I maybe in love and have the passion drive of a design researcher but come on… the illustrator inside me loves to draw… I dig the sketch composition… (a little secret about sketching – composition goes a long way…) i looked at the other competitors on the website and notice it was not about techniques or ideas (well… hesitating a bit) but execution and composer.
but i think the first image still need to relook at photoshop cause it is too air brushie and that is so has been! you can really make color marking in photoshop very sharp, it is called path tool and a bit of feathering. It is a terrible hill to climb to learn in the program but once over it, it is like sledding. WAH OHHHHHHHH!
Last fall, a New York-based startup called Aviary went live, offering digital artists an online image-editing tool with features that could normally only be found in expensive software. Last month, the company released software that lets anyone integrate these tools into their website; some sites are now using the software to reinvent the way that they use images, allowing visitors to contribute cartoons for contests, modify photographs in newspapers, and even tweak the overall design of an online storefront.
The new application programming interface (API) that makes this possible has tapped the potential of collaborative image editing. Aviary’s CTO, Israel Derdik, says that the New Yorker used the company’s API to hold a cartoon design contest. Participants visited the New Yorker site and selected from a preloaded library of cartoons that they could modify and edit, turning layers on or off, to generate a unique cartoon.
It has been a very long time since i posted a TED video. but i love this and felt very connected to this video due to the fact that science needs art and art needs science something i battled with my family, society, school, etc etc for years. ENJOY!
I have a feeling we will have multiple screens big ones, small ones, fat ones, skinny ones, tall ones, short ones, square ones, round ones…. all on one device! woah!
just think how you mind sensory will overload…. I personally think we do this to technology because our brains are bored…. the more coolness comes out the more our brain chemicals trigger addictions….
check it – someone got the apple icon to play video… see his site for more info.
While the jury it out on whether surgical masks are effective in preventing the spread of swine flu, folks throughout the world are making them a bit more fun to wear. Some of these pics were taken from the streets of Mexico, and the others are from Japanese designer Yoriko Yoshida.While the Mexican government is handing out masks at subway stations and preventing large assemblies of people to reduce the transmission of the virus, US officials are still stating that surgical masks do not do much to prevent the transmission of the 2009 H1N1 influenza bug.
For the record, the CDC has just started Twittering about the swine flu. If they twitter that we should start wearing masks, it’s good to know there’s a stylish way to protect yourself.
Above is an image of 1301 fluorescent tubes powered only by the electric fields generated by overhead powerlines. It was created by Richard Box while artist-in-residence at Bristol University’s physics department.
He got the idea for the installation after a chance conversation with a friend. ‘He was telling me he used to play with a fluorescent tube under the pylons by his house,’ says Box. ‘He said it lit up like a light sabre.’ Box decided to see if he could fill a field with tubes lit by powerlines. After a few weeks hunting for a site, he found a field, slipped the local farmer £200 and planted 3,600 square metres with tubes collected from hospitals.
this is a quick information blog of blogs. A simple collections of oxcullent findings out on the web.
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