Sun 25 Oct 2009
The Week in Links #24
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One Night Left, final lineup announced. I’m on from midnight-ish I think. Will probably post up the mix after the event.
‘Hosting Your Windows 7 Torrenting Party‘ Like a good Onion headline, you almost don’t need the rest of the content…
I AM THE CLIENT! Insights into the mind of a marketing commissioner.
Dubstep remix based on samples from SNK’s Last Blade. Warning: could give you a nosebleed. HAJIME!
Hip-Hop Medley using the new Stylophone Beatbox:
Blizzard Twitter-source game design for Diablo III. Presumably the number of characters in the game will be limited to 140.
‘I wish I was in your arms full of faith or that a thunderbolt would strike me.’ Careful what you wish for, Keats.
John Walker’s analysis of the recent World Of Goo sale. Excellent stat porn.
Hyper-real oil paintings are hyper terrifying: I mean, what if YOU’RE just an oil painting and I didn’t notice?
Japan, going too far.
Japanese arch-cruelty in game shows is long-established. But they’ll never top what happened to poor old Nasubi.
Artist’s forensic reconstruction of famous fictional skulls. Fun.
Isaac Asimov describes the sky. From the brilliant ‘Letters of Note.’
Comic Sans’ creator speaks. Inspired by Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns (?!). Who knew?
“In the context of [the Daily Mail], Moir’s journalistic crime is merely one of insufficient art.” And that’s a KO.
Link of the Week
Super amazing pop-up book of the Kyoto temple Kinkaku-ji, made from LEGO: I can’t fathom the sort of mind that could work this out. (Thanks Alex H):
October 26th, 2009 at 11:58 am
My art tutor would not be impressed by those hyper-real oil paintings.
They are almost certainly done from photoreference and since they a) necessitate the taking of a photograph and b) are almost indistinguishable from a photograph, we have to ask c) why not just take a photograph and frame it, and then spend all that painting time on something more self-expressive?
There are well documented techniques for accurately transcribing photos into pencil or paint. All it takes is lots and lots of time and a complete lack of imagination.
Ahem. Sorry. Rant over.