Day of the Dead
| Robert Hughes excoriates Damien Hirst.
The art of Cuauhtémoc Rodríguez
Irradación from Microescenarios.
Triumbirato from Microescenarios.
Two of many striking digital works by Mexican artist Cuauhtémoc Rodríguez. The use of chiaroscuro always gets my attention and there’s plenty of that at work here, as in the example above. Via Bajo el Signo de Libra.
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• Brian Riley
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• Chiaroscuro
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• Dylan Ricci
Back to the pre-Human Future
Back to the pre-Human Future
| Richard X on the Human League and the Future …
David Lynch: ‘They murdered my first movie’
Textorizer
Textorizer takes a raster image in a format such as png, jpeg or gif, detects edges using a Sobel convolution filter and replaces them with supplied lines of text.
In a similar vein, you can Textorize a picture using a downloadable application. Flickr has a pool of examples.
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