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DeviantArt artist theDURRRRIAN created some wonderful works based on the idea of the Avengers meeting up with Magic: The Gathering. What we have are some gorgeously poignant and familiar characters with a twist that makes me wish there were a comic series based on these illustrations. Check them out after the break.
Art Academy for the Wii U is more of an app than a game, but its object is to teach people to draw and paint using the Wii U gamepad. A test of whether it is successful would be whether the skills learned within it are transferrable to proper pencil and paper media outside the app. I pulled out my easel and plonked the gamepad on it. Oh the conclusions I’ve drawn!
With its #CreateWithCanon campaign, Canon South Africa wants to encourage the use of its cameras in the urban creative and photography hobbyist markets.
You may recall my first #CreateWithCanon post where I had a gander at the PowerShot SX600 HS, its build quality, connectivity features, and how easily it fit into my pocket. I did gloss over the shooting modes, so let’s take a look at the finer details in this post.
YouTube user Arganalth makes music from a suitcase stuffed with two hard drives and six floppy drives. This time he has re-created a 90s classic from cult rock band, Nirvana. It sure smells like burnt hard drive.
[via @zerogreen]
One’s priorities change the older one gets, so they say. I find that with every growing year now (I am in my 30s), convenience is pretty high on the list of priorities. So I’d prefer my computers to be pre-built. I like to file my tax online rather than getting it wrong on paper. I want my purchases to come to me and not the other way around. I’m like that with cameras too. Gone are the days when I’d want my camera to come in pieces and requires a separate backpack to carry it all in. I want something discreet, a shooter that I can easily slip down a pocket just as easily as I can pick it up for those quick snaps.
Like the other camera manufacturers, Canon caters for a variety of tastes and budget. The ranges are incredulous – the PowerShot range alone has 149 digital cameras from five different series!
The PowerShot range is Canon’s answer to convenient photography with cameras that are more portable and fun, and emphasize the ease of use over their bulky and more expensive cousins in the EOS range. With its #CreateWithCanon campaign, Canon South Africa wants to encourage the use of its cameras in the urban creative and photography hobbyist markets. As a part of this campaign, I take a look at the PowerShot SX series (SX stands for “Super Zoom”, FYI), and in particular, the PowerShot SX600 HS.
Dutch filmmaker/musician Kamiel Rongen creates the most hallucinatory, meditative, and mesmerizing music videos in a fish bowl using paints and other liquids. Have a look at one of his “audiovisual landscapes” below, entitled Shortcutz. Be sure to watch it in full screen mode.
Experience more of Rongen’s trippy videos after the jump.
Now this is completely awesome–an ASCII fluid dynamics simulator! The project was an entry by Yusuke Endoh to the International Obfuscated C Code Contest (or IOCCC) back in 2012 (which in itself is a fascinating thing). Just watch the text fluid in action.
If you want more information about it, or want to compile and try it for yourself, check the information page of the IOCCC project over here, or check out the home page of the IOCCC for more strange projects like this.
Japanese designer Ugoita T assembles a fabulous quintet of dancing origami cranes. The paper birds shake their tails atop a magnetized stage and go on to produce a most charming dance routine. Check out Dancing Paper below.
Dancing Paper was created for a Honda art event in China.
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Whether it’s mistakenly feeding the dog in bed or basting the child in a pot that the turkey should be in, New York City photographer Danielle Guenther captures the chaos of family life in her “Best Case Scenario” series of portraits. Have a look at some of her humourous images after the jump.
Andry “Shango” Rajoelina works as a designer in the animation industry and his series of Super Families portraits this time focuses on video game characters.
In the Paku Paku Family portrait, Mr. and Ms. Pac-Man are seen holding on tight to Junior just in case he gets nabbed by the ghosts again. You’re bound to recognize Nate Drake and Sully as the Family of Thieves, and Crash, Coco and Aku Aku strut their stuff in the Bandicoot Family photo. Check out these and more of the Rajoelina’s cute portraits of video game families after the jump.