Category: Art

Art Entertainment

Dark Horse to adapt original ‘The Star Wars’ script into comic series

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As reported on The Verge. By Jacob Kastrenakes Disney’s Star Wars films won’t begin hitting theaters until 2015, but we’ll get to see a new, George Lucas-written Star Wars saga even earlier than that. Dark Horse Comics is releasing an eight-issue series based on the original 1974 screenplay for Star Wars. The comic should be a much different adventure than the beloved A New Hopehowever, as the original The Star Wars treatment that Lucas wrote had quite a few differences: Han Solo was an alien, lightsabers…

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Art Culture

See New York City’s Massive Graffiti Mecca Before It’s Torn Down

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Paul Szoldra Paul Szoldra/Business Insider Just off the 7 train in Long Island City, Queens, you’ll find a 200,000-square-foot warehouse that’s impossible to miss.  It’s called 5 Pointz, and it’s the center of the New York City street art scene. This isn’t your typical tag-your-name-and-run-when-the-cops-come type of place. 5 Pointz is an outdoor exhibit for the absolute best underground art in the city, where artists from around the world show off their…

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Art Entertainment Science

Pixar’s Senior Scientist explains how math makes the movies and games we love

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As reported on The Verge. By Tim Carmody Applied research by Tony DeRose and his colleagues takes animators from simple polygons to the limits of geometric storytelling Tony DeRose wanders between rows at New York’s Museum of Mathematics. In a brightly-colored button-up T-shirt that may be Pixar standard issue, he doesn’t look like the stereotype of a scientist. He greets throngs of squirrely, nerdy children and their handlers — parents and grandparents, math and science teachers…

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Art Games

The Breathtaking Final Fantasy Art of Yoshitaka Amano

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As reported on Wired. BY CHRIS KOHLER The worldwide success of the Final Fantasy series of role-playing games is due in great part to the contributions of graphic artist Yoshitaka Amano. Born in 1952, Amano began his career as an animator for seminal Japanese animation series like Speed Racer and Gatchaman, before turning freelance in the 1980s and concentrating on illustrations. His artistic signature, quite different from the big-eyed, primary-hued anime style that had come to define postwar Japanese aesthetic, lent a…

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Art Engineering

Wired’s Weekly Picks of Stunning Architecture

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As reported on Wired. BY NATHAN HURST Each week, Wired Design brings you a photo of one of our favorite buildings, showcasing boundary-pushing architecture and design involved in the unique structures that make the world’s cityscapes interesting. Check back Fridays for the continuing series, and feel free to make recommendations in the comments, by Twitter, or by e-mail.  New York by Gehry, New York City Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry went residential for the first time on…

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Art

‘Super Stylish Slope Device’ Combines Tank, Van and DJ Booth

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As reported on Wired. BY DAMON LAVRINC View as gallery View as gallery   It took four years, €60,000 – that’s $81,150 here in the States – and more welding than the San Francisco Bay Bridge retrofit, but Bernd Berger and his crew created the ultimate snowbound DJ party rig. They describe it as the “super stylisches pistengerät,” which roughly translates to “super stylish slope device” – a name so stereotypically Austrian that we can’t help but love…

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Art Article

Documenting the Never-Built Dreams of the City of Angels

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As reported on Wired. BY TIM MALY Tower of Civilization, 1939 Los Angeles World’s Fair Courtesy Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical GardensThe 1939 World’s Fair was held in New York but Los Angeles wanted it. The tower would have been 150 feet wide and 1,290 feet tall (the current tallest building, the Burj Khalifa is 2,722 feet). “It would have been the tallest structure in the world at the time,” writes Lubell. “It was going to be…

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Learn why art matters with The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new web series

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As reported on The Verge. By Andrew Webster Museums can be overwhelming — often, there’s simply so much to see that it’s hard to properly interact with each piece you come across. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is looking to change that with 82nd and Fifth, a new web series aimed at teaching you why 100 different pieces from the museum matter. In each episode museum curators examine one work — whether it’s an…

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Mind-bending GIFs push the limits of art and processors

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As reported on The Verge. By Amar Toor Nowadays, the word “GIF” has become all but synonymous with the frivolous and whimsical, but Croatian Paolo Čerić is proving that there’s more to the medium than just cats and LOLs. Čerić, 22, is currently studying at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Zagreb, where he experiments with new ways to create art from code. His animations, published to his Patakk Tumblr, are equal parts mesmerizing and…

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Art Story

How Art Can Bridge the Digital ‘Divide’

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As reported on Wired. BY DRUE KATAOKA Consisting of paintings, brainwave recordings fed into smart glass, and a live tree in a box, this art installation is an attempt to bridge the digital art divide — inviting new ways to “think, see, and filter affect.” The piece is called “The Tree of Pascal” by Drue Kataoka and will be exhibited as part of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos this week.…

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