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Beavis and Butt-head brought to life
20 Jan 2012 at 22:11Make-up/special effects artist Kevin Kirkpatrick spent 2 and a half weeks creating these Beavis and Butt-head busts for the Conjoined 2 art show.
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Eyes Wide Shut
20 Jan 2012 at 10:22In 1947 Life Magazine asked some famous comic strip artists to to draw their famous characters while wearing a blindfold:
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Advances in windows
13 Jan 2012 at 14:33The future is now: Ashley Esqueda is at CES 2012 introducing her favorite thing of the show – the Samsung “Smart Window.” You’ll want one.
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Turning the page like a boss
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Cecil Dill and his musical hands
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Vad som fanns inuti Drottning Kristinas kista
11 Jan 2012 at 14:59
Nu hittade jag en bild jag scannade in för några år sedan från någon slags årsbok från 1965. Den 13 december 1965 öppnade man den gamla svenska Drottning Kristinas grav i S.t Peterskyrkan i Rom, som en hyllning åt svenska kungen och svenska folket. Vid gravöppningen konstaterades att kistan hade smultas sönder och händerna som legat knäppta över bröstet med krucifix i ena och en kopparspira i andra hade också smulats sönder och bildat en grop. Endast hennes dödsmask i silver hade bevarats för eftervärlden. Anledningen till att Kristinas kista hade förstörts var av att träkistan hade flyttats 1943 till att ligga i en marmorsarkofag med ett tungt bronslock som hade brutit sönder träkistan. Ganska cool bild i alla fall.
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Film Studio Logo Art
10 Jan 2012 at 20:52Columbia Pictures Logo
The current Columbia Picture logo was created in 1992 (when the classical Columbia torch lady logo from 1928 was repainted digitally) by New Orleans artist, Michael Deas. Deas used Jenny Joseph, a homemaker and mother of two children, as a model. The animation, created by Synthespian Studios in 1993 by Jeff Kleiser and Diana Walczak, starts with a bright light, which zooms out to reveal the torch and then the lady. The duo used 2D elements from the painting and converted it to 3D.
TriStar Logo
The TriStar Pictures logo of a Pegasus (either stationary or flying across the screen), introduced in 1984, has become something of a cultural icon. The second logo was originally painted by Alan Reingold and debuted in 1992. The theatrical version was animated by Intralink Creative.
DreamWorks Logo
The DreamWorks logo features a young boy sitting on a crescent moon while fishing. The general idea for the logo was the brainchild of company co-founder Steven Spielberg, who originally wanted a computer-generated image, whereas Visual Effects Supervisor Dennis Muren, of Industrial Light and Magic suggested a hand-painted one. Muren then contacted a friend and fellow artist, Robert Hunt, to paint it. Hunt worked on both versions, for each of which his son William was cast as the model for the boy, and Spielberg liked the CGI one better.
The logo attached to feature films was made at ILM based on paintings by Hunt, in collaboration with Kaleidoscope Films, Dave Carson and Clint Goldman.
Classic Version:
New (night) version:
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Building covered in coats
10 Jan 2012 at 19:45
This undated photo from an unattributed newspaper shows the facade of a Danish clothier that advertised its overstock coats by covering the building from top to bottom with over a thousand coats. The display was so successful the police had to come and clear the crowd, but the merchant still cleared out his overstock.
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Cutest short film ever: “Las Palmas”
02 Jan 2012 at 20:53
This is the cutest short film ever! Las Palmas by Johannes Nyholm (2011).
Watch Las Palmas here (12 min)
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100 Years in 10 Minutes
01 Jan 2012 at 18:171911 – 2011 in 10 Minutes
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Svenska jultraditioner
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Kim Keever
22 Dec 2011 at 22:48
Check out the art of Kim Keever
“Photographer Kim Keever messes with our minds with his intriguing works of art. His large-scale photos are created through the construction of topographies inside a 200 gallon tank that is filled with water. Keever brings the dioramas to life through colorful lighting, which in turn makes for amazing atmospheres. It is all about timing as he must quickly capture the results before it’s too late.”
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A Brief History of Santa
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