Category: Art
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Colourful nature of Per Lothe
Per Lothe is a photography artist that really knows how to put colour in landscapes. What is best than waiting for the right light to make his model greater. http://www.lothen.com/
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25.6 giga-pixel contemporary art masterpiece
This is an art project using the collaborative Internet to create one of the largest images in the world. MillionMasterPiece.com wants to create an historic art master piece by collating one million small 160×160 images, leading to more than 25 giga-pixels of contemporary art. You can join for free or, even better, you can donate…
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All (known) bodies in the Solar system larger than 200 miles in diameter
Alan Taylor created a nice representation of the largest bodies of the Solar System (it takes into account the new classification used since last Summer). A really good job of Photoshopping many images together in order to produce what could easily become a landscape poster if somebody decided to print it.
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YAPB: A photoblog using WordPress
I did not yet have time to evaluate it formally but, on the paper, it seems that YAPB (Yet another photo blog) is a plugin allowing ot easily build a photoblog based upon WordPress (the size of thumbnails is configurable, WordPress themes are still usable, but there is no galery). One rule: One image, one…
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What is a Blue Ball machine?
That is the right question to ask. But when you’ll see one (thanks to Manufactured Serendipity), the answer will be obvious. Or maybe not… Blue Ball machine
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Fireworks as art
Rosemarie Fiore is an artist producing abstract art that I like a lot, but she is definitely using a weird technique: Exploding fireworks over the paper, containing them in a way that still leaves space for rich colours pouring over the surface. It must be dangerous art, but it produces some new colours.
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Free online Photoshop
Adobe has been observing the desktop application market and specifically seen Google challenging Microsoft with its online Google desktop suite (spreadsheet, text processor, agenda, etc.). They determined that they want to go the same way in order to ensure a bright future for the Photoshop line. Currently, Adobe has already split its market niche between…
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100 fonts with top character
Again, I come back to the issue of free fonts of great quality. DaFont holds links to hundreds of character fonts readily downlodable for both Mac and PC. Usually, this leads to a bunch of crap fonts. Here, the top 100 list is really of impressive quality. Waltograph is copying Walt Disney’s signature, Evanescence is…