Art: Artfacts Artist Ranking

The Artist Ranking orders artists in an ordinal scaling according to their recognition in the eyes of professionals (i.e. curators, gallery owners).

Category: Art

Music: Acoustical Art

Acoustical Art presents Flow, Centro and Hydro. Loudspeakers with modern industrial aesthetics and high fidelity sound. Every loudspeaker begins as PVC tube fittings & are precisely fabricated by hand into a finished loudspeaker.

Category: Music

Quotes: Frank Zappa

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

From Frank Zappa.

Category: Quotes

Design: Using Photographs For Color Schemes

• Adam Polselli gives examples of color schemes created from photographs in Where'd Ya Get That Color Scheme?
• Color Palette Generator allows users to upload an image and create a color palette based on it.

[via xBlog and Angiemckaig]

Category: Design

Music: Chemical Brothers & Prodigy Remixes

If you're in the mood for some free beats, download these two full length remix albums. The download app Bittorrent worked great.

• Chemical Brothers - Flip The Switch


• The Prodigy - Always Outsiders, Never Outdone

Not content with the unprecedented international success of their last remix project, the team behind 'Always Outsiders, Never Outdone', the unofficial Prodigy Remixed album, have only gone and done it again. This time the Chemical Brothers latest album 'Push the Button' gets the remix treatment.

[via The Skinny & beatmixed]

Category: Music

Art: My Painting "Courtyard" (2003)

Category: Art

Music: John Legend

Allmusic aptly describes John Legend's great Get Lifted disc:

The production work supporting his songs strikes a fine balance between soul and hip-hop, allowing him to appeal to those who are coming from either angle.

He has a personable and instantly fetching voice you could listen to all day long.

Category: Music

Quotes: Scott Adams

Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

From Scott Adams in The Dilbert Principle.

Category: Quotes

Art: My Painting "Extend" (2003)

Category: Art

Quotes: Squashed Philosophers

The Squashed Philosophers features condensed versions of great philosophers' works:

The books which defined the way The West thinks now
Condensed and abridged to keep the substance, the style and the quotes, but ditching all that irritating verbiage.

Category: Quotes

Art: Marius Watz

System_C is a time-based drawing machine, a self-organizing software system for the creation of rule-based images. Several autonomous agents move over a surface, making marks as they move, seen by visitors to the Electrohype exhibition as a realtime two-screen projection.

Marius Watz (b. 1973, Oslo, Norway) is an artist and designer working with generative strategies for creating visual form.

[via Generative Graphics]

Category: Art

Design: On Creativity

• iStockphoto's Faux Real (login required)
• Fast Company's The 6 Myths Of Creativity
• Gapingvoid's How To Be Creative
• Mezzoblue's Getting Unstuck

Category: Design

Art: Jackson Pollock

• Jackson Pollock's painting Full Fathom Five
  with a nice detail photo
  
• The Physics Behind the Paintings of Jackson Pollock
  
• The Visual Complexity of Pollock's Dripped Fractals (PDF)
  
• More photos of Jackson Pollock's work
  
• The artist who inspired Pollock, Janet Sobel
  
• Another "drip method" artist, Jack Schaffer

[via guinn9]

Category: Art

Art: My Painting "Taffy" (2004)

Category: Art

Web: Magazine for Web Developers & Designers

I highly recommend Design In-Flight: Issue Three: January 2005. It is well worth the $3 to download.

The January issue of Design In-Flight is here, with over 30 pages of tutorials, articles and commentary.

Design In-Flight is a PDF magazine targeted to graphic design professionals and web developers. Design In-Flight strives to both educate and entertain and is recommended reading for anyone currently involved in – or looking to enter – graphic design, web design and web development.

Categories: Design, Web

Web: Overhauled

I redesigned this site over the weekend. The header was influenced by a few episodes of TLC's Overhaulin'. I created the stop sign shaped bullets with SimpleBits' The Anatomy of an Icon in mind. And I added some quick links to posts about CSS, art, & Firefox to the sidebar.

After I make a few more adjustments here, I'll migrate this design over to my portfolio site too.

Category: Web

Quote: Clerks

Dante: But you hate people.
Randal: Yes, but I love gatherings. Isn't it ironic?

From Kevin Smith's first movie, Clerks (1994).

Category: Quotes

Art: Ruth Schwarz

Excellent New York school drip painting. Titled "Tintinnebulation". Signed by Ruth Schwarz. Dated 1961. Serious early experimentions by other New York artists with Jackson Pollack’s new drip painting technique are considered rare.

In addition to the shape and thickness of the strokes, I was struck by the background of this painting. The green gives it an organic quality - almost like grass or trees are visible behind the twists of color.

Category: Art

Design: Photoshop Tips & Upcoming Features

Veerle's blog has a couple cool Photoshop tips and a link to an article outlining what's new in Photoshop CS 2.0. I've been using Photoshop since 1997 and am repeatedly amazed that there are always new tricks and shortcuts to learn.

Category: Design, Photoshop

Design: Colors

• Adam Polselli's 2005 Color Forecast. The forecast for 2004 is there too. [via Digital Web News]
  
• ReedDesign's Pantone to RGB Conversion Table displays more than a thousand colors and their RGB codes.
  
• The Web-Smart Palette has 4,096 colors for 16- and 24-bit monitors versus the traditional 216-color web-safe palette. There are a few dozen color schemes using the web-smart palette on Spectacle.
  
• And the Color Generators I posted in October.

Category: Design

Misc: All Posts from 2004

December
Misc: 2005 Calendars for Download
Art: A Couple Paint Links
Quote: On Luck
Web: Smooth Flash Headlines with sIFR
Web: Free PDF Creator
Art: Carl Fudge
Music: iPod Socks
Art: Christopher H. Martin
Music: Beastie Boys vs The Beatles
Art: My Painting "Attack"
Music: Download Sites
Art: Marla Olmstead
Art: Stuart Davis
Web: Thoughts After Web Design World 2004
Book: Geometry of design
Misc: The Dog Has His Reasons
Web: More Extensions for Firefox
Web: Google Suggest Beta
Misc: Nostalgia in a Video Game
Web: Photo Fades Without Flash
Web: Gmail Doesn't Dig CSS
Art: Nostalgia in a Found Object
Quote: Think Creatively
Design: Icons

November
Quote: Creativity
Web: Firefox Browser
Music: Jay-Z vs The Beatles
Misc: Hack Yourself
Book: Creating a Web Page with HTML
Quote: Matrix Reloaded
Web: Free Design Resources
Design: The Man Behind the FedEx Logo
Music: Modest Mouse, Grand National, Midlake
Music: NBA Tells Player to Stop Listening to iPod
Design: 100% Handmade Friends
Web: CSS Resources
Web: Usability Resources
Web: HTML Email Newsletters
Web: Using Patterns in Web Design

October
Web: Media Ratings
Web: Search Sites
Web: Color Generators
Music: Citizen Cope
Music: Solid Steel
Web: Table-Free CSS Layouts
Web: Please Make Me Think!
Quote: Heraclitus
Quote: Wilde

September
Web: CSS Stuff On A List Apart
Book: Photoshop: channel-chops
Web: Some Blogs I Frequent

August
Web: Trade This Site

July
Web: Site Pairs
Music: TV on the Radio
Music: iPod Ubiquity
Book: Defensive Design for the Web
Music: Fiona Apple
Music: Rachael Yamagata
Photoshop: Extrude Filter
Music: Gift of Gab
Photoshop: Tutorial Sites
Music: Interpol
Misc: Welcome