Tag: art
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The Ditherinator – Convert your photos to shitty old versions that will print well on dot matrix printers. Love it.
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“PRACTICAL ESTHETIC SERVICES ADAPTABLE TO CLIENT SITUATION.” Art card
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The case for memes as a new form of comics –
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The introverted traveler: Cologne
A reliably good place for a meal Art museum restaurants and cafes can be a great place to hangout for the introverted flâneur. They often have good food, good service, and are in the center of town. Being attached to a museum, they usually feel the need to be mindful of aesthetics, both atmospheric and…
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How Long Does It Take to Draw a Picture of Every Pub in London? – ”That was true in more ways than one. Ms. Wood, 31, is on a mission to draw every pub in London. She has completed about 300, and has about 2,500 left”
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Minimum Viable All the Things
Max Ernst, 1934. Relative to your interests MCP Authorization in practice with Spring AI and OAuth2 – Filling in the missing piece of MCP: security. The Battle For Grounding Your AI Agents Has Begun – Data gravity considerations for AI. We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. –…
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Drew Struzan: The Man Behind Your Favorite Childhood Movie Posters –
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Why did Hemingway like Cézanne so much?
Hemingway saw in Cézanne a kindred spirit—a man who stripped nature down to its essentials and reassembled it into something honest and uncompromised. Here are a few reasons for his admiration: Structural Purity: Cézanne’s work revolves around reducing forms to their geometric fundamentals. His method of breaking objects down into simple shapes and planes resonated…
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Greeble
“Greeble” refers to small, intricate details added to the surface of an object—often in visual design, 3D modeling, or special effects—to make it look more complex and visually interesting. The term is especially common in sci-fi and fantasy aesthetics, where greebles are used to give spaceships, buildings, or machinery a more detailed, lived-in appearance. The…
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Vision and Distortion in Cézanne’s ‘Still Life with Plaster Cupid’ – Good example of art criticism, “how to see,” all that.
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All hat, no cowboy – A bicycle for your hands: “Becoming a good programmer takes time, so does becoming an artist. What if all the people with ideas but no time or skills or persistence or real interest could participate and _turn their ideas into the thing?_Surely non-musicians have great ideas for songs that they…
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Purely AI-generated art can’t get copyright protection, says Copyright Office – If you can’t control it, you can’t copyright it.
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Links and strange finds, January 31st, 2025
“Socrates drawing at a whiteboard with a rapt audience set in ancient Athens, but the whiteboard is like a contempory whiteboard,” Midjourney, January, 2025. Socrates Didn’t Whiteboard This week’s Software Defined Talk: “This week, we discuss the latest news about DeepSeek, how to make sense of the countless hot takes, and a review of The…
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The buyer of the $6.2 million banana art piece eats it – “To be honest, for a banana with such a back story, the taste is naturally different from an ordinary one.”
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Nick Cooke’s Exentrica – ”it seemed as though it were a bridge between Jugendstil and Art Deco — the missing link, so to speak.”
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Cheese wedge mindfulness
(1) What seems to you like an everyday, boring experience may be totally foreign and inaccessible to other people. It can be delightful and helpful for them to see it, even if you’ve seen it for nine years everyday. This is one of Noah’s stated principles. (2) I like Dutch Golden Age still life paintings.…
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The Forgotten Surrealist Painter Who ‘Didn’t Have Time to Be Anyone’s Muse’ – “In contrast to the tendency of Surrealism’s male artists to depict women as thin, young, fragmented, static, and perpetually naked muses, Carrington’s women fell across a spectrum: often very old, powerful and threatening, in a state of action and transformation.”
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About my studio – Working from home, artist edition. (1) no commute saves time and means booting up into work is faster and frequent: “there is also an advantage to not having a separate studio outside your home. When I did rent a studio in the past it meant that all my artwork in progress…
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