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Month: September 2012

  • The Tools Artists Use

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    The Tools Artists Use is a blog maintained by Bill Turner in which he poses a set of questions (the same set) to a number of artists — asking about their choice of drawing and painting tools, both traditional and digital, as well as supports, sketchbooks and the like. The questions and replies are posted…

  • New 3D scanners reveal the artist’s hand in historic works

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    Who painted that? Who drew that? Who sculpted that? The question of attribution has long been problematic for art historians and conservators. A change in the attribution of a work from a highly ranked artist to a lessor one, or to the “workshop of” or “circle of” the master, or the reverse elevation of a…

  • The Story of You: ENCODE and the human genome

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    Directed and animated by D.C. Turner and narrated by comedian Tim Minchin, The Story of You: ENCODE and the human genome is a short (4, 1/2 minute) animated video about the history of our attempt to understand our own genetic structure, the latest stage of which is the ENCODE project. On YouTube. [Via BoingBoing]

  • Eye Candy for Today: A Deception by Raphaelle Peale

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    Venus Rising From the Sea — A Deception, Raphaelle Peale. Raphaelle Peale, son of pioneering American artist Charles Wilson Peale and America’s first great still life painter, serves up a trompe l’oeil of a woman behind a cloth — a tour de force drapery study and a comment on the repressive standards applied to figure…

  • The Movie Titles Stills Collection

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    Wow. The Movie Titles Stills Collection. What a treasure trove this is for those who love: • movies • design • typography • and (to a lesser extent) illustration. Designer Christian Annyas has assembled a collection of still images of movie titles, from the 1920’s to the present. Though far from complete (how could it…

  • Snehal Page

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    Snehal Page is an artist from Maharashtra, India. She acquired diplomas in Applied Art and Art Education at Abhinav Kala Mahavidyalaya in Pune, India, and also studied for three years at Studio Incamminati in Philadelphia, here in the U.S. (see my recent profile of Studio Incamminati founder and Artistic Director Nelson Shanks). Page’s website has…