The term "light painting" refers to effects like the trail of lights left by cars in a photo. Light painting involves leaving a camera’s shutter wide open and
overexposing it to moving objects that emit light, creating a continuous
capture until the shutter closes.
Interested in the howto? Check out the following link.
http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Use_Camera_Tricks_to_Paint_Light_in_the_Sky
I'm sure you're all still frantically working on your websites, so I thought I'd share some useful tools I've come across while working on my own.
First, W3 Schools. They offer tutorials for all levels of expertise in writing HTML, CSS, PHP... etc. http://www.w3schools.com/
I actually came across GoMediaZine while working on a related project, but they offer a lot of tutorials involving font creation and other Illustrator functions. It helped me with my site banner. http://www.gomediazine.com/
Finally, a color scheme designer. You decide what the primary color of you site will be and it'll give you various options for complimenting it. Shame mine is primarily black and white due to my product. http://colorschemedesigner.com/
Molly Crabapple is a artist and writer based out of New York. She is something of a political activist as well, she had been arrested during the Occupy Wall Street movements in 2011. These pictures are a part of her "Shell Game" series, a series of nine 4-foot by 6-foot allegorical paintings to commemorate the chaos of a year of revolution.
Beyond the Occupy Wall Street movement, the pieces cover Goldman Sachs, Anonymous, the health insurance crisis,
the British anti-cuts protests, the American debt crisis, the Tunisian
revolution, the anti-austerity protests in Greece and the M15 movement in
Spain.
This series and other works can be found on her website, found at:
http://mollycrabapple.com/shell-game/
I'm exhausted, finishing up projects and papers while struggling to keep up on all the normal papers, then starting all the final projects all in the span of a couple weeks. As fellow students I'm sure you feel the same way.
Anyways, I sat back after a long day at work, put on my headphones and put on some music to relax.
I closed my eyes and sunk into the chair, enjoying the music. Then I had the thought that this artist might make a decent blog post. So here I am, begrudgingly, typing this for the benefit of my avid readers.
Air is an electronic music duo from France. I love 'em. A general genre label for them would probably be "electronica." Like Boards of Canada (the group I presented) they have roots in experimentation with the technology of their time, and adapting new methods over time. Along with a wide variety of synthesizers and other electronic instruments, they are known to blend in classical instrumentation. It's recorded with the rest of the album as opposed to being sampled like many artists opt for.
The duo released their first album in 1998. Though it's completely speculation on my part, I would be willing to bet Air was a major inspiration for Black Moth Super Rainbow. I'll look that up later. Maybe.
London graphic artist Christopher Gowans did a series called "The Record Books" in which he took popular or iconic songs and re imagined them as novels, in most cases. Sometimes they would be other varieties of books though. Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys became a "Japanese pre-school board book" that would play back animal noises when buttons were pressed. Prince's Purple Rain becomes a Sci-Fi novel. Anyways, here are some examples I liked.
The whole series can be found on his site!
Source: http://ceegworld.com/
I was almost done posting for the day, but then I found more unbelievable space pictures. The twist? These ones are pointed at the earth.
It always blows my mind that these kinds of images are real as opposed to created by by Photoshop or something. And as always, there's something to be learned from the color composition and arrangement and such. There's a reason they're so visually appealing, after all.
