Category Archives: illustration
New Kennard
Peter Kennard’s photomontage work was everywhere in the early to mid-80s, but I haven’t seen his name about for years. He hasn’t lost his touch. (via the publics – who describe Kennard, Steve Bell and Banksy as contemporaries, which is … more…
The Third & The Seventh
Alex Roman, The Third & The Seventh, 2009 Full screen display is definitely recommended. This thing brings ultra-realistic CG to new levels. It is possible to forget for significant periods of time that everything here is rendered. UPDATE: there’s a … more…
Peripetics
Peripetics by ZEITGUISED, 2009 This doesn’t get less interesting with repeat viewings, nor any easier to write about. I keep crossing things out. (via, well, a long story. Earliest showing on FFFF in April, then BruceS then MacT, and most … more…
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…
Art of the Luggage Label
A respectably large collection (800+) of luggage labels. (I’ve been rummaging about in old draft posts, deleting most of them, with a view to finishing and posting the remainder. This one’s been sitting there for over a year, and it … more…
you are here
APOD: 2008 June 6 – Two Armed Spiral Milky Way It’s been a good old while since I reposted an APoD. This one’s the largest scale “you-are-here” map I’ve ever seen, taking a point of view some thousands of light … more…
Epicurean Drug Fiend
Look what I picked up in one of the local charity shops this week: a rather lovely 1970s edition (Samuel Weiser, New York, 1970) of Aleister Crowley’s Diary of a Drug Fiend. The cover shows a man who clearly knows … more…
Almanac of Precariomancy
XX The Delegate The Delegate is the one who talks without ever saying anything, the one who reaps without having sown. The Delegate stands for the party asking for your vote without making your life any bettter, for the union … more…
Knight’s Pictorial Shakespeare, 1842
Persons Represented, Macbeth, Knight’s Pictorial Shakespeare, 1842 A recent plunge into the dustier regions turned up a copy of this book which I only vaguely recall owning, and have no clear recollection of buying. I only have a single volume … more…
Man is an elongated doughnut
I think this showed up on FFFF a few days ago. Dan Phiffer offers this illustration, which supports the point I made in the post on Poincaré’s Conjecture in August 2006 (here, and revisited here). Better late than never, for … more…