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Month: December 2008

  • 2008 Best Graphic Novel Lists

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    Ahhh…, it’s that time of year, the scramble through the barrage of “Buy this!” “Buy that!”, mall stuffing, parking lot screaming, credit card swinging, Scotch tape sticking, present buying madness; however tempered it may be this year by the ongoing Collapse of Western Civilization. So, just as sure as the days shorten, lists appear, guiding…

  • American Impressionism from the Phillips Collection

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    Those who have been reading Lines and Colors for a while will know that I have a particular fondness for many of the late 19th, early 20th Century painters referred to as “American Impressionists”. (I put the phrase in quotes because I doubt the painters ever referred to themselves in those terms.) The Phillips Collection…

  • Anamorphic Art

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    An anamorphosis is an image that is distorted in such a way that it only assumes the proportions of recognizable forms when viewed from a certain angle, or by reflection in a curved surface. The term comes from the Greek anamorphoun, to transform. Anamorphic images have a long history in art. The earliest examples in…

  • Dan Dos Santos’ “Top 10 SF/F Art Websites of 2008”

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    As part of the SF Signal year end round up of The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2008, illustrator Dan Dos Santos has posted his Top 10 SF/F Art Websites of 2008, in which he was kind enough to list Lines and Colors (thanks, Dan). The list includes some sites I’ve specifically written posts about,…

  • Shaun Tan on InFrame.tv

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    InFrame.tv, a video podcast out of Melbourne, Australia with a focus on arts, design and culture, has a nicely done segment on multi-talented illustrator and author Shaun Tan, who I wrote about previously here and here. In it, Tan talks about the adaptation of one of his books, The Lost Thing (images at top) into…

  • Genetic Programming: Evolution of Mona Lisa

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    Trial and error. What artist has not at some point resorted to “I’ll just try this and see if it looks better.“? You might say that, in light of Darwin’s model of natural selection, nature itself does the same: make a genetic mutation or two, or a billion, and see what works. Swedish programmer Roger…