Daily Art

Complete scan of Mickey Mouse Meets the Air Pirates

2005-08-08T10:58:00.000-07:00

Complete scan of Mickey Mouse Meets the Air Pirates

ImageShack� - lesangfroid's PhotoBlog

The Propaganda Remix Project

2005-08-08T10:55:00.000-07:00

If You�re Not a Terrorist... Then Stop Asking Questions! is the hilarious follow-up to Micah Wright�s hit debut. This new book combines 42 different posters with critical political commentary to deliver a scabrous take on the State of the Union. Available in larger size format than the previous book, If You're Not a Terrorist is available in paperback AND in a deluxe hardcover edition. With a foreword by noted graphic designer and art historian Steven Heller, the book is a must for art collectors and rabble-rousers both!

Gallery of the Day : Dale Chihuly

2005-08-07T07:46:00.000-07:00

Dale Chihuly Gallery:

Dale Chihuly Gallery

The Big Easel - The Van Gogh Project

2005-08-02T13:23:00.000-07:00

The Big Easel - The Van Gogh Project:

The inspiration and process behind the Van Gogh Project.
The Van Gogh Project is a series of Big Easel paintings based on Vincent van Gogh's Sunflower Paintings. Each sculpture consists of a colossal hand-painted reproduction of one of the seven Sunflower Paintings, measuring an impressive 7 x 10 metres, which rests on a 25 metre,17,000 kilogram steel easel. The first Easel was erected in Altona, Canada on October 17, 1998. The second was finished and erected on November 8, 1999 in Emerald, Australia. The third easel was successfully proposed to the city of Goodland and the State of Kansas, USA. Construction began in the spring of 2000. Discussions are currently underway in South Africa, and Japan for future sites.

Art of Science Competition / Gallery

2005-07-08T20:58:00.000-07:00

Amazing artwork of scientific phenomena ...

Art of Science Competition / Gallery:

2005 Online Exhibition

Van Gogh - Starry Night - Gigapixel Image - Photomosaic

2005-07-06T09:15:00.000-07:00

An excellent mosaic ...

Van Gogh - Starry Night - Gigapixel Image - Photomosaic

Graffiti Taxonomy

2005-06-11T06:58:00.000-07:00

Graffiti Taxonomy:

Graffiti Taxonomy presents isolated letters from various graffiti tags, reproduced in similar scales and at close proximity. The intent of these studies is to show the diversity of styles as expressed in a single character. In these photographs, the �S' is reproduced from photographs of tags taken in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, while the 'A' is reproduced from tags from Central Park North to 125th St. in Harlem.

2005-06-09T07:24:00.000-07:00

House carved to appear made of books

Amazing house ...

Livio De Marchi

Can you imagine a house made out of books? A house in which even the table, the chairs and the bed seem to have been made of pages to turn and bound covers? You might say that this is a dream turned into reality by Livio De Marchi!

2005-06-08T15:34:00.000-07:00

Celebrities Playing Table Tennis

2005-06-08T15:31:00.000-07:00

Chen Shaofeng paints his subjects while they paint him

2005-06-07T11:01:00.000-07:00

Tin Million Uses

Make some art out of Altoids tin and Enter the contest ...
Tin Million Uses

2005-06-07T10:44:00.000-07:00

Whitman Image Gallery

Uncle Walt or WW (as called in Dead Poets Society)

Whitman Image Gallery

2005-06-07T07:06:00.000-07:00

Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena

Check out various optical illusions and you'll be surprised how your eyes and brain work!

Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena:

These pages demonstrate visual phenomena, called "optical illusions" or "visual illusions". The latter is more appropriate, because most effects have their basis in the visual pathway, not in the optics of the eye. I selected these based on relative novelty and interactivity. I will expand the explanations when I find the time, to the degree that these phenomena are really understood. Any nice and thoughtful comment welcome.

2005-06-06T07:52:00.000-07:00

Monster Engine

Artists's rendition of children's artwork.

Dave Devries's Monster Engine

2005-06-05T07:48:00.000-07:00

Music from TV Commercials

Name that tune in the commercial ... here's all the information.

Music from TV Commercials

2005-06-04T10:22:00.000-07:00

BBC - Beethoven Downloads

Make it a habit to listen to Beethoven every day. Free MP3s from the BBC. What's your excuse ?!

BBC - Radio 3 - Beethoven Experience - downloads: "Download all nine of Beethoven's symphonies here the day after they are broadcast. All the symphonies are performed by BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. "

2005-05-31T10:22:00.000-07:00

Someday maybe project - Building the Li'l Beauty Skin-on-frame Kayak

Someday maybe project - Building the Li'l Beauty Skin-on-frame Kayak

Li'l Beauty Kayak

2005-04-13T08:37:00.000-07:00

One part photoshopping , One part puzzles ...

One part photoshopping , One part puzzles ...

Worth1000.com | Photoshop Contests | Are you Worthy | Visual Puns Contest

2005-04-13T08:21:00.000-07:00

Fingerprint Maze - An installation that lets one wander through a 3D labyrinth made from one's own scanned fingerprint.

David Lu / Fingerprint Maze

Fingerprint Maze - An installation that lets one wander through a 3D labyrinth made from one's own scanned fingerprint.

2005-04-13T08:05:00.000-07:00

Disney creates the happiest place on Earth ... maybe not!

Disney creates the happiest place on Earth ... maybe not!

Our Orlando Vacation: Day 3 "The Happiest Place on Earth" - a photoset on Flickr

2005-04-04T13:25:00.000-07:00

The Murakami Method

The Japanese Andy Warhol of the 21st century ...

The New York Times > Magazine > The Murakami Method

The Murakami Method

By ARTHUR LUBOW

At the Mori Arts Center, which is perched atop a skyscraper in the glittering Roppongi Hills development in Tokyo, I recently visited a museum show, ''Universal Symbol of the Brand,'' that displayed (to quote its catalog) ''the fascinating development of the history and endeavors of Louis Vuitton, the brand that is not only incredibly popular in Japan but also beloved throughout the world.'' A sequence of galleries exhibiting luggage and handbags proceeded to a large advertising photograph of the actress Uma Thurman and smaller shots of runway models, all wearing Vuitton fashions. What drew me to the show, however, were two bags in the variation of the Vuitton pattern that the Japanese contemporary artist Takashi Murakami developed with the company in 2003. The brightly colored Murakami line has been phenomenally successful, with sales reported to be in the vicinity of $300 million. Murakami's handbags were presented along with two small paneled screens painted in the same patterns that appear on the bags ...

2005-03-28T07:45:00.000-08:00

The 100 favourite fictional characters

The Independent Online Edition >The 100 favourite fictional characters

The 100 favourite fictional characters... as chosen by 100 literary luminaries to celebrate World Book Day, we asked the leading lights of British letters to name the characters who give them the greatest reading pleasure. Is your favourite among them? Interviews by Julia Stuart.

2005-03-27T07:54:00.000-08:00

Transparent Screens

Lots of Transparent Screens

MacBidouille.com - Transparent Screens: "Ecrans Transparents"

2005-03-26T08:22:00.000-08:00

Listen to Pi on a Piano ...

Listen to Pi on a Piano ...

Listen to Pi on a Piano ...

2005-03-25T22:48:00.000-08:00

Prankster Smuggles Art Into Top Museums

Why wait till the musuems discover your art ?!! A new take on DIY (do-it-yourself)!

Yahoo! News - Prankster Smuggles Art Into Top Museums

Prankster Smuggles Art Into Top Museums

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Many a visitor to New York's Museum of Modern Art has probably thought, "I could do that."

A British graffiti artist who goes by the name "Banksy" went one step further, by smuggling in his own picture of a soup can and hanging it on a wall, where it stayed for more than three days earlier this month before anybody noticed.

The prank was part of a coordinated plan to infiltrate four of New York's top museums on a single day.

The largest piece, which he smuggled into the Brooklyn Museum, was a 2 foot by 1.5 foot (61cm by 46 cm) oil painting of a colonial-era admiral, to which the artist had added a can of spray paint in his hand and anti-war graffiti in the background.

The other two targets were the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History, where he hung a glass-encased beetle with fighter jet wings and missiles attached to its body -- another comment on war, Banksy told Reuters on Thursday.

"It was just an outsider's view of the modern American bug, bristling with listening devices and military hardware," he said.

An art Web site called www.woostercollective.com has posted pictures of the artist -- wearing an Inspector Clouseau-style overcoat, a hat and a fake beard and nose -- hanging up his work at the four museums and describing how he did it.

Speaking by telephone from an undisclosed location in Britain, Banksy said he conducted all four operations on March 13, helped by accomplices who filmed him and provided distractions where necessary.

"They staged a gay tiff (lovers' quarrel), shouting very loudly and obnoxiously," said the artist, declining to give his real name or any personal details beyond his occupation as a professional painter and decorator.

It is not the first time he has staged such stunts. Last year he smuggled work into the Louvre in Paris and London's Tate, attracting attention in the British media.

"My sister inspired me to do it. She was throwing away loads of my pictures one day and I asked her why. She said 'It's not like they're going to be hanging in the Louvre.'"

He took that as a challenge. "I thought why wait until I'm dead," he said.

His preferred creative outlet, graffiti on trains, was growing more difficult due to greater security so he decided to branch out into infiltrating museums. "I tend to gravitate to places with less sophisticated security systems," he said.

Officials at the Natural History Museum declined to comment on security. Museum of Modern Art officials said only that the offending picture was taken down on March 17.

It was unclear what gave the game away but Banksy's version of Andy Warhol's iconic images of Campbell's Soup Cans showed a can of Tesco value tomato soup, a discounted brand sold by a British supermarket chain.

"Obviously they've got their eye a lot more on things leaving than things going in which works in my favor," Banksy said. "I imagine they'll be doing stricter bag checks now."

He said the painting in the Metropolitan Museum, a small portrait of a woman wearing a gas mask, had been discovered after one day, while the others stayed up for several days. The paintings were fixed to the wall with extra-strong glue.

Asked how he managed to escape notice while putting them up on a busy Sunday at the museums, he said: "They do get pretty full, but not if you put the pictures in the boring bits.

2005-03-07T12:44:00.000-08:00

Norwegian Police Find Three Stolen Munch Pictures

First The Scream, now some lesser works ... Keep your Munch paintings under security.

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Norwegian Police Find Three Stolen Munch Pictures

OSLO (Reuters) - Police recovered three pictures by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch in a raid on Monday a day after they were stolen from a hotel but his iconic work "The Scream" taken in a separate theft last year was still missing.

"Several people have been arrested ... some are Norwegian and others have a foreign background," Oslo assistant police chief Iver Stensrud told NRK television after a police raid in the Oslo area on Monday night.

He said police had recovered a 1915 Munch watercolor, "Blue Dress," and two lithographs -- a self-portrait and a portrait of Swedish playwright and novelist August Strindberg. It was unclear if they had been damaged, Stensrud said.

He said that it was impossible to say if the thieves were linked to those who stole "The Scream," showing a terrified waif-like figure under a blood-red sky, and "Madonna" from Oslo's Munch Museum in front of dozens of tourists last August.

But he reiterated police were confident of solving that theft too.

Hotel owner Widar Salbuvik said Sunday's robbers seemed amateurish. The stolen pictures were not even among the most valuable in the collection of 400 works ranging from Munch to Andy Warhol, he said.

Armed with a crowbar, two men broke into the country hotel south of Oslo and tore the three works off the walls and ran off after a worker in the Refsnes Gods hotel surprised them.

"Blue Dress," depicting a blonde woman, had been hanging in the hotel restaurant, which had just shut.

Art experts said the works snatched on Sunday were minor compared to the 1893 "The Scream" and "Madonna."

NO NATIONAL CATASTROPHE

"This is not a national catastrophe," Knut Forsberg, managing director of Blomqvist art auctioneers in Oslo, said of Sunday's theft.

He estimated that "Blue Dress" was worth perhaps one million crowns ($160,800), the Munch self-portrait about 300,000 crowns and the portrait of Strindberg up to about 200,000 crowns. Munch made dozens of copies of lithographs but did not number them.

By contrast, other experts have estimated "The Scream" might fetch $75 million if it could be sold at auction and "Madonna," showing a raven-haired woman, might be worth $15 million.

"The Scream" has become a symbol of angst in a world scarred by horrors including the Holocaust, the atom bomb and terrorism.

Munch painted four versions of his most famous work -- another was stolen for several months in 1994 but recovered in a sting operation by police posing as U.S. buyers.

Theories about the disappearance of "The Scream" include that the theft was ordered by a shadowy foreign collector or that the robbers planned to demand a ransom for its return.

Others said a Norwegian crime gang might simply have wanted to show off its power with the daylight robbery in August, but with no clear plans of what to do with the paintings afterwards.

Stensrud said earlier that no ransom demand had been received for "The Scream" but declined to say if police had a main theory about the motive.

Munch lived from 1863 to 1944 and produced about 1,700 paintings during his lifetime and thousands of graphic works. ($1=6.219 Norwegian Crown)

2005-03-06T17:03:00.000-08:00

Howie Green Art Gallery: album cover art: celebrity portraits

Howie Green Art Gallery: album cover art: celebrity portraits

These album cover paintings are from an ongoing series. I did the first 101 for an upcoming gallery show and I had so much fun doing them that I'm now working on the next set of 101 covers. I'm pulling these albums from my collection of vinyl that I have gathered over my lifetime ... and friends are dropping by with gems that they find in flea markets and yard sales, which is why there are mulitples of some of the covers.

Album covers became "art" in the 1960's. With the cultural revolution that occured in that decade, music became a defining force and the 12" square album covers became icons of the era. Covers were examined, read repeatedly and held near and dear to us old hippie freaks. I have a collection of almost 3,000 albums that I still can't part with, even though I also have hundreds of compact discs, tape cassettes and mp3 files.

2005-03-06T17:01:00.000-08:00

Dr. Demento Radio Shows

TheDoctorDementoShow.com

"Current Main Project:

Post all 1,338 Dr. Demento Shows in my collection as high-quality stereo (192kBit/s or 128kBit/s), 64kBit/s stereo and 32kBit/s mono (the lower bitrates are for our friends with modems)."

2005-03-06T17:00:00.000-08:00

Harmonograph patterns and figures

Harmonograph
"Harmonograph
The two pendulum harmonograph draws attractive patterns that arise from drawing the relative path traversed by two swinging masses as their motion is slowly damped. The resulting figures are called harmonograms or sometimes a Lissajous curve."

2005-03-06T13:39:00.000-08:00

CBC Video Archives

CBC has video archives ....

1960s a GoGo - Life and Society - CBC Archives

"Cosmopolitan, outrageous and sexy. Pop, protest and pills. The counterculture and the global village. Canada changed in the 1960s. An explosion in the arts - and cool, confident Canadian design. Grand expressions of optimism: satellites, love-ins, and a new flag, Aboriginal and women's rights, separatism and Expo 67. CBC was there. Created in association with the Canadian Museum of Civilization's 'Cool '60s Design' exhibition."

2005-03-04T18:12:00.000-08:00

MakingRoom Magazine

MakingRoom Magazine: "MakingRoom is a magazine about the process, intention and results of image-making. This is our first issue and we'll be publishing online issues on a quarterly schedule. We will also be releasing an original print issue each year so watch for details on that in the coming months."

2005-03-04T18:07:00.000-08:00

Collect Britain > Putting History in Place

Collect Britain > Putting History in Place

"Collect Britain presents 90,000 images and sounds from the British Library, chosen to evoke places in the UK and beyond."

2005-03-04T09:16:00.000-08:00

Bill Maher: 'Kids say the darndest, most Stalinist things

The Smirking Chimp

"Bill Maher: 'Kids say the darndest, most Stalinist things'

Posted on Friday, February 18 @ 09:59:02 EST By Bill Maher, Los Angeles Times

A new survey found that a majority of high schoolers think newspapers should not be allowed to publish without government approval. And almost one in five said that Americans should be prohibited from expressing unpopular opinions.

Lemme tell you little darlings something: This is my livelihood you're messing with, so either learn the Bill of Rights or you don't deserve Social Security.

Now, to those of you who think I'm overreacting: Yes, I understand that when you're in high school you're still very young and that no one really cares what kids say anyway it's not like priests are dating them for their brains.

But the younger generation is supposed to rage against the machine, not for it; they're supposed to question authority, not question those who question authority."

2005-03-04T09:12:00.000-08:00

Smithsonian Global Sound

Check out the best site for Global music ...
Smithsonian Global Sound

2005-03-03T19:16:00.000-08:00

NYPL Digital Gallery is open ...

NYPL Digital Gallery

"NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more."

Photoshop

2005-01-09T11:23:00.000-08:00

Read Teach Yourself Visually book for Photoshop.