The Instagram For Google’s ‘DeepDream’ Is Finally Here
DreamifyLevi Sharpe/ Popular ScienceAn image of Dave Gershgorn transformed using several of Dreamify's preset filtersI got to try out an upcoming DeepDream smartphone app, and it’s awesome.The Dreamify...
View ArticleThis New Drawing Tool Can Turn Sketches Into 3D Images
Art In Mental CanvasScreenshot by author, from YouTubeMental Canvas is a new technology that reimagines static images in a whole new dimension: 3D. While pictures on screens tend to be flat 2D objects...
View ArticleWhat Happens When You Ask A Cartoonist for Free Work?
Update 8/20: Michael Halpern over at the Union of Concerned Scientists reached out to me in order to clear things up, and we've been chatting over email. He's being really cool despite how hard I was...
View ArticleNo Spec Work: Part 2
A little while back, I posted a comic on how speculative (spec) work harms the creative industry. It was spurred by a message me and many other comics professionals received to enter in a contest held...
View ArticleMaker Faire: Play A Choir Of Disembodied Heads
Mark Bolotin has travelled all over the world recording singers, beatboxers, and storytellers. He projects their voices and faces onto disembodied "heads" to create the world's weirdest 12-headed...
View ArticleA Q&A With the Guy Who Wrote the Book on Emoji
Fred Benenson's latest workcourtesy Random House BooksFred Benenson is probably best known for his book, Emoji Dick, which may not refer to quite what you're thinking. The project, born on Kickstarter...
View ArticleVirtual Reality Gives You Animal Vision
Dragonfly EyesCecil Sanders/FlickrCC by 2.0Ever wonder what life would look like if you were literally a fly on the wall? Or, better yet, a dragonfly in the forest? Actually seeing the world through...
View ArticleExplore The Great Barrier Reef Inside A Giant Gas Tank
Tom Schulze © asisiThere’s an ocean inside an enormous gas storage tank in Leipzig, Germany. For the past 12 years, artist and architect Yadegar Asisi has been operating the space as a platform for his...
View ArticleSculptures With A Life Of Their Own
Theo Jansen And His StrandbeestPhotograph by Loek Van Der Klis / FlickrTheo Jansen and one of his strandbeests, Animaris Umerus, walk along a beach in the Netherlands.Twenty-five years ago, artist Theo...
View ArticleBehold The New ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Posters
Detail, Princess Leia In Force AwakensLucasfilm / DisneyBehold the new faces of the Star War! Next month, Disney releases The Force Awakens, the seventh installment of the juggernaut space opera...
View ArticleCirque du Soleil Now Makes You a Part of the Show In Virtual Reality
When you think of Cirque du Soleil, the words that most likely come to mind are “theatrics,” “acrobatics” and “prolific.” Since its founding in 1984, the Montreal, Canada-based company has produced 37...
View ArticleQ&A With A Space Artist
Mimas Over Saturn's Ring ShadowsBenson used data from the Cassini spacecraft to create this image of Saturn’s moon Mimas. He included it in his 2012 book Planetfall.NASA / JPL-Caltech / Michael Benson...
View ArticleThe Artist Who Turned Blood into Photographs
Jaden Hastings, Plasmatype (2015)This spring, as biologist-turned-artist Jaden Hastings was developing her new prints, she noticed something strange. The maroon-colored images smelled faintly of...
View ArticleMIT Museum Latest to Hold Bad Creative Contest [Updated]
[Update 1/7/2016] The MIT Museum has responded on their site. I've gone ahead and pasted it below:We appreciate the feedback and comments about the MIT Museum's request for submissions to “A View of...
View ArticleBioart and the Gnawing Invisible
In my life as a curator, only twice have a pair of eyes in an artwork ever really mesmerized me. The first pair gazed out from a painting by German surrealist Max Ernst called Human Form. The image...
View ArticleThe National Archives Released A Free Coloring Book Of Weird Patents
The National ArchivesPatent For A Robot RideThe National Archives of the United States just released a coloring book full of strange patents. It’s all available now as a free PDF, and it’s 17 glorious...
View ArticleAn Apollo Lunar Landing Told Through Vintage Art
In the 1960s, NASA created concept art showing every phase of an Apollo mission. The timing of mission events varied from flight to flight, particularly since later missions spent more time exploring...
View ArticleNASA Wants To Send Your Artwork To An Asteroid
Dean HochmanArt SuppliesEven if you weren't one of the record number of people to apply for NASA's astronaut program, you can still leave your mark on the cosmos.As a part of the OSIRIS-REx (sic)...
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