If you’re going to be in Los Angeles this Saturday, try to go to the Fowler Museum at UCLA between 8 and 11pm. The Fowler will is teaming up with KCRW to present “Soundsuits after Dark”, a live presentation of Nick Cave’s soundsuits to the accompaniment of music courtesy KCRW DJs Garth Trinidad and…
If you have roughly 300 slides and a lot of time on your hands, here’s another nifty project. I bet the light would be beautiful coming through the slides. Think how nice this will look with your slide curtain. Optional: pink slides.
Curious to know just how well you’re able to distinguish colors? Test your color acuity with this online color challenge, an abridged version of the Farnsworth Munsell 100 Hue Test. Offered by X-Rite, a company that specializes in color science and technology, the test “is used to separate persons with normal color vision into classes…
Several websites have compiled lists of films on art, or that feature art historical figures or themes. Here are just a few: The Ultimate Art History Guide to Cinema Art Historians’ Guide to the Movies Art History in the Movies Dr. Cheney’s Art History Films (includes links to video clips) A libris’ list of art…
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater has been replicated in LEGO blocks – 15,000 of them. It took the creator seven months to complete it. In other Wright-LEGO news, the LEGO company is introducing the Frank Lloyd Wright Collection, which includes instructions for building six of his iconic designs. These won’t take seven months or 15,000 blocks,…
“Paris 26 Gigapixels” is a project that has stitched together 2346 single photos of Paris, resulting in a very high resolution (354159 x 75570 pixels!) 360 degree panorama view of the French capital. You can pan manually, or allow it to play on a beautiful slow pan (accompanied by contagious Parisian music); you can zoom…