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stretched pixel landscapes

tom moody — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:37:14 +0000

Screenshot/detail from large page of enlarged pixel animations by A. Bill Miller.
Miller is using Nullsleep's code to make browsers render pages accurately rather than mandatorily fuzzing them out.
Viewing Miller's ocean of pixels the right way inspires after a couple of years of browser (and Apple)-induced myopia. So this is what cyberspace looks like!

polygon contact 2

tom moody — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:15:04 +0000

individual frame from GIF animation by Kiptok

Roger Brown meets Phone Arts

tom moody — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:06:50 +0000

mspaint7_a2 (phone art 2)

tom moody — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:56:15 +0000

modification of yaherd phone art

xtreme phone hack

tom moody — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:39:16 +0000

exploring the boundaries of the phone as artistic medium

apologies to tetsuo

forrest bess

tom moody — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:25:48 +0000

Painting by Forrest Bess, a naive modernist from Texas who had a stellar New York career, beginning with shows at Betty Parsons (Jackson Pollock's gallery). Recently a Bess turned up on Antiques Roadshow -- the old duffer who got it as a gift from Bess back in the day was pleased and flabbergasted by the $70,000 estimate. Hat tip Bill Schwarz, who has that and other Bess links here.

internet scatology

tom moody — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:21:43 +0000

It was once said that the literary idealist looked at the front of a house and the naturalist went around back and looked at the garbage. It wouldn't be unfair to say that the "art and technology" websites are our idealists, never daring to acknowledge that the internet is a sewer out of which the occasional blossom of "art" emerges. But who are our naturalists?

credits: Mad Magazine-style Dump.fm logo (my screenshot of a frankhats post under the Dump header); Funky Toilet by Diamondie on deviantart.com ("This is for the Pixel Pop Art competition, my first pixelation ever. If a toilet isn't an everyday item, then what is?")

found landscapes

tom moody — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:41:31 +0000

Once a work of art has colonized your brain you see it everywhere. The landscape piece Duncan Alexander contributed to a recent Nicholas O'Brien-curated show at 319 Scholes has had that effect on me. Was surfing around the website of the Metropolitan Museum and spotted it on a Google cache page. See the red arrow in the screenshot below (not the black one):

And then I found its original location on the Met website. It seems to have acquired a drop shadow but the style is unmistakable.

painting hand 1

tom moody — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:02:13 +0000

hat tips FAUXreal (for "art school hand"); GucciSoFlosy; FreddyK; and whoever drew "Alex"