Tinselman

Crow Jane

Skip James, 1967

Farina Oxigen

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by Jani Leinonen, 2008

Acrylic on product package

Real Fake Worlds

About two weeks ago, Josiah, a friend, sent me the the link to this short film. I started watching and couldn't stop until it was over. Not just because it's so beautifully composed and edited, but also because every object in the film was modeled using 3dsmax and rendered using Vray by only one person... Alex Roman.

If you watch even a portion of it, it's worth link to vimeo to see it full screen so you won't miss a detail.

Avatar/Pocahantas

I wasn't crazy about Avatar. I was hoping the movie would be better than the trailer. It wasn't... for a lot of reasons. The bad design, the garish colors, the dull characters, and the ludicrous "indians are so heavenly and pure" theme, which is summed up beautifully in the above paragraph (click to enlarge).

Worst bit of design?... I can't decide. Was it the six legged horse that looked like a blend between a sea horse and a horse (with scales)? Or was it the hammer-head rhino thing?

Don't Forget to Write

I just finished this.

This painting was done in Adobe Illustrator, an application I first started using in 1988 (over 20 years ago... ack!).

Click the image to enlarge (in flickr), or click here to link to my gallery.

Homemade Submarines

I had no idea so many people make a hobby of traveling beneath the sea in homemade junkers they call submarines. Here's a few of these DIY subs... Click photos to enlarge

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From top down...

1. One man submarine in St. Petersburg
   
2. I know nothing about this sub
3. Colombian DIY drug sub
4. Dry Dive submarine.
5. Tao Xiangli's diy submarine made out of old oil barrel's
6. Michael Schmelter's 2Dive submarine – dives to 100 meters
7. Lost the link... sorry
8. I don't know a thing about this sub
9. Replica of 1776 Turtle submarine
10. Guana Cay submarine
11. Cocaine packed homemade submarine
12. Tin Fish one man submarine

New Art

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I did this yesterday for absolutely no reason. No title.

Here's my original sketch...

Underwater Churches

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The State of Computer Graphics, 1962

Above, Alan Kay gives an abridged demo of Ivan Sutherland's remarkable Sketchpad, a graphics system written in 1962.

Here is the original 1962 demo...

This is Not a Room

Engel, 2002
by Tatzu Nishi

 

I recommend taking a look at more of Nishi's weirdly displaced rooms... they're all equally fascinating.