Another artist at the Willoughby Windows Project is Gaia, who produces work both for the street and for galleries. A lot of Gaia’s work is large scale illustration, with line drawings representing natural subjects like animals and earth children. These are then either wheatpasted on buildings or included in installations or 2D work, and some Continue reading →
Just a quick one about some great stuff from the Willoughby Windows project. My particular favourite is the Cannonball Press Zero Sum Game; eight keys and four outcomes all lead to financial ruin. Sorry Chief. I like the wood cut style and the black and white which makes it all seem a bit old school, Continue reading →
So Nikki Finke sold Deadline Hollywood Daily to the Mail Media Corpfor $15m. Good for her. For me, this is quite significant for blogging and moves the medium closer to magazine publishing; the changing hands of titles for this kind of money is reminiscent of acquisitions in print. How’s this shift come about? Well, put Continue reading →
The human printer is a group of people that replicate CMYK, black and white and spot colour prints through arduous use of felt tips. By drawing many dots in a half tone pattern, they build up pictures not unlike those you’d find in print, but with a slight merging and softening of details. Of course, Continue reading →
Microsoft’s Natal seemed novel when they announced it at E3 earlier this month, but Glaswegian YouTube user conquerearth has made a more old school version of a hands-free games console. Following his Theremin Hero video, he’s teamed a theremin with a NES and the Nintendo classic “Super Mario Brothers”. The result is a game where Continue reading →
Charming Baker’s an artist who once had one of his paintings shot with a shotgun because he thought it looked a bit ordinary. He works in oils, painting moments in life somewhere between birth and death and aims to make you feel like something’s not quite right… His subject matter varies from people through jet Continue reading →
Brian Solis and the people at Jess3 have put together a map of the Twitterverse. It’s basically a visualisation of the services and tools that exist around Twitter, from URL shorteners through mobile apps to search and trends. It’s a good starter for anyone looking for some of the off-the-beaten track apps/services, but also underlines Continue reading →
So MPs… The expenses scandal of the last few weeks is a great vindication of the good old saying “with great power comes great responsibility” and also “just because you can, doesn’t mean you should” (this last one can be applied to so many ill thought out ad campaigns too). And just like so many Continue reading →
We’ve got a bit of a thing for tilt-shift at Jam, and Amy Bennett’s work is in the vein. Amy builds miniature diaromas and then paints them. The result is a step beyond tilt-shift or photos of miniatures like you find on little people, and is a bit of a nod towards hyperrealism and photorealism Continue reading →
30% of the UK use mobile internet a month (says the IAB) and over the last couple of years, we’ve seen the use of social media on mobiles explode. For an increasing amount of people, it’s the focus of their mobile web usage and several telcoms brands have run marketing around this. Mobile Usage Increase Continue reading →
