Category: blogs & websites
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Computer art of a different kind
For your Friday fun, check out this slide show on wired.com of recycled computer circuit boards as “circuitry sculpture”. The artist, Theo Kamecke, creates both functional works (like this manuscript chest, left) as well as freestanding and wall pieces. For recent works not on his website, click here.
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Anyone want to buy a Frank Lloyd Wright house? Anyone???
In a sad sign of the times there are two FLW houses on the market in LA, and no takers. Ennis House was extensively renovated and listed last summer for $15 million. A year later the price has dropped to $7.5 million. La Miniatura in Pasadena was listed two years ago for $7.7 million and…
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Zooming in to Daguerreotypes
Wired Magazine has a fascinating article about the conservation of a famous set of daguerreotypes. In 1848 Charles Fontayne and William Porter created a “panorama” (actually eight separate plates) of the Cincinnati waterfront. Because the plates were so big (6.5×8.5″) the detail in each is astonishing. The plates had acquired a lot of dirt and…