane Rosschaert, 2007 (via FMH)
Beneflux 2006: Kim Tae Gon’s illuminated dress
Kim Tae Gon, Illuminated Dress, 2006 This piece is attributed to Kim Tae Gon in the video at the Beneflux site, but no further biographical information. There’s a brief paragraph at the site for a show called Glow 2006; perversely … more…
links for 2007-12-08: Strummer’s memorabilia
Clash man’s widow plans book | UK | Reuters Joe Strummer’s personal memorabilia stash unearthed, now to be turned into a book in collaboration with… Damien Hirst. Yeah, that’s what I thought. (tags: Joe-Strummer, Lucinda-Mellor, Damien-Hirst, Clash, punk, music, commerce, … more…