27 posts tagged with art by brundlefly.
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The Puritanical Eye
"It’s a scary a movie. I was not allowed to watch it."
I seldom use it myself, sir. It promotes rust.
Robert Kinoshita, the production designer and art director who created Forbidden Planet's Robby the Robot and Lost In Space's B-9 Environmental Control Robot [previously], has passed away at the age of 100.
Patterns in Palaeontology
A Dutch seascape and its lost Leviathan
"Earlier this year a conservator at the Hamilton Kerr Institute made a surprising discovery while working on a 17th-century painting owned by the Fitzwilliam Museum. As Shan Kuang cleaned the surface, she revealed the beached whale that had been the intended focus of the composition."
Looking Deep Inside Nature
SEPTEMBER 1977
Zdeněk Burian
It's like the entire world left Caps Lock on for 180 million years.
We're not scientists, we just love dinos.
"H. R. Gigerstuff was by far the creepiest Sid & Marty Krofft show ever."
"Industrial Revolution Nightmare Dream House"
Scientific Illustration
Scientific Illustration is a Tumblr blog devoted to... well... scientific illustration.
Dungeons & Drawings
HP Lovecraft Creature Lab
In September, Jon Schindehette [previously] and Lars Grant-West [wiki] issued a challenge to students at the Rhode Island School of Design: "Create a creature based upon a non-humanoid critter from H.P. Lovecraft's literature. The creature should have a fully resolved form, convey motion where appropriate, and be believable. Creature can be shown as either 3/4 view or 'turn-arounds'." Here are the entries and here are the judges' comments. [more inside]
Wake In Progress
Friends of the Pleistocene
HUZZAH!
In anticipation of tomorrow's WiiWare release of the ridiculously awesome Pixel platformer, "Cave Story" (aka "Doukutsu Monogatari"), the Wii developer Nicalis has been running a series on their blog featuring fan art and artists. [more inside]
Atomic Surgery
The Lost Art of Inglourious Basterds
From Amazing Stories to Weird Tales: Covering Pulp Fiction
The William Benton Museum of Art is displaying pulp illustrations from the collection of Robert Lesser. They have also posted close to 500 pictures to Photobucket. Would that they were larger! Via io9. [more inside]
EyeWriter Initiative
"The EyeWriter project is an ongoing collaborative research effort to empower people, who are suffering from ALS, with creative technologies." [more inside]
Efficient Mondrian
"Efficient Mondrian is a tongue-in-cheek art installation which generates HTML table compositions in the style of Piet Mondrian's Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red from the text of The Principles of Scientific Management by FW Taylor. It does this every two minutes, posting the results to twitter." [via mefi projects]
References: Conway, J., 2009. Personal inspection of a real live dead Rhamphorhynchus, really!
"My cat dragged in what appeared to be an odd-looking bird. Imagine my excitement when on closer inspection, it proved to be a real live dead Rhamphorhynchus! I had to dissect it immediately! Unfortunately, my camera jammed, so I had to paint the whole process." - John Conway's Paleontography
Grow a world from network traffic
Packet Garden observes how you use the internet, then takes that info and generates a 3d world based on it. [via]
"It's like Mother Nature: It's going to find a way to express itself."
Woo hoo!
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