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Animate Your Parties with a 3D Photobooth
LOS ANGELES — It looks like animated GIFs are certainly seeing a renaissance. Shortly after spotting the NYPL's Stereogranimator, I stumbled across Protobooth, an animated GIF photobooth.
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Minimal Maps and Tweeted Traffic in the City
LOS ANGELES — It's always interesting to see different schematics for visually approaching a city. So much of how we experience a new place is defined by the map in our heads, and those maps tend to be limited to subway maps and, increasingly, Google Maps.
Opinion
How to Make Art and Drink It
LOS ANGELES — Like most gallery goers, I enjoy a good glass of wine with my art. And while wine tasting is an art in itself, I never thought the wine could be transformed into art.
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Live Tweeting the Arts
LOS ANGELES — If some reject the idea that culture can be engaged with through your smartphone, others are finding ways to do exactly that, particularly using Twitter.
Opinion
Artists Kickstarting Their Own Careers
For Co.Design recently, Bruce Nussbaum reflected on the idea of "indie capitalism," a form of small scale, independent capitalism focused more on makers and communities ...
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NASA Artist Brings Jupiter to Life at the Museum
LOS ANGELES — The past few weeks, thanks to the Star Walk app, I've had the pleasure of watching Jupiter and the Moon flirt and dance in the sky. The planet looks like a star to my untrained eye, but it's the largest in the solar system and largely gaseous.
Opinion
Shit Art World People Say
Creative Time jumps on the band wagon and puts their slave labor, we mean interns to work doing their part for the meme.
Opinion
How to Break a Beer Bottle and Fix It in 12 Easy Minutes
I've never thrown a beer bottle across a room but I've definitely seen one break. The pieces shatter and scatter, and like a laundry detergent commercial, I wish I could just hit the rewind button and see it all come back together. Brooklyn-based artist Jonathan Schipper taps into this desire with a
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Sound Out the Soothing Symphony of the Subway System
Playing to the idea of subway as symphony, Brooklyn-based Alexander Chen has tapped the MTA's train schedule and mapped it over time with Massimo Vignelli's classic (and beloved) subway map … and added music.
Art
New App Puts SLR Features Into Your iPhone
How do you make your iPhone act more like your SLR? Well, Chicago-based Ben Syverson has an app for that.
Opinion
The Floating World of One Woman's Camera Diary
Floating around Twitter and Sina Weibo as of late has been my new favorite blog, Yowayowa Camera Woman Diary. Lifted to the web by Tokyo-based photographer Natsumi Hayashi, the diary features a series of "daily levitations," as Hayashi drifts through the hustle and bustle of her city.
Art
Jenny Holzer's Cat, Ugly Renaissance Babies and Other Art World Meme Trends
The idea of an art meme feels counterintuitive: art is supposed to reflect deep issues about society and self, or at least be technically complex, while memes are quick hacks about cats, shit people say and dancing Obamas. But this past year, the internet has been seeing a ton of new memes that invo