Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts

Location Sharing for Artists



Place to Paint is Google Maps for artists. It is an application which you can use to share the locations where you enjoy to paint and the artworks which you have created there. Place to Paint is also a great place to list and share the latest artistic events in your area, such as studio open houses, artist meetings and exhibitions.

You can use Place To Paint to find great locations where other

Finding the Artistic Heart of Paris



Certain areas of Paris, such as the Left Bank and Montmartre, are synonymous with art and artists. However the artistic center of Paris is as fluid as fashion and the cost of studio and living space. Over the years Paris' artistic center has moved around the city, as artists have discovered new places to live and work

To analyze the evolution of Paris's artistic geography the Geography of the

Ai Weiwei in New York



The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei currently has a city wide art exhibition in New York City. 'Good Fences Make Good Neighbors' is inspired by Robert Frost’s poem 'Mending Wall' and explores issues around immigration and the plight of refugees. Until February 11th 2018 you can view the artwork featured in Ai Weiwei's exhibition at locations throughout New York.

As part of the Good Fences Make Good

Teaching Art with Leaflet



I really like the Leaflet-IIIF plug-in for creating a Leaflet based browser for IIIF manifests. I think it has enormous potential for creating explanatory lessons about paintings and manuscripts shared using IIIF.

The Leaflet-IIIF plug-in page on Github has a few example maps. However none of them include any interactivity. I've therefore created a quick example using Van Gogh's Self-Portrait

RIP Tom Petty

I was never a big fan, but I liked his bizarreness. This is my favorite video/song of his.

Video: A Mountain Bike Ride Across an Artists Canvas

Micayla Gatto is both an artist and a mountain biker, finding beauty in both passions. In this video, we join her for a ride down a favorite ridgeline, which she has also created on her canvas. The clip seamlessly blends the real world with Micayla's art, creating a fun and fanciful environment along the way. The ride is nothing short of spectacular, with the artist sharing her story throughout. There is a lot of interesting and creative stuff going on here. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Micayla Gatto's Intersection - A MTB ride through artist's canvas from Red Bull on Vimeo.

1993 New York City in HD

Apparently, it was shot with Digital-VHS. Was this technology available to the average consumer?

Natalie Imbruglia's Torn was a cover of a Danish song

This blew my mind. H/t rchen.

28,000 views.

108,000,000 views.

A sweet story about puppets

North Korean green room


More photos here.

Chris Cornell, dead

Another talented and troubled artist, gone.

Africa's tallest residential building

Ponte City in South Africa. 54 stories. Built during the apartheid era.



More here.

The dying art of Chinese neon sign making in HK

Youtube comment: This was far more interesting than I thought it was going to be!

Madonna Cherish (1989)

After the nuclear apocalypse, nostalgia is all we'll have.

Pac Man reimagined


Via Reddit.

Pencil carving


British people before/after 30+ years


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Erasure Chains of Love

I have stopped listening to the news in the car. It's now 50% Mexican music and 50% 80s hits.

How does this Erasure song not have 1m+ views?!

Video: The Art of Climbing

This video takes us to the Rätikon Mountains of Switzerland where we join professional climber Kilian Fischuber ons a tough route known as Headless Children. As he makes just the second free climb of this mutli-ptich 250-meter (820 ft) wall, he begins to see an intersection of his two passions, climbing and art. On this wall, he sees colors that are not unlike a painting, adding a surreal element to the entire experience.

Open Access Journal: VISUAL PAST: A Journal for the Study of Past Visual Cultures

VISUAL PAST is an open-access online journal dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of past visual cultures. It refers to the study of images and the visual as roughly outlined by visual culture studies, Bildwissenschaften and similar areas which became apparent in the wake of the iconic and the pictorial turn. VISUAL PAST is understood as a forum for diverse directions, not privileging certain theories, methodological positions, or paradigms. Accordingly, it is not devoted to singular disciplines but favours trans- and interdisciplinary approaches.

Editors: Jacobus Bracker & Martina Seifert
Current issue

3.1, 2016

Special Issue: Visuelle Narrative — Kulturelle Identitäten/Visual Narratives — Cultural Identities


Frontmatter, p. I—VII
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Einleitung: Homo pictor meets homo narrans, p. 1—12
Jacobus Bracker, Hamburg
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That’s so 10 seconds ago – Geschichten erzählen mit (flüchtigen) Bildern, p. 21—47
Lisa Andergassen, Potsdam
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Erzählkunst des Ornaments in der Architektur. Ein ungarisches Beispiel der nationalen Formensprache, p. 49—89
Barbara Antal, Hamburg
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Frida Kahlo and Mexican Tradition Identity, p. 91—107
Fortunata Calabró, London
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Women in the Partition of India: Graphic Narratives, p. 109—127
Arunima Dey, Salamanca
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Referenzstrategien auf stadtrömischen Sarkophagen. Narrative Brücken zwischen Kasten und Deckel, p. 129—150
Anne-Sophie Dreßen, Kiel
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The Narrative Potential of Spaces Devoid of Purpose, p. 151—161
Sabrina Eisele, Mainz
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Mantle Figures and Visual Perception in Attic Red-Figure Vase Painting, p. 163—198
Mariachiara Franceschini, Berlin
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Körper und Zeichen. Das Verstehen interaktiver Mediensysteme im Kontext phänosemiotischer Wahrnehmungsdynamik, p. 199—223
Lars C. Grabbe, Münster
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The Visual as Part of the Multichannel Performative Narration in Theatre Stagings. With an Exemplary Analysis of Robert Wilson’s Staging of the 66th Shakespeare Sonnet, p. 225—245
Jan Horstmann, Hamburg
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A Passion for Order: Classifications for Narrative Imagery in Art History and Beyond, p. 247—278
Gyöngyvér Horváth, Budapest
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Localized Stories and Regional Tales: Imagery, Identity, and Cultural Negotiation in Ulúa Visual Narratives, p. 279—314
Kathryn Marie Hudson, Buffalo
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Hirtengeschichte und Hirtenbild. Überlegungen zur Wechselwirkung der Motivauswahl bukolischer Sarkophagreliefs und ihrer Thematisierung in der bukolischen Literatur, p. 315—337
Rebecca Hümmer-Kozik, Würzburg
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Mit Mauern leben – mithilfe von Mauern erzählen. Vom assoziativen Potential antiker Stadtbefestigungen und seiner Bedeutung für die Ausprägung und Nachwirkung frühgriechischer Dichtung und Bildsprache, p. 339—365
Dominik Kloss, Hamburg
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Visual Narrative in Dutch Golden Age Still Lifes. A theoretical examination of the role of colour, form, perspective and composition in the making and valuation of still lifes, p. 367—395
Johanna Mocny, Munich
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“Alltagsmenschen”: Inside and Outside the Storyworld of The American Way, p. 397—420
Jona Piehl, London
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Hinter die Maske geblickt: Unteritalische Vasenbilder als Identitätsvermittler, p. 421—447
Lilian Schönheit, Hamburg
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Shifting Scenes and Characters: Representations of Salome and the Story of Beheading of John the Baptist in Visual Art, p. 449—468
Soňa Šinclová, Brno
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Von Menschenbildern und Textmaschinen: Was Cyborgs im Film über den Wandel medialer Kommunikation erzählen, p. 469—507
Lena Trüper, Frankfurt am Main
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Visual Representations of the Events of the Cold War as Depicted in LIFE Magazine, p. 509—528
Yoko Tsuchiyama, Paris
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Lebensentwürfe „auf der Kippe“, einschneidende Erlebnisse und ein Moment Ewigkeit. Narrative Modi der Hildesheimer Bernwardssäule und die Visualisierungsstrategien theologischer Grundzüge, p. 529—558
Jochen Hermann Vennebusch, Hamburg
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Yenilmezler und Çapulcular in den Türkei-Protesten 2013: Identitätsbildungsprozesse und politisch-ikonografische Repräsentationen von Widerstand, p. 559—591
Sandra Voser, Wien
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Was sind eigentlich Narreme?, p. 593—614
Lisanne Wepler, Amsterdam
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Kingdom of Characters. Die ‚Mangaisierung‘ des japanischen Alltags aus bildtheoretischer Perspektive, p. 615—648
Lukas R. A. Wilde, Tübingen