For all the artists out there. xoxo
I agree with Natasha! Make stuff even if it HURTS! <3
This is why I set myself the daily challenge in the first place. Every day, I make something new.
Even if it sucks, even if it’s ignored, or falls into the obscura black hole of tumblr before being noticed in >4months time and then reflagged, referenced or other… I still have something new.
And I made that happen.
That’s pretty wonderful in and of itself.
Now stop faffing about on Tumblr and make something!
(via the-gay-is-over9000)
Like, I knew shepherding was a boring job
but these guys really had nothing better to do
some days i really love that humans exist
This is the best thing I’ve ever seen
Congrats to those Herding Dogs
omggg that was soooo cool o.o
Reblogging to share teh awesome.
(Source: extremetanning, via the-goddamazon-deactivingsoon-d)
Japanese-born artist Sayaka Ganz creates sculptures out of discarded plastics found in thrift stores, converting these unwanted materials into graceful imitations of natural beauty. For her Running series, Ganz created life-like horses in mid-gallop. “Japanese Shinto beliefs are such that all objects and organisms have spirits, and I was taught in kindergarten that objects that are discarded before their time weep at night inside the trash bin. This became a vivid image in my mind,” Ganz explained her interest in recycled materials. She collects multitudes of plastic objects, organizing them in dozens of color-sorted bins in her basement. She then decides what to make when she has enough of one color, referencing photographs of her chosen species to convey its distinct movements and characteristics. Take a look at some photos of her work below as well as a video of her process, images courtesy of Sayaka Ganz.
MORE: http://hifructose.com/2013/02/19/sayaka-ganz-graceful-sculptures-made-of-recycled-plastics/
So tell me more about how we can’t recycle everything we throw away…
(via callmegallifreya)
Cover art wanted!
Anyone looking at my Smashwords Profile knows that my own skills at making covers for my works are very limited indeed.
I need someone with better art skills than my own (not hard) to make some covers that will actually encourage people to buy my words (tricky bit).
I also have very little in the way of income. Despite the hundred-some folks who’ve downloaded my free story, I have exactly zero folks who’ve bought anything.
I am willing to come to an arrangement. Either a percentage of sales or up-front purchase, I don’t mind as long as we have it formalized somehow.
What you get out of it: An opportunity to read something before anyone else has a chance to see it - free! And, as a bonus, you get paid to do the art (I presume) you love :)
Much as I love Xotxot’s cover art, he’s snowed under with real life and can’t help me out any more. And I need a better artist than pathetic old me.
Is there anyone out there who can help?
Things to be grateful for #5247985965490921…
The fact that Xotxot came through with the brilliant cover on the right; so that you get to read a book with that cover, rather than the nasty thing on the left that I came up with.
First thing tomorrow morn, mytime, that cover is going to be in my Smashwords profile. Enjoy!
Phew! (pantpantpant)
I managed to bodge up a cover for my upcoming free book [Out TOMORROW!] in fantastic Suck-O-Vision care of my pathetic art skills and equally pathetic Inkscape skills.
It all stems from the concept that there’s a point in my story where my antagonist is completely covered in… things… [Spoilers] Therefore, the view plate of their helmet would be all HUD.
All I had to do was design the farging HUD.
Pain. In. The Arse.
Not doing that again if I can help it. Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope…
At least I have A cover, even if it’s not a fantastic cover, or a brilliant one like I know Xotxot would have concocted.
Of course, now that I’ve done this, I’m going to find ten bajillion potential covers in my inbox… 9_9 At least I was prepared.
And, despite my best beloved’s disparaging remarks, I managed to bodge it together in less than half an hour. So ner.
A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 - by Isao Hashimoto (by aConcernedHuman)
Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project’s “Trinity” test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan’s nuclear tests in May of 1998. This leaves out North Korea’s two alleged nuclear tests in this past decade (the legitimacy of both of which is not 100% clear).
Each nation gets a blip and a flashing dot on the map whenever they detonate a nuclear weapon, with a running tally kept on the top and bottom bars of the screen. Hashimoto, who began the project in 2003, says that he created it with the goal of showing”the fear and folly of nuclear weapons.” It starts really slow — if you want to see real action, skip ahead to 1962 or so — but the buildup becomes overwhelming.
http://www.ctbto.org/specials/1945-1998-by-isao-hashimoto/
Multimedia artwork
“2053” - This is the number of nuclear explosions conducted in various parts of the globe.*
Profile of the artist: Isao HASHIMOTO
Born in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan in 1959.
Worked for 17 years in financial industry as a foreign exchange dealer. Studied at Department of Arts, Policy and Management of Musashino Art University, Tokyo.
Currently working for Lalique Museum, Hakone, Japan as a curator.
Created artwork series expressing, in the artist’s view, “the fear and the folly of nuclear weapons”:
“1945-1998” © 2003
“Overkilled”
“The Names of Experiments”
About “1945-1998” ©2003
“This piece of work is a bird’s eye view of the history by scaling down a month length of time into one second. No letter is used for equal messaging to all viewers without language barrier. The blinking light, sound and the numbers on the world map show when, where and how many experiments each country have conducted. I created this work for the means of an interface to the people who are yet to know of the extremely grave, but present problem of the world.”
Contact the artist:
Should you have any query regarding this artwork, please contact e-mail address below:
hashi123@amy.hi-ho.ne.jp
* The number excludes both tests by North Korea (October 2006 and May 2009).
What I find really scary is the length of time the Americans spend setting off nukes on their own soil. And then they wonder why so many Americans have so many medical problems, these days. Yikes.
Also scary for me is the number of nukes good ole “mother England” set off in the useless allied territory of Australia. /snark
(Source: youtube.com, via dialectics8)
I’m looking for title art
If you’ve read my recently-published tale, Late Bloomer and have any artistic talent, please post or send me something.
I’m looking to share Late Bloomer on EqD and they like it when you have art for a title page.
If anyone, anywhere, loves the story enough to make some non-spoilery fan art, please send it to cat@internutter.org or even post it as a reply here. Or send me a link to where you posted it. Whatever.
I need that art. You got that art?
abstract
I think I just died from overexposure to awesome.
What the Flying Heck?
I’m new to drawing on a tablet device and my art skills are not the best.
That’s why I chose to fingerpaint some ponies as humans and share the results with you.
Each humanised pony took about two hours for me to get right. And I still hate what happened with the hands and feet. I suck at both.
By the time I was done focussing on the important part, I was all fgsfds when it came to doing the backgrounds.
I had already decided to do cell-style colouring, hence the lack of shading and depth, so abstract backgrounds made a kind of sense.
Each block of text had to be put in one line at a time, owing to the restrictions of the art program I was using. Sometimes, I didn’t get it quite right.
And why did I post them once a day?
So I could plump out my post queue, of course :)
That, and someone has to encourage the less-brave artists out there who aren’t confident about matching some of the eye-popping pony artists out there. If I can share my sack of suck with everyone, you can have a go, can’t you? You may be pleasantly surprised.