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art


become a sho-off

alt.SHO.com’s ‘alternative media festival’ is a forum for you to submit your original animation, digital shorts, games or other multimedia work. there are cash prizes (sweeet) there are 10 categories and each winner of that category will receive $10,000. the winner of those 10 winners will receive an additional $20,000 plus a ‘chance [...]

why snail mail is still cool

don’t you need stamps? you should head to the post office now and get some. why? because the new  carnivorous plants series is out! these babies are beautifully illustrated showing each plant devouring an insect. a book of 20 costs $6.80. collect ‘em all!

color lessons

Color, Contrast & Dimension… is an interactive guide (in flash) that explains color theory and shows how to use it in design using examples.

matte painter

jean-marie vives has some nice work on-line.

at least there’s no rain delay

photoshop tennis anyone? the concept is simple. you start with an image and you send it to someone. they add a layer and send it back, you add a layer and so on and so on til somebody runs out of imagination.
see 3d madman brian taylor of rustboy and xl5 design fame vs. [...]

kick ass german architect exhibition x2

architecture: NYC’s MOMA and WHITNEY host concurrent exhibitions, ‘Mies in Berlin/Mies in America’, on the work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

artists links

artist eric feng aka feric is a compositor at squareusa. check out his site.
some other artists sites: doug chiang | feng zhu | craig mullins | eric hanson | eric chauvin | ken matheson | sylvain despretz | stephan martiniere | ben procter | peter baustaedter | travis price | erik tiemens | miles [...]

life thru gamer’s eyes

you know you’re gaming too much when everything starts to look like a game.
you may have seen these already. artist jon haddock has created isometric screenshots of certain ‘historical’ events.
to the uninitiated it looks like the sims game art. maybe ea will catch on and provide expansion packs.

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