Lithographs that once belonged to a German duke and vanished when the Soviets occupied parts of Germany after World War II, have turned up at Sotheby’s in London
A statue symbolising the mythical origins and power of Rome, long thought to have been made around 500BC, has been found to date from the 1200s. The statue depicts a she-wolf suckling Remus and his twin brother Romulus — who is said to have founded Rome. The statue of the wolf was carbon-dated last year, but the test results have only now been made public. The figures of Romulus and Remus have already been shown to be 15th Century additions to the statue
An ancient gold cup mysteriously acquired by a British scrap metal dealer is to be sold at auction with an estimate of nearly $1 million, after languishing for years in a shoe box under its current owner’s bed
The mysterious donor of 57 carved stone heads found scattered around Yorkshire over the last two weeks is a reclusive artist currently on holiday somewhere in a tent
. The shadowy figure caught on CCTV at one of the 19 places where the primitive-looking sculptures have so far been found is Billy Johnson, a 43-year-old who describes his work as hypnogogic, or sleep-inducing
Liverpool is playing host to an interesting piece of artwork for the next 18 months. Called Turning The Place Over
by Richard Wilson, it consists of a rotating wall that turns 360°. Cut in the wall of an old Yates’s Wine Lodge, the installation sits opposite one of the city’s train stations and is costing £450,000
Artist Nadine Jarvis can fabricate pencils from carbon left over by incinerating human remains — it’s part of a larger research project into post mortem
. She notes that 240 pencils can be made from an average body of ash — a lifetime supply of pencils for those left behind
— via Boing Boing
Dan Heller, author of the Photography Business Blog and a longtime watcher of the idea of selling photos on the Internet, observed Tuesday that there’s low-level buzz about Flickr possibly getting into the stock photo business
. He concludes, For Flickr to do it is obvious. Not doing so while they are on top of the game would be suicide.
It’s an interesting possibility. With some tweaks to the Web site and an opt-in check box on the image upload page, Yahoo and Flickr photographers could begin selling images to the sorts of folks who need to buy stock art — via CNET
A life-size replica of a Guantanamo Bay detainee has been placed in Disneyland by guerrilla artist
Banksy. The hooded figure was placed inside the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad ride at the California theme park last weekend. It is understood to have remained in place for 90 minutes before the ride was closed down and the figure removed
UK graffiti virtuoso Banksy has smuggled 500 doctored versions of Paris Hilton’s new CD into stores across the country. The CD contain Banksy’s remixes and have titles like Why am I Famous?
, What Have I Done?
and What Am I For?
— via Boing Boing
I’m a part-time fine arts student at Meadowbank TAFE, also known as the Sydney Gallery School. I’ve just found out that the gallery that is used for student exhibitions is being shut down by the College Director. Main reason being that there will no longer be someone constantly at the gallery, and that person is being moved. While there is normally a teacher or 2 around, it was the Clerical Officer that was permanentley stationed there, who not only did the day stuff and FIne Arts course enquiries, but also Fitting and Machining and Welding enquiries. The Clerical Officer, and all other clerical staff, are being moved to another block on campus in a centralised location.
Here are the reasons for moving all clerical staff to one location:
- Upskill C/O’s.
- Free up accommodation in sections.
- Provide better flexibility/equity and systems support to teaching sections.
- Meet an increasing demand for clerical support
- Operate within defined budgets
Some how I suspect it’s got a hell of a lot more to do with the last item than any of the miserable other excuses, sorry but I don’t see how it helps to upskill people, provide better flexibility and support or meet increasing demand for clerical support. The Sydney Gallery School has offered to rotate clerical staff in the gallery to help with upskilling, and are more than willing to look at other comprises but of course the College Director won’t have a bar of it.
I think one of the funniest suggestions came from College Management, they said that the gallery could be hired out to students or outside interests, however this would mean that the gallery would need to turn over $80 000 to employ a Gallery Director. Fucking wankers!
This is just ridiculous! Ok Mr/Ms Fucking College Director, now what do you call the school?
Protests can be sent to the Minister of Education and some others I’m sure.
Like most creatives who prefer working on Apples, I’ve been hanging out for some sort of concrete evidnece that the Adobe CS2 suite will run well/much better on the new Intel-based Macs under the Rosetta emulator, or that Adobe will release a Universal Binary update. Well I need a new mac within the next week, and decided to just go ahead and place an order for a 17-inch PowerBook any ways. I’ve also managed to find a two-tone purple laptop bag over at the Crumpler site named, The Dreadful Embarrassment.
However, it’d still be nice to know when Adobe are going to make that Universal move. I have no concrete evidence, but the guys over at Photoshop TV have this for us to mull over: No Intel-based OS X version of CS until CS3?
And on another tangent, you can now get a diploma in advanced studies in character animation over at Animation Mentor.com.
Photocritic.org has posted a great guide to making your own inexpensive macro photography rig from cannibalised lens — and body-covers and a Pringles can — via MAKEblog
Here’s my entry for Illustration Friday, the topic is float this week. I admit it’s pretty morbid, but at least it’s a pretty fish.
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A 60m long pink toy rabbit lies on the side of the 1,500m high Colletto Fava mountain in northern Italy’s Piedmont region. Viennese art group Gelatin designed the giant soft toy and say it was knitted by dozens of grannies out of pink wool
. The bunny is not just for walking around, the artists are expecting hikers to climb its 20 foot sides and relax on its belly. The giant rabbit is expected to remain on the mountain side until 2025 — via lucie
The theme for Illustration Friday this week was roots. I figured this was the quickest thing I could do.
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If you love chickens and post-it notes AND weird humour, then savage chickens is the comic strip for you!
I have been very quiet about the whole Apple switching to Intel processor thing. Partly because I’ve been too busy at work, and TAFE assessments, and partly because I don’t understand the intricacies of system architecture and computer bits and what have you. Again I defect to Ol’ Grubey for what seems to be pretty in-depth light on the subject. But faster laptops = good surely.
I would like the world to know that MS Word screws up images, and that whacking some jpgs of lets say, web site designs that you expect people to code as pixel exactly as possible sites off is really fucking bad. There’s really nothing wrong with sending through images in .jpg, or .gif or .png format without the MS Word fuck-tionality.
The MARC commuter trains between Baltimore and DC are sporting these terrornoia posters styled after the heyday of Stalin’s totalitarian regime, when Soviet citizens were exhorted to spy on their neighbours and fink them out for suspicious behaviour. And they say irony is dead — via boingboing
The lovely Feòrag has pointed me in the direction of Eccentric Genius, a talented Canadian who crafts unusual contrivances for home and office. Wonderful things like mini trebuchets and guillotines and the delicious Victoriana of the Hypnodisk:
In the 1800’s, the European scientific community caught up with the rest of the world and noticed hypnosis. Entrepreneurial medical supply houses were quick to offer an optimistically comprehensive array of
Scientifically Designed Aids to the Induction of Mesmerism, of which theHypnotic Spiralis perhaps the most enduring.
Popular with evil criminal masterminds, the whirling hypnodisk was an always effective means of dealing with uncooperative adventurers, or perky junior reporters. Now you can have the same amazing powers in the privacy of your own home or office! The rotating spiral irresistably entrances the viewer, quickly reducing them to mindlessly obedient slaves under YOUR hypnotic control.
Make the mailroom guy quack like a duck! Turn your boss into a lap dancer! Brainwash wealthy relatives!
TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
Or not.
You know you want one, so while you’re there, look deep into the Hypnodisk and get me one too
I found this while trying to find some reference photos of a doctor’s medical bag.
Marvel® image licensing available through Corbis. That’s kinda weird/cool and I’m not sure why or which one it is yet. But hey, one of the 2 companies saw an opportunity and are taking it.
More on this when I have far less work to do and feel as though I can construct coherent sentences later.
Ok you mac freaks, Tiger is coming!
Kong has added a very cool piece of artwork to his gallery.
Go, check out The KLam Xperiment
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