Chrome’s Blog

Es dürfte euch aufgefallen sein, dass ich mit dem neuen Layout auch gleich die Header-Grafiken erneuert habe. Wie ebenfalls unschwer zu erkennen ist, soll “schwarzweiss + rotes Element” das (zugegebenermassen nicht umwerfend kreative) Thema der Grafiken sein. Je nun, so ist es nun aber vorerst. Die Header-Grafiken habe ich also selbst in dieses Format gebracht.

Die meisten dieser Künstler halte ich für so grossartig, dass ich unbedingt etwas aus ihrem Portfolio in der “Header Sammlung” haben wollte, bei einigen wenigen bot sich einfach nur ein bestimmtes Motiv gerade besonders an. Eine gewisse Wahllosigkeit ist dem ganzen Konzept also nicht abzusprechen.

Als Quellennachweis und Ausdruck meiner Wertschätzung der Künstlerinnen und Künstler, bei denen ich mich hier zitierend bedient habe, sind sie hier aber dennoch einzeln aufgeführt.

Noch ein Hinweis: Auch wenn ich persönlich denke, dass “ctrl-click” oder “mittlere Maustaste” mittlerweile jedem bekannt sein sollten — ich wurde nun schon mehrfach darum geben, daher öffnen alle Links auf dieser Seite in einem neuen Fenster.
… *sigh* ….

Photographie

Aaron Hawks

Alina Lebedeva

chaovsky

Christophe Gilbert

Eugenio Recuenco

Jan Schjetne

Julien Roumagnac

Katja Senkpiel

Max Zafell

Natasha Gudermane

Peter Franck

Simone Attisani

Thomas Rusch

Illustration

Aly Fell

Cromm Cruac

Jason Levesque

Jisuk Cho

Sonstige

Eboy

Emily Marilyn

Mandolux

Marcus Gloger

Die Header werden zufällig einblendet, derzeit mit einem Wechselintervall von 30 Minuten — was dem Header Image Rotator Plugin von Matthew Hough zu verdanken ist.

Und ja, ich habe mir vorgenommen, diese Liste (und damit auch die Anzahl der Header-Images) laufend zu erweitern.

Ich versteh’s nicht. Ich versteh’s einfach nicht. Was treibt Spammer dazu, mir permanent Mails zu schicken, die nichtmal eine URL enthalten?

She and he honkeys’
Random willed sex smiles
Eco eat spun doc wet work
Paid by skin inch.

Achnee, ’schuldigung, das ist kein Spam, das ist Steven B. Smith. Da applaudieren die Leute bestimmt (Hurz!).

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Damn, I guess this is what happens if someone with reasonable Photoshop- and video editing skill starts to work on their CD record collection:

Album covers fighting till doom.

When I referred to the forum threads on Suzanne’s site as “another idea I totally envy” that was supposed to be my only daily sin.

I really should have taken the time to look around. Sparked by her comment I went back and found an extensive site, packed with beautifully grotesque stuff.

You might get comparable results if you had an extremely skilled and completely psychopathic bunch of scientiest blend William Hogarth, Oscar Wilde and Marilyn Manson, but for starters: Here’s her site

Yet another idea I totally envy: A holy fashion thread (did I hear you yell “BLASPHEMY!!” … ? … *evilgrin*). Actually there are two threads now (part one and part two) and some of the ideas are quite inspiring.

I still favour the ‘opening picture’ (small thumbnail on the right). Compared to others from the thread this work is actually quite ‘young’ (it was done by Clovis Trouille in 1944) but I can well image how our beloved religious fundamentalists reacted upon it back then.

Anyway, like I said — besides some average pics the galleries feature some pretty nice and exotic works!

According to Michal Levy Goethe once said (or wrote, for that matter) “Architecture is crystallized music“. So she took John Coltrane’s jazz piece “Giant steps” and created an astonishing animation to visualize the tune with abstract architectural shapes.

The work is not exactly brand new, she did it as her graduation project for the visual communication department of the “Belazel Academy of Art and Design” (Jerusalem) in 2001 but I came across her homepage today and thought I’d better blog this

So watch the movie here (2:15 min.), make sure you have your sound up and running and probably bring a little patience as well, the file is 4.8MB and might take a couple of seconds to load (depending on your internet connection of course).

It is wonderful, is it not?

Art on the internet often is a mere reproduction of offline art (pictures, videos, audio and combinations thereof) — that is different with this (mildly) interactive project by Nikolas Baumgarten, a young german graphics design student.

His homepage is a nightmare but with “Zoomquilt” he created a rather unique piece of art. While the idea itself is not new at all (I even vaguely remember having seen somthing similar before) this one is very nicely done.

According to his homepage the work is to be found at www.zoomquilt.org but there seem to be technical problems with the links on this page.

Have a look at it eBaum’s World instead. Although we hate eBaum’s World. But this is gonna cost their bandwidth, so I guess it’s ok. Just don’t click anything else.

Done! A friend* had this Dita von Teese picture printed on some professional heavy duty plastic mesh stuff for us and it took us roughly three month to get her up there.

The picture itself is cropped out of some other (not even high resolution) Dita picture, I did that just for fun while playing around with the Rasterbator (a software to create huge, rasterized images from any picture) and we ended up taking the very first version for the final print.

First we had to figure out how to best attach this beauty to our kitchen wall: we finally decided to build a wooden frame (3m by 1.5m!!) with three vertical bars, cover this frame with 8mm chipboard (that’s not as thick as it sounds by far!) and paint it white. Arrange the picture. Staple gun. Attach to wall. Done.

Well, almost. It was quite an effort to get everything crinkle-free but it worked out very nicely. Just look at the sheer size, I left the door and the table so you get an idea of the scales.

Now there she is, giant size Dita on our kitchen wall (here is a high-resolution version of the picture above)

* Update: ‘a friend’ complained about not being mentioned personally. So here goes the privacy: Specials thanks go to Felizitas ‘Fee’ for the professional print! Fee: and now I want your comment below

… there’s a man staring at her ass?

Well … most of you will have seen the ‘Birth of Sean Preston’ sculpture showing Britney Spears on a bearskin. While I exceptionally despise her music I found that I somewhat like this sculpture or rather the fact that she had Daniel Edwards make it. He called it “Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston“.

This statue is (or has been) shown at the Capla Kesting Fine Art Gallery in Brooklyn, New York — now as the average american is shocked by a baby magazine showing a breastfeeding mother I can vividly imagine their reaction to this sculpture.

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Uhmm … so I can blog flickr pictures directly from flickr now … hmm … kinda cool, I guess. And yes, feel free to call this technomasturbation, if you must.

It’s a nice gadget, but I’d rather download stuff and link to the original site — lke this: flickr user ‘chaovsky‘ has a decent collection of intersting and unique pictures there. Have a look!

I guess I’m gonna burn in copyright hell.