visual arts

How to draw an owl

I remember seeing it years ago. Then I totally forgot about it. And then I remembered the idea, but couldn’t remember which bird or animal it was. Today someone reminded me…

Working in technology, I find that many decisions and plans are made on very similar basis.

Weird Faces Study

Computer generated images have a certain aesthetics to them that make them immediately recognizable as such by the trained eye. Weird Faces Study is an attempt to combine my old interest in illustration with programing, to create something procedural that has a truly individual artistic touch to it and is not instantly recognizable as a generative art piece. Even though, the faces look hand-drawn, they are entirely expressed by algorithmic rules. Each face is random, each face is unique. Still, they look similar to my actual hand drawn faces.

Interesting and cool, especially for things like user profiles with missing avatars.

A Brief History of John Baldessari

Real-time clock, with builders. Video

This is absolutely awesome!

70 workers are building a wooden 4 x 12 m “digital” time display in real time: a work that involves 1611 changes within 24 hour period.

Seamlessly documented and shot on video, a 24 hours movie or clock is now available.

Standard Time is an artwork of Mark Formanek, realized by Datenstrudel.

A few websites around the web have it synchronized to the actual time…

This is something I call an unexpected Google search explosion. They happen once in a while when in a company of Google aware people. Here’s how it goes. First, Michael shared this joke on Facebook.

Here is my rough translation, if you don’t read Russian:

– Mom, what’s a nymphomaniac.
– It’s a woman obsessed with sex.
– And how would you call a man obsessed with sex?
– A man.

So, I showed it to a few coworkers and we had a chuckle. Then one of them said that men’s hypersexuality is called satyromania. Wikipedia, of course. We had more laughs, as the guy who said that is actually Romanian. SatyROMANIAN? And then I suggested that he should buy the domain name. Which would obviously be already taken. So we rushed in to check it out. And that’s how I came across some really good erotic drawings by Mark Blanton. They are more on the porn side of things, but they are really good. Here is one of the least pornish ones. Not safe for work, you’ve been warned.

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