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June 2009
May 2009
The Cryptic Canvas
[this is aaronland] painting the bike shed in yak hair
a Very Good Thing because XSL-FO is designed to embed SVG which suddenly means that generating printed maps, whether it's using something like Cloudmade's decidely alpha SVG tiles or simply baking SVG maps using Mapnik, is actually well... possible enough to be considered easy.
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April 2009
March 2009
you are my woman
February 2009
The Web Gallery of Art
The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism and Realism periods (1100-1850), currently containing over 21.300 reproductions. Picture commentaries, artist biographies are available. Guided tours, period music, catalogue, free postcard and other services are provided.
Chris Parks Art - Fluid Painting - Contemporary art
Search Quizilla Search GO Lingerie to bring to the mind a pile of ideas
Performance Improvements in Browsers
Lava Burst Optical Illusion - Mighty Optical Illusions
Only if one looks from right point of view, Muellers three-dimensional painting becomes perfect disaster illusion.
January 2009
YouTube - Shipibo Craftswoman - Part 1
Shipibo craftswoman Teresa, showing traditional painting. In this video Teresa starts with a blank piece of cotton and within an hour and a half completes a fascinating example of the traditional art of the Shipibo people of the Upper Amazon in Peru.
Communion With The Infinite - The Visual Music of the Shipibo tribe of the Amazon | Ayahuasca.com
(...)Underlying the intricate geometric patterns of great complexity displayed in the art of the Shipibo people is a concept of an all pervading magical reality which can challenge the Western linguistic heritage and rational mind.
One of the challenges for the Western mind is to acknowledge the relationship between the Shipibo designs and music. For the Shipibo can “listen” to a song or chant by looking at the designs, and inversely paint a pattern by listening to a song or music. As an astonishing demonstration of this I witnessed two Shipiba paint a large ceremonial ceramic pot known as a Mahuetá. The pot was nearly five feet high and had a diameter of about three feet, each of the Shipiba couldn’t see what the other was painting, yet both were whistling the same song, and when they had finished both sides of the complex geometric pattern were identical and matched each side perfectly.
