Web Sightings
Most Expensive Photograph Ever: They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but how about millions of dollars?
CNN reports the story about this photo:
Flash Animation of Artist's Sketch: drawing of a human form in phases from skeleton to fully clothed woman.
Van Gogh's Starry Night: Take a look at this photomosaic of the famous painting 'Starry Night'. The image is made with over 210.000 tiny photographs and a total size of over 1.500.000.000 points in other words it is a 1.5 Gigapixel Image. Click the image to zoom in.
Photograph Archive by Color: Here is every photo on Ephemera, newest to oldest, reduced down to its average color.
Watercolors: The world's finest guide to watercolor painting. Here you'll find information on all aspects of watercolor painting: papers, brushes, paints, "color theory," painting techniques, art instructional books, and more.
The Gifford Studio: Benjamin Gifford figures among the prominent names in Oregon's Postcard History. The Gifford Studio was one of the largest in the state and it was outfitted with carbon arc lights and high volume darkrooms. It was staffed with photographers, retouchers and colorists. I wonder if I'm related.
Steven James Brown: A commercial photographer, working in Toronto, creates some really unique art.
Colour Rules: Here are some helpful rules of thumb about color.
Going, Going, Gone, to the Dogs: This news confirms one of my greatest fears:
Gigapxl Project: High-resolution photography with large-scale format, has been featured here below, but never before on the scale of the Gigapxl Project. What a beautiful project of immense documentary significance.
One Frame at a Time: A photoblog by Victor Zhang, who's admittedly very new to photography, but is really quite good at communicating with pictures and words:
Tsunami Satellite Photographs: Incredible satellite images of areas hit by the tsunamis, aligned "before and after" to show the effects of the disaster.
New Year's Panoramas: For the previous two years, the Panoramas website has featured fullscreen 360 degree QTVR panoramas created by Jook Leung, from the famous New Year celebration at Times Square. This year we can view fullscreen panoramas of New Year's Eve celebrations from all the world.
Judging a Book by its Cover: For its end of year special feature, the critics at Bookslut judge children's books by their covers.
A Painting A Day: Duane Keiser is a very talented artist, who has started an interesting weblog. A Painting A Day demonstrates not only his artistic talent but also his discipline as a painter. I think his art is some of the best work I've ever seen—by an artist that's still living of course. And I'm going to be checking it out every day. What a great idea!
The Vincent van Gogh Gallery: Visit this complete, online catalogue raisonné of Van Gogh's oeuvre.
Chalk La Strada: Street painting with chalk has been an Italian tradition since the 16th century. Chalk La Strada 2004 is the festival's 6th year as part of the "Little Italy Festa" which takes place in and benefits the Little Italy District, Downtown San Diego. The official website of Chalk La Strada has an interesting chalking demo in the Artists link, and a webpage about Kid Chalkers and their art.
Photojournalism: The National Press Photographers Association presents the winners of the annual contest for photojournalists in The Best of Photojournalism 2004.
Hang in a Gallery: Have ever wanted to be hung in an art gallery, along with famous works of art. Here's your chance. Create your own painting with ArtPad, frame it, and see how your art would look in a fine art gallery. You still want to hang yourself, don't you?
Sand Art Performance: Download this amazing video recorded at the Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival.
Zoom Quilt: Click, drag, zoom.
Just Coffee Art: Pour yourself a cuppa java, and sit back and enjoy these paintings created with just coffee.
The Group of Three: Children find art is child's play in this photograph found at Disclosure.ca. And be sure to check out Shelly Gifford Kids, which showcases the artistic creativity of children here at the studio.
A Labor of Love of Photography: JPG Magazine, founded by the husband and wife team of Derek Powazek (Ephemera) and Heather Powazek Champ (The Mirror Project), is coming in November.
Pen & Ink on the Web: From the sketching Doodlebug to fine Ballpoint Pen Art.
Canada Day Photos: A few of my favourite shots are now on display at Disclosure.ca. We watched the Canada Day Parade in Port Hope, got faces painted, and tried to plant a Canadian flag on our favourite piece of Canada--our own backyard.
Shake it like a Polaroid: According to Polaroid, you're not really supposed to shake a Polaroid picture during the developing process, no matter what you've heard from Outkast. Apparently, it can cause the photograph to develop distortions of the image. Artists use this phenomenon to create artistic Polaroid Manipulations. I've dusted off my Polaroid SX-70 Instant Camera recently to experiment with this technique in my art classes. It's fun. And while we're on the topic of Polaroids, here's another interesting PolaPolaPola Polaroid Project that's worth a look.
Trompe l'oeil: A French phrase meaning, literally, "trick the eye" refers to a style of art sometimes called illusionsim. Extraordinary fine art examples painted in this style are shown on this website. You might have seen some of these works before. What's really unusual, though, is this sidewalk art in the trompe l'oeil style--in chalk. So real, it's unreal.
Computers: The new iMac G5 looks really nice. It's amazing the work that is being created by artists on computers these days. Sometimes, it's difficult to tell reality photographed from a computer graphic image. Is it Fake or Foto? Sometimes computer graphics can demonstrate how a work of art is created. Take a look at this beauty. I'll be adding some more links to great artistic, photographic, and journalistic websites. And, I hope to have my work listed on Portfolios.com in the near future.
It's a Canadian game: Disclosure.ca, listed among our favourite photographic links, is a growing collection of photographs that explore Canada and what it is to be Canadian. One photograph was selected by the disclosure.ca judges as the best photo submitted in 2003. Nice shot.
That's the Spirit: It's inspiring to look up from our day to day work to appreciate the wonderful panoramic photography that the Mars rover Spirit is sending back to us on Spaceship Earth. If you've got a high speed Internet connection, you can enjoy this spectacular animated music video of Spirit's journey from Earth to Mars.
The Decline of Fashion Photography: An argument in pictures by Karen Lehrman is very interesting.
Gigapixels: This digital photograph of the view from Bryce Point in Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah consists of 196 separate photographs taken with a 6 megapixel digital camera, and then stitched together into one seamless composite. The final image is 40,784 x 26,800 pixels in size, and contains about 1.09 billion pixels...a little more than one gigapixel. All I want for Christmas is a Canon EOS 300D Digital Rebel, unless you really love me, and want to get me a Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II, wireless.
Palettes: Richard Rutter, a website producer in England, describes on his weblog some really handy online colour tools available on the Internet. These tools help the untrained or unreliable eye to come up with colour palettes based on complimentary and harmonious colours. In addition to those great colour tools, we like the 4096 Color Wheel and Color Cop.
Funtastic: Mr. Picassohead is a creative bit of fun with an artistic flare. From time to time, I'll add links to websites about art that are fun, as well as interesting. You'll find more links like this at the bottom of the left hand column, under the heading Funtasitc. Please come back to visit as often as you can to check out what's new around here, and have a little fun sharing our discoveries. :)
Flickr: This isn't your grandfather's photo sharing site!
My name spelled with Flickr photographs.
CNN reports the story about this photo:
A photograph of a pond taken by Edward Steichen sold for more than $2.9 million, easily setting a world record for the highest-priced photograph ever auctioned, Sotheby's said.I really need a new camera.
"The Pond-Moonlight," taken in 1904 at Mamaroneck, New York, sold Tuesday for $2,928,000, including the buyer's premium, Sotheby's spokesman Matthew Weigman said. The buyer's identity was not immediately disclosed.
The photograph shows a pond in a wooded area with light coming through the trees and reflected in the water.
Flash Animation of Artist's Sketch: drawing of a human form in phases from skeleton to fully clothed woman.
Van Gogh's Starry Night: Take a look at this photomosaic of the famous painting 'Starry Night'. The image is made with over 210.000 tiny photographs and a total size of over 1.500.000.000 points in other words it is a 1.5 Gigapixel Image. Click the image to zoom in.
Photograph Archive by Color: Here is every photo on Ephemera, newest to oldest, reduced down to its average color.
Watercolors: The world's finest guide to watercolor painting. Here you'll find information on all aspects of watercolor painting: papers, brushes, paints, "color theory," painting techniques, art instructional books, and more.
The Gifford Studio: Benjamin Gifford figures among the prominent names in Oregon's Postcard History. The Gifford Studio was one of the largest in the state and it was outfitted with carbon arc lights and high volume darkrooms. It was staffed with photographers, retouchers and colorists. I wonder if I'm related.
Steven James Brown: A commercial photographer, working in Toronto, creates some really unique art.
Steven does not use photography to document reality, but to alter it. He employs unconventional props and lighting techniques to achieve his intriguing still life colour photographs. His avant-garde style features intriguing subject matter, while remaining simple, iconographic, and vibrant.He has a wonderful website to display his gallery online.
Colour Rules: Here are some helpful rules of thumb about color.
Going, Going, Gone, to the Dogs: This news confirms one of my greatest fears:
A pair of paintings from the famed series depicting dogs playing poker fetched nearly $600,000 at auction Tuesday.Who knew?!
The two works — “A Bold Bluff” and “Waterloo” — were among 16 paintings that artist Cassius Marcellus Coolidge was commissioned to create for a Minnesota-based advertising company in 1903. Of the 16, nine are of dogs playing poker.
Gigapxl Project: High-resolution photography with large-scale format, has been featured here below, but never before on the scale of the Gigapxl Project. What a beautiful project of immense documentary significance.
One Frame at a Time: A photoblog by Victor Zhang, who's admittedly very new to photography, but is really quite good at communicating with pictures and words:
One thing I found after I took on photography is that I started appreciating some of the small things around me, things I didn't even notice before - shape of a building, flowers on a wall, reflection of sky on a window, and so on. As I grew older, I found life is more about small things, more about how you live through each and everyday. This seems to be a very good way of recording what's around me and how I see this world -- one frame at a time.Art & Photography Magazines: The Winter 2005 issue of MakingRoom, a magazine about the process, intention and results of image-making, has just launched online. And the premiere issue of JPG Magazine is out in print.
Tsunami Satellite Photographs: Incredible satellite images of areas hit by the tsunamis, aligned "before and after" to show the effects of the disaster.
New Year's Panoramas: For the previous two years, the Panoramas website has featured fullscreen 360 degree QTVR panoramas created by Jook Leung, from the famous New Year celebration at Times Square. This year we can view fullscreen panoramas of New Year's Eve celebrations from all the world.
Judging a Book by its Cover: For its end of year special feature, the critics at Bookslut judge children's books by their covers.
...sometimes your book cover critic feels exactly like Lewis Carroll’s Alice: “And what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversation?”Now, with the New Year upon us, it seemed fitting for Bookslut to look at new releases this month with an eye towards books covers that are subject to some sort of active design consideration.
A Painting A Day: Duane Keiser is a very talented artist, who has started an interesting weblog. A Painting A Day demonstrates not only his artistic talent but also his discipline as a painter. I think his art is some of the best work I've ever seen—by an artist that's still living of course. And I'm going to be checking it out every day. What a great idea!
The Vincent van Gogh Gallery: Visit this complete, online catalogue raisonné of Van Gogh's oeuvre.
Chalk La Strada: Street painting with chalk has been an Italian tradition since the 16th century. Chalk La Strada 2004 is the festival's 6th year as part of the "Little Italy Festa" which takes place in and benefits the Little Italy District, Downtown San Diego. The official website of Chalk La Strada has an interesting chalking demo in the Artists link, and a webpage about Kid Chalkers and their art.
Photojournalism: The National Press Photographers Association presents the winners of the annual contest for photojournalists in The Best of Photojournalism 2004.
Hang in a Gallery: Have ever wanted to be hung in an art gallery, along with famous works of art. Here's your chance. Create your own painting with ArtPad, frame it, and see how your art would look in a fine art gallery. You still want to hang yourself, don't you?
Sand Art Performance: Download this amazing video recorded at the Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival.
Zoom Quilt: Click, drag, zoom.
Just Coffee Art: Pour yourself a cuppa java, and sit back and enjoy these paintings created with just coffee.
The Group of Three: Children find art is child's play in this photograph found at Disclosure.ca. And be sure to check out Shelly Gifford Kids, which showcases the artistic creativity of children here at the studio.
A Labor of Love of Photography: JPG Magazine, founded by the husband and wife team of Derek Powazek (Ephemera) and Heather Powazek Champ (The Mirror Project), is coming in November.
Pen & Ink on the Web: From the sketching Doodlebug to fine Ballpoint Pen Art.
Canada Day Photos: A few of my favourite shots are now on display at Disclosure.ca. We watched the Canada Day Parade in Port Hope, got faces painted, and tried to plant a Canadian flag on our favourite piece of Canada--our own backyard.
Shake it like a Polaroid: According to Polaroid, you're not really supposed to shake a Polaroid picture during the developing process, no matter what you've heard from Outkast. Apparently, it can cause the photograph to develop distortions of the image. Artists use this phenomenon to create artistic Polaroid Manipulations. I've dusted off my Polaroid SX-70 Instant Camera recently to experiment with this technique in my art classes. It's fun. And while we're on the topic of Polaroids, here's another interesting PolaPolaPola Polaroid Project that's worth a look.
Trompe l'oeil: A French phrase meaning, literally, "trick the eye" refers to a style of art sometimes called illusionsim. Extraordinary fine art examples painted in this style are shown on this website. You might have seen some of these works before. What's really unusual, though, is this sidewalk art in the trompe l'oeil style--in chalk. So real, it's unreal.
Computers: The new iMac G5 looks really nice. It's amazing the work that is being created by artists on computers these days. Sometimes, it's difficult to tell reality photographed from a computer graphic image. Is it Fake or Foto? Sometimes computer graphics can demonstrate how a work of art is created. Take a look at this beauty. I'll be adding some more links to great artistic, photographic, and journalistic websites. And, I hope to have my work listed on Portfolios.com in the near future.
It's a Canadian game: Disclosure.ca, listed among our favourite photographic links, is a growing collection of photographs that explore Canada and what it is to be Canadian. One photograph was selected by the disclosure.ca judges as the best photo submitted in 2003. Nice shot.
That's the Spirit: It's inspiring to look up from our day to day work to appreciate the wonderful panoramic photography that the Mars rover Spirit is sending back to us on Spaceship Earth. If you've got a high speed Internet connection, you can enjoy this spectacular animated music video of Spirit's journey from Earth to Mars.
The Decline of Fashion Photography: An argument in pictures by Karen Lehrman is very interesting.
Gigapixels: This digital photograph of the view from Bryce Point in Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah consists of 196 separate photographs taken with a 6 megapixel digital camera, and then stitched together into one seamless composite. The final image is 40,784 x 26,800 pixels in size, and contains about 1.09 billion pixels...a little more than one gigapixel. All I want for Christmas is a Canon EOS 300D Digital Rebel, unless you really love me, and want to get me a Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II, wireless.
Palettes: Richard Rutter, a website producer in England, describes on his weblog some really handy online colour tools available on the Internet. These tools help the untrained or unreliable eye to come up with colour palettes based on complimentary and harmonious colours. In addition to those great colour tools, we like the 4096 Color Wheel and Color Cop.
Funtastic: Mr. Picassohead is a creative bit of fun with an artistic flare. From time to time, I'll add links to websites about art that are fun, as well as interesting. You'll find more links like this at the bottom of the left hand column, under the heading Funtasitc. Please come back to visit as often as you can to check out what's new around here, and have a little fun sharing our discoveries. :)
Flickr: This isn't your grandfather's photo sharing site!
My name spelled with Flickr photographs.
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