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A good days for fans of open culture: Google is bringing the massive LIFE photo archive online. 2 million photos are already uploaded, and another 8 million will be coming online soon. The current archive moves from The American Civil War to present, and it includes a large number of photos never seen before. Here’s one [...]
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You’ll get the concept of this pretty quickly. And if you’re a fan, see these other clips (Women in Art & Women in Film). These creative videos by Philip Scott Johnson all reside in this larger YouTube collection, which has now made it on to our our growing list: Intelligent Life at YouTube: 80 Educational Video Collections.
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Here’s a rather amazing video (added to our YouTube playlist) that shows what happens when an artist, who happens to be autistic, takes a 45 minute helicopter flight over Rome and then works to artistically reproduce all that he sees. The human brain never ceases to amaze:
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Thanks to a heads up from one of our loyal readers (thanks Bob!) you can see a new artistic trend that’s turning books back into trees. Good stuff.
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Anyone remember Father Guido Sarducci from Saturday Night Live’s better days? Below, we find him celebrating the virtues of art school. The clip is funny. But it’s even funnier when you consider that this was apparently a real TV commercial made for the San Francisco Art Institute in the early 1980s. The clip has been [...]
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“Color film was non-existent in 1909 Russia, yet in that year a photographer named Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii embarked on a photographic survey of his homeland and captured hundreds of photos in full, vivid color. His photographic plates were black and white, but he had developed an ingenious photographic technique which allowed him to use them [...]
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One of our British readers turned us on to this post by the Guardian, noting that they took a page from our general playbook. The post features 50 of the best YouTube clips from across the arts, some of which we’ve featured here in the past. Among the videos, you’ll find vintage performances by John [...]
Finnish photographer Kari Kuukka has posted a panoramic view of Beijing’s Olympics Stadium, capturing the mood about 30 minutes before the men’s 100m final, when Usain Bolt blew away the field. Give the page a few seconds to load and the picture will go in motion. Hat tip to Metafilter, and adieu to Beijing.
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When completed in Dubai, this “dynamic building” designed by David Fisher will be in constant motion, always changing its shape, and also generate its own electric energy. You can reserve your apartment today, or wait for similar buildings to get erected in Moscow and New York. The whole concept feels a bit Las Vegas-esque. But [...]
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When art meets engineering:
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Take some of the most important photographs of the 20th century, then remake them with Legos, and here’s what you get. You get Robert Capa’s 1944 photograph of the D-Day invasion, looking something like this: (see below). The famous Lunch Atop a Skyscraper photo suddenly looks like this. The image of Roger Bannister breaking the [...]
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Quick fyi for BoingBoing readers …. Cory Doctorow has just released comic adaptations of his award-winning science fiction stories — Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now. You can download them here for free, or buy the collection on Amazon.
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The New York Times is running an interactive feature that will give you the backstory behind Ansel Adams’ iconic photos taken at Yosemite National Park. Just click on the individual images on this page, and you’ll get a different story. (Also see the Times’ accompanying piece: What Adams Saw Through His Lens.)
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Architect Frank Gehry takes you on a 50 minute tour of his landmark works. The talk, presented at TED Talks in 1990, is complete with slides and gives you a good look at his “messy creative process.” We’ve posted the video below, but you can download a zipped version to your desktop here, or watch [...]
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The video below is fairly mind-blowing. And here you can watch the elephant from another angle. The elephant apparently resides in a safe haven in Thailand, after having been abused in Burma. For more info, see The Elephant Art & Conservation Project. (Video has been added to our YouTube playlist.)
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This video takes you on a fairly amazing tour of the great portraits of women in Western art. It moves from da Vinci to Picasso, and, along the way, the portraits seamlessly morph one into another. This morphing allows you to see how artistic styles changed over time, and also how the human face has [...]
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We wanted to post a quick photo from the lighting show at the Adelaide Festival of Arts. During the festival, artists project lights on the city’s architectural monuments, turning the buildings into electronic canvases. We’ve posted one photo below. For more good ones, see here. Thanks Carol for sharing these!
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On a related note, also see Learn the Art of Photography: The Nikon Way
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The best photoblogs of last year, as declared by Photoblogsawards.com. Some beautiful images here:
[daily dose of imagery] - http://wvs.topleftpixel.com
c h r o m a s i a - http://www.chromasia.com/iblog
fotograf by imran - http://www.fotobyimran.com
J.R. PhotoBlog - http://www.j-roumagnac.net
Photo-Passion - http://www.photo-passion.eu
Shazeen Samad Photography - http://www.shazeensamad.com
Seeking Focus - http://www.seekingfocus.com
SHOTZZ.EU™ - http://shotzz.eu
The G8 - http://g8.no
Wink - http://wink.nixone.com
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The New York Times featured yesterday a piece that raises serious questions about the art world. According to the article, some major museums are now allowing art galleries to financially underwrite their exhibitions. And, of course, the galleries often have a direct financial stake in the work on display. This trend, which seems to be [...]
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This video takes you on a fairly amazing tour of the great portraits of women in Western art. It moves from da Vinci to Picasso, and, along the way, the portraits seamlessly morph one into another. This morphing allows you to see how artistic styles changed over time, and also how the human face has [...]
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Speaking of Einstein–have you ever wanted to explain the world on a napkin? The Edge, self-described as “an online collective of deep thinkers,” has teamed up with the Serpentine Gallery in London to participate in a month-long Experiment Marathon. The Serpentine has been asking leading scientists and thinkers “What Is Your Formula?” and the Edge [...]
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The advent of digital cameras has changed photography as we know it. It has dramatically lowered the cost of photography, and we’re now snapping more photos than ever before. But we’re not necessarily taking better pictures.
This is where Nikon steps in. Their cameras make casual photographers immensely better than they actually are. (Trust me, I [...]
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What font do you write in? Do you have strong feelings about it? It turns out many writers do. Slate has a fascinating slide-show essay marking Helvetica’s fiftieth anniversary, celebrating the font “some have called the official typeface of the 20th century.” In an accompanying article the magazine surveyed a few famous writers and none [...]
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We now serve you 25 art/visual art blogs, all of which have also been folded into a larger list of 100+ culture blogs. We’re now calling it The Big List of Culture Blogs (pretty creative, eh), and we’ll add to it over time.
As always, please email us and let us know if we’re missing [...]
Museums have always been in a tricky position. Instead of bringing art to the public, they have made the public come to them. And, even while they did this for perfectly logical reasons (the works of art are priceless and delicate after all), museums have nonetheless limited their ability to reach more people and promote [...]
