Tag Archives: Culture

Pop Art

Posted on October 1, 2018 by agogo22

Graffitti. Source: Pop Art

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Life-Size Beached Whale Installation Shocks People in the Philippines

Posted on September 30, 2018 by agogo22

The eye-opening whale sculpture is filled with a mix of plastic bags, plastic containers, bottles, and other waste collected from the ocean. With microplastics polluting the food chain and increasing numbers of marine species facing endangerment, the world’s ocean plastic issue … Continue reading →

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Cartography Merges w/ Ink & Pencil Drawings to Create Beautiful Portraits – My Modern Met

Posted on September 29, 2018 by agogo22

Roads, rivers, and mountains on a map turn into elegant profiles and facial expressions. British artist Ed Fairburn uses maps as his canvas to create incredible portrait drawings. Each detailed work merges the topographic lines of cartography with the hand-drawn contours of … Continue reading →

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A Hand-Drawn Animation of Merging Faces and Morphing Bodies by Daniel Zvereff

Posted on September 29, 2018 by agogo22

Brooklyn-based artist Daniel Zvereff works in a combination of drawing, photography, and videography and all three come into play in a animated short. The three minute long film is a music video for Norwegian singer-songwriter Okay-Kaya’s song “Emulate”. It is a departure … Continue reading →

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One Small Step

Posted on September 29, 2018 by agogo22
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What is Beauty?

Posted on September 29, 2018 by agogo22
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A Cafe in Seoul Uses Clever Contour Lines to Appear Like a 2-Dimensional Cartoon

Posted on September 28, 2018 by agogo22

Since 2017, a small cafe in South Korea has been transporting its visitors to a two-dimensional world. Cafe Yeonnam-dong 239-20  in Seoul features all-white walls, floors, furniture, and fixtures accented with black contour lines that give the space the flattened … Continue reading →

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Consciousness and Creation: The Neuroscience of Perception

Posted on September 28, 2018 by agogo22

Neuroscientist Anil Seth explains how what we perceive isn’t an accurate reflection of a real, externally existing world. In fact, perception and hallucination are based on similar processes—they are our brain’s interpretation of myriad inputs. His groundbreaking research provides fascinating … Continue reading →

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Posted on September 28, 2018 by agogo22
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Mixing It Up: Blending Performance Capture and Mixed Reality

Posted on September 27, 2018 by agogo22

The Imaginarium Studios and Magic Leap have partnered to change the way people experience entertainment by capturing the magic of performance for spatial computing. Performance capture allows us to authentically capture the details and nuance of an actors’ performance and … Continue reading →

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