On May 18th, 2006 a team of six people released a beautiful animation under a creative commons license titled “Elephants Dream“. By May 29th, over 500,000 visitors had downloaded the animation. Over the months that followed remixes of the animation began...
I really enjoyed seeing how J.M. Welz created a Super Mario sketch. Being able to learn how an artist approaches illustration of such a classic character provides insight into how to refine our own drawing techniques. J.M. has posted multiple videos...
Yesterday my associate Ken Shaeffer and I were discussing the joys of bass and electric guitar. Somehow our conversation went off on a tangent about Hawaii and the Ukulele. Ken told me about a talented young musician named Jake Shimabukuro. A...
My friend John MacKenzie sent over a link to Weird Al’s new video titled “White and Nerdy”. The video is very funny and cashes in on many cliches and stereotypes about nerd and geek culture. White and Nerdy is the first...
I received an invitation from a friend to see Matthew Barney’s new film “Drawing Restraing 9”. Barney has become well known in the art and culture community for his Cremaster series. Based on what I have read online it appears that...