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Category: Amusements

  • Mysterious paper scultures of Edinburgh

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    Since March of last year, a series of wonderful and whimsical paper sculptures have been anonymously left on tables and shelves in libraries in Edinburgh, Scotland. It feels like something from a novel, and may in some way have a connection to the detective novels of Ian Rankin, but there is no indication he is…

  • LG Optimus facade mapping

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    I’ve written previously about 3-D animation video projection on the sides of buildings, specifically about those created by NuFormer. I’m uncertain who created this example in Berlin (the only credit line I can find says “Facade Mapping Image Show”, but I can’t find a site for that name), but it’s probably the most striking one…

  • Cartoon Color Wheel

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    Here’s a fun notion; the Slate Magazine blog, Culturebox, has put together an interactive color wheel of cartoon characters arranged by their hue (and, correctly enough, by intensity, as indicated by our grayish friends at the center of the wheel). In the original, you can mouse over the characters for identification. [Via Cartoon Brew]

  • 1923 aka Heaven and 1925 aka Hell by Max Hattler

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    1923 aka Heaven (images above, top five) and 1925 aka Hell (above, bottom 5) are two animated film by Max Hattler that were inspired by two paintings by French outsider artist Augustin Lesage. The two paintings are both named A symbolic Composition of the Spiritual World, one painted in 1923 (above, middle left) and one…

  • Selected (Mike Guppy)

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    another sight is a website on which artist and designer Mike Guppy displays a series of short art pieces, most using animated gifs, JavaScript, CSS and other web based techniques. Of them, the one I find most interesting is Selected ~ 2011, a series of animated GIF images in which familiar artworks by Botticelli, Leonardo,…

  • Hobo Lobo of Hamlin

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    Hobo Lobo of Hamlin is a side-scrolling webcomic by Stevan Zivadinovic that uses multiple planes scrolling at different rates to give a nice dimensional effect, augmented with other touches of animation. My screen captures above attempt to give some idea of the changing relationship of the planes, but they’re inadequate to the task; you need…