Crazy Artist | Reza Dolatabadi

This beautiful film was made from 6,000 paintings Reza Dolatabadi produced over two years.


Khoda from Reza Dolatabadi on Vimeo.

Interlude | Amazing Artist: Devorah Sperber

As designboom puts it:

devorah sperber is a new york city based artist who recreates famous works of art using spools of thread. sperber treats the spools like pixels, recreating the works of da vinci, rembrandt and van gogh in detail. however viewers will not see the work until the move up close because most of her work is created upside down. the reason why the spools hang from the wall backwards is so that when reflected in a mirror or metal sphere, they will appear in the correct size and proportion. the reflection also shrinks the images and blends the spools together to create a more accurate representation of the original works. (designboom)

It's amazing stuff.





Check out her web site. (devorahsperber.com)

Crazy Artist alert!

Daito Manabe is a Japanese composer that has started a series of experiments, using the electrical signals of music to control his facial muscles. (cdm)

Daito Manabe website.
Daito Manabe on youtube.

Arts round-up

A few of the "arts-related" tidbits I've ran across recently that have caught my eye.

Neil Gaiman's work on The Sandman series ranks near the top of graphics-based literature. Good Omens, the book he co-authored with Discworld-creator Terry Pratchet, is one of the funniest books I've ever devoured multiple times. And now Gaiman is giving away his latest, The Graveyard Book, by taping himself reading individual chapters on his book-tour and posting them on his MouseCircus site for young readers. (Wired)

And to follow-up on a story mentioned earlier: Stephen Colbert has won the White House! (In the Marvel Universe.) (Wired) And, like the Chicago Tribune's "Dewey Defeats Truman" gaffe 60 years ago, the Daily Bugle blows it! (Wired)

Staying with the comic theme for another moment, kottke posted some links to maps of the New York City of the Marvel Universe. (WizardUniverse) (NYCmetblogs) (flickr)

Next: some awesome t-shirts for sale at Glennz.

Then check out Edmund McMillen's independent artist product: This is a cry for help. A load of stuff for $10!

And if you figure you've already bought so much stuff you can't get more, check out this post on Swaptree... like ebay, except it's an exchange of goods. (Lifehacker)

On another note... if you think you're old ask yourself this question: Do I dream in colour, or black-and-white? If it's B&W, then you're right, you are old... apparently the television you watched as a child may influence the colour of your dreams. (TelegraphUK)

Speaking of old, here are the definitions of some commonly-used abbreviations, most of which are derived from Latin. (BloggingTips) And another list in the follow-up post. (BloggingTips) Both excellent posts are written by Kevin Muldoon of System0.