Photo by Christobal Zanartu Sheila Hicks is a major global artist, one of the women who moved textiles from the world of craft to the world of art. Born in Nebraska in 1934, she started art school as a painter but became fascinated with weaving on a trip to Peru. In the course of her life, she has collaborated with weavers in India, Japan, Sweden, and other areas known for their distinctive weaving techniques. Her art is held by major museums and adorns public spaces, such as the famous textile…

I recently updated nycdogs, a data package for R that I originally made for teaching purposes. It bundles up New York City’s dog licensing and dog bite datasets into an R package. The data is already provided by the city in a directly usable way (as CSV files), but packaging it up makes it easier to integrate with other packages and get things moving a little more quickly in class. The nyc_license table looks like this: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 nyc_license #> # A tibble: 819,323 × 12…

📷 270/365 - Fire hydrant

NOTE: The Painted Backdrop book is Out of Print. Announcing "The Painted Backdrop" a major new photography book examining the previously undocumented beauty of hand-painted studio backgrounds in 19th century tintype photographs.Common wisdom holds the lowly painter was out of work when realistic images created by the camera came along in the 19th century. Maybe not! On the contrary, this beautiful book shows that some artists thrived during the period by creating extraordinary drapes, screens…

Architectural detail of the façade of Uptown Dallas’ Hôtel Swexan, designed by noted Japanese architect Kengo Kuma. The post Glass Lattice appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

Today’s TDC says Draw “nonsense upon stilts” I asked NightCafe to help me capture this phrase from Bentham Nonsense upon stilts flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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The new era of building age maps has begun. Block and Paper have been busy recently creating animated building-age maps of cities around the world, showing urban development unfold over time. The style has since been emulated by others, including Parcelscope's Every Building in Los Angeles County.Now Alexander Bogachev has imported the idea to France, creating an animated building-age map of Paris that shows when each of the French capital's 122,435 buildings was constructed.Paris, Building by…

The riverbanks of Paris are magical. On a sunny afternoon when they fill up with people, they're among the most beautiful urban public spaces I know. I made this copperplate engraving, "Quai des Célestins", at Imprimerie ARTE, using a combination of line etching and aquatint. The view is from one of my favorite spots on the Right Bank, looking across the river toward Île Saint-Louis. Signed and numbered prints are available from my website and from Galerie Maeght. Their gallery on rue du Bac…

4 days i guess i was inspired a lot by the trip! then again, it really doesn't take much to get me thinking about the sky in the first place. hoyis rayquaza samanlooyk (print) "rayquaza used outrage"! it's been a long time since i've done much fanart at all, but i felt compelled suddenly to do some formline pokemon takes. i have a few other sketches in the loadout like luxray and torracat, and i hope to do even more like maybe reshiram and zekrom. i intentionally painted rayquaza a bit darker…

Years ago I purchased three collections of art by nnxyz on nifty.ink. I’ve now archived them in better detail than they were ever before available on my nnxyz collection site. Nifty.ink captured all art in dots and strokes so I used that to render SVG versions of all the art. Lovely. 🎨

“Nope, Ur 2 Late; I Alrdy Died” (Lil’ Rolex) by Brynn (</3) Miche “Nope Your [sic] Too Late; I Already Died” by wifiskeleton Lola Jusidman

“Nope, Ur 2 Late; I Alrdy Died” (Lil’ Rolex) by Brynn (</3) Miche “Nope, Your [sic] Too Late; I Already Died” by wifiskeleton Lola Jusidman

Perfume PosseChanging weather and Guerlain Samsara We have been having a bit of weather here. It’s been like a roller coaster. The first day of Autumn hit with temps hitting 105 degrees Fahrenheit. Usually in SoCal no matter how warm it gets during the day it’s… Continue Reading → Perfume PosseChanging weather and Guerlain Samsara

🍂🍁 The saga continues with mini thoughts on moving, birthday feelings, a new fav zine writer, + other tiny life bits. Moonbow 15 zine

Click to book for The Gentle Author’s Tours . I decided to take advantage of the October sunshine by enjoying an excursion to Chiswick House. I have to confess that it is thirty years since I visited, in the footsteps of the writer Denton Welch who came here in the thirties with a picnic including a hardboiled egg and a piece of fruitcake. It was a great consolation to encounter these gardens again, like a old friend that has not been changed by the years. William Kent’s garden was inspired by…

Graffiti spotted on a railcar in Downtown Denison, Texas. The post Serum appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

💡Preliminary thoughts: I know that most of you follow me primarily for my posts about art in the Setouchi Islands. I also know that I haven't posted much about them lately. There are a few reasons for this. First, for the past months, I haven't had many opportunities to visit the islands and collect new "material". Second, although I have things to tell you and show you from previous visits, especially from last year's Setouchi Triennale, I rarely have the time or energy to do so. So, here's…

Postcards that summon medieval grotesques and brightly coloured folk art, but also feel distinctly modern.

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The Timex Expedition Pioneer is a case study in not letting hope create expectation. In the aggregate, it is a good watch. The challenge is managing my own enthusiasm for… The post Timex Expedition Pioneer appeared first on The Time Bum.

In my last post on the topic of picking a sketchbook, I was struggling to figure out what to use next, after starting and then abandoning a Bindewerk Linen journal. I eliminated quite a few candidates, and had narrowed my choices down to these: Hahnemuhle Travel Journal HandBook Journal Stillman & Birn Alpha or Epsilon … Continue reading Sketchbook Switch: Here’s What I Chose →

César Cid turns the alphabet into a gallery of borrowed worlds. The Madrid-based 3D artist, working as CESS Studio, has built The Artphabet, a complete set of 26 letters, each a digital sculpture channelling the visual universe of a different celebrated artist. Mondrian's rigid geometry, Dalí's melting surrealism, Basquiat's raw urgency, and Kusama's infinite dots. View fullsize D DAMIEN HIRST.png View fullsize G GAUDÍ.jpg View fullsize N POLLOCK.jpg View fullsize l lichenstein.jpg What makes…