Snippets (arts)

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Jasper Johns

1930: https://www.karlundfaber.de/en/product/untitled-brooke-alexander-gallery-new-york/\

Wrist-mounted artists' palettes

Wrist-mounted artists' palettes: the best wearables are analog

https://boingboing.net/2019/05/30/wrist-mounts.html

Professor Hector Alembick

Professor Hector Alembick (French: Professeur Nestor Halambique) is a sigillographer: an expert on seals used to authenticate state documents. He appears as a bespectacled, chain-smoking academic in King Ottokar's Sceptre when Tintin meets him when returning a briefcase the professor had left on a park bench. Professor Alembick tells Tintin of his desire to visit Syldavia to research an ancient seal belonging to the Syldavian monarch King Ottokar IV. Tintin offers to be Alembick's secretary on his journey. On the day before the trip, Alembick calls Tintin by telephone; in the midst of the conversation Tintin hears a struggle and a cry for help before the connection is cut short. When Tintin rushes to the professor's apartment to investigate, he is startled to find the professor calmly packing his bags. Although Alembick's appearance seems unchanged, subtle changes in his behaviour, such as no longer requiring cigarettes or eyeglasses, lead Tintin to suspect that something is amiss. At the end of the adventure, Tintin discovers that Professor Hector Alembick had indeed been kidnapped and impersonated by his twin brother Alfred.

Ambum stone

The ambum stone is an ancient stone sculpture thought to have been carved c. 1500 B.C.E. Other similar stones excavated depict humans, birds, or other animals. This particular stone looks to resemble a fetal echidna.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambum_stone

Anamorphosis

Anamorphosis is a distorted projection or perspective requiring the viewer to occupy a specific vantage point, use special devices or both to view a recognizable image. Some of the media it is used in are painting, photography, sculpture and installation, toys, and film special effects. The word "anamorphosis" is derived from the Greek prefix ana‑, meaning "back" or "again", and the word morphe, meaning "shape" or "form". An optical anamorphism is the visualization of a mathematical operation called an affine transformation.[1] The process of extreme anamorphosis has been used by artists to disguise caricatures, erotic and scatological scenes, and other furtive images from a casual viewer, while revealing an undistorted image to the knowledgeable spectator.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anamorphosis
• How to Draw a 3d City: Line Paper Anamorphic Drawing @ YouTube

Animated version of Fritz Kahn's 1926 "human machine" illustration

https://vimeo.com/6505158

https://boingboing.net/2019/03/01/animated-version-of-fritz-kahn.html

Lenin, Remade In Hydra In Bucharest

Lenin, Remade In Hydra In Bucharest - by the Romanian artist Costin Ionita

https://designyoutrust.com/2018/12/lenin-remade-in-hydra-in-bucharest-by-the-romanian-artist-costin-ionita/

Moses (Michelangelo)

The Moses (Italian: Mosè [moˈzɛ]; c. 1513–1515) is a sculpture by the Italian High Renaissance artist Michelangelo Buonarroti, housed in the church of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome. Commissioned in 1505 by Pope Julius II for his tomb, it depicts the biblical figure Moses with horns on his head, based on a description in chapter 34 of Exodus in the Vulgate, the Latin translation of the Bible used at that time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_(Michelangelo)

Camp de Thiaroye

Camp de Thiaroye (also known as The Camp at Thiaroye) is a 1988 Senegalese war-drama film written and directed by Ousmane Sembene and Thierno Faty Sow.

The film entered the competition at the 45th Venice International Film Festival, in which it won the Special Jury Prize. The film depicts the Thiaroye Massacre, which happened in Thiaroye, Dakar, in 1944.

Herzog on storyboards

"I do not use storyboards. I think it's an instrument of the cowards."

Werner Herzog

Chesterton

Chesterton:

From all that terror teaches From lies of tongue and pen From all the easy speeches That comfort cruel men From sale and profanation Of honour and the sword From sleep and from damnation Deliver us, good Lord!

Fibonacci spiral shaving

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfsbzjdO4_8

‪Göran Söllscher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xKdb4rNtyk - Bourrée

Teach a Man to Fish

Wondermark cartoon:

http://wondermark.com/c1292/

They say "Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime." Well, I don't like it. What if I don't want to fish. Maybe I just want lunch!

Now all of a sudden I gotta master an altoghter new skill just to feed myself? I get that knowing how to fish is useful, but so are lots of things! Must I know them all?

Someone in ancient history didn't want to learn to fish so badly that they invented money so they could make someone else do it! That's the beauty of living a non-subsistence existence: we have the freedom to specialize!

But this hard-work-build-character aphorism demands that I, now, in the year of our lord Two-Thousand-Today, reinvent catching my own food from first principles.

And for what? So I can undercut the working class stiffs whose livelihoods depend on catching fish and marking it up for me to buy in a restaurant? I am many things but a scab I am not.

Paul Di Filippo

Paul Di Filippo has written a masterful, lively history of the many ways in which science fiction has explored the collapse of the American project, from JA Mitchell's 1889 The Last American to contemporary novels like Too Like the Lightning, Liberation, DMZ and Counting Heads.

https://boingboing.net/2017/02/07/a-history-of-american-collapse.html

Jason Shiga

https://www.patreon.com/shiga

http://www.shigabooks.com/archives.php

http://www.shigabooks.com/

Jason Shiga was born and raised in Oakland, California. He is the author of Meanwhile, Empire State, Fleep, Bookhunter, and over 20 other comic books and graphic novels. He is also the creator of the world's second largest interactive comic. His comics have a geeky side, and often feature exciting uses of mathematics and unusual structural forms. Demon is his most ambitious project to date.

http://boingboing.net/2017/02/07/exclusive-excerpt-from-jason.html

Combophotos

• Combophotos - delightful and surreal photo mashups by Stephen McMennamy.

"Colours"

Short animated film by Tiji:

https://vimeo.com/23199805

Mashup

We'll Sing in the Sunshine + Don't Sleep in the Subway

Mock Up on Mu

Mock Up on Mu is a 2008 science fiction film directed by San Francisco film artist Craig Baldwin, filmed by Bill Daniel, and edited by Sylvia Schedelbauer. It was filmed in 16 mm and runs for 110 minutes. Mock Up on Mu opened at the New York Film Festival in 2008. The film content is divided into 13 chapters that tell seemingly true tales about "American inner and outer space travel". It cobbles together old NASA footage, excerpts and trailers from various Hollywood films and TV series, home movies, and Baldwin's own dramatizations to weave a mythical farce that incorporates components of Scientology prehistory. Major characters interwoven into the film are the rocket scientist Jack Parsons (Kal Spelletich), his beatnik wife Marjorie Cameron (Michelle Silva) and Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard (Damon Packard).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mock-Up_on_Mu

e caudata

The e caudata ("tailed e", from Latin: cauda "tail") is a modified form of the letter E that can be graphically represented as E with ogonek (ę) but has a distinct history of usage. It was used in Latin from as early as the ninth century to represent the vowel also written ae or æ or in old Gaelic texts from the 13th century to represent an ea ligature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_caudata

Random Name Generator

http://noemata.net/nbng/

Crab Effigy Vessel

Crab Effigy Vessel - Moche culture - Peru.

• https://emuseum.mfah.org/objects/105053/crab-effigy-vessel

Hearing the shape of a drum

• To hear the shape of a drum is to infer information about the shape of the drumhead from the sound it makes, i.e., from the list of overtones, via the use of mathematical theory. "Can One Hear the Shape of a Drum?" was the title of an article by Mark Kac in the American Mathematical Monthly in 1966, but the phrasing of the title is due to Lipman Bers. These questions can be traced back all the way to Hermann Weyl. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing_the_shape_of_a_drum

Now trumps later every time

" ... If you were a betting man, you would understand that now trumps later every time. The future is a sucker's bet, a maybe, a contingency, a "What if?" The only thing that is real is the present ..."

- Raymond Reddington, from "The Blacklist" Season 3, Episode 6

Animating Art

• Animating Art

The Origin of Stripes

• The Origin of Stripes

Fluxhouse

• http://georgemaciunas.com/exhibitions/fluxus-as-architecture-2/fluxhousefluxcity-prefabricatedmodular-building-system/fluxhouse-fluxcities/fluxhouse%E2%84%A2/

Art

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Freundlich
• http://www.das-geht-nur-langsam.de/en.html

Line drawing tattoos

• Minimalist tattoos drawn with one continuous line

AutoDraw

Autodraw is a web app that looks at what you are drawing and offers up clip-art style images that resemble your sketch.

https://autodraw.com/

http://boingboing.net/2017/04/12/this-web-app-guesses-what-you.html

I Cannot Forgive

I Cannot forgive (AKA I Escaped from Auschwitz) by Rudolf Vrba

Art Wars

• Abstract Impressionism (nonfiction)
• Harold Rosenberg (nonfiction)
• Manhattan Project (nonfiction)
• Manhattan Project
• Rock the Cradle (nonfiction)
• Diego Rivera (nonfiction)
• Diego Rivera Shakes His Fist
• Atomic Manhattan (drink)
• Soviet Union (nonfiction)
• Julius Rosenberg (nonfiction)
• Ethel Rosenberg (nonfiction)
• The Book of Daniel (novel) (nonfiction)