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Category: Amusements

  • Shy the Sun (update)

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    Back in 2006 I noticed the delightfully idiosyncratic work of a South African artist and illustrator named Ree Treweek (images above, top). In the time since, I have followed with fascination as Treweek and her partners Jannes Hendrikz and Marcus Smit, collectively known as The Blackheart Gang, produced a strikingly original and truly strange animation…

  • About Face (Chris James)

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    About Face is a short (4 minute) hand drawn animation featuring a series of nicely imaginative morphing sequences, with animals, faces, even caricatures of figures from history and pop culture, like Picasso and Dal&iacite; (above). Written and drawn in 1977 by Chris James, with camera work by Julian Holdaway and music by Claude Jouvin, the…

  • PumpkinMixer

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    I don’t often talk about my own projects on Lines and Colors, but sometimes they’re enough fun to be worthy of note. PumpkinMixer is my new app for the iPhone and iPod touch. Like my other apps, DinoMixer and MonsterMixer, it was developed with my friend and colleague Leon Stankowski, who created the coding to…

  • Arcimboldo, 1526-1593: Nature and Fantasy

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    Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s wonderfully bizarre blendings of nature and humankind, incorporating natural forms like vegetables, twigs and leaves as well as fish and other small animals in the representation of human faces, can still “turn heads” today, as they must have in the 16th Century. Largely forgotten shortly after his death and re-discovered in the 20th…

  • Tilt-Shift Van Gogh

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    Actually, pseudo tilt-shift Van Gogh, but that’s a small quibble. Tilt-shift photography is a process in which depth of field and lens angle are manipulated to make a real scene look like a miniature. The effect can be simulated in Photoshop with judicious selections and applications of blur filters. The folks over at ArtCyclopedia, one…

  • I become a twit, er,… Tweeter

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    OK, after years of resisting, I’ve finally decided to start using Twitter. Despite the original intention that Twitter be used to be “sociable” and inform your friends and “followers” that you’re having 2% milk on your Cap’n Crunch this morning, I’ve always thought of Tweets as basically 140-character blog posts. I just couldn’t think of…