A Nontraditional Canvas

While exploring the idea of art in public, I came across a range of bike frames by Specialized/S-Works that were really quite breathtaking. Besides the quality of the paint-job, I was also impressed with the idea of art on a bike frame. With generally so little surface area, it occurred to me that I would…

Mindy Flexer’s Painted Origami

Related to the tiny monuments we worked on this week, I found these very traditional artworks with renditions of origami in them to be quite interesting. The artist is Mindy Flexer, who is a Philadelphia native, making it all that more cool. Here’s a link to her web page

Art Lessons at Home

Came across this little amalgamation of resources the other day on Artsy. It of course features the classics such as Bob Ross (Speaking of which, here’s a very cool video about where all his paintings ended up) but also other artists I had never heard of that have some fascinating and well made lessons (of…

World Building in Blender

Came across this video while working on a project for another class and thought about the animation we’ve been doing for this class. At one point the speaker, Ian Hubert, shows how you can create faux 3D buildings from pictures you take on your phone and it occurred to me at that point it’s not…

The Statue of Amaya on ‘Devs’

Devs is a relatively new TV show on FX (episode 6 of season 1 will be coming out this Wednesday) that I’ve been watching in my spare time (that I’m sure most of us can relate to right now). The story revolves around a fictional tech campus for company called Amaya. Without giving to much…

Christoph Niemann’s “Critical Mass”

The March 23rd, 2020 edition of the New Yorker magazine featured some rather epochal art, re: the current global situation. The magazine usually has covers that reflect world events from the week that the magazine covers, but usually they are more reflective of certain widespread themes, and not blaring metaphorical depictions of events. The cover…

Destruction of Y Blokka

An interesting debate reemerged recently due to the planned demolition of a building in Norway that has a concrete murals done by Picasso on the side as well as throughout the interior.I for one did not know that Picasso did concrete murals, so that in of itself is interesting, and the work is rather nice.The…

Pixel Art [GIFs]

Since we’re about to start on project 2 and a whole ton of gif-focused things, I thought I’d share a few of my favorite pixel art gifs I’ve encountered over the years. The original artists are below the works. 2013 2019 2018

Invisibility in the Environment

One concept my brain immediately considered when we began our conversations regarding Italo Calvino’s work was the literal concept of an invisible city. The technology is of course not there yet, but derivations of the meaning of invisible–invisible in comparison to what–could very well be within our grasp. This reminded me of the concept city…

Textiles in a Reflective World

Samara Golden is a contemporary artist that specializes in the use of limited space to create more apparent space, often through the use of mirrors and hidden spaces. I saw her work at the Whitney Biennial in 2017 and was pleased to find out that she is about to have an exhibition at the Fabric…