From WendyWithDolls
Secretly, I kind of think that My Little Ponies are evil anyway, but this one certainly is.
This is the evil supervillan pony from Comic Con last year. I think she's cute, even if she is evil.
January 31, 2010
365 Toy Project 006/365: Pony of Darkness
January 29, 2010
The Fruit of Experience |
The Fruit of Experience | Art21 Blog: "
Fallen Fruit Collective, 'Elysian Park,' 2005. Giclee print, 40 x 60 in. Courtesy the artists.
Fallen Fruit Collective formed six years ago through a project by artists David Burns, Matias Viegener, and Austin Young for the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest. The trio created a street-by-street diagram of fruit trees growing on or over public property in their Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles. While the city boasts bananas, peaches, avocados, lemons, oranges, kumquats, plums, pomegranates, and other fruits growing year-round, this bounty is not always shared. Mapping “public fruit” was a way to approach food resource and accessibility concerns in urban space. From the beginning, Fallen Fruit urged city officials, urban planning groups, and property owners to plant with the goal of yielding edible goods for the local populace. You might call Burns, Viegener, and Young the locavores of contemporary art.
Next month, Fallen Fruit will launch EATLACMA, a year-long investigation into food, art, culture, and politics at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Their ambitious plan consists of an exhibition culled from the museum’s collection; a newly commissioned work; seven curated artist gardens on the museum campus; two fruit tree giveaways; a participatory YouTube project; and Let Them Eat LACMA, a day of public performance and engagement involving over fifty artists and collectives. EATLACMA grew out of Fallen Fruit’s participation in a program at the museum in 2008 (organized by Machine Project), for which they mapped fruit in the permanent collection and designed thematic tours. In a recent interview, Burns explained this way of looking at the history of art:
In EATLACMA, depictions of fruit serve to connect the museum’s holdings in a whole new way and shed light on food in the history of human contact. (Burns informed me that fruit exists in the history of art more than any other food.) But it is living fruit that Burns, Viegener, and Young use to connect people today.
read the whole post at The Fruit of Experience | Art21 Blog:
The Fruit of Experience
January 28th, 2010
Fallen Fruit Collective, 'Elysian Park,' 2005. Giclee print, 40 x 60 in. Courtesy the artists.
Fallen Fruit Collective formed six years ago through a project by artists David Burns, Matias Viegener, and Austin Young for the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest. The trio created a street-by-street diagram of fruit trees growing on or over public property in their Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles. While the city boasts bananas, peaches, avocados, lemons, oranges, kumquats, plums, pomegranates, and other fruits growing year-round, this bounty is not always shared. Mapping “public fruit” was a way to approach food resource and accessibility concerns in urban space. From the beginning, Fallen Fruit urged city officials, urban planning groups, and property owners to plant with the goal of yielding edible goods for the local populace. You might call Burns, Viegener, and Young the locavores of contemporary art.
Next month, Fallen Fruit will launch EATLACMA, a year-long investigation into food, art, culture, and politics at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Their ambitious plan consists of an exhibition culled from the museum’s collection; a newly commissioned work; seven curated artist gardens on the museum campus; two fruit tree giveaways; a participatory YouTube project; and Let Them Eat LACMA, a day of public performance and engagement involving over fifty artists and collectives. EATLACMA grew out of Fallen Fruit’s participation in a program at the museum in 2008 (organized by Machine Project), for which they mapped fruit in the permanent collection and designed thematic tours. In a recent interview, Burns explained this way of looking at the history of art:
“When you start organizing painting or history by looking at the subject/object/symbol of fruit, it’s really fascinating the way it collapses art. People put so much importance on the stroke, which is valid, and in what Impressionism [for instance] means, but forget that the reason [an artist] is painting oranges is because they’re colorful. Or you go back a hundred years and Dutch painters are painting them because they’re exotic, expensive, and oranges do not grow in Northern Europe. It’s a luxury item that is only possible because of shipping industries and world trade.”
In EATLACMA, depictions of fruit serve to connect the museum’s holdings in a whole new way and shed light on food in the history of human contact. (Burns informed me that fruit exists in the history of art more than any other food.) But it is living fruit that Burns, Viegener, and Young use to connect people today.
read the whole post at The Fruit of Experience | Art21 Blog:
Anime Mecha : an Interview With Actar
An Interview With Actar « Actar’s Reviews – The Blog: "
An Interview With Actar
Recently, I was interviewed by Singapore Media News Site OMY! over my figure collection.
You can view the interview below:
Original article: here.
You can view the interview below:
Original article: here.
Different Visions: A Journal of New Perspectives on Medieval Art
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A new way of looking at the world - CNN.com
A new way of looking at the world - CNN.com: "
(CNN) -- What's the first thing that goes through your mind when someone says the word 'data'?
For many of us, the first image is line graphs, pie charts and spreadsheets with columns and rows full of numbers that leave you bleary-eyed and a bit dazed.
But what if someone were to say data can also mean what you post on Facebook and Twitter, the ratings you gave a restaurant, the photos you uploaded to Flickr or even, perhaps, what you feel.
A bit of a reach? Not anymore.
An emerging set of tools is making it easier than ever to track and compile all sorts of 'data' and display it in a way that's relatively easy to understand.
You can now point your mobile phone at a street and instantly get ratings for restaurants. Or type in your address and find reports of crimes that may have occurred in your neighborhood. It's even possible to track emotions on a national and global scale.
'Specialists from scientists to accountants have been dealing with data for decades,' said Martin Wattenberg, a researcher at IBM's Center for Social Software. 'What's new is that there's a whole lot more data of relevance to consumers. 'At the same time, people are generating a whole lot of data themselves.'
There are several reasons why we're seeing more data visualization in popular culture and why it's becoming simpler and more innovative, experts say.
RESOURCES
read the rest at A new way of looking at the world - CNN.com: "
A new way of looking at the world
By Manav Tanneeru, CNN
November 2, 2009 3:27 p.m. EST
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- New tools are making it easier to see and analyze complex data
- Cheaper technology and digital data are leading to innovations
- Data ranges from statistics to Facebook and Twitter posts
- Sophisticated visualizations are also appearing on mobile phones
For many of us, the first image is line graphs, pie charts and spreadsheets with columns and rows full of numbers that leave you bleary-eyed and a bit dazed.
But what if someone were to say data can also mean what you post on Facebook and Twitter, the ratings you gave a restaurant, the photos you uploaded to Flickr or even, perhaps, what you feel.
A bit of a reach? Not anymore.
An emerging set of tools is making it easier than ever to track and compile all sorts of 'data' and display it in a way that's relatively easy to understand.
You can now point your mobile phone at a street and instantly get ratings for restaurants. Or type in your address and find reports of crimes that may have occurred in your neighborhood. It's even possible to track emotions on a national and global scale.
'Specialists from scientists to accountants have been dealing with data for decades,' said Martin Wattenberg, a researcher at IBM's Center for Social Software. 'What's new is that there's a whole lot more data of relevance to consumers. 'At the same time, people are generating a whole lot of data themselves.'
There are several reasons why we're seeing more data visualization in popular culture and why it's becoming simpler and more innovative, experts say.
RESOURCES
Links to some of the projects, Web sites and people discussed in this article and gallery:
-- Bruce Mau Design
-- Ben Fry's All Streets map
-- Ben Fry's Darwin project
-- City Sense
-- David McCandless
-- EveryBlock
-- Many Eyes
-- Nathan Yau's Wal-Mart map
-- Oakland Crime Spotting
-- Pastiche
-- Web Trend map
-- Yelp
-- Your Flowing Data
-- Bruce Mau Design
-- Ben Fry's All Streets map
-- Ben Fry's Darwin project
-- City Sense
-- David McCandless
-- EveryBlock
-- Many Eyes
-- Nathan Yau's Wal-Mart map
-- Oakland Crime Spotting
-- Pastiche
-- Web Trend map
-- Yelp
-- Your Flowing Data
read the rest at A new way of looking at the world - CNN.com: "
January 27, 2010
Banksy
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Rumor is that Bansky will premier his first movie at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah that will be going down soon. For more on the film go here.
Rumor is that Bansky will premier his first movie at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah that will be going down soon. For more on the film go here.
January 22, 2010
Center for Digital Storytelling
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