Category Archives: Art

May Cause Flashbacks

July 7, 2015 – 9:14 pm

Making the rounds today is a neural-network project from Google called DeepDream. It’s an open-source effort to train neural networks to recognize images (for you programmers, the code is here). I haven’t had any time to give this a close look, but if I understand correctly, when the system is presented with an unfamiliar image […]

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8 Stops

April 25, 2015 – 9:27 pm

The lovely Nina and I went to the Cherry Lane Theatre this afternoon to see a one-woman performance by Deb Margolin called ‘8 Stops‘. Nina and I knew Deb many years ago — as it happens, she is a good friend of this website’s erstwhile comment-thread gadfly ‘The One Eyed Man’, and it was he […]

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Tweet Of The Day

August 6, 2014 – 9:10 am

  Ukrainian lawmakers: a renaissance masterpiece (Cloth is pure Veronese, but for subject matter id go with Caravaggio) pic.twitter.com/yFEKTJw4VV — Sam Jones (@samgadjones) August 6, 2014  

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Relativize This

October 23, 2013 – 9:58 pm

Here’s a a 3D zoomable panorama of the Sistine Chapel.

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Cape Light

April 23, 2013 – 6:15 pm

The psychologist and author Steven Pinker lives in Truro, here on the Outer Cape, and is a talented photographer. Here’s his most recent collection.

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Eye Candy

April 18, 2013 – 1:37 pm

Just ran across some fantastic light-table photos of the jellyfish known as the Portuguese man-of-war. Have a look here.

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Want Kraken On That?

January 18, 2013 – 11:43 pm

Here.

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Jay Mark Johnson

October 18, 2012 – 7:44 pm

Amazing slit-camera photography. See here and here.

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Eye Candy

August 4, 2012 – 11:23 pm

Have a look at this remarkable sculpture by Neil Dawson, mounted on a hilltop in New Zealand. More views of it here.

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The Forgotten Man

February 12, 2012 – 1:57 pm

Having just had yet another another arid and pointless dust-up about the Constitution, it seems apt to link to this interesting little art project, which comes to us courtesy of David Duff.

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Frightful

January 27, 2012 – 12:08 am

I’ve been working all day, with no time to write. I won’t send you off empty-handed, though: here’s a singular series of illustrations made by the artist John Vassos for his 1931 collection Phobias.

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Feat Of Clay

October 24, 2011 – 1:09 pm

Here’s an entertaining link: a collection of outstanding stop-motion animations.

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Exclusive!

October 5, 2011 – 1:05 pm

Did you see this summer’s box-office smash, Fast Five? Me neither. But my sources tell me it was one of the best yet. If, like me, you’ve been wondering about the creative process behind a blockbuster like this, you should watch this fascinating interview with the film’s screenwriter, Chris Morgan.

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Paper Cuts

June 10, 2011 – 10:48 am

Here and here.

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