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Saturday, 2 March 2024

Truck Stop Coffee - Piper Bly 's Blog

quote [ This is my lil' blog where I write about cartooning, writing, jazz, open source, terrible action flicks, and other things that hold my interest. ]

Nice to see new blogs popping up ? this is all over the place, mostly about music. Must've read some of the comics some years ago.
[SFW] [art] [+2]
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Tuesday, 27 February 2024

Reflecting on the Rise and Fall of Artscape

quote [ ?Affordability? is a highly relative term. As evidenced by the pernicious yet popular semantic shift from ?affordable? to ?below market,? the concept of affordability now adheres more closely to standards set by the real-estate market than the budgets of artists and arts organizations. ]

If you need some insights in the messy state of arts vs real estate. Most of the paragraphs make great quotes. This is from Canada.
[SFW] [art] [+2]
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Friday, 23 February 2024

?The Substantiality of Spirit?: Georgiana Houghton?s Pictures from the Other Side

quote [ When Georgiana Houghton first exhibited her paintings at a London gallery in 1871, their wild eddies of colour and line were unlike anything the public had seen before ? nor would see again until the rise of abstract art decades later. But there was little intentionally abstract about these images: Houghton painted entities she met in the spirit regions. Viewing her works through the prism of friendship, loss, and faith, Jennifer Higgie turns overdue attention on an artist neglected by historians, a visionary who believed that death was not the end, merely a new distance to overcome. ]

Hello I made it out from the otherside
[SFW] [art] [+1 Interesting]
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Sunday, 18 February 2024

Game Font Forensics

quote [ With all the lavish attention given to the appearance of text, Broussard still managed to famously mis­spell his own name on the title screen ]

Tagged "art" due to being about digital typography.

The quote reminds me of the hastily fixed a Street Fighter cabinet title typo by messing around with spritemaps.
[SFW] [art] [+2 Interesting]
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Thursday, 15 February 2024

UK Public Art Database Will Digitally Record More Than 5,000 Murals, Including Works By Banksy

quote [ Works by Banksy and murals in Northern Ireland will also be recorded as part of the project. ]

I made you my temple, my mural, my sky
[SFW] [art] [+1 Good]
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Thursday, 25 January 2024

Through the Cheval Glass: Reproduction in the Photographs of Clementina Hawarden

quote [ Soon after Clementina Hawarden began taking photographs in the mid-19th century, her eye caught on doubles, reflections, her daughters glimpsed in the mirror. Stassa Edwards examines the role that reproduction ? photographic, biological ? plays in this oeuvre, and searches for the only person not captured clearly: Hawarden herself. ]

Cheval glass shows a face that?s tired
[SFW] [art] [+1 Interesting]
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Friday, 19 January 2024

Audio Guide

quote [ This burger wrapper... ]

I've been watching a lot of these short horror flicks since October, this one is particularly good. You could make the case this isn't a horror at all, since it's missing a lot of the typical elements, like blood & gore, or jump scares, or any on-screen deaths. Regardless, it certainly has the protagonist grappling with issues of horror, and I liked the actor's performance.
[SFW] [art] [+3 Insightful]
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Sunday, 31 December 2023

Webcurios 15/12/23

quote [ My girlfriend?s cat Lebowski, who sadly died a year ago but who would very much wish you a Merry Christmas were he still alive

AND NOW, MOVING PICTURES AND SOUNDS! ]

Feels like I've come over this before. An almost weekly artsy pop blog running since feb 2013 by a certain UK Matt. nice links and music recommendations.

tagged NSFW just in case. thumb via quote.
[NSFW] [art] [+3 Good]
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Sunday, 24 December 2023

Copy Machine Manifestos

quote [ Back in 1978, the editors of a book called Copyart likened the photocopier to a ?magical machine,? something that produced the ?unplanned? and ?unexpected.? All the magic in Copy Machine Manifestos is from another time, another country. ]

Zines in a museum. Good summary of pop culture transformations.
[SFW] [art] [+1 Interesting]
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Tuesday, 19 December 2023

Mickey, Disney, and the Public Domain: a 95-year Love Triangle

quote [ Therefore, while the safest approach may be to stick to Mickey circa 1928 in new creations, copyright law also lets you use later material that does not qualify for copyright. Your mouse can speak intelligibly in a high voice even though Mickey 1.0 does not do so; giving a talking mouse a squeaky voice is not copyrightable. ]

Ooh, some good writeup on this topic. Note that Disney runs a brand campaign currently, it seems, plus: there is nifty stuff like the upcoming FPS Mouse seemingly derived from Ub Iwerks' creation.
[SFW] [art] [+3 Good]
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