I had a dream based on the painting “In the Pavilion of the Red Clown” by Robert Williams. I was in a demented circus pitched in a field. There was no sense that there was […]
Category: Art
(Update) Eye Wonder
Another periodic update to my ongoing collection The Eyes Have It, Eye Spy, Eye Always Feel Like, and Eye Drank What?
(Art) East of the Sun and West of the Moon
It’s hard to imagine that anyone hasn’t yet heard of Kay Nielsen, legendary Danish artist and illustrator, but anything is possible. He certainly remained largely unsung in his time. Despite a brief stint at Disney, […]
(Art) The Data Art of Ward Shelley
I worked in ‘Data Science’ when it was called statistics, before that became a bad word, which is where I first encountered Charles Minard’s 1861 representation of the losses during Napoleon’s 1812 Russia campaign. […]
On getting attention: Politics is a very good way to do it, as I inadvertently discovered last Friday, but only to the degree one is comfortable with simplicity. On keeping attention: I hear so many […]
Get your new digital self. Avatars sold here! “Avatar” by Andrey Surnov
(Art) The Hyper-Real Dream Girl
Look closely at the cover image. Now this one: And finally this one: Georgian artist Irakli Nadar makes hyper-real digital portraits from photographs of models and celebrities. “Hyperrealism” is a genre of art distinguished by […]
