Assuming your book collection doesn’t go fully digital for a few years, Knob Creek Metal Arts sells these very cool bookends, and a lot of others.
From Knob Creek Metal Arts, via Laughing Squid
Category Archives: Art
Why The Serial/Oxford/Harvard Comma Is Important
Posted by apt46 on January 31, 2012
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The serial comma is the comma that comes before the “and” in a list. Its use can drastically change a sentence’s meaning and among writers, the issue is like flag burning in politics. So here’s something to fan the flames:
NPR had a good article on the serial comma in June of 2011, when people mistakenly thought that Oxford was changing its guidelines to drop its namesake comma.
‘Boardwalk Empire’ Is Pretty Much A Cartoon
Posted by apt46 on January 23, 2012
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Brainstorm Digital, the company the does the computer graphics for Boardwalk Empire, released a video showing before and after shots of of scenes doctored by them. The take-aways are that the people at Brainstorm are fantastic at their jobs, and that besides the actors, basically the whole thing is computer generated.
The same came to light in a similar video done for Game of Thrones, by Bluebolt, several months ago.
CCTV Baby Toy by Banksy
Posted by apt46 on December 14, 2011
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Banksy apparently has a pretty funny website now (especially his FAQ page), and one of the things on it is a build-your-own Banksy product section. This month’s is a CCTV mobile — not a portable surveillance system, but the kind that’s pronounced moe-bee-uhl (like Mobile, Alabama), and means kinetic sculpture.
Build your own Banksy product, this month:
CCTV mobile. Not available in the shops. You will need; wood, string, plastic tube, nails, lead paint.
Total assembly required. Keep out of reach of children.
From Banksy, via Laughing Squid
Virtual Sistine Chapel
Posted by apt46 on December 9, 2011
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The Vatican has put up, on its website, a virtual version of the Sistine Chapel. From a vantage point in the middle of the chapel’s floor, you can pan and tilt to look at any part of the chapel, and zoom in to see close-ups of the venerated artwork.
The chapel is called “Sistine” because it was built by Pope Sixtus IV. The name Sixtus comes from the Greek “Xystus”, and means “polished”.
From The Vatican, via Neatorama
Best Photos of 2011
Posted by apt46 on December 5, 2011
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Reuters has a list of the 100 best photos of the year. Here are the 15 best ones:
Chile: Lightning flashes around the ash plume above the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano chain near Entrelagos
USA: A plane flies through the "Tribute in Lights" in lower Manhattan in New York
China: Woman in wedding gown is grabbed by local community officer, as she attempts to kill herself by jumping out of seven-storey residential building in Changchun
Switzerland: Switzerland's photographer Denis Balibouse files his pictures under a full moon sky from Mont-Cenis Pass Road in Lanslebourg during the Grande Odyssee sled dogs race
Thailand: A Buddhist monk walks in a flooded street in central Bangkok
Nigeria: A man walks as crude oil spills from a pipeline in Dadabili, Niger state
Greece: A man sets himself on fire outside a bank branch in Thessaloniki in northern Greece
UK: Britain's Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, look at one another after their wedding ceremony in Westminster Abbey
Sudan: Women and children run away with their belongings from a fire in Kuma Garadayat, a village located in North Darfur
USA: U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House
Libya: A woman rebel fighter supporter shoots an AK-47 rifle as she reacts to the news of the withdrawal of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's forces from Benghazi
Afghanistan: U.S. Army soldiers from the 2nd Platoon, B battery 2-8 field artillery, fire a howitzer artillery piece at Seprwan Ghar forward fire base in Panjwai district
Somalia: A Somali government soldier shoots at close range to execute two former soldiers Abdi Sankus Abdi and Abdullahi Jinow Guure in Somalia
Switzerland: A miner climbs on excavated rocks after a giant drill machine broke through at the final section of the NEAT Gotthard Base Tunnel
Tajikistan: Zukhro, an employee of the city zoo, walks with Vadik, a 18-month-old male lion, on the territory of the zoo in the capital Dushanbe
Art By Naolito
Posted by apt46 on December 1, 2011
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PSA Posters Warn About Doing Art
Posted by apt46 on November 30, 2011
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The College for Creative Studies in Detroit has a new advertising campaign done by Team Detroit.
The danger of dabbling in art, of course, is the same as the danger of dabbling in drugs: an unstable life of poverty; always trying to do more art, always wondering when your next paycheck is going to come, living in a shack with no heat because art took any chance of having a real career away — all the while being involved in a string of intense but brief flash-in-the-pan relationships with other art lovers, who, aside from the onlookers gawking at the train wreck that is an artist’s life, are the only people that will spend time with them. And it should be needless to mention that there’s also heavy drug use throughout.
Very Cool Rock Formations
Posted by apt46 on November 28, 2011
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Buzzfeed has an article about the 25 most surprising rock formations. The best of those:
Ko Tapu (Thailand)
The Twelve Apostles (Australia)
Reed Flute Cave (China)
Giant's Causeway (Northern Ireland)
Stone Forest (China)
Azure Window (Malta, in the Mediterranean Sea)
Devil's Tower (Wyoming)
Sunken Moses Bridge
Posted by apt46 on November 15, 2011
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This very cool bridge was designed by a Dutch architectural firm to go across the moat to an 18th century earthen fort called Fort De Roovere. No word on how it will deal with rising sea levels.
Contrary to what you might imagine from these pictures, the fort is actually not in a middle of nowhere, but in a suburb of Rotterdam — the largest port in Europe.
From My Modern Met, via Neatorama