short and spazzy

From improvisation and immense imagination innumerable small figures have emerged that produce in their composition with emphasis on details, the question of inspiration. With pen and ink, who lives in Tokyo Japanese has Sagaki Keita from comic-book characters created masterpieces in which joins together precision and doodles on the current art. (via Sagaki Keita | Ignant) (translated from German via Google Translate)

found via Coudal

drawnblog:

Jeff Bridges.com (And, let’s face it, only because TRON is foremost on our nerdly minds these days)

I saw his site ages ago (it’s possible we’ve blogged about it before too; we triple-blogged something last week!), but Jeff Bridges’ website is delightfully entirely hand-drawn, by him. Jeez, the man sketches and draws more than most of us do! Certainly more than I do.

Um, I already thought Jeff Bridges was pretty cool… but his website is amazing.

Plumb Mason Jar Critter Art by kudulah on Etsy

Merry Christmas to ME!! Highly recommend stopping by their booth over at the Union Square Holiday shops.

Feral Muppets via coudal

Erik with his new meeple riding a catfish tattoo. Art commissioned by the talented jadefrolics at etsy. Tattoo done at Red Parlour on Queens Blvd.

explodingdog:

or things will never get better.

We own 3 explodingdog prints already. I kind of think we might need to get this as a 4th.

Littlefly » Necklaces & Pendants

Jewelery made from books. via Katie Walton.

Muro works in all modern browsers, and you can dive in and start drawing on a blank canvas, all without Flash or any other plug-in. (via DeviantArt’s Muro Drawing App Is Pure HTML5 Awesomeness | Webmonkey | Wired.com

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austinkleon:

Teal and Orange - Hollywood, Please Stop the Madness

…the insidious practice of color-grading every movie with a simplified, distilled palette of teal and orange…

The Cohen brothers ushered in the new era of digital color grading with their excellent 2000 film, “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou.” This was the first feature film to be entirely scanned into a computer, a process known as “Digital Intermediary”, or DI. Once inside the computer, the colorist now had unheard of control over every element of the image. Imagine tweaking an entire movie with the tools and precision that one has with their still images using Photoshop, and you get some idea of what power was unleashed.

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This screenshot from the excellent color theory and exploration site, kuler, shows what happens when you apply complementary color theory to flesh tones. You see, flesh tones exist mostly in the orange range and when you look to the opposite end of the color wheel from that, where does one land? Why looky here, we have our old friend Mr. Teal. And anyone who has ever taken color theory 101 knows that if you take two complementary colors and put them next to each other, they will “pop”, and sometimes even vibrate. So, since people (flesh-tones) exist in almost every frame of every movie ever made, what could be better than applying complementary color theory to make people seem to “pop” from the background. I mean, people are really important, aren’t they?

Same goes for movie posters, too.

Via my friend, @jamesfflynn

Miniature Art on the Tip of Pencil by Dalton Ghetti

Hyperbole and a Half: This is Why I’ll Never be an Adult