High Definite/Art

Tim Doyle presents his reinterpretations of iconic television locales in his exhibit, Unreal Estate, which will be on display at Spoke Art Gallery in San Francisco from February 2, 2012 through February 23, 2012.

In the artists words, “Unreal Estate’ is a collection of locations that many of us know and have been to on a weekly basis at times, but can never actually visit. These places are in our memories transmitted and entrenched there through a cathode-ray tube. Some of us have been going to these places for decades, some of these places were taken from us, way too soon.”

Spoke Art Gallery

816 Sutter Street | San Francisco, CA 94109

415.796.3774

Via here & here

A not-so-still interactive gallery piece by Scott Garner, featuring a motion-sensitive frame on a rotating mount:

Years ago I had the idea of a still life painting that wasn’t so still, but could never quite wrap my head around how to build it. After various experiments and explorations, I settled on Unity 3D as the ideal tool to make it happen.

On the hardware side is a custom-framed television connected to a rotating mount from Ergomart. Attached to the back of the television is a spatial sensor from Phidgets, makers of fine USB sensors. On the software side is a simple C application to communicate with the sensor and feed the data to a Unity 3D scene. The scene itself consists of a camera tied to the sensor data with all lights and objects parented to it so they rotate in unison.

Scott Garner | Via

By Alex Ruiz:

I’ve often wondered about how the night sky looked to Van Gogh when he painted ‘Starry Night.‘

This is an homage to him, and to his painting, one of my all time favorites. We see him standing here, looking up at the night sky…probably in awe, as he wondered how he would capture the beauty he saw. As well, this was the view from the sanitarium he was staying at, as it’s well known that the poor guy was quite mentally troubled.

Prints are available here. ($4.95-$76)

Fabian Gaete Maureira cranks out some 3-minute landscapes in Santiago, Chile.

Via

After realizing some abnormalities in Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze’s Washington Crossing the Delaware, Mort Kunstler did extensive research on the crossing to create what he believes is a more accurate depiction of the surprise attack.

The painting goes on display this week at the New-York Historical Society museum.

Via

Oil painter and graphic designer Ron Piccirillo thinks that Leonardo da Vinci meant for the Mona Lisa to depict envy, based off of some images of animals he’s discovered in the painting after turning it on its side that relate to some of da Vinci’s thoughts on the subject. From The Daily What:

First, a lion’s head came into focus above the subject’s head. “Then I noticed the buffalo and I thought: ‘Oh my god’,” he says. “Then I realised I was really onto something.”

Piccirillo believes the veiled menagerie — he later discovered an ape and a crocodile-snake creature as well — suggests da Vinci meant the Mona Lisa to depict envy. Piccirillo points to a passage in da Vinci’s journals which he says confirms his theory.

In the passage, da Vinci writes that the artist who wishes to paint envy must “give her a leopard’s skin, because this creature kills the lion out of envy and by deceit.” Piccirillo claims other passages on envy in da Vinci’s notes also indicate that he is referring to the Mona Lisa.

Read more at the Telegraph.

Bobby Hundreds sits down with Jensen Karp, founder/owner/curator of LA’s Gallery1988.

TheHundreds

Today marks the 21st anniversary of Jim Henson’s death.  I did a little reading on him today and came across 21 facts I found to be pretty interesting.

Above: “Joe Lanzisero and Tim Kirk of Disney made this after Jim Henson died.” – [Mike Mitchell]

Read more…

“Cul De Sac” creator Richard Thompson received this  6”-by-8” oil on board painting from “Calvin & Hobbes” creator Bill Watterson as a contribution to the Team Cul de Sac fundraising project for Parkinson’s research.  It is the first new art from him that his syndicate has seen in 16 years.

Via

By Jesse Lenz