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Gabriel's Ghost by Linnea Sinclair
Are you ready for a supercute, thrilling new look at Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Daenerys Targaryen and other famous women from science fiction and fantasy? A new exhibition, opening in Seattle this weekend, features a crew of amazing female artists, tackling some of your favorite characters.
Hey Geek Girl, curated by Bonnie Burton, is “a tribute art show to women and pop culture,” and there’s some totally stunning art.
These prints are so very cool! There’s something quite haunting about the kabuki style.
One of the most visually striking aspects for a newcomer to kabuki is the exaggerated make-up worn by the actors, especially those playing the most dramatic roles. It is particularly vivid when associated with a supernatural character. The name of this style of make-up, kumadori, is derived from kuma—lines, wrinkles, and toru—to take, to follow — via Artelino’s auction archives
(Reblogged from brain-food)
New York designers TWO-N honor record-breaking calculations of Pi by representing a small subset of the number’s decimal digits as pixels.
A zoomed in section of the completed artwork
They took the first 4 million decimals of Pi and assigned each number a different colour. This was then mapped out onto a huge digital canvas, from which the image above is only a very small section.
On October 17, 2011, Shigeru Kondo concluded 371 days of computing 10,000,000,000,000 decimal places of Pi. Roughly 44TB of disk was needed to perform the computation, and 7.6TB of disk was needed to store the compressed output of decimal and hexadecimal digits… Being math geeks, we felt it was important to honor Shigeru Kondo’s work somehow, and visualizing at least a subset of the 10 trillion decimals he computed seemed like a fun thing to do
View the full project and buy a print of the first 1 million decimals on TWO-N’s site
(Images and story from FastCo Design)
Yay! My Lady Vader print just arrived! (Taken with instagram)
To make each painting, Lauren DiCioccio lays a sheet of frosted mylar over a magazine page and assigns a color to every letter, with numbers as shades of grayscale, then applies tiny dots of paint over every character on the page according to the color-code.
“Making the paintings is a lot like solving a cryptogram,” says DiCioccio, “and the result is a legible blur of dots in the form of the article’s layout, a kind of Braille for the color-inclined.”
This is such a simple concept, but it creates really beautiful works of art. (Reblogged from Explore)
