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This may or may not be the first hint that, soon, the time will come when paint and brushes are no longer used for making pieces of art.Petros Vrellis has released a video of what is and, at the same time, is not Vincent Van Gogh's famous painting “Starry Night”.By using a large, Full HD touchscreen,... |
11 February 2012
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Bold architects are continuously innovating, trying to reduce space requirements, involve sustainable materials and make affordable portable houses even more popular.
The self-inflating, lightweight Basic House, introduced by Martín Azúa, displays all these features, can be easily carried around ... |
19 January 2012
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Facebook is one of the biggest sites in the world. It's also got some of world's top software engineers working for it. So you may think that it works pretty much as intended, even if intuition would lead you to believe that a site this big has to have plenty of bugs.
A testament to the quality of work of ... |
17 January 2012
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Swedish artist Cecilia Levy is combining her passion for fine arts with a creative environmental awareness to launch a line of unconventional amazing tea cups made from recycled book pages. She has succeeded in making traditional origami look dull and useless. So far, her talent has been rewarded properly, since sh... |
4 January 2012
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The Smithsonian has launched a new spooky voting competition, meant to award not the kindest, best-looking or most eco-friendly Santa Claus, but the scariest character ever designed and printed on a piece of paper.
Some of the photos included in the ample gallery are funny, others give us chills down our spine and ... |
23 December 2011
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Graphic narratives, or comics, are currently the focus of a new type of scientific study, one that aims to extract entire cultural trends out of the way comic strips are put together. The subjects they deal with are also of great interest to scientists. One of the most interesting things for researchers is observing ... |
19 December 2011
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Nowadays, money helps us get almost anything we want. Luxurious cars, large houses, land on the Moon? Done. An ingenious artists proves that the possibilities are endless, by designing a broom made of dollar bills. Mark Wagner is the talented American artist, writer and publisher behind this project and the spectacul... |
15 December 2011
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Nobody said anything about humans being the only creatures able to use canvases and eco-friendly dye to create masterpieces.
As soon as they get their paws and claws on some non-toxic paint, the competition begins.Every animal has a story to tell and their efforts are highly appreciated by Heidi Hellmuth, curator o... |
13 December 2011
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Instead of just throwing out beer cans, bottles and other no-longer needed materials, designer Vanessa Harden proves that there are other creative ways of recycling and reusing no-longer-needed products.
Harden has managed to revolutionize Bonnaroo, one of the most popular music festivals held every year in the U... |
10 December 2011
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Landfillart is an international project aiming to highlight the talent and efforts of 1,041 gifted artists that have what it takes to turn rusted metal waste represented by lo-longer-needed hubcaps into fine works of art. All the material gathered, recycled and marvelously reused comes from old automobiles manufactur... |
2 December 2011
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The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment aka The MADE has announced that its downtown Oakland locations will open up its first exhibit on December 3, called the History of 3D in Games.The exhibition will be open during weekend throughout December and the official website will allow interested players to see it dur... |
30 November 2011
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Most of us would love to drive a Ferrari, but its prohibitive price stops this dream from becoming reality. The keen fans of Formula 1 sport cars can now own one, or at least what's left of it after parts of a crushed luxurious Ferrari ended up in the hands of the creative French artist Charly Molinelli.
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30 November 2011
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WorthPoint Corporation has launched an iPhone and iPad app that allows collecting enthusiasts to access the ultimate online resource for art, antiques and collectibles.Instead of having to rely on a computer to obtain sales records and reference information on virtually any collectible item, you can now fire up Worth... |
28 November 2011
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Contemporary Art represents a continued source of surprises, especially when it reflects the creativity of environmentally-friendly artists, who put old above new by transforming recycled materials into amazing one-of-a-kind masterpieces. This time, some of them decided to tackle e-waste, a frequent important compo... |
25 November 2011
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Rockstar is seen as the development studio linked to the Grand Theft Auto series but the company has also managed to launch hits like Red Dead Redemption and is now taking a major gamble by bringing the Max Payne series back to life.The Dan Houser, who is one of the co-founder of the company, says that the team worki... |
21 November 2011
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Kickstarter is a very interesting project and, while it has been around for a few years, it's still gaining more and more recognition. The fact that the number of people pledging money for various Kickstarter projects has grown at a steady rate each month should be evidence for that.
The site has now announce... |
12 October 2011
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Lady Gaga was notably absent at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards but, oddly enough, that doesn’t mean she wasn’t there. The singer’s creative director Laurieann Gibson says staying in the character of Jo Calderone for the entire night is proof that Gaga is a true artist. As we also informed you a cou... |
1 September 2011
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A new sculpture of Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez presents the loved-up teen idols like fans have never seen them before: not only are they wearing nothing but a leaf and a star to cover certain parts of their bodies, but they’re also joined at the hip. Artist Daniel Edwards, who has made somewhat of a hab... |
10 August 2011
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Google Earth can reveal quite a lot of things you wouldn't normally see. The satellite view provides a perspective not available to many humans, you can check out your city from above, or far away places (unless you happen to live near them) like Egyptian pyramids.
But it's not just man-made structures,... |
3 August 2011
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Dragon Age II launched earlier this year and got pretty good reviews despite having some issues, and developer BioWare is apparently already working flat out on the development of the third game in its fantasy role-playing series.
Alistair McNally, who is the senior director of creative development working at BioW... |
23 May 2011
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Artist Nadia Plesner has managed to incur the wrath of Louis Vuitton once more with one of her paintings. She’s been sued and has to pay, as of now, over €305,000 for copyright infringement – but she’s determined not to go down without a fight.
Plesner first came to the attention of the Fren... |
29 March 2011
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We all love a good cry every once in a while in front of the TV set or at the theater. FilmClub has conducted a poll to determine which are the most tear-jerking moments in film, and the E.T. farewell scene came out first. Under a new initiative meant to showcase film’s “universal power to inspire, educat... |
8 March 2011
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British guerrilla artist Banksy, whose identity has yet to be established with accuracy, is in Los Angeles, just in time for the Academy Awards 2011, where he’s in the running for Best Documentary with his “Exit Through the Gift Shop.”For several days, graffiti pieces that look like something Banksy... |
18 February 2011
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Putting trash to excellent use, San Francisco-based artist Jason Mecier is creating stunning 3D mosaics / works of arts of the hottest celebrities of the moment, using their own discarded trash for it. Before anyone goes thinking that Mecier must be always prowling celebrity hotspots and residence areas, searching th... |
28 January 2011
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Starting from the premise that the engine that drives basically every movie ever made is that of “no reason,” director Quentin Dupieux set out to honor said concept in cinema by making a film about a killer tire named Robert.
Robert also has psychic powers and, from what the trailer below shows, he ca... |
21 January 2011
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According to a new scientific study published in the latest online issue of the journal NeuroImage, it would appear that enjoying art makes the brain experience a feeling of reward. The paper also shows that artists can make the cortical reward system work a lot harder than simple images of objects can.Admiring the w... |
10 January 2011
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The American space agency has teamed up with online marketplace Etsy to bring a new competition to the website's largely-female fanbase. The winner gets to attend a NASA shuttle launch. Etsy has a very solid fan base, numbering around 5.5 million users, of which more than 96 percent are women. The site is a port... |
15 October 2010
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They say not many outside the industry know of the Nailympics or the Olympic Games of Fake Nails, but this international competition in nail art is now at its sixth edition in London.As in past editions, the competition is fierce – and the tension the nail artists are under is great because each has national pr... |
24 September 2010
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One of the theories scientists proposed on Saturday at the SETIcon conference that extraterrestrial civilizations may be more interested in our art than our science.The idea makes a lot of sense when considering that aliens would, most likely, be older and more advanced than we are. This would mean that, in an encoun... |
16 August 2010
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DeviantArt, the site/social network for aspiring artists, is now celebrating its tenth birthday. What started out as more of a sideproject grew into the longest running social network on the web. It’s unashamedly geeky approach to everything from the design of the site to the way it’s run has made it a po... |
6 August 2010
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China is a nation that has an enormous amount of respect for its traditions and history, some of which can be found in the thousands of impressive archaeological sites the country has. In the developed world, the most important works of ancient art, regardless of whether they were carved in stone or painted on statue... |
3 August 2010
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Back in April this year, esteemed film critic Roger Ebert decided to tackle the topic of the cultural importance of video games from the perspective of whether they could ever be regarded as art. Clearly, Ebert was convinced from the onset that no game so far could even dream of being considered as coming close to a ... |
1 July 2010
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The design community has seen a huge expansion in recent years with thousands of blogs or community sites trying to copy or imitate the success of more successful ventures like CSS Globe, Smashing Magazine, Wired, MIX Online, Tuts+, Designer Depot or Noupe. Recent blog posts and articles show a trend in the web-des... |
12 April 2010
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The way people perceive art has been a subject of interest and dispute throughout history, researchers say, largely because no one really knows how this is done. Now, a collaboration of artists and neuroscientists is pooling its resources together, to create a team that will approach various arts from the two perspec... |
26 March 2010
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His works have been seen and admired by millions, for Nathan Sawaya is a 36-year-old former attorney who, one day, decided he wanted to render emotion and play with the human form with Lego bricks. He’s sold countless such sculptures and has gotten plenty attention from the media, but it’s just now that S... |
22 March 2010
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London-based artist INSA is now one of the two creative minds at INSA Heels, constantly coming up with collections that fight mainstream by blending some of the most sought after features in a pair of shoes, like trendiness and style. With its new design, INSA Heels has taken futuristic to a whole new level by coming... |
11 March 2010
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Art restoration experts were recently surprised to learn just how efficient a laser-based cleaning method is to returning some vitality to tarnished wall paintings and other works of art. The method is derived directly from the techniques currently in use for tattoo removal, the scientists say, but they appear to wor... |
26 February 2010
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Scientists at the University College London (UCL) were recently able to confirm that the innate human ability to recognize other people's face is something that is primarily determined by each individual's genetic makeup. The new investigation, which was conducted on twins, determined that identical sibling... |
23 February 2010
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Spanning between the time when early Christians lived in Roman catacombs and the 1800s, the Old Testament Apocrypha has been one of the most influential segments of the Bible, as far as artists go. Apparently, a large number of painters and sculptors fell under the spell of how the writings depicted the characters in... |
15 February 2010
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For many, sexagenarian actor Sylvester Stallone is just the guy who made “Rocky” and “Rambo” and who had his career sprinkled with Razzie Awards, the most shameful distinction ever bestowed upon a thespian. For others, he’s an icon. For a select few, he’s a painter who is now ridin... |
4 December 2009
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As the videogaming world matures, a lot of people, most of them outside the industry, have been asking whether videogames can be seen as art with the implication that they are just a form of entertainment for the masses.Of course, there are others who point to titles like Braid and Fahrenheit and call them art. But D... |
6 November 2009
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Fans of the Fetch Art app for iTunes can now download and install the newest version available (2.5.3), for iTunes 9 support, an improved handling of extended unicode characters in song names, and other tweaks and fixes. Originally developed by Yoel Inbar and then handed over to Aric Freisen, Fetch Art is a Mac OS X... |
17 September 2009
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Scientists at the University of Manchester seem to have their own personal way of answering the question “Is beauty in the eyes of the beholder?” They have recently announced their intentions to turn one of London's largest art galleries into a scientific laboratory, in which they will try to determi... |
1 April 2009
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The Strong National Museum of Play, located in Rochester, New York, has just announced that the videogame-related collection of the National Center for the History of Electronic Games has reached 15,000 pieces, including all gaming consoles created from 1972 to the present and about 100 types of handhelds.The most in... |
19 March 2009
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Over the past couple of decades, the facades of buildings around the world have become adorned with various street drawings, ranging from stencils to graffiti and wheatpaste, which have raised critics from the communities most of the time. Thankfully, now a Welsh artist has devised a new way of creating spectacular g... |
13 February 2009
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The influence “pneumatic babe” Pamela Anderson, or her image, had on many things (with glamour magazines at the top of the list) is incontestable. However, many argue, it was not so much her doing, as it was the fact that she looked in a certain way and, what’s more important, that she was willing t... |
4 February 2009
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Despite the fact that the earliest cave paintings were estimated to be just 16,000 years old, anthropologists and evolutionary psychologists say that the origins of crafts such as music, painting, and writing may be found in the Pleistocene epoch, a period that started more than 1.6 million years ago. Philosophy of a... |
31 January 2009
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Here's a thought to keep you busy for a while, especially those of you who are rather “green”-oriented: what if there was no more need to kill animals in order to wear real leather clothes? No, I'm not talking about synthetic leather that looks so good as if it was real. Instead, what if your cl... |
1 November 2008
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Devil May Cry 4 features the same Gothic-inspired supernatural setting which fans have gotten used to over the years, while a new protagonist, Nero, and the awesome power of his Devil Bringer are introduced. In the game, you'll be able to familiarize yourself with Nero's powers, such as the ability to slam ... |
30 July 2008
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Hands-On Mobile, the famous American wireless entertainment company, has prepared a new and cool service for all the mobile users who like art: mixtART - coming this fall to a handset near you(r pocket). What's mixtART all about? As Hands-On puts it, with mixtART consumers will be able to buy "original works of ... |
25 July 2008
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