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Cartography Merges w/ Ink & Pencil Drawings to Create Beautiful Portraits – My Modern Met
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
A Hand-Drawn Animation of Merging Faces and Morphing Bodies by Daniel Zvereff
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
A Cafe in Seoul Uses Clever Contour Lines to Appear Like a 2-Dimensional Cartoon
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
Consciousness and Creation: The Neuroscience of Perception
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
Mixing It Up: Blending Performance Capture and Mixed Reality
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
An Early 20th Century Guide to Wave Designs for Japanese Craftsmen is Now Available Online
In 1903, Japanese artist Mori Yuzan’s wave designs were published in a resource guide for Japanese craftsmen looking to add aquatic motifs to their wares. The three-volume series, titled Hamonshū, includes variations on contained and free-form wave patterns suitable for … Continue reading
British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (1880)
Wirt Sikes, US consul to Cardiff from 1876 to 1883, describes the mythology and traditions of Wales, a land steeped in folklore. (Considering its geographic focus, why the book is not simply called Welsh Goblins remains a mystery.) The first … Continue reading
