I would never accuse anyone of using AI
https://tofutush.github.io/posts/2026-08-18.html
Ultimately my point is, no matter how much I'm certain something is AI, I would not say it out loud, because I always have a capacity to hurt a real artist in doing so. I just want people to stop going "uuhhh guys I think this is AI look at the tells" because it only hurts real people and is simply just really annoying.
When online commenters 'detect' my art as AI - David Revoy
https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1164/when-online-commenters-detect-my-art-as-ai
Here is a collection of screenshots (obfuscated) of dozens and dozens of online comments from many platforms (Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook) containing accusations or confusion that my artworks and comics are AI-generated. Despite creating every piece by hand, despite sharing timelapses, the comments keep coming, and they're getting stronger.
Jürg Lehni — Hektor
https://juerglehni.com/works/hektor
Hektor’s light and fragile mechanism consists only of two motors, toothed belts and a spray can holder. By the means of geometric triangulation and gravity, a custom software moves the spray can along predefined drawing paths and remotely activates the can’s nozzle.
You won't read this
https://kyefox.com/you/?ref=kye-fox-newsletter
When all the places I might socialize and share in are dominated by people who spend all day posting about how much they hate a technology and anyone who uses it, it's not really a place I want to be. Why would I want to be around people who are relentlessly and confidently wrong about things I've taken the time to understand?
Bethan's Rock: Beloved exhibit returns to revamped Poole Museum
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly1ee1yw8ro
When Poole Museum reopens visitors will once again be able to see Bethan's Rock - a treasured stone donated by a five-year-old girl - alongside its other artefacts
The rock became a popular exhibit after the museum placed it in a glass case, complete with its own "Bethan's Rock – 2019," label.
Bethan, now 11, said it was given to her by her late grandmother, "who was the one who found that rock... it's really special to me because of her".
The museum's curator Gary Edwards said: "Treasures don't have to be rare, they don't have to be significant to everybody it's about the deeper meaning connected to those objects."
The diminished art of coding | Read the Tea Leaves
https://nolanlawson.com/2026/03/22/the-diminished-art-of-coding/
My advice to other coders, or at least the advice I’m taking myself, is that if you’re looking for art in coding: stop looking. If you’ve never taken an interest in poetry, or painting, or dance, or whatever, now would be a good time. In an era where the internet is increasingly full of bots pumping their bland bot ideas into everybody’s brains, seeking out distinctly human forms of expression has become vital.
Wes Cook and the Centralia McDonald's Mural
https://cabel.com/wes-cook-and-the-mcdonalds-mural/
This post is about a found mural, a lost artist, and a conference talk. It’s the full story of Wes Cook and The McDonald’s Mural. Grab a beverage, sit back, relax, and thank you for joining me.
originalankur/maptoposter: Transform your favorite cities into beautiful, minimalist designs. MapToPoster lets you create and export visually striking map posters with code.
https://github.com/originalankur/maptoposter
Transform your favorite cities into beautiful, minimalist designs. MapToPoster lets you create and export visually striking map posters with code.
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Meet the Alaska Student Arrested for Eating an AI Art Exhibit | The Nation
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/alaska-student-arrested-eating-ai-art-exhibit/#
A conversation with Graham Granger, whose combination of protest and performance art spread beyond campus. “AI chews up and spits out art made by other people.”
An Ingenious Moving Illustration That Transforms a Boy Into a Werewolf With the Use of Pull-Tabs
https://laughingsquid.com/boy-to-werewolf-illustration/
Talented Japanese paper artist Shinrashinge created an ingenious moving illustration that, with the strategic pull of various paper tabs, turns a young boy into a werewolf. The tabs allow the user to slow go through each stage of this remarkable transformation. The artist also shared how this illusion was created.
DREAM RECORDER — DREAM OUT LOUD
https://dreamrecorder.ai/
Dream Recorder is a portal to your subconscious. The magical bedside device catches your nightly visions and plays them back as vivid, cinematic reels.
GitHub - modem-works/dream-recorder: Dream Recorder is an open-source venture by Modem. Developed in close collaboration with Mark Hinch (software & hardware), Ben Levinas and Joe Tsao (industrial design), and Alexis Jamet (illustrations).
https://github.com/modem-works/dream-recorder
Dream Recorder is an open-source venture by Modem. Developed in close collaboration with Mark Hinch (software & hardware), Ben Levinas and Joe Tsao (industrial design), and Alexis Jamet (illustrations).
FIRST LOOK: The RoboCop Statue Arrives In Detroit
https://www.dailydetroit.com/first-look-the-robocop-statue-arrives-in-detroit/
I kind of can't believe I'm actually typing these words: Detroit officially has a 10-foot bronze RoboCop watching over Eastern Market.
Creating Unique ‘80s-Style Graphics with Fairlight CVI | TikTok
https://www.tiktok.com/@seanstle/video/7578659984330804494?_r=1&_t=ZP-91tHE1j9Btu
The Fairlight CVI (1986) can create really unique graphics that we associate with the ‘80s and early ‘90s. In this series, I go through some of the effects you can achieve with this rare instrument. #processvideo #fairlightcvi #videoart #analogvideo #vfx
Stellar Harvest — Center for PostNatural History
https://www.postnatural.org/stellar-harvest?utm_source=FuckOff&utm_medium=FuckOff&utm_campaign=FuckOff
Pell designed the Stellar Harvest project to use the light-concentrating power of a large reflecting telescope to gather light from the brightest available star in the night sky for the smallest light-loving microorganisms on Earth - phytoplankton. The project will examine the ability of a type of phytoplankton known as diatoms, which are found in every aquatic environment on the planet and responsible for a significant amount of the oxygen we breathe, to grow off the light from a star.
My Work - Victoria Rose Richards
https://victoriaroserichards.co.uk/work/?utm_source=FuckOff&utm_medium=FuckOff&utm_campaign=FuckOff
This is the archive of my past and present art, including my aerial and non-aerial embroideries, and polymer clay landscapes. All my art is completely handmade and unique to each other! Some embroideries only take a few hours, some over 150… but all gave me enjoyment to create. Art still available to buy is in the ‘AVAILABLE ART’ section of the drop-down menu.
Amedeo Capelli - Fake Courtesy Machine
https://www.tiktok.com/@stoccafisso_production/video/7577728538451741974?_r=1&_t=ZP-91mVmYRuBaB
A crank-driven automaton made from wood that endlessly types "I hope this email finds you well" on a laptop
A Larger Reality: Ursula K. Le Guin — Oregon Contemporary
https://www.oregoncontemporary.org/a-larger-reality
A Larger Reality: Ursula K. Le Guin offers a biographical and poetical portrait of one of Oregon’s best known artists. Examining important moments and themes in Le Guin’s life and oeuvre, the exhibition encompasses a rich variety of media, immersing guests in the ideas, playfulness and hope that course through Ursula K. Le Guin’s art. The exhibition is curated by Theo Downes-Le Guin, the author’s son, with contributions from many others who knew the author or her work.
i’m sure i’m in here, somewhere – WIL WHEATON dot NET
https://wilwheaton.net/2025/11/im-sure-im-in-here-somewhere/
I really believe that Art chose me. I don’t know why, and I don’t know that I would have chosen acting if I’d been supported rather than controlled and manipulated. But I do know that when I am in a cast, when I am preparing a role, when I am discovering moments in rehearsal, and when we are putting it all together on the set, on the stage, or in a sound booth, it just feels right. It’s a place where I fit. And if I’m going to choose to be there, I will make that choice for me, to make me happy or satisfied or even just healed. I won’t make that choice from a reactive place. It will come from a thoughtful, empowered place.
The Platonic Case Against AI Slop
https://www.palladiummag.com/2025/11/14/the-platonic-case-against-ai-slop/
So yes, AI slop is bad for you. Not because AI-generated content is immoral to consume or inherently inferior to human creation, but because the act of consuming AI slop reshapes your perception. It dulls discrimination, narrows taste, and habituates you to imitation. The harm lies less in the content itself than in the long-term training of attention and appetite.
Marble Fountain
https://willmorrison.net/posts/marble-fountain/
I really enjoy procedural generation, especially systems designed to work with hardware outputs. After starting work at Formlabs in September of 2023 and gaining access to much nicer printers than I was used to, I started wanting to tackle some large algorithmic structure projects. Complexity is free in 3d printing, the limit of design geometry is mostly how much time you’re willing to spend in CAD. I wanted to print the most complicated art piece I could think of. Marble Fountain is what I came up with
Ada Null
https://worldenddisk.com/
Ada Null tells stories of broken pasts, uncertain futures, and the ghosts who never left. An artist, writer, and game maker working in London, she invites you to sit with your fellow strangers and witness an ending together.
From Code to Craft: Procedural Generation for the Physical World
http://roguelike.bleeptrack.de/
bleeptrack
https://bleeptrack.de/about/
Hi, I'm bleeptrack, a freelancing creative technologist, and I love generative stuff of all sorts!
My main interests lie in the areas of generative or AI art, digital fabrication and DIY electronics. I teach at different universities/colleges and love to give talks and workshops!
My current projects are documented in a video series called "Work in Progress" every two weeks. I also draw a small picture every day - they are called "Schnipsel".
GlyphDrawing.Club -blog
https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/amiga-ascii-art/
In my thesis, I study Amiga ASCII text art. Amiga ASCII is a form of text art where the composition of letter characters set in the Amiga computer's font forms a two-dimensional representation or image. The Amiga scene is a subculture of computer enthusiasts that was popular in the 1990s. At its core are the logos and other visual materials created for BBS systems and the competitive rivalry among artists who create text art over their image-making prowess.
More retrocomputing, less nostalgia | datagubbe.se
https://datagubbe.se/retnost/
Music, art and games are timeless human pursuits. Why should those pursuits be about nostalgia or reminiscing just because they happen to take place on an old computer? When creating, a home computer - just like any other tool - provides certain intrinsic qualities that affect both the process and the outcome. This happens to appeal to some people, while others would rather choose an aerosol, a violin or a brand new PC: the guitarist doesn't want to switch to a keytar, the chess player wouldn't trade chess for Quake, and the painter doesn't think of her brushes as artifacts of her childhood.
BBS PETSCII, 1986-1993 (WIP) | text-mode.org
https://text-mode.org/?p=27470
Old Commodore 64 BBS graphics are not easy to find. A lot of it was probably never saved, and there’s not really any obvious place for it online either. So I was thrilled to get a whole bunch disk images from Sixx: more than 1,000 PETSCII graphics and animations! I’ve gone through it, removed duplicates, identified artists, etc, and captured it as images and videos. I’m not done yet, but I’m presenting it as is.
Frutiger Metro Aesthetic - frutiger-aero.org
https://frutiger-aero.org/frutiger-metro
Frutiger Metro, also known as Flat Frutiger Aero, Vector Metro, or Vector Vomit, is an expansive design aesthetic that encapsulates the "Frutiger" vector-based graphic designs of the 2000s. It features glossy textures, abstract flourishes, humanism, nature-inspired elements, gradient blocks, and bloom effects. Frutiger Metro combines flat, minimalist graphics with a maximalist design philosophy, often appealing to a pre-teen and teenage demographic. While sharing many similarities with Frutiger Aero and other aesthetics of the era, Frutiger Metro distinguishes itself by its focus on flat, 2D designs, in contrast to Frutiger Aero's emphasis on detailed, glossy 3D elements.
As public perception of AI sours, crowdfunding platforms scramble | Polygon
https://www.polygon.com/tabletop-games/481022/ai-tabletop-kickstarter-backerkit-gamefound-wise-wizard-draconis-8
While the ethics of this technology’s ecological and social impact are debated, use of the technology comes with repeated controversy. This instance of AI-assisted art from the company that made the award-winning Star Realms deck-building game has caused some to take to social media in disappointment and frustration. A few fans of the company state they won’t purchase another game by Wise Wizard, with at least one store stating it will no longer be stocking the company’s products. This anti-AI sentiment is not unanimous, however. Projects like Wonders of the First, Grimcoven, and Terraforming Mars still raised millions of dollars from thousands of backers as recently as June of this year — giving crowdfunding platforms an incentive to keep AI projects on the site, as long as the money is still there.
Emoji Kitchen Browser
https://emoji.supply/kitchen/
Emoji Kitchen Browser
https://emoji.supply/kitchen
Early Computer Art in the 50’s & 60’s — Amy Goodchild
https://www.amygoodchild.com/blog/computer-art-50s-and-60s
My original vision for this article was to cover the development of computer art from the 50’s to the 90’s, but it turns out there’s an abundance of things without even getting half way through that era. So in this article we’ll look at how Lovelace’s ideas for creativity with a computer first came to life in the 50’s and 60’s, and I’ll cover later decades in future articles.
Ditherpunk — The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering — surma.dev
https://surma.dev/things/ditherpunk/
I always loved the visual aesthetic of dithering but never knew how it’s done. So I did some research.
Ditherpunk — The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering — surma.dev
https://surma.dev/things/ditherpunk
I always loved the visual aesthetic of dithering but never knew how it’s done. So I did some research.
Recreating ANSI Art from a screenshot | bertrand fan
https://bert.org/2023/02/27/recreating-ansi-art-from-a-screenshot/
It’s not the most beautiful ANSI art, but it is something that someone made for me and I’ve always been a little bummed that I can’t look at it in one of the many ANSI viewers (or DOS emulators) that exist today.
Let’s fix that!
Recreating ANSI Art from a screenshot | bertrand fan
https://bert.org/2023/02/27/recreating-ansi-art-from-a-screenshot
It’s not the most beautiful ANSI art, but it is something that someone made for me and I’ve always been a little bummed that I can’t look at it in one of the many ANSI viewers (or DOS emulators) that exist today.
Let’s fix that!
Bob Neill’s book of typewriter art : Bob Neill : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/bob-neills-book-of-typewriter-art/page/13/mode/2up
Home | Nannou
https://nannou.cc/
Nannou is a library that aims to make it easy for artists to express themselves with simple, fast, reliable code.
Home | Nannou
https://nannou.cc
Nannou is a library that aims to make it easy for artists to express themselves with simple, fast, reliable code.
Watch "Living Island" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/ttQSs35Z7nE
Oh hey the original pogo video is way more delightfully bizarre
The Embroidered Computer | Irene PoschIrene Posch
http://www.ireneposch.net/the-embroidered-computer/
The Embroidered Computer is an exploration into using historic gold embroidery materials and knowledge to craft a programmable 8 bit computer.
Solely built from a variety of metal threads, magnetic, glas and metal beads, and being inspired by traditional crafting routines and patterns, the piece questions the appearance of current digital and electronic technologies surrounding us, as well as our interaction with them.
The Embroidered Computer | Irene PoschIrene Posch
http://www.ireneposch.net/the-embroidered-computer
The Embroidered Computer is an exploration into using historic gold embroidery materials and knowledge to craft a programmable 8 bit computer.
Solely built from a variety of metal threads, magnetic, glas and metal beads, and being inspired by traditional crafting routines and patterns, the piece questions the appearance of current digital and electronic technologies surrounding us, as well as our interaction with them.
All you ever wanted to know about the colors of the commodore 64
http://unusedino.de/ec64/technical/misc/vic656x/colors/
The whole issue of VIC-II color-emulation is so mis-guiding and irritating, because every c64-emulator uses different palettes and these have been created by using cheap frame-grabbers/digitizers with strange color-behaviour or by moving around some rgb-sliders until it looks quite right. Many people have forgotten how the colors on a real C64 look, because they use emulators for a long time.
All you ever wanted to know about the colors of the commodore 64
http://unusedino.de/ec64/technical/misc/vic656x/colors
The whole issue of VIC-II color-emulation is so mis-guiding and irritating, because every c64-emulator uses different palettes and these have been created by using cheap frame-grabbers/digitizers with strange color-behaviour or by moving around some rgb-sliders until it looks quite right. Many people have forgotten how the colors on a real C64 look, because they use emulators for a long time.
Generative Artistry
https://generativeartistry.com/
Generative Artistry
https://generativeartistry.com
The New Wave Of Indie Arcade Cabinets Continues To Look Beautiful
https://kotaku.com/a-new-wave-of-indie-arcade-cabinets-1820378681/amp
Anime floppy disks
https://animefloppies.tumblr.com/
Mainly GIFs, but pictures are okay too. By @Foone
Anime floppy disks
https://animefloppies.tumblr.com
Mainly GIFs, but pictures are okay too. By @Foone
How Atari box art turned 8-bit games into virtual wonderlands | The Verge
http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/19/4716444/how-atari-box-art-turned-8-bit-games-into-virtual-wonderlands
The original Atari featured a wealth of games with box art that was quite a bit more imaginative than the “grizzled man holding a gun” template that’s so popular today. The concept of playing a video game in your house, on your television, was still in its infancy in the late 1970s, and Atari needed a way to market its games. One solution was to commission intricately detailed covers that sold the idea of a game much better than any simple screenshot could. “The game-playing experience wasn’t 100 percent of the experience,” says Tim Lapetino, an artist and designer currently working on a book about the history of Atari cover art. “Part of what made the world complete was the artwork that conjured up this other place. I wasn’t sitting in my living room anymore; I was on this desolate planet or in space. And it was mostly because of that art.”
The Secret Apartment in the Mall
http://www.trummerkind.com/mall/What_Happened.html
Starting in 2003 I committed to the idea of creating a luxury apartment in the mall. Over the course of the years to come I systematically coordinated the movement of the core elements that start to define a home. The space in the mall achieved a base-level of comfort, with enough amenities to qualify itself as a livable domestic space. Life from within the mall was committed to the pursuit of normalcy and the purchase of objects and clothing that would help define me an active participant in the great things the mall has to offer. The apartment was a superb space for hosting guests and I only regret that we didn’t have a working toilet. I will do my best to share thoughts about its creation and the aftermath with regular writing here.
DIY: Shovel AK - photo tsunami warning!
http://www.northeastshooters.com/vbulletin/build-yourself/179192-diy-shovel-ak-photo-tsunami-warning.html
On this Thanksgiving Day, let me say this: God Bless America the only country on this shitty planet where you still have the freedom to build AKs in defense of Motherland! The only country where a shit shovel can become an awesome weapon of death and destruction.
Project Longhaul - KdN - Kokes dot Net
http://www.kokes.net/projectlonghaul/projectlonghaul.htm
Once upon a time, a boy met a girl. Then a short amount of time later, the boy decided to design and build a ring for the girl, because doing things in the most complicated way possible is just what he does to show the love. This is that story.
Justin Ruckman - Fabergé Fractals by Tom Beddard, using his...
http://jruck.us/post/50942178068
Fabergé Fractals by Tom Beddard, using his WebGL-based fractal engine, Fractal Lab.
cozy chipmunk Framed Art Print by Laura Graves | Society6
http://society6.com/product/cozy-chipmunk_Framed-Print#12=60&13=55
WidgetWorx > SpriteLib
http://www.widgetworx.com/widgetworx/portfolio/spritelib.html
SpriteLib is a collection of static and animated graphic objects (also commonly known as sprites). It was created to provide hobbyist game developers with an assortment of images to use in their creations. Because of SpriteLib, developers don't have to waste precious time or money creating graphics from scratch.
Lost Garden: Game Post Mortem: Hard Vacuum
http://www.lostgarden.com/2005/03/game-post-mortem-hard-vacuum.html
hitch
http://www.jeffdesom.com/hitch/
I dissected all of Hitchcock's Rear Window and stiched it back together in After Effects. I stabilized all the shots with camera movement in them. Since everything was filmed from pretty much the same angle I was able to match them into a single panoramic view of the entire backyard without any greater distortions. The order of events stays true to the movie's plot.
hitch
http://www.jeffdesom.com/hitch
I dissected all of Hitchcock's Rear Window and stiched it back together in After Effects. I stabilized all the shots with camera movement in them. Since everything was filmed from pretty much the same angle I was able to match them into a single panoramic view of the entire backyard without any greater distortions. The order of events stays true to the movie's plot.
Coon-Suit Riot | VICE
http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/coon-suit-riot-0000040-v18n11
Getting surrounded by friendly raccoons who want to eat baguettes that you’ve duct-taped to your legs is almost like being the princess of your very own Disney movie. Almost.
Escapes.js
http://256.io/escapes.js/
escapes.js is a small JavaScript library for rendering ANSI art, a form of computer art that flourished in the mid 90s. ANSI art was composed by colorizing sequences of characters and blocks drawn in the built-in system font, which made it easy to transmit across telephone wires. As a result, ANSI art was especially popular on Bulletin Board Systems (BBSes).
Escapes.js
http://256.io/escapes.js
escapes.js is a small JavaScript library for rendering ANSI art, a form of computer art that flourished in the mid 90s. ANSI art was composed by colorizing sequences of characters and blocks drawn in the built-in system font, which made it easy to transmit across telephone wires. As a result, ANSI art was especially popular on Bulletin Board Systems (BBSes).
Motherlode of Dark Crystal and Labyrinth art comes to New York!
http://io9.com/5856224/motherlode-of-dark-crystal-and-labyrinth-art-comes-to-new-york/gallery/1
The exhibition Brian Froud: Visions for Film & Faerie opens Dec. 2 at the Animazing Gallery in SoHo, New York. In addition to all the Dark Crystal art, there's a site-specific installation — and Wendy Froud has recreated Kira, Dark Crystal's Gelfling, for the exhibition. Kira stands 33 inches tall and was sculpted using hair and beading from the original film production.
Artist produces temporary works by etching her oversensitive skin
http://boingboing.net/2011/10/19/artist-produces-temporary-works-by-etching-her-oversensitive-skin.html
Multi-touch finger paintings
http://kottke.org/11/09/multi-touch-finger-paintings
Pixel Editor, free online pixel editor - Pixie
http://pixie.strd6.com
"On Pixie you can create amazing pixel art for free, from anywhere, and share it with the world."
Countercomplex: Defining Computationally Minimal Art (Or, taking the "8" out of "8-Bit")
http://www.pelulamu.net/countercomplex/computationally-minimal-art
"The defining element is LOW COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY, as expressed in all aspects of the audiovisual system: the complexity of the platform (i.e. the number of transistors or logic gates in the hardware), the complexity of the software (i.e. the length in bits of the program code and static data), as well as the time complexity (i.e. how many state changes the computational tasks require). A more theoretical approach would eliminate the differentiation of software and hardware and talk about description/program length, memory complexity and time complexity."
Oryx - LOFI Fantasy 2D/3D [FINAL]
http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=8970.0
Mimeo and the Kleptopus King // ShaunInman.com
http://shauninman.com/archive/2010/02/23/mimeo_and_the_kleptopus_king
"Mimeo (even the name) started as a Mario clone with a twist: instead of power-ups affecting the player, they affect the entire game world. A story and mythos quickly developed. The so-called Mimeoverse consists of two 16-bit demiverses sharing 32-bits between them. When the evil Kleptopus King, an 8-bit octopus with an inferiority complex, discovers a portal into Mimeo’s realm and begins to syphon off its bits, Mimeo is sucked in and downsampled to 2-bit. So begins Mimeo’s quest to restore balance to the demiverses."
SQL pie chart | code.openark.org
http://code.openark.org/blog/mysql/sql-pie-chart
"Shown below is a (single query) SQL-generated pie chart. I will walk through the steps towards making this happen, and conclude with what, I hope you’ll agree, are real-world, useful usage samples."
Panic’s lost 1982 artwork. Found. - Panic Blog
http://www.panic.com/blog
"These alternate-universe, time-warped re-imaginings of our Mac apps make for great collectables. They’re incredibly detailed and perfectly crafted. And we think you like them, even though we realize the intersection in the “Panic Fan” and “Atari 2600 Fan” venn diagram may be very, very small.
"
ANSI lives! Viewtronics, Flash Player 10 textmode viewer - peter nitsch.net
http://www.peternitsch.net/blog?p=618
"The best things in life are often silly, and in this case gloriously retro. Blocktronics, a collective of the best textmode artists around the world, have released their second art pack entitled “Codename Chris Wirth” in homage to the legendary ANSI artist RaD Man. No, it’s not 1995, and yes, this kind of art is still being produced in stunning fashion. "
Don't know quite what to say beyond just being generally impressed. - Michael Lebowitz
http://lebowitz.net/dont-know-quite-what-to-say-beyond-just-being
"Maybe a stupid question, but is that bull *supposed* to be propelled by a massive fart? Because that's what it looks like, and if so, that's even more hilarious. "
chewing pixels » Gaming as Performance
http://www.chewingpixels.com/gaming-as-performance
"Arcades are videogaming’s’ public installations, a shared focal point for performance, drama and wonder in front of an impromptu assembled audience. The best arcade games encourage crowds to gather and watch a player perform the game. Sometimes the crowd watches because, like seeing a beginner play Chopsticks at a publicly-stationed piano, so the man butchering Dance Dance Revolution counters his hopelessness with endearing committal and a winning smile. "
ansi.drastic.net
http://ansi.drastic.net/about
Op-Ed Contributor - For Sale - The $100 House - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/opinion/08barlow.html?_r=3
"But the city offers a much greater attraction for artists than $100 houses. Detroit right now is just this vast, enormous canvas where anything imaginable can be accomplished. From Tyree Guyton’s Heidelberg Project (think of a neighborhood covered in shoes and stuffed animals and you’re close) to Matthew Barney’s “Ancient Evenings” project (think Egyptian gods reincarnated as Ford Mustangs and you’re kind of close), local and international artists are already leveraging Detroit’s complex textures and landscapes to their own surreal ends. "
Thelermont Hupton - Products - Lighting - Blown Ups
http://www.thelermonthupton.com/products-light-blownups.htm
"Glass blown, floor standing lights combining the skills of the glassworker and the playfulness of clowns and children’s entertainers. If only glass were as pliable as balloons!"
MAKE: Blog: Fractal woodburning reveals hidden aesthetic
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/01/fractal_woodburning_reveals_hidden.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890
"did some experiments last night: wood + saline + high voltage supply + variac = fractal burn patterns. tried different kinds of wood with various effects. unfortunately my recollection of which types of wood are displayed are spotty. will update later. stay tuned for photos of my fractal wood burning coat rack."
The Unfinished Swan
http://iandallas.com/games/swan
girl takes world's longest shit at the cranbrook academy of art
http://intermaweb.net/index.php/2005/10/29/world-record-4-peristaltic-action
"In February 1995, working in conjunction with nutritionists at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, I adopted a super fiber-rich diet which allowed me to successfully produce a single extruded excrement the exact length of my colon: 26 feet. I documented the extrusion at the Cranbrook-Kingswood High School Bowling Alley, Bloomfield Hills, MI, which offered a length of floor suitable for the process and measuring the results. The cathartic diet was supplemented by a high intake of Metamucil fiber substance. The weeklong endurance prior to the event was ensured by the employment of a plug specifically designed to curtail any premature excretions."
Frotzophone
http://itp.nyu.edu/~ap1607/frotzophone
"The Frotzophone is an interface for making music with interactive fiction. The topography simulated in the game is used to generate sound, as is the player's path through the game. A Frotzophone "performance" looks just like playing a text adventure; but in addition to playing a game, you're also playing music."
thedetroiter.com
http://thedetroiter.com
re: splash image - having seen this alignment of church and rencen on many morning commutes, I've always wondered if it was intentional.
John Resig - Algorithmic Ink in JavaScript
http://ejohn.org/blog/algorithmic-ink-in-javascript
"The always-excellent Aza Raskin had a little bit of fun recently - inspired by my recent Processing.js work - to port the popular Context Free Art language to JavaScript, using Canvas."
slightlywarped.com's Curiosities
http://www.slightlywarped.com/crapfactory/curiosities/onemanstrash.htm
"Tim Nobel and Sue Webster take piles of trash and make art into them... but sometimes the art isn't apparent until you see it in a different light."
Explore - Polyvore
http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/explore
"Polyvore lets you create sets composed of individual images using an easy to use, drag and drop editor."
ASCII by Jason Scott: Ding Dong, ANSI Calling
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/000623.html
"I had the pleasure of attending the ANSI Gallery showing this past January, and I also had the chance to purchase one of the items being shown; one of the small handful of ANSI display boxes against the wall"
Retro Sabotage: Dysfunctional time machine - Flash Games [ver.9.0 req.]
http://www.retrosabotage.com
Weird playable conceptual twists on classic games
Gibberings » ACEO 11 | ABORT, RETRY, FAIL?
http://elizagauger.com/gibberings/aceo-11
"jesus christ."
Philatelic Keyboards - More Model M Goodness
http://steampunkworkshop.com/stamp-kb.shtml
"Andy sent me a couple of shots of his beautiful stamp decorated keyboards. He write that he's made about 10 of these beauties."
PicoCool - Post: Paper Cut
http://picocool.com/go/news/post/paper-cut
"Perhaps it’s the white paper, the minimalism or the precision, but the imaginative papercut work of Danish artist Peter Callesen moves me."
Ray-Traced Sphere
http://www.traipse.com/sphere/index.html
"...trying to think of something disturbing to do with my circa 1986 Casio fx-4000P calculator. ... I programmed the calculator to assist me in ray-tracing a sphere by hand."
Bern Rauch
http://www.artaud.org/Member_Pages/Rauch_Bern/home.html
"Studio #302. Paintings on canvas and digital compositions as giclee prints."
It's Yahoo's Lawn, But This Artist Says Keep Off the Grass - WSJ.com
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119101266764543043.html
"Artificial reeds were cut, bent and twisted. The artist, horrified, responded with letters from her lawyers, which were met with letters from Yahoo's lawyers. "They turned my art into a bad miniature golf course," Ms. Louden says."
The unhappier you are, the more ice cream you get
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/009721.php
"Employing voice stress analysis of the user’s answers to specific questions, varying degrees of unhappiness are measured and the counteractive quantity of ice cream is dispensed: The more unhappy you are, the more ice cream you need"
YouTube - My Early Muir Owl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?eurl=http://est1976.blogsome.com/2007/08/19/sara-and-i-just-got-engaged/&v=cCiThCeY2Uc
"A wedding proposal, built around an elaborate gallery opening."
Sewn by Blythe: Nintendo
http://sewnbyblythe.blogspot.com/2007/06/nintendo.html
"I finally finished the Nintendo I have been working on for 2 weeks."
Shoot the Stylist - Octopulse - Online portfolio of Brit Leissler
http://www.shootthestylist.net/octo/index.htm
"The Octopulse shows that noise is music. With this cuddly ‘alien bagpipe’ you can control analogue sound synthesis through unconventional means."
Table of Malcontents - Wired Blogs - Anime Character 'Drawn' In HTML Tests Limits of Sanity
http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/05/anime_character.html
"A voluptuous anime bunny woman, created in time-lapse using thousands of lines of HTML code to individually create and color table cells as pixels. Perhaps more astonishing than the asinine level of detail necessary to code something like this in Notepad
YouTube - Ordinary person drawing Udonge with text
http://www.youtube.com/watch?eurl=http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/05/anime_character.html&v=ELZAU0Ohfdk
"This is simply way too awesome XD I have nothing but respect for this person. Ordinary my ass, this person is about as ordinary as Marisa is."
Rosemarie fiore - "Tempest 1"
http://www.rosemariefiore.com/pages.php?activeType=&content=galleryBig.php&imageID=6&navGallID=12&navGallIDquer=12&view=big
Long exposure photograph of Tempest. Disappointingly, it seems to be from an emulator's raster display rather than an original vector display.
MAKE: Blog: UPDATED: Aqua Teen Hunger Force LED art shuts down Boston
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/01/aqua_teen_hunge_1.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890
"Even if it was just something random, it sort of shows the folly of our security-obsessed world when a fictional martian can set a major city on high alert."
Pharyngula: Gross "art"
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/12/gross_art.php
"They just want donors to ejaculate into a vial, and mail it, unrefrigerated, to them. Would you like the job of opening tubes of rancid semen and dumping it into the cube?"
Home of the PingPongPixel
http://www.tupajumi.com/pingpongpixel/index2.htm
"We developed a new kind of output device for your computer, consisting out of 8100 tabletennis balls in 6 greytones."
Free Play - Zelda Wall Hanging
http://freeplaygaming.blogspot.com/2006/08/zelda-wall-hanging-this-is-wall.html
"It's based on this Wind Waker promotional desktop wallpaper with some modifications for material and sanity (Link's shield is obviously more detailed in the drawn version.)"
College art students give Yahoo engineers a lesson in creativity - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060802/tc_afp/afplifestyleusinternet_060802133629;_ylt=ArvYhRNindH3..WvTriQZiSs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3cjE0b2MwBHNlYwM3Mzg-
"From framed spit balls to baby dolls driven by lollipop licks, Yahoo had college artists from as far as Britain and Brazil on display to inspire its engineers."
MAKE: Blog: Involuntary dance machine
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/07/involuntary_dance_machine.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890
"Connected to the Involuntary Dance Machine, Daniel Wright had to dance in front of the research into practice conference delegates."
Welcome to the 419 Eater - The Incredible Shrinking Artwork
http://www.419eater.com/html/john_boko.htm
"The carving weighs just under 6 kilos and is larger than a real Commodore 64. It's a big beast!"
Modern Mechanix - ASCII Art - 1948
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/03/13/ascii-art-1948
"This would be a lot of fun without a text editor. One mistake and you have to start over."
- - - the essence of rabbit - - -
http://www.pictoplasma.de/exhibitions/bunny/shop.html
"Order your own private Bunny Mandala for comfortable home meditation."
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
Palace of Fine Arts - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Fine_Arts
"The Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina District of San Francisco, California is a building originally constructed for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition."
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Panda painted onto single hair
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4836662.stm
"The artist took 10 days to create the mini-masterpiece using a single rabbit hair as a paintbrush."
USATODAY.com - 12-year-old sticks gum onto $1.5M painting
http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2006-03-01-painting_x.htm
"Apparently, one 12-year-old visitor to the Detroit Institute of Arts doesn't think much of abstract art."
Inhabitat
http://www.inhabitat.com/entry_901.php
Jellio Design took inspiration from those classic toys to create TURBO, a one-of-a-kind wall sculpture designed to evoke fond memories from a model-making childhood. Apparently, they are only making ten of these awesome sculptures; so if you want one, bet
Imagine a world without copyright - Editorials & Commentary - International Herald Tribune
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/10/07/opinion/edsmiers.php
"Our democratic right to freedom of cultural and artistic exchange is slowly but surely being taken away from us."
Ananova - Artists erect giant pink bunny on mountain
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1541732.html
"An enormous pink bunny has been erected on an Italian mountainside where it will stay for the next 20 years."
parasite_large.mov (video/quicktime Object)
http://home.digital.udk-berlin.de/~fredericeyl/moving_canvas/parasite_large.mov
Suitcase with mac mini, a projector, car battery - attached to a subway car with suction cups to display video on subway walls. How was this not considered a bomb?
ASCII by Jason Scott: A Thousand Seven Hundred RTTY Memories
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/000153.html
"So it is with great happiness I can now announce that artscene.textfiles.com now has over 1,700 pieces of RTTY art, dating from the 50s to last decade."
Tristan Perich - One Bit Music - Electrophysical
http://www.onebitmusic.com
"One Bit Music and artwork"
Duluth News Tribune | 08/15/2005 | EXPRESSION OF ESPRESSO
http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/local/12386497.htm
"The studio itself is sponge-painted with espresso."
A Discordian Coloring Book - Frame
http://www.dreamspell.net/LKS/eris-frame.html
Where're my crayons?