Visual Arts

Twitter/ ASCII Artist Interview with Andrea Pacione

November 16, 2011

The Portfolio of Andrea Pacione  Andrea on Facebook and Twitter Q: How did you first find ASCII art, ANSI art, Twitter art or text art? Which style came first for you? I remember seeing ascii or text art appear in some old-school programs on my Apple IIgs family computer that I grew up with back [...]

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Analog Renaissance: Have you Seen your Last Typewriter?

October 27, 2011

The Typosphere – A term for bloggers who collect, use, and otherwise obsess over typewriters and other “obsolete” technologies, including, but not limited to, handwriting, pens and ink, paper mail and mail art, knitting and fibre arts, film photography, chip-less combustion engines, and related ephemera. Flickr: Anablogger Archives – “A repository of film photographs, doodles [...]

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Halloween Fonts

October 26, 2011

I was looking at fonts for Halloween today. I like the new feature (new to me at least) that lets you type in your own text to try out the fonts. I used it on three I liked and then cut and pasted a banner from them. Nice way to get a banner without downloading [...]

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Rephotography

October 23, 2011

Rephotography is the act of repeat photography of the same site, with a time lag between the two images; a “then and now” view of a particular area. Some are casual, usually taken from the same view point but without regard to season, lens coverage or framing. Some are very precise and involve a careful [...]

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Five Reasons to Draw Small

October 19, 2011

Five Reasons To Draw Small 1. Doodling focuses your mind, giving you increased attention (even when it looks like you’re not). 2. You’ll increase your awareness- when doodling flowers, you’ll start to notice more aspects of a flower, the way that the stem tilts the flower, the way that the same petal shape varies with [...]

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Project 52: Self Portraits

October 12, 2011

Frankly, I don’t like other people taking my picture. For some reason, their primary concern with the shot is not making sure my eyes sparkle and my double-chin is hidden. I’ve only ever done arms-length or reflective self-portraiture. I’m becoming much more at peace with my tripod and my wonderful husband got me a remote [...]

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Poetry in Tags

September 26, 2011

Flickr: Tag Poetry Find poetry in the tags used to index blogs and websites. I think it’s more about finding (and screen capturing) the right tags than writing them yourself (that would be too easy). But, you could write them. Make it look random and keep them alphabetical as if you just found them somewhere, [...]

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Exploring with a Camera

August 26, 2011

From The Kat Eye View of the World- Exploring with a Camera. The Exploring with a Camera series is intended to inspire you to see the world around you in a different way, using the camera as a tool to deepen your experience of life. Why “Exploring” with a camera? Why not a “challenge” or [...]

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The 52 Weeks of Pagan Art Journaling Project

August 18, 2011

The 52 Weeks of Pagan Art Journaling project has already begun. Create a personal art journal which will have you tapping into the depths of who you are and what has developed in your soul, your heart, your inner depths). Take what you really believe in and bring it onto the page in words and [...]

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For International Zine Month

July 30, 2011

I made a zine, once. I didn’t distribute it. So I’m the only one who knows about it. But, the process was fun. Before I had a computer I hand wrote the contents, doodled and cut and pasted the rest. Then put my pages together with a cover. It was about the paranormal and the [...]

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Write a Minute Film

July 29, 2011

Hint Fiction, The Film You have a camera. You have a crew. You have actors. You have 25 words. You have 1 minute. Do you have what it takes? Write and film a minute long movie based on the short stories selected on the site. Further details will appear in August when they are open [...]

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Live: From the Surface of Mylife

July 20, 2011

From Calpurnius: A few years ago I shot a series of photos called LIVE: From the Surface of Mylife. They were simple scenes shot within my day at close range and composed as if they were taken from a NASA expedition. In honor of Atlantis’ last expedition in orbit, I present LIVE: From the Surface [...]

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Ubiquitous Photography

June 29, 2011

Do you use your digital camera or your camera phone to take a picture of something you want to remember, instead of writing the information down? I have been doing this more often. I think it started when I was in a bookstore with my Mother. She wanted me to write down the name of [...]

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The Sketchbook Project World Tour 2012

June 12, 2011

Read more about The Sketchbook Project World Tour 2012 on their site.  It’s for visual artists to contribute and eventually the sketchbooks will be exhibited in the Brooklyn (US) Art Library. There are a list of topics to choose from to use as inspiration for your illustration. Which would you pick (to write about or) [...]

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30 Day Photography Challenge

June 9, 2011

White Peach Photography has the 30 Day Photography Challenge. In writing we build the picture with words. Illustrating, with a photograph, drawing or some other form of visual art is usually saved for children’s book and non-fiction. Except for book covers which have illustrations geared more to selling the book than sharing the writer’s vision [...]

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The 365 Phenomenon

April 3, 2011

What could you see yourself doing every day for a year? Not basic stuff like eating breakfast, brushing your teeth, etc. But some kind of creative endeavour. I’ve been getting hooked on the 365 things lately. There are quite a few of them out there. I don’t know where or who it started with. Here [...]

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CAPTCHA Art

March 23, 2011

How do you tell computers and humans apart? In cases where we can’t see whether we are interacting with a real human or a computer, CAPTCHA is sometimes used to prevent comment spam. CAPTCHArt : A blog for turning random CAPTHCA phrases/ letters into art. Know your Meme: CAPTCHArt Rhizome: General Web Content – CAPTCHArt [...]

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