don't hold it up to your remaining eye
Wednesday, 11 December 2024

?Maya blue?: The mystery dye recreated two centuries after it was lost

quote [ A ceramicist retraces his Maya roots to recreate a long-lost pre-Hispanic pigment that survived for over a millennium. ]

Maya blue, he paints the sky
[SFW] [art] [+4 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@6:03amGMT] [0 comments]

Saturday, 30 November 2024

Anders Ramsell painted 12,597 aquarelle paintings of Blade Runner

quote [ the video circled around the web for a few years, and quietly disappeared from every single site it was hosted at. ]

? until the author found it archive.org.
[SFW] [art] [+5]
[by Paracetamol@4:33pmGMT] [2 comments]

Friday, 22 November 2024

Art Detective Arthur Brand Is Like Indiana Jones but With a More Elegant Wardrobe

quote [ Mysterious late-night visits, an undercover hunt for Hitler's horses, and a Picasso on the couch are business as usual for the Dutch sleuth. ]

Thinking like an art thief, bigger pictures cost a steal
[SFW] [art] [+3 Original]
[by ScoobySnacks@9:30amGMT] [0 comments]

Thursday, 14 November 2024

link emporium ? humantooth

quote [ Weekly round up of stuff ive stumbled across ]

Bit of an understatement ? pretty packed with interesting links, and epilepsy-inducing visuals.
[NSFW] [art] [+3 Interesting]
[by Paracetamol@12:02pmGMT] [1 comment]

Thursday, 31 October 2024

Kowloon's Walled City Explored

quote [ ?Voices of the Walls" is an exhibition that explores the history and visua; culture of the infamous Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong through photographs by Ian Lambot, Greg Girard, Bianca Tse and Keeping Lee. ]

some great photos ? see also the story of that poster.

via Konstantinos Dimopoulos
[SFW] [art] [+1 Good]
[by Paracetamol@1:59pmGMT] [2 comments]



Wednesday, 30 October 2024

When OneDrive Ruins Your Day

quote [ All o' this is just to help me boost my algorithmic placement, so don't bother reading:
All he wanted was a chill day surfing the internet, but Our boy Nox finds out that OneDrive, Adobe CC, and all the scummy big tech companies aren't all they're cracked up to be.
In case you didn't notice the video is a metaphore for Enshittification. ]

Enshittification is just a byproduct of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall.

[SFW] [art] [+3]
[by steele@6:52pmGMT] [3 comments]

Tuesday, 22 October 2024

Swede dreams.

quote [ All images come from the Digital Museum archive, which compiles all exhibits from Sweden's museums. ]

Great visuals from a design blog. Found via Linkfest.
[SFW] [art] [+2 Original]
[by Paracetamol@6:42pmGMT] [1 comment]

Monday, 21 October 2024

Study Confirms That Viewing Art in a Museum is Much More Stimulating for the Brain

quote [ ?You become [mentally] richer when you see things, whether you are conscious of it or not, because you make connections in your brain.? ]

Of the real art scene
[SFW] [art] [+1 Good]
[by ScoobySnacks@2:19pmGMT] [0 comments]

Monday, 23 September 2024

Why We Love Looking at Paintings of Food

quote [ For centuries, artists have painted fruit and cakes as a flex. ]

Just to get our art out and food on the table
[SFW] [art] [+1 Informative]
[by ScoobySnacks@10:28amGMT] [0 comments]

Saturday, 14 September 2024

Gottfried Mind, The Raphael of Cats

quote [ Labelled a ?cretin? and ?imbecile? in his lifetime, the Swiss artist Gottfried Mind had profound talents when it came to drafting the feline form. Kirsten Tambling reconstructs the biography of this elusive figure, whose savant-like qualities inspired later French Realists, early psychiatric theorists, and Romantic visions of the artist as outsider. ]

A feline form on a frosted pane
[SFW] [art] [+1 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@8:26amGMT] [0 comments]



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