A Steampunk Warrior Defending the Electronic Frontier

Written by: Bruce Cat on: Apr 28 2008 Published in: Art Tags: , , ,

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Berkeley artist Suzanne Rachel Forbes aka slurkgirl on Etsy has her ‘Defending the Electronic Frontier’ print on sale over there for $22 USD, half of which goes to benefit the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco liberties group defending our rights in the digital world. The prints are a limited edition of only 2,800, professionally printed with soy-based inks on 8.5×11 100# gloss cover stock, individually signed by Suzanne, numbered and dated.

The Future Mac Books

Written by: Bruce Cat on: Apr 24 2008 Published in: Art Tags: , , , ,

We have seen the near death of physical media such as books, audio, DVDs and so on with the introduction of such services as itunes, Online Television and now we have the introduction of E-books readers, such as Sony E-Reader which let us carry around our entire books collection in a small device that’s no bigger than a small notebook. We are becoming a society that is more virtual. We download music rather than purchase CD’s, we research on the net, rather than going to the library and reading books.

Chopped Up Remixed Mashed Up Subway Star Wars Posters

Written by: Bruce Cat on: Apr 23 2008 Published in: Art Tags: , , , , , ,

Subway’s billboard ads are boring most of the time, maybe I’m just ad blind but Jeff Simmermon saw this Star Wars advertisement that a creative vandal had mashed up with bits from a beer ad and a poster for a Takashi Murakami exhibit.

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Another Animated Character Untooned by Pixeloo, This Time It’s Jessica Rabbit, Yay!

Written by: Bruce Cat on: Apr 21 2008 Published in: Art Tags: , , , ,

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Pixeloo brilliantly untooned Homer Simpson and Super Mario, which we covered last week. I was one of many readers at Pixeloo that requested his/her next project should be Jessica Rabbit, and guess what? Pixeloo delivered - JESSICA RABBIT untooned :) and this time, Angelina Jolie picture was used as the main reference images.

The Voodoo Art of Wayne Martin Belger

Written by: Bruce Cat on: Apr 20 2008 Published in: Art Tags: , , , ,

Brilliant 44 years old artist Wayne Belger from California creates tools of Aluminum and Titanium and Blood and Body to be in direct relationship with the subjects they are created for. The tools he creates are pinhole cameras that take photos and are brilliant art works in themselves.

Collection of Vintage Science Books Images

Written by: Bruce Cat on: Mar 30 2008 Published in: Art Tags: , , , ,

Awesome images from science books of the ’40’s, ’50s, ’60s and ’70s, these include children’s books that have a science theme to them as well, such as, space, astronauts, chemistry, and physics etc..

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You can view all the images at the vintage science group.