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There’s always this sense that art is just play,” says Peter Plagens, a New York painter and art critic. “Art is what children do and what retired people do. Your mom puts your work up on the refrigerator. Or the way Dwight Eisenhower said, ‘Now that I’ve fought my battles, I can put my easel…
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The musicians, actors and other artists we hear about tend to be fabulously successful. But the daily reality for the vast majority of the working artists in this country has little to do with Angelina Jolie or her perfectly toned right leg. “Artists in the Workforce,” a National Endowment for the Arts report released in…
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(via Hit Points #000008: It’s Messi Time | The Classical)
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Richard Connell’s 1924 short story “The Most Dangerous Game,” about a rich man who hunts human prey on his private island? Turns out, the two gents who invented paintball in 1976 were inspired by Connell’s story! UK Paintball’s “Fox Hunt” (via Metro.co.uk) Paintball with human “fox” as target – Boing Boing
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blech: USA, New Mexico, Farmington: Neighbours by kool_skatkat on Flickr, as seen in an essay by Randy Lewis of the University of Texas Austin entitled God is Watching, and So Am I: The Theology of Surveillance (via). A choice quote: Will the proliferation of small, powerful, and networked surveillance cameras represent an unprecedented expansion of vision,…
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The U.S. National Endowment for the Arts will fund four games that explore climate change and literature. This will be the first time the NEA funds video games since it changed its policy in May 2011 to include the category. The first projects to benefit from the change in funding criteria are the ninth Games…
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albotas: A Little Bit On the Old Spice Guy Side: Old Spice Guy action figure by Mick Minogue for Gallery 1988’s upcoming Memes show. He’s on a horse. (via Super Punch)
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The recent development of live-cams on the Internet [contributes] to the inversion of the usual conceptions of inside and outside. Finally, this generalized visualization is the defining aspect of what is generally known today as virtualization. As much-vaunted ‘virtual reality’ is not so much a navigation through the cyberspace of the networks. It is, first…
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Dr. Manhattan and Hobbes, first draft
Dr. Manhattan and Hobbes. First draft. Made with Paper