Exploring the Infinite
Here's a must read blog for ya. It's devoted to the RIAA's lawsuits of intimidation brought against ordinary working people. Boy, did the RIAA mess up royally. This time, they are suing a home health aide who has never bought, used or even turned on a computer in her life. The post links to a legal document from her attourney
Artist George W. Hart creates geometric sculptures out of common household objects, paper, plastic, metal and wood. When asked how he gets ideas for his work, he says he just visualizes the forms and usually knows exactly which material he wants to use to execute the visualization. He often makes paper models woven with ribbon to work out the details
Mizuta Tasogare and Kato Jado have taken up a cool hobby. Pencil carving. With fascinating skill and precision, they carve unique patterns and intricate designs out of the ordinary wood pencil. You'll have to see it to believe it.
During the month of February, my artwork will be showcased at The Espresso Institute located at 1414b Flushing Rd. in Flushing, Michigan. Their hours are from 6am to 7pm Monday – Thursday, 6am to 10 pm Friday and Saturday, and 9am to 3 pm on Sundays. The coffee is great and so are their prices, so give them a visit!
That's the way you do it, get your money for nothin' and your videos for $1.99. That's right, iTunes has added MTV programming to their video repitoire. Now users can pay $1.99 to download episodes of shows like “Beavis and Butthead”, “Jackass”, and “Punk'd”. The downloads can be viewed on the new iPod that can hold up to 150 hours
“Canada's biggest record label, publisher and management company is helping out a family sued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)for copyright infringement. The privately-owned Nettwerk Music Group is intervening, it says, because the songs downloaded by the Gruebel family include Avril Lavigne, a Nettwerk management client. Nettwerk will fund the Gruebel's defense. “The current actions of the RIAA
There is a deep interconnection between art, science and technology and when these worlds collide, the results can be phenominal. The Khronos Projector is a perfect example. It is an interactive art installation that allows people to visualize movie content in an entirely new way. By actually touching and deforming the screen, the user can send portions of the image
Adrian Ocneanu, professor of mathematics at Penn State, designed a stainless-steel sculpture that's not only an aesthetically interesting work of art, but a mental portal to the fourth dimension used as a teaching tool. “In the three-dimensional world, there are five regular solids — tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron — whose faces are composed of triangles, squares or pentagons.
Bathsheba Grossman is an artist who creates 3D geometric scupltures out of metal. They are remarkably beautiful, not just because of their unusual shapes, but because of the 3D printing technology that allows the artist to build a physical metal sculpture from a digital 3D object created in CAD. The handheld sculptures are very reasonably priced. I love miniature objects,
The hip new thing in fashoin right now seems to be items of clothing that let the person wearing it get their groove on. Before Levi's came out with their iPod compatible jeans, a US company, SCOTTEVEST (SeV) has been offering “technology enabled clothing” with pockets that are designed for iPods, cell phones, PDAs and much more! Steve Wozniak, co-founder
The Alaska Volcano Observatory is web-caming the expected eruption of volcano Augustine and there are some really wonderful pictures there as a result. Very cool to be able to observe this in near real time. Alaska Volcano Observatory
By now you've probably heard about the 76 year old performance artist who chose to express himself artistically by attacking Marcel Duchamp's “Fountain” with a hammer. He insists that his attack on the $3.6 million urinal would have pleased Dada artists. This is the performance artists second vandalism of the piece. In 1993 he also urinated into it when it
Food for your inner-geek. If you can stand to watch it all, that is.
“The Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated especially by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. The Museum's curatorial, conservation, and education staff—the largest team of art experts anywhere in the world—research and write the Timeline, which is an invaluable reference and research tool for
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