Dedd Pixel

Sweet. The Olympics has an interactive art component! Check out Vectorial Vancouver where you can arrange the lights on display in Vancouver and submit your designed to be played in succession. Participate in anonymous, public, interactive art!

Here’s mine, dedicated to my sweetie.

VIDEOGIOCO by Donato Sansone from Enrico Ascoli – Sound Design on Vimeo.

Includes graphic violence

And here I am just trying to get back into pencils…

a co-worker showed this to me: Autodesk Sketchbook Mobile.

For three bucks? How could I not download it? It’s quite flexible and you can apparently get down to some significant detail with the app. It will take me some time to get used to the interface – there’s a million options – but amazing images can be created.

Download it from iTunes

I got an email from Sierra club yesterday and the eco tip was to buy art created from recycled materials. The thought had never occurred to me to seek out art based on what it’s made out of but of what the image is or what it means to me. A clever tip nonetheless in this time of environmental concern. Recycled art keeps garbage out of the landfill, provides another creative outlet, as well as a unique item for the consumer.

Many recycled art I’ve seen have been nifty reproductions of master works. Just an observation and I fall into that myself with my bizarre beer cap collection. I’ll probably just make a large starry night since most beer I drink tends to have blue caps.

I found this on Digg yesterday. Reproductions of Mona Lisa done with everything from a lawn to old computer parts.

A local artist, Barry Stickerman Snyder, creates art out of produce labels. In addition to an American Gothic reproduction, he has amazing original works that have an almost southwestern mosaic feel to them.

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A while back, I read an article in the newspaper about Denver’s Magnet Mafia, a group of local artists that decorate magnets and stick them up around the metro area. I thought it was an awesome concept and probably would’ve bounded down to join them if I was more socially extroverted. 😛

Graffiti in general is quiet fascinating as it’s simultaneously viewed as both art and a defacement of public property. Though the term ‘graffiti’ usually brings to mind the modern depiction of fat letters on fences and boxcars, it does have roots in the ancient world …I suppose The Life of Brian’s Graffiti Lesson isn’t too out of place.

Check out MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU. It’s graffiti come to life.

To see what’s going on in the world, take a look at Top 50 Graffiti Trends and Counter Culture Art in Q1 2009.

Feel inspired? Try some graffiti in the comfort of your own backyard by growing your own graffiti moss. Think of it as another form of living art.