Dirk Dzimirsky, Drawings

Dirk Dzimirsky, Drawings

These amazing pieces of work are not photos, but drawn with pencil. I came across the artists webpage (above) while reading an article about him and some of his work found here:

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/stunning-art-mimics-reality-slideshow/

Flexible iPhone screens!

What more could an iPhone possibly do? It already does more than take calls, take messages, take photos, and give you directions and more, but the screen can be flexible (this isnt happening now, but maybe sometime in the future).

With a flexible screen, different parts of the screen could vibrate differently, and also the "lasers underneath could act as a microphone" so that your voice is picked up. How this is different than other phones is beyond me.

The flexible screen could make games more fun, and of course dialing numbers.


article can be found here: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/apple-eyes-flexible-iphone-screens-195742525.html

MySpace is back.

So at some point, Justin Timberlake took over MySpace trying to get it to come back bigger and better. Which could be pretty difficult, seeing how Facebook doesnt only seem to be for friends, but you can find just about anything on there from games to your favorite car models to potato chip companies (Lays is asking their fb followers to come up with a new chip flavor).

However, MySpace seems to be the by product of another popular website, Pinterst, and basically any news website. Yahoo! takes a look:

The link can be found here:http://finance.yahoo.com/news/justin-timberlake-s-hip-new-myspace-looks-awfully-familiar.html

HDR Helmet = super amazing vision

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This nifty little piece of technology lets you see things in real time 3D. How thats different than what we see with our own eyeballs is beyond me. But its described as "night vision goggles and sunglasses at the same time - with no downsides"

Check it out in the vid above, this is where the article is found:
http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/futureoftech/camera-equipped-high-dynamic-range-helmet-gives-you-superhuman-vision-6126562#__utma=238145375.1697243699.1348183637.1348541505.1348707249.6&__utmb=238145375.3.9.1348707520092&__utmc=238145375&__utmx=-&__utmz=238145375.1348541505.5.5.utmcsr=msn.com|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/&__utmv=238145375.|8=Earned%20By=msnbc|technology%20&%20science=1^12=Landing%20Content=Mixed=1^13=Landing%20Hostname=www.msnbc.msn.com=1^30=Visit%20Type%20to%20Content=Earned%20to%20Mixed=1&__utmk=64564844&__utma=238145375.1697243699.1348183637.1348541505.1348707249.6&__utmb=238145375.3.9.1348707520092&__utmc=238145375&__utmx=-&__utmz=238145375.1348541505.5.5.utmcsr=msn.com|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/&__utmv=238145375.|8=Earned%20By=msnbc%7Ctechnology%20%26%20science=1^12=Landing%20Content=Mixed=1^13=Landing%20Hostname=www.msnbc.msn.com=1^30=Visit%20Type%20to%20Content=Earned%20to%20Mixed=1&__utmk=64564844

awesome etch a sketch art!

So I dont know how to embed stuff properly, Im sorry my blog is visually boring, but youll have to take my word on this awesome etch a sketch art. Mine was always super angular, but these are way better:

http://games.yahoo.com/photos/awesome-etch-a-sketch-art-1348089782-slideshow/awesome-etch-a-sketch-art-photo-1348089555.html

upgrades for iphone

According to a Yahoo! article, if youre not quite ready for the iPhone 5, you can get some pretty cool upgrades for your iphone.

One of the new things included is the "do not disturb" option. Instead of completely silencing your phone, now you can choose to have certain options alert you. For example, youre going to go to bed, but you dont want your facebook alerts to wake you. But in case of emergency when you need to be contacted, your phone will alert you.

With the upgrades you can also share better, the App store is better organized, the maps are better quality (zoom in more), just to name a few.

To see what else is available, the article can be found here:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/not-ready-for-iphone-5--upgrade-offers-some-new-tricks.html

Blog on readings

On the latest readings for class, I found some stuff to be really cool. Its interesting to see how art is interactive now, especially with tools like GPS and games. I thought the human race machine sounded really cool and I would love to have tried it myself.

Whats interesting to me is to see how we evolve in art and how things have changed. Art is not limited to a paintbrush or a chisel anymore, and Im just really curious to see where it can go from here. What amazes me is how people can turn art into ordinary things; I dont look at the world like that so its always kind of refreshing.

There was a passage I highlighted on page 16 of our text, "An aesthetic can be driven by the sense, emotions, intellect, will, desires, culture, preferences, subconscious behaviour, conscious decision, training, instinct, sociological institutions, or some complex combination of these" This totally blew my mind, because once again I dont employ these or even remotely think about any of these when trying to  create my own art or looking at it or searching for it. And I cant help but wonder, who does this? If this is how people see the world, how are they not overwhelmed?

3D art

I saw this awhile ago and was really impressed, and thought Id share:

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http://youtu.be/_bmKJuGW8iY

Time Lapse Vid of Paris

Saw this on msn.com and just had to share:
http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/resuming-paris-time-lapse/20f7sk8y?q=Time-lapse&rel=msn&from=en-us_msnhp&form=msnrll

Upon reading some news on Yahoo today, I came across this article and just had to share. The story can be found here: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/true-romance-photo-mysterious-couple-kissing-being-handcuffed-213053002.html

An amateur photographer catches a couple kissing as they were being arrested for graffiti charges.

Raster Project

So this is the first ever thing I have made with Photoshop. I had absolutely no experience whatsoever prior to this class. And unfortunately for me, I had a few technical issues and had to completely start over twice. When I started brainstorming ideas for this project, I knew that I wanted to focus on my dark hair, and on my ring. Since I was little, my family always complimented on my dark hair, and even in childhood photos, it seems that the attention is immediately drawn to my hair. It just stands out.

I also wanted to focus on my ring because I feel like its really something that just says "me". I have been wearing this ring for the past several years and very rarely remove it. This ring was actually gifted to me the first Christmas I was in college, and has just stayed with me since.

I played around a lot with this project, and have erased and attempted many other ideas. Since I knew what I wanted to accentuate, I had to really remove the background and erase anything else that took away from the photo. I actually had two copies of the same photo, and layered them to make my hair even darker. Then I used the brush tool to make my ring even brighter. I softened the edges around my photo to make it blend in more, so it didn't look like such a hard copy of a digital photo.

The rest of the steps including playing around with the hues and dark brush strokes so that it made the entire photo darker. In playing around with the colors, I thought if I could bring more attention to my hair, I could make the rest of me light, but then I ended up looking like a zombie, so darker was the way to go.

And lastly, I felt that texturizing the photo would take the attention away from my face. Through the grout in the photo I felt that my hair and ring continued to stand out. So with all the steps I took, was to really highlight only on my hair and ring.

Here is a link to old manipulated photos:

http://now.msn.com/classic-faked-photos-are-showcased-in-metropolitan-museum-of-art-exhibition