At the Pasadena Armory Center for the Arts, where I made a pilgrimage to see an exhibit of screenprints by my beloved Rauschenberg last week, my friend leaned over the upstairs railing and caught this more organic creation in action.
Archive for the ‘Art’ category
Do this at home: A Digital Pinhole Camera
Some hipster friends want me to tutor their son and some of his friends in the ways of manhood. Actually, the way they explained it, their son (friend to my son, same age) is studying chemistry, and they are looking to make the subject a bit more interesting. They would like me to develop a [...]
Monday photo: Tilt-shift
There’s a fun photo tool at tiltshiftmaker.com: You can take any photo, upload it, and the program will blur the bottom and top in a way that makes the objects in the image look like toys. I don’t know much about visual art, so I’m not sure why this is, but the effect is marvelous. [...]
Monday photos: Tee greeting
Happy Monday, Whatsiterati! We have a double-photo Monday for you today. First up, “Tee Greeting,” by our anonymous photographer:
And our bonus shot, a photo Jeremy took on his iPhone yesterday morning:
(When I was younger, I would look at photos like this to see if I could find Jesus in there. Now I just see Mike [...]
Monday photo: Chain link
This Monday photo was shot by a friend who wishes to remain anonymous. More of his work next week, and the weeks thereafter.
Made on my phone.
Jorge Colombo has produced a number of covers for The New Yorker using an iPhone app called Brushes. Brushes is a painting program that uses the iPhone’s touch screen as a finger painting canvas. The tool sets for the program are limited — you get five layers, a limited palette of sizable brush styles that [...]
Beautification
While I was on a recent trip to New York, I had the opportunity to view an art project that was displayed on the Bowery close to the New Museum. The piece, created by Christine Finley, was a wallpaper-wrapped dumpster. Finley is an acquaintance of mine, and I was excited by her concept, [...]
Die, monster, die
Exercise: take a piece of blank paper with some crayons or felt tips. Draw a monster. Put the monster in the middle of the floor. Select an imaginary (unless you have kids’ toys available) weapon. Take the weapon and kill the monster.
What did your monster look like? Describe the qualities of the monster. How did [...]
