Category: Art

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‘Final Fantasy’ designer creates the wildest take on Batman yet

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As reported on The Verge. By Sam Byford Tetsuya Nomura’s Dark Knight is very, very dark If nothing else, Square Enix artist Tetsuya Nomura has built up a distinctive style over the years — his androgynous, zipper-heavy designs for characters in games like Kingdom Hearts and theFinal Fantasy series are recognizable anywhere. But none of that will have prepared you for his surreal take on Batman, revealed in action figure form at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. The “DC Comics…

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Here’s the first teaser art from the new ‘Fight Club 2’ comic series

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As reported on The Verge. By Chris Welch  Chuck Palahniuk’s long awaited sequel to Fight Club is coming in the form of a 10-issue comic book series, and today we’re getting our first look at what it will look like. Set ten years after the events of Palahniuk’s novel, the comic book will apparently feature the wedding of Fight Club’snarrator — who now goes by the name Sebastian — and Marla. Tyler Durden is also featured in the artwork;…

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This is the timeless work of the man who made NYC’s iconic subway map

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As reported on The Verge. By Jacob Kastrenakes Vignelli died Tuesday at 83 after decades of iconic design work Designer Massimo Vignelli, known for his iconic New York City subway map and American Airlines logo, among many other designs, died today at the age of 83. It was reported earlier this month that he was very ill and would remain at home during his final weeks. Vignelli co-founded the design firm Unimark International in 1964, which specialized in…

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Students build a robot arm you control with the wink of an eye

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As reported on Engadget. BY JON FINGAS Want proof that you don’t need big, specialized equipment to produce a mind-controlled robot arm? Just look at a recent University of Toronto student project. Ryan Mintz and crew have created an arm that you control using little more than a brainwave-sensing headset (which is no longer that rare) and a laptop. The team’s software is smart enough to steer the arm using subtle head movements, such as clenching your jaw or…

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Monty Python’s final show will be broadcast to theaters around the world

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As reported on The Verge. By Sean Hollister On July 20th, the five remaining members of famed comedy group Monty Python will reunite for one last show, and you won’t have to fly to the United Kingdom to watch. Due to popular demand, The Last Night of Monty Python will be streamed live to 1,500 theaters around the world. The performance is expected to include some of the group’s famous sketches, although we’re not yet sure which ones. …

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Lost Andy Warhol artworks discovered on Amiga floppies from the ’80s

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As reported on Engadget. BY JON TURI Rediscovered artwork like a napkin Picasso or unearthed Matisse can be identified on sight, but pieces crafted in the digital age by pop-artist extraordinaire Andy Warhol and encoded in an outdated format are far more difficult to ascertain. In fact, it took the retro know-how of Carnegie Mellon University’s Computer Club and a team of artists, archivists and curators to wrangle some of Warhol’s lost pixels into the physical world. The…

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The hometown of British surveillance gets the Banksy treatment

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As reported on The Verge. By Aaron Souppouris A new a piece believed to be the work of street artist Banksy has emerged in the English town of Cheltenham. It touches on themes Banksy has explored before, namely the “surveillance state,” with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer. The untitled artwork subverts a phone booth and satellite dish, adding shady Dick Tracy-esque men that are assumedly listening in on phone calls. As well as appropriating existing objects to…

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These grotesque 19th-century animations will hypnotize you

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As reported on The Verge. By Aaron Souppouris 19th-century animation is trippy. For years enthusiasts have been transforming the artworks created for early animation devices like the zoetrope and phenakistascope into grotesque yet wonderful GIFs, and it was only a matter of time before these revived animations were repurposed elsewhere. Film-making duo The Brothers Lynch dug up a number of animations from Victorian-era phenakistoscope discs, blending them together to create a music video for the Carly Paradis…

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Artists pay tribute to Stephen King’s twisted legacy of horror

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As reported on The Verge. By T.C. Sottek  As one of the most successful and prolific American horror and fantasy authors, Stephen King’s works span decades and mediums. To celebrate his work, illustrators lined up to provide pieces for “King for a Day:” an art show from the Hero Complex Gallery in Los Angeles that’s billed as a “tribute to Stephen King’s full body of collected works.” The collection features dozens of pieces covering the gamut…

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DARK ARTS

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As reported on The Verge. By Molly Osberg Meet the architects of Tumblr’s cyberpunk renaissance We’re in a weird time for the way the future looks; somehow House of Cardscan slyly introduce a floating text-message interface to their present-day political drama without so much as blinking, but most of our iconic near- and far-future worlds run on tracks laid down well before the ’90s. And it’s not just the recycling of every franchise from Star Trek to RoboCop: Avatar’s and Prometheus’ huge…

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