Tag: tools

  • Art on the go with ARTstor Mobile

    ARTstor has just unveiled ARTstor Mobile, with access to all 1,000,000+ images from the ARTstor Digital Library through iPad, iPhone, and the iPod Touch to registered ARTstor users. It’s not an app but through the Safari browser you can search, browse, zoom, and view saved image groups (to which you have access). A great feature…

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  • Free Muybridgizer app from Tate and iTunes

    Tate Britain, partnered with iTunes, is offering a free app that allows the user to create images inspired by Eadweard Muybridge. The app, which was launched in conjunction with the Tate exhibition Muybridge at Tate Britain (8 September 2010–16 January 2011), “Muybridge-izes” photos by placing a succession of images into grids and sepia tones. [Note:…

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  • Uffizi masterpieces in high resolution

    An Italian company, Haltadefinizione, has created what they call “real high resolution” reproductions of six famous paintings from the Florentine museum.  If you’re wondering just how high resolution these are, the company photographed the six paintings at 3 to 20 billion pixels (yes, billion). However, while their tagline reads “If you can’t come to them,…

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  • Explaining and exploring photographic processes

    If students are having a hard time distinguishing their autochrome from their photogram, here are three fantastic on-line resources that offer definitions and examples of photographic processes: Historic Photographs, from the British Library, is an on-line gallery tour of photography “in its formative years.” Exploring Photography, from the Victoria & Albert Museum, has a series…

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  • Some online time wasters, I mean “Sites for Expressing Your Creativity”

    Flower Power – flowing, psychedelic flower designs – very soothing (and reminiscent of The Wonderful World of Disney!) Mr. PicassoHead – pretty self-explanatory – potato heads in the style of Picasso, ca. 1920 Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Prints – change the colors on the famous print of Marilyn Monroe ArtPad – paint on a canvas, using…

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  • Use your phone to explore SFMOMA

    The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has devised a way to turn your cell phone or MP3 player into a multimedia gallery guide.  If your phone has the capability, you can download audio-only or image-enhanced “artcasts”; this feature is possible on a MP3 player if you search iTunes for “SFMOMA Artcasts.” Also available is…

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