August 2011
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Wacom Inkling
The Inkling digital sketch pen captures a digital likeness of your work while you sketch with its ballpoint tip on any sketchbook or standard piece of paper. Designed for rough concepting and creative brainstorming, Inkling is ideal for the front end of the creative process. Later, refine your work on your computer using an Intuos4 tablet or Cintiq interactive pen display.
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A Definitive Guide to Leonardo da Vinci's... →
By Maria Popova
From anatomy to aviation, or what Leonardo’s drawings reveal about cross-disciplinary creativity.
Leonardo da Vinci possessed a rare kind of cross-disciplinary genius. It’s safe to say the Italian painter, engineer, architect, sculptor, scientist and futurist was one of the greatest minds that ever lived, a kind of intellectual and creative powerhouse that influenced centuries of...
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Astronomers Find Planet Made of Diamond →
By Mark Brown, Wired UK
An international team of astronomers, led by Australia’s Swinburne University of Technology professor Matthew Bailes, has discovered a planet made of diamond crystals, in our own Milky Way galaxy.
The planet is relatively small at around 60,000 km in diameter (still, it’s five times the size of Earth). But despite its diminutive stature, this crystal space rock has...
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Astronomers report seeing supermassive black hole... →
By Amina Khan, August 24, 2011, Los Angeles Times
For the first time, astronomers say they’ve borne witness to a supermassive black hole consuming a star. Two papers released Wednesday by the journal Nature describe powerful blasts of radiation whose brightness and behavior can be explained only by a sun-sized star being torn apart by the gravitational forces of a black hole at the center...
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Romantic Windows "Rooms with a View" →
Peter Schjeldahl writes this week about the show “Rooms with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century,” at the Metropolitan Museum, which highlights Caspar David Friedrich and other Romantic artists “who became smitten, in the period during and after the Napoleonic Wars, with views of interior spaces that center on windows.”
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NASA Satellite Finds Coldest, Darkest Stars Yet →
By Danielle Venton, August 23, 2011, Wired Science
Stars as cool as the human body found by NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer offer astronomers the chance to study star formation and the atmospheres of planets like Jupiter, away from the light of more dazzling stars.
The WISE satellite, decommissioned this year, returned data revealing 100 new brown dwarfs, sometimes termed “failed”...
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Dolphins Blast Into School of Fish →
Dolphins and gannets blast through a shimmering, pulsing vortex of fish in these up-close glimpses of an underwater buffet.
The video was taken by biologist Robin Vaughn during her graduate studies at Texas A&M University. She was interested in how dolphins — in this case, dusky dolphins in New Zealand’s Admiralty Bay — approached formations of schooling fish called prey balls.
In a...
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yoonju asked: ink drawings are probably my favorite. :)
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youjustmademyday asked: do you follow back?
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The Surprising Science of Smiles →
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Wired.com: Are we able to intuitively tell when someone is faking a smile?
Marianne LaFrance: Yes, often, but not always. When experimental studies are done in which fake and apparently spontaneous smiles are shown in pictures or brief videos, to both adults and kids, and the only thing they have to do is mark a smile as genuine or not, people are pretty good at telling...
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Why Some Seconds Seem to Last Forever →
By Danielle Venton, August 22, 2011, Wired Science
Though our perception of time can be stunningly precise — given a beat to keep, professional drummers are accurate within milliseconds — it can also be curiously plastic. Some moments seem to last longer than others, and scientists don’t know why.
Unlike our other senses, our perception of time has no defined location in our brain, making it...
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bloodmemory asked: I was on your website. I seriously love your artwork. It is fantastic! You are an amazing painter!
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beware-of-artists asked: I would like to know if there is a XML version of this theme, because I was thinking to use it as my blog theme. Thank you!
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Typewriter Font
As some of you might have noticed, the font used in my Typewriter theme doesn’t support italics. I’ve been looking around to find a replacement font for the theme. Just thought you should know.
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The Shapes of CSS →
CSS is beauty.
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invinculis asked: random question, but have you always been a painter? or did you use other mediums and then found you liked painting best?
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Six Months, Three Days →
By Charlie Jane Anders, June 8, 2011
The man who can see the future has a date with the woman who can see many possible futures.
Judy is nervous but excited, keeps looking at things she’s spotted out of the corner of her eye. She’s wearing a floral Laura Ashley style dress with an Ankh necklace and her legs are rambunctious, her calves moving under the table. It’s distracting because Doug knows...
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Early Adversity, Adult Misery: How Small Events... →
By Hans Villarica, August 19, 2011, The Atlantic
The brain does something weird when confronted with stress: It kills off neurons that could help it defend itself, and prevents new brain cells from forming in the hippocampus, a region associated with healthful stress responses. For years, mental health experts have tracked how this biological chain of events plays out in real life. Numerous...
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“You can’t make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in...”
– Robert Rauschenberg
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thedustwhispered replied to your post: haha thank you so much for your advice; i anticipate in seeing more of your work! i would love seeing more. thank you, thank you, thank you!
ink is a fun medium! :) are you using ink with brushes or pens?
It is! I’m actually using it with both. I got a fountain pen with Noodler’s ink and a brush pen by Pentel. I’m also waiting for...
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yoonju asked: haha thank you so much for your advice; i anticipate in seeing more of your work! i would love seeing more. thank you, thank you, thank you!
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Sargent Notes
When Mr. John Collier was writing his book on The Art of Portrait Painting he asked John Singer Sargent for an account of his methods. Sargent replied:
As to describing my procedure, I find the greatest difficulty in making it clear to pupils, even with the palette and brushes in hand and with the model before me; to serve it up in the abstract seems to me hopeless.
With the assistance,...
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yoonju asked: hi, i'm a rising senior and will be applying to art schools. i'm also looking at a painting major but am honestly deadly scared for my future. but since art is all i want to do, i guess i have no other choice. so my question is, what do most painters do with their degree after graduation? and if i want to become a professor in painting, should i go to liberal arts, or art school? thanks...
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Missing e - The browser extension for Tumblr! →
All you tumblrians must get this. Missing e is a an unofficial set of tools, features and interface changes for Tumblr. It’ll improve your tumblr experience! Internet Explorer users are out of luck. ;p
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Sergei Bongart: Notes on Painting
True art has passion and contains insight. It shows us a new way of looking at our world. As Matisse would say, it helps us to see with the fresh eyes of a child. Art is the great renewer of life. Impatience is the only threat to this prescription. It is all in the mileage invested. As Robert Henri says, do lots of starts and the finishes will take care of themselves.
In art, the hardest skill to...
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Stolen Rembrandt sketch found in church →
The work, drawn in quill pen and black ink, was signed on the back by the artist
The 17th Century Rembrandt sketch stolen from a California hotel at the weekend was recovered at a church about 20 miles (32 km) away, it has emerged.
Valued at $250,000 (£153,625), the piece, entitled The Judgement, was taken from an exhibition at the Ritz-Carlton in Marina del Rey.
The sketch was recovered...
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The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee →
by Honore de Balzac translated from the French by Robert Onopa
Coffee is a great power in my life; I have observed its effects on an epic scale. Coffee roasts your insides. Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring. Think about it: although more grocery stores in Paris are staying open until midnight, few writers are actually...
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“Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter.”
– Sergei Bongart
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Downloadable. Unsustainable, Too. →
By Chris Osborn, The New York Times, August 11, 2011
I FINALLY met Amy at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport a couple of Mays ago. I recall walking through the Atlanta airport’s terminal among pictures of nebulae and galaxies, floating along corridors with only a backpack. I called my friend Devin, hyperventilating, feeling downright Neil Armstrong, needing to broadcast this moment to someone.
Amy and I...
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“An artist is someone who has learned to trust in themselves.”
– Ludwig van Beethoven
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Starting
It’s always hard to start something. That something suddenly becomes very difficult. You’ll come up with all kinds of bullshit reasons to not start. You’re hungry. You need to pick up fruits from the grocery store because you haven’t had fruits for a couple weeks now. Your room is a mess, you can’t do anything like this. You want some apples. Ok so you decide to go...
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“Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.”
– Rembrandt van Rijn
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Health Now: A Provocation →
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By Mark Edmundson
A certain part of the American population now lives for nothing so much as it does for good health. There is protracted compulsive exercise, with a keen understanding of exactly how much cardio is necessary to reach maximum benefits. Weight training is crucial, of course, but never so much as to threaten injury. There is care for the diet, which must be...
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Ten Things I Have Learned About the Sea →
By Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg, The Atlantic, August 3, 2011
Italian filmmaker Lorenzo Fonda hitched a ride on a cargo ship from Los Angeles to Shanghai andalmost didn’t bring a camera. Luckily for us, he grabbed a simple HD handicam before boarding and documented his 17-day voyage. Fonda notes, “If you don’t have patience or don’t know me personally, you might not want to watch this,” so...
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“You and your mind are ultimately the real subject of your art regardless of what...”
– Richard Schmid
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An Evening with Howard Pyle in 1910 →
By Elizabeth Gurney
“Did you ever hear, and feel, and smell, as well as see a picture?” This question was asked of his pupils by Howard Pyle, the famous Delaware artist, one winter night years ago. The class, together with invited guests had assembled in Mr. Pyle’s studio, on Franklin Street, in Wilmington, for the weekly evening lecture. Its members occupied a motley, yet beautiful, collection...
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Caring for Your Introvert →
By Jonathan Rauch, Atlantic Magazine, March 2003
Do you know someone who needs hours alone every day? Who loves quiet conversations about feelings or ideas, and can give a dynamite presentation to a big audience, but seems awkward in groups and maladroit at small talk? Who has to be dragged to parties and then needs the rest of the day to recuperate? Who growls or scowls or grunts or winces when...
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4 Ways Technology Can Enable Your Inner Introvert →
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By Philip Bump, The Atlantic, July 25, 2011
If my research — conducted primarily via Netflix — is correct, America used to be a paradise for introverts. If you weren’t a lone cowboy riding the range in a driving snow, you lived on a farm miles from town, opening your front door onto a field of seven-foot-tall corn stalks. Social interactions were planned weeks in advance....
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“It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should...”
– Vincent van Gogh
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paper-pen asked: i love, love, LOVE your typewriter theme. i use it for my private blog. its simplicity is exactly what i've been looking for and the font screams vintage. thanks for creating it ... much appreciation!
