Meat paintings
Victoria Reynolds paints these evocative scenes reminiscent of an underwater butcher shop, like the one above titled Flight of the Reindeer from 2003. [Thanks, Fil!]
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Public staircase turned into piano keyboard
If you’re impatient with the preamble and want to see it work, scan forward to about 0:39.
How-To: Scrimshaw
Scrimshaw is the old whaling art of engraving intricate patterns and images into ivory. If you have some old piano keys hanging around, you can make some interesting art pieces using this scrimshaw tutorial by Paul Baxendale of Providence, RI
The Berlin Reunion
The Berlin Reunion @ The Big Picture – Boston.com 35 massive photos… Earlier this week, 1.5 million people filled the streets of Berlin, Germany to watch a several-day performance by France’s Royal de Luxe street theatre company titled “The Berlin Reunion”. Part of the celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin […]
Mechanical reproduction of digitized speech on a piano
Possibly the coolest thing I have ever seen. A work by Austrian composer Peter Ablinger. [via Neatorama]
Software generates photos from your sketches
Too lazy to actually get out and take pictures? Then you might want to check out Photosketch, an interesting research project by researchers at Tsinghua University.
Help write the Necronomicon
The Howard Phillips Lovecraft Historical Society, whose work I dearly love and have written about before, is compiling a complete prop edition of the Necronomicon from reader submissions! There was, apparently, a “Necronomicontest” of some sort to encourage submissions, the deadline of which has now passed, but they are still accepting “mad ramblings” here.
