RTFA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70dKZjP4NOo
この歯車のハートは2005世界からくりコンテストという公募展に出展した作品です。
この動画は2次審査のビデオ審査に提出したものです。
Whoah! This is an amazing piece of work. Skip ahead to 50 seconds if you want to see it in action.
Via boingboing.
RTFA: http://www.villafanestudios.com/pumpkins.htm
On October 26th 2008 at 8:00 pm EST you can see me featured on the popular Food Network Show “CHALLENGE” where I tackled pumpkin carving on their “Outrageous Pumpkins” episode. I was fortunate enough to be one of four carvers invited to compete in Denver for 10,000.00 cash!! I will also be updating this page with additional pumpkins in the coming weeks. Anyhow, if you interested in seeing the carving process unfold in real time, mark your calendars, should be cool.
Via Boing Boing, I saw this great pumpkin and was immediately reminded of Max Cannon’s Red Meat cartoons.
Inquiring minds want to know: is this the inspiration?
At any rate, great work!
RTFA: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/235
Leonardo Da Vinci’s life and work is well known — but his own face is not. Illustrator and activist Siegfried Woldhek used some thoughtful image-analysis techniques to find what he believes is the true face of Leonardo. Here, he walks viewers through exactly how he did it.
Siegfried Woldhek knows faces — he’s drawn more than 1,100 of them. Using sophisticated image…
Wow! This 4-minute video packs an amazing punch: the identity of Da Vinci. It’s a wonderful story that ties together several historic images, of and by Da Vinci. In the end of the day, of course, it’s a matter of choosing to believe Woldhek’s analysis or not…
But if Woldhek is right, then this constitutes astonishing reality-hacking. Da Vinci made himself into THE symbol of all humanity through his most famous self-portrait: The Vitruvian Man. The image perfectly and implicitly contains critical information about the proportions of the human body (ensuring its lasting utility in understanding humans), while simultaneously being conspicuously tagged in the most identifying way possible.
The Vitruvian Man isn’t just “some dude.” It’s Da Vinco, himself! It’s such an epic hack by virtue of lurking in obscurity for so many centuries, and by virtue of how deeply the image embedded itself into our culture. WOW.
Via boingboing.
RTFA: http://www.stencilrevolution.com/forum/viewtopic.p…
My name is Phelyx and I have been asked by several Stencil Revolution members to produce a tutorial for my bleaching process. Sometimes, I am called the bleach guy. I am honored by both. Here is my Bleaching Tutorial, exclusively for Stencil Revolution members.
In 2002, I was hired by a small clothing company to invent a process by which we could produce images on garments that would be more “tattooed” into the fabric than screened on. I immediately thought about bleach and began two years of research and testing. I worked with chemists, fabric manufacturers, and artists. I wrecked my studio, my clothes, and my lungs. I wasn’t paid nearly enough for this.
Chemically, to achieve different values, I worked with retardants to slow the process of the chemical’s effects, I watered down mixtures, I used “stop-baths”, dehydrated bleach crystals… you name it. I also worked with all kinds of different fabrics, 50/50 blends, natural cottons, many textures and naps. I experimented with different application processes including brush-on, sprays, mists, atomizers, airbrushes, and even a gel-bleach, I created, that was screened on. The most frustrating part of this entire experience was to arrive, full-circle, at the beginning. Sometimes the simplest method is the best.
Solid.