HP chose the Cannes festival as a way to draw attention to its latest creativity-oriented high-end laptops and hybrid tablets. The most interesting device is the Spectre x2, a Surface Pro-like tablet with a detachable keyboard and stainless steel kickstand. HP is targeting Windows Ink users and other graphics pros with the 2.5-pound tablet, which […]
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Fantastical Animated Selfies That Explore An Artist’s Emotional Landscape
Chilean artist Xaviera López creates seconds-long animations that explore the creator’s emotional landscape with poetic illustrations. Each animation is a combination of analog and digital processes, at 15 frames per second. “My work is a very good representation of my internal process, that’s why some of my animations and illustrations are sad, or creepy, or […]
Nintendo’s Artists Are Being Cool
For decades, Nintendo’s artists have been stuck churning out cartoon art to fill the halls of the Mushroom Kingdom. Which is fine! But in recent years, the company has let them off the leash on games like Splatoon and ARMS, and the results have been nothing short of extraordinary. Advertisement Nintendo, the home of Mario […]
Predators anthem singer miffed at being upstaged by A-list artists
He says he’s been done wrong and maybe there’s a country song lurking somewhere in this. The longtime anthem singer at Nashville Predators hockey games has the blues. He’s been replaced in the Stanley Cup playoffs by superstar singers such as Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan, Lady Antebellum and Little Big Town. [embedded content] Dennis K. […]
Illinois is set to be the third state to enact laws against ‘scam artists who exploit’ desperate student loan borrowers
Mark Wilson/Getty Images The student loan crisis is starting to feel a lot like the housing crisis of the last decade, warns Illinois State Attorney General Lisa Madigan — a swelling economic disaster with millions of fragile borrowers unable to get timely help or good advice. If that seems like an overstatement of the situation […]
Artists Do a 3D Scan of Yosemite Valley, with Help from Hyundai
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Artists Do a 3D Scan of Yosemite Valley, with Help from Hyundai
– If this photo looks like an awesome adventure in progress, you’re right. Also, there were bears. And it was all in the interest of an art exhibit you can see now in Los Angeles. – Back in the mid-19th century, Hudson River School landscape painters such as Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Cole expanded their […]
Capcom’s Human Anatomical Reference For Artists
[Image: Capcom] Over twenty years ago, Capcom created an anatomical reference guide that is apparently still in use today when bringing characters to life. According to Gamasutra, Capcom art director Toshiyuki Kamei discussed the guide earlier this year at GDC. (Capcom Japan recently published it online.) Kamei said that the guide dates back to the […]
This new digital music store could change the way we pay artists
Paolo Fragomeni can play half a dozen instruments and owned around 4,500 LP records and a thousand 45s at the peak of his vinyl collection. When wanderlust took over, he digitized his entire library into about 50,000 portable MP3s that he could take wherever he traveled. The music industry has become increasingly populated by streaming […]
A Celebration of Los Angeles Through the Eyes of Three Local Women Artists
Now that your weekend editor has migrated from the East Coast to the West Coast, she can confirm that everything seems more magical under Los Angeles’ pink skies and lazy palms. LA-based artists Bijou Karman, Vivian Shih, and Juliette Toma agree and are celebrating their city with a series of paintings featured in the co-LAb […]