A portrait of President Obama was created by artist David Macaluso using used motor oil. It would be great to learn how the artist created all the tones with the oil. Was anything added to vary the color? Or was it the techinique of applying it? Either way it shows there is no end to the materials an artist can use to make art. Here is a video showing him create a painting using the oil.
Source: Jalopnik
Make sure to check out the HD version.
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Have the need for two SLRs but have a hard time lugging it around? Well the RS DR-1 double camera strap has you covered. One draw back is the $130 price tag.
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Jorge Colombo has produced many digital paintings on the iPhone using the Brushes program. One of his paintings made it on the cover of the June 1, 2009 issue of The New Yorker. Jorge said it took him one hour on 42nd street and was able to paint without anyone bothering him. He seems to enjoy the ability to paint and have everyone think he is doing something else.
Ben has just written a post dealing with copyright issues he suffered while dealing with his clothing company FrightRags. I know I have seen a ton of small tshirt shops using designs based off movies, television, corporate logos, and wondered if they were working with the copyright holder or using it without permission. It is a more common thing then most might expect. Many of these designs violate trademark and copyright laws. You may ask yourself why don’t they get in trouble, well it is mostly because they are too small to warrant spending all the legal money to stop them or they just don’t know about the company. Ben talks about his issues with New Line Cinemas and Universal but has apparently run into other copyright issues. Universal forced him to pay back a “substantial” amount of money for a tshirt design which featured Frankenstein. Ben gives some advice for those who are dancing on the edge of such designs and how to obtain licensing from movie studios. Always be very careful when you use anything for “inspiration”. Even if it is a smaller company or artist, they might have issue with what you are doing and worse, might have a case to sue.
This is a very cool short film created by Stink Digital. It is for a Phillips advertising campaign for their newest television. The film is a frozen scene from a robbery committed by clowns and the responding Police. Matrix style frozen action plus clowns, plus cops plus bullets and explosions, how could this not be great.
The youtube version is below. You can check out a HD version on Phillips site.
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We always love to post anything that shows insight into artist’s techniques or influences. The chosen workspace of an artist can be very important. Some have lots of different objects while others have very little. Here is a small but interesting list of artist’s workspaces. Also included toward the bottom of the linked post is a flickr pool.
This might be one of the coolest computer cases I have ever seen and also one of the best Wall-E models as well. Machined out of sheet metal and taking 18 days to complete. Now how much to make another one but put in some servos and motors so Wall-E can actually run around?
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These videos below are famous movies retold in one take for one minute. I have attached Forest Gump and Kill Bill.
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