Eccentric and edgy Hollywood actor Dennis Hopper avidly collected art, and photography was a lifelong active hobby. In 2005, he published Bucharest Nights
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Dennis Hopper – Bucharest Nights
Eccentric and edgy Hollywood actor Dennis Hopper avidly collected art, and photography was a lifelong active hobby. In 2005, he published Bucharest Nights, a collection of “digital paintings” at night with a digital camera. The majority of the images are ghostly and ethereal. Stark figures in golden tones against a black backdrop, light trails down…
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Peter Gabriel – Scratch My Back
Peter Gabriel’s Scratch My Back continues the trend of cover albums. However, Gabriel covers both his peers and those who may have been inspired by him. The album begins softly with David Bowie’s Heroes that builds into an aching crescendo. All the songs have a lush, symphonic, orchestral arrangements–strings, pianos, horns–and often to a repetitive…
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Finite and Infinite Games
James P. Carse’s Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility philosophically explores the premise of life as a series of games and infinite games. Finite games have an end and rules may not change, whereas infinite games are never ending and the rules must change. Directly, think of Super Mario…
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Click: The Ultimate Photography Guide for Generation Now
Charlie Styr published Click: The Ultimate Photography Guide for Generation Now using pictures from the Flickr Teenage Photography group. It’s aimed at the beginner or wanna-be-a-little-bit-cooler-by-by-taking-cool-pictures photographers. It’s balanced covering all the essential photography topics-exposure, aperture, shutter speed, light, composition, etc. It goes a little further with the example photos and includes camera settings. This…
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Flipboard
Flipboard is a damn, clever iPad app. It takes streams of content such as Twitter, Facebook, various RSS news feeds and transforms the assortment of text, hypertext and pictures into an enjoyable experience. Flipboard uses a newspaper-like metaphor for pulling content together and users swipe to flip pages. Tweets are artfully rendered, and those that…
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1000 Fences and Gates
1000 Fences And Gates by Jo Cryder should contain the subtitle Wrought Iron of the American Southeast. The majority of the pictures are snapshots and hardly vary. I’m not sure if it meant to be a coffee table book or a sampling for Southern belles to fence in their magnolia trees.
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Art Space Tokyo, a Kickstarter postmortem
After a project, it’s a good thing to capture your thoughts on how you did. This includes everything from the initial idea, the the steps you took to get everything together and complete it, for better or worse. Craig Mod did a writeup about the whole process of creating Art Space Tokyo using Kickstarter as…
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Inception deconstructed
The Awl deconstructs Inception as a movie about making movies, or the act of creation. Like 8½, Inception is a movie about making movies; it’s not that the whole movie “is a dream,” though, but rather that the whole movie is an allegory of creation. Upon second viewing, the metaphor for creation makes sense across…
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Sleigh Bells – Treats
Sleigh Bells, creators of my summer album pick, consists of rip roaring guitars and bass heavy beats intertwined with cooing vocals. Treats spans for a few minutes over a half hour, and on first listen, can be overwhelming. It’s loud. Bone rattling loud. Indie kids in their Prius can go head to head with the…