British artist Greg Burney is pulling out all the stops to get people to follow him on Twitter. He has pledged that he will hand-draw the profile pictures of every new follower he gets before November 14.
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I don’t have a lot of interest in taking the generally sharp photos from my iPhone and degrading the image to emulate the output from cheap cameras produced decades ago. There are, however, certain photographic and graphic effects that I do appreciate. One that I’ve long found interesting are filters that make photographs look like pencil drawings. One iOS app that produces what I consider to be stunning pencil drawing like modifications is free for a limited time.
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People used to share news, ideas and drawings via paper in the old days. And, quite frankly, paper is still a very good tool. A number of digital pen products for writing and drawing have appeared over the years. The latest entry in this field comes from Wacom a pioneer in producing consumer and professional digitizing tablets.
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A group of New York-based artists walked into Hercules’ Fancy Grocery in the West Village on May 20, 2011, armed with a briefcase full of cash, and bought every single item in the store. They have turned the everyday grocery items into “art” and are selling them at a huge markup on StoreBuyout.com as well as in their NYC gallery, Fusion Arts Museum.
Are we social media addicts?
I am. I’m not going to lie. My Facebook account is always open, even if it’s minimized on my computer, and when I’m away from my computer, I bring Facebook with me everywhere I go on my iPhone. You can call me a loser and you can call me a narcissist, but I much prefer “addict.”
Billy Crystal made a guest appearance on The Daily Show this week to chat about his upcoming short film with Funny or Die and to announce that he’d joined the Twitterverse. The award-winning comedian, actor, and Oscar host told John Stewart that he was nervous because he didn’t know what to write for his first tweet, and that he felt a lot of pressure over his first words on the social information platform.
Click here to find out how social media has shaped coverage of Toronto’s most accredited fashion event, Toronto LG fashion Week.
Wigan can carve a sculpture from a fragment of a grain of sand, paint it using a hair plucked from a house fly’s back and fit it on the head of a pin.
When online dating site lovely-faces.com launched this week with 250,000 profiles, the German creators Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico proudly announced that they had acquired those users not from legitimate sign-ups, but from scraping public Facebook profiles. Their explanation: it was an art project. Facebook is not happy.
Cirio, a media artist, and Ludovico, editor-in-chief of Neural, a new media arts magazine, claimed that they used custom software to collect information about 1 million public Facebook profiles. They scraped names, locations, and photos, and then picked out key descriptive words such as “sly” and “easy going” to organize their unwitting “users” into dating categories.
The duo claims it was all an experiment to point out how easy it is to steal peoples identities.
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Through the Google Art Project and YouTube it has become possible to go museum hopping all over the world without stepping foot outside your bedroom.
