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AIDS Image Quilt

Posted on January 28, 2014 by droyles

Inspired by this ProfHacker post, I made a quick ImageQuilt based on a Google image search of “aids activist art.” The interface seems relatively easy, and it could make for the basis of an interesting assignment—maybe one to talk about … Continue reading →

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Saturday Fun-Time Round-Up

Posted on December 3, 2011 by droyles

1. My friend Ben’s December mix, You + Me, over at weiwabo, my friend Mon’s super-hip craft blog.  One of the tracks is a chillgaze* cover of The Hives’ “Hate to Say I Told You So,” and the whole thing … Continue reading →

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Ward Shelley, knowledge, and maps.

Posted on March 20, 2011 by droyles

Ward Shelley has been getting a lot of attention lately (at least in my corner of the internet) for his map of the history of science fiction: Among other projects, including performance art, installations, and sculptural work, Shelley specializes in … Continue reading →

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Fractalicious.

Posted on March 2, 2011 by droyles

Artist Michael Hansmeyer makes these incredible columns by stacking laser-cut slices of millimeter-thick cardboard to create intricate, smooth-looking solid forms.  The computer algorithim was developed by Edwin Catmull, who is now the president of Pixar, to render curved solids using … Continue reading →

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Storage envy.

Posted on February 18, 2011 by droyles

Via makezine, a wonderful example of form following function: Of course, this would only exacerbate my tendency toward book-hoarding.

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Dreamy.

Posted on February 14, 2011 by droyles

In “Traumgedanken,” art student Maria Fischer uses different colors of thread to represent the connective themes in a book comprising different approaches to the study and interpretation of dreams.  The resulting tome is a meta-text whose hypertextual elements (those would … Continue reading →

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Another one for the faux-vintage poster file.

Posted on March 27, 2010 by droyles

I swear I never envisioned this to be a blog about (fake) retro posters, but here we are.  Check out these vintage takes on recent movie posters by Tom Whalen.  If there was ever any question that I’m a total … Continue reading →

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More posters, all the time.

Posted on February 27, 2010 by droyles

It’s been nothing but posters and recipes around here lately (not that that’s a bad thing) but I found this awesome site via makezine.  It pretty much works (I think) on the same principle as threadless, but with art for … Continue reading →

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Another one for the retro posters file.

Posted on February 24, 2010 by droyles

Pink Tentacle has posted a great collection of vintage posters from Japanese industrial expositions, which Cyriaque at io9 describes as “Fritz Lang partying with Jules Verne in the Harajuku.”  This Da Vinciesque flying machine example surely appeals to steampunk* geeks … Continue reading →

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WANT

Posted on February 8, 2010 by droyles

As a kid, I was obsessed with Star Wars.  Like, really obsessed.  Unhealthily so.  I had a life-size cardboard cut-out of Luke Skywalker in my bedroom well into my freshman year of high school, and I’m not ashamed to admit … Continue reading →

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