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Eyebeam is looking for R&D Fellows for their new OpenLab. “The ideal fellow has experience creating innovative creative technology projects, a love of collaborative development, and a desire to distribute his or her work as widely as possible. We encourage artists, hackers, designers and engineers to apply.”
Photomosaic version of Van Gogh’s Starry Night. The image is made up of over 210,000 individual photographs.
Delettering the public space. “In a remarkable display of cooperation for the sake of art, every store on a popular shopping street in Vienna allowed their signage to be masked in yellow fluorescent foil.”
How Danny Gregory makes those nifty watercolors that illustrate The Morning News. “Roz, the color theory teacher, warned against it, but I laid down a blue underpainting!”
Photographer Clayton James Cubitt interviews Tom Carden about their Metropop Denim collaboration. “I don’t think the work ever belongs to the computer, any more than a photograph belongs to a camera. The computer is a tool — there wouldn’t be any artwork if I didn’t tell the computer exactly what to do — it just works a hell of a lot faster than I do!”
Eyebeam is currently accepting proposals for their fall/winter Artist in Residence program. If you get in, I will be within heckling distance of your workspace.
Drawing Restraint 9 is the first collaboration by super-couple Matthew Barney and Bjork.
Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art NOW THEN online exhibit. “What did professional comic artists draw like when they were 12 years old”?
Unknown painting by Edvard Munch found behind another canvas.
Chen Shaofeng paints his subjects while they paint him. The results are hung side-by-side in his show.
Interview with Jonah Peretti, director of Research and Development at Eyebeam.
A street sculpture by REVS was recently stolen in my neighborhood.
GUI: a re-presentation of the Adobe Photoshop interface within a 3-dimensional space.
58 days worth of drawing exercises in Microsoft Excel by Danielle Aubert.
Whatever happened to the subjects of Diane Arbus’s photographs?. CNN’s Anderson Cooper was that weird looking baby?
Secret Wall Tattoos. People are removing art from hotel room walls, creating their own art on the wall beneath, and then replacing the art of top of it for others to discover at a later time.
If you haven’t yet, the Diane Arbus exhibition at the Met is worth checking out. Open through May 30.
Victoria Reynolds paints meat. Meat as subject, not meat as canvas. Very strange and cool.
NYC2012 is using the Union Square clock art work to promote NY’s 2012 Olympic bid. One of the artists who did the piece is not thrilled about it being used for advertising.
How a couple of mathematicians helped the Met accurately photograph some priceless tapestries. The difficulty in piecing together the different photographs was because when the tapestries were taken off the wall, they “began to breathe, expanding, contracting, shifting”…that is, they were changing between photos.
Street art legend Revs is back, but this time he’s (almost) legal and working with iron sculpture. I’ve seen a bunch of his work in Dumbo.
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