Everyone on my Tumblr dash, PLEASE watch this. Especially if you are a creative artist:
Adobe is going to scrap their hard copies (disks) for their software (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Flash), and have you pay a subscription for the latest software called the Adobe Creative Cloud. $50 per month. Could you really afford such an expense in the long run?
This is really disturbing. Please hear what he has to say, it really is a serious situation for working artists. Pass this along so others may know about the Adobe Creative Cloud and how horrible it is.
Yep… Just went to see how much Flash costs. You know, to just buy the program? Guess what? After spending a while looking, it appears that you CAN’T anymore. You have to pay an outrageous subscription fee. I hate adobe. Is there a petition going around to stop this nonsense? Because I want to sign it.
Thanks! I know a lot of artists and people who like art follow me. You guys should go sign that.
Today I just signed the petition in the voice against the Adobe Creative Cloud. For those who are not familiar with what the new Creative Cloud can do to you as an artist, I really suggest you watch this video.
For those who have seen, reblogged, faved, here’s the link (as shown in the previous reblog) to sign the petition. Anything can happen, Adobe really needs to know that many artists are not supportive of them controlling not just the software..but the content worked on the Cloud.
Signed! Boosting the signal, I prefer to be able to buy my software.
wow as if adobe products werent already ridiculously expensive and pr much inaccessible to many artists through “legitimate” means
sighs is this real is this really happening
i doubt that they’ll go through with it if enough people scream at them, like didnt netflix try to increase their fee by two dollars or something only to get nightmare-level backlash?
get to signin
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Miyoko Shida Rigolo. (Beautiful!)
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Instead of printing out photo booth strips, this Harajuku photo booth will print out 3D figurines of yourself thanks to the magic of 3D printers!
It was set up by creative studio PARTY and will be up from November 24th to January 14th.
You have to stand still for 15 minutes in order to get your 3-dimensional photo taken — think you can hold your pose?
Photo Booth Prints 3D Figurines of Yourself Instead of Photos
One of the most iconic photo poses of the internet age is the self-portrait captured with an outstretched arm.
Cape Town, South Africa-based newspaper Cape Times has photoshopped historical photos as if they were taken like a selfie.
Famous Historical Photos Reinvented as Selfies
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Mary Ellen Mark’s four year documentation of proms across America is fascinating, to say the least.
anythingphotography explains:
Over the course of four years Mark took portraits at 13 high school proms held across the country using one of only five existing 20×24 inch Polaroid Land Cameras. The results are exquisite, formal, and composed portraits illustrating a wide diversity of couples (and solos). Emo kids. The young-rich-fashionable. Survivors. Charming geeks.
The project was published in the book Prom and documented by her filmmaker husband Martin Bell as interviews on camera. Mark’s work is currently on view at New York’s Janet Borden gallery until January 19; see some of our favorite shots of kids these days below in our slideshow.
pronunciation | ne-fe-lE-‘ba-ta
does anyone know if this has a positive or negative connotation?
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Vladimir Franz at TEDxBrno. The professor, composer, painter is in the running to be the next president of the Czech Republic.
TEDx speaker runs for president: Vladimir Franz, an opera composer, painter, professor and TEDx speaker, is now third in the running for the next president of the Czech Republic, with elections taking place this week.
The first-time candidate has never held a political position, but decided to run after fans of his work started a “Franz for President” initiative, says the Associated Press. He received 88,000 signatures from voters in favor of his inclusion on the ballot, AP reports, far more than the 50,000 required by law.
In 2011, he spoke at TEDxBrno, held at the same theatre where he debuted his 2009 opera, Valley of the Dry Bones. At the event, he gave a talk entitled, “Soustavně upadající víra ve vzdělanost a vědomí souvislostí na přelomu tisíciletí” — or in English, “Steadily declining faith in education and awareness of context at the turn of the millennium” — on the importance and purpose of art in society, over time and today.
Asking potential artists to keep the “magic” in art, he proposed art as a potential salve for the onslaught of information overload people face in the 21st century. He warned of the danger of societies adopting a view of art that is too calculated or scientific, because, he says, “as opposed to science, art is badly measurable…suggesting scientific methods to art is nonsense [and then] art becomes…[merely] a chain of information.”
This is a message that seems to be in key with his slightly-unorthodox political views: embracing intellectualism, artistic values, and rejecting the current state of Czech politics. This, and his slightly-unorthodox “look” — a body covered head to toe in tattoos (which gained him the nickname “Avatar”) — seem to have made him a superstar of the media, with articles popping up all over the Internet.
Vladmir Franz at TEDxBrno: Steadily declining faith in education and awareness of context at the turn of the millennium
It’s yet to be determined whether Vladmir’s views on art, politics, and new ideas will grant him a position as the next Czech head of state, but the curious do not have long to wait: the first round of official elections in the Czech Republic take place this Friday and Saturday, January 11-12, 2013.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/ea3eb0dc52125c985f9aa8d2a2d0d382/tumblr_mgda9wvSjU1qedf7ko1_r1_500.jpg)
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Vladimir Franz at TEDxBrno. The professor, composer, painter is in the running to be the next president of the Czech Republic.
TEDx speaker runs for president: Vladimir Franz, an opera composer, painter, professor and TEDx speaker, is now third in the running for the next president of the Czech Republic, with elections taking place this week.
The first-time candidate has never held a political position, but decided to run after fans of his work started a “Franz for President” initiative, says the Associated Press. He received 88,000 signatures from voters in favor of his inclusion on the ballot, AP reports, far more than the 50,000 required by law.
In 2011, he spoke at TEDxBrno, held at the same theatre where he debuted his 2009 opera, Valley of the Dry Bones. At the event, he gave a talk entitled, “Soustavně upadající víra ve vzdělanost a vědomí souvislostí na přelomu tisíciletí” — or in English, “Steadily declining faith in education and awareness of context at the turn of the millennium” — on the importance and purpose of art in society, over time and today.
Asking potential artists to keep the “magic” in art, he proposed art as a potential salve for the onslaught of information overload people face in the 21st century. He warned of the danger of societies adopting a view of art that is too calculated or scientific, because, he says, “as opposed to science, art is badly measurable…suggesting scientific methods to art is nonsense [and then] art becomes…[merely] a chain of information.”
This is a message that seems to be in key with his slightly-unorthodox political views: embracing intellectualism, artistic values, and rejecting the current state of Czech politics. This, and his slightly-unorthodox “look” — a body covered head to toe in tattoos (which gained him the nickname “Avatar”) — seem to have made him a superstar of the media, with articles popping up all over the Internet.
Vladmir Franz at TEDxBrno: Steadily declining faith in education and awareness of context at the turn of the millennium
It’s yet to be determined whether Vladmir’s views on art, politics, and new ideas will grant him a position as the next Czech head of state, but the curious do not have long to wait: the first round of official elections in the Czech Republic take place this Friday and Saturday, January 11-12, 2013.
Here’s an awesome bit of high tech urban mischief. Greg Petchkovsky uses 3D photoscan software and a 3D printer to create objects that blend seamlessly into their surroundings. A solid brick appears to be melting, the corner of a sandstone block has worn away to reveal that it’s made of LEGO bricks. Made for the “Make it real” challenge on Instructables, the pieces are wonderfully convincing.
Watch this short video, entitled Mixing Digital Sculpture with Real Objects, to see how Greg creates these subtle works of playful street art.
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Photography by Phillip Schumacher | Flickr
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Spencer Finch - 366, Emily Dickinson’s Miraculous Year (2009)
This work is based on Emily Dickinson in 1862, when she wrote 366 poems in 365 days. It is a real-time memorial to that year, which burns for exactly one year. The sculpture is comprised of 366 individual candles arranged in a linear sequence, each of which burns for 24 hours. The colour of each candle matches a colour mentioned in the corresponding poem. For the poems in which no colour is mentioned, the candles are made out of natural paraffin.
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From Nixon to Monroe, Mr. Halsman has a unique approach to his compositions. Not to say as if he was the first to do photo manipulation/surrealism, but he carefully engages his subjects. Talking them off the pristine ladder and encouraging them to be more. Let loose! “Jump!” He exclaimed, and they did. The amazing series he does with all these stars. Jumpology! I’ll leave you with one of his quotes.
“Most people stiffen with self-consciousness when they pose for a photograph. Lighting and fine camera equipment are useless if the photographer cannot make them drop the mask, at least for a moment, so he can capture on his film their real, undistorted personality and character. “
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