Dec
17
2011
I am a member of Lynda.com and it is one of my favorite sites. I recently finished an excellent course, Transforming a Photo into a Painting with Photoshop taught by John Derry. It was an excellent class and I...
Dec
12
2011
A History of the Sky is a truly beautiful video created by San Francisco based musician, programmer, artist, and tinkerer Ken Murphy. It is truly beautiful way to look at the sky, something that we often take for granted...
Dec
06
2011
I just watched an amazing documentary, Typeface. As an unabashed typophile I must highly recommend this film. It is the true tale of a The Hamilton Wooden Type Museum and it's role in trying to document and trying to...
Nov
27
2011
This week's installment of How They Did It will focus on artist who create paintings using spray paint and a few other objects, including newspaper, sticks, plates and their hands. It's a pretty cool example of how adding layers...
Nov
22
2011
Nov
02
2011
Friends, Romans, countrymen lend me your eyes, for today I come not to bury the Roman Empire but to praise in in photos. Flickr has some amazing groups, one of my favorite is The Roman Empire Pool, a collection...
Oct
02
2011
This is amazing! Evidence of children's art from 13,000 years ago! Children are artists and have always been artists, creativity and creating art is as much an instinct for humans as breathing. More information on this discovery.
Some other good...
Sep
19
2011
Mid-Century modern is an architectural, interior and product design form that generally describes post-war developments in modern design from roughly 1945 to 1965. -from the video Eames Era (Mid Century Modern Design Today)
The post war, Mid Century Modern era...
Aug
15
2011
I saw this great video on Boing Boing and I had to share. A brief video showing how PhotoShop helps create all those great Hubble images of the universe. It reminds me of a line from the Manifesto of...
Mar
01
2011
While pursing the deep (and not so deep) waters of You Tube, I found this great video about Paul Rand. I dig the beatnik inspired sensibilities, daddy-o. More importantly, the wisdom of Paul Rand imparts in the video about...
May
27
2009
The New Yorker Magazine has a tradition of excellent, challenging and often times controversial covers for its weekly magazine. This was evident during the previous American election, with two covers illustrating the stereotypes of both candidates (see here and...
