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Courtesy Cory at BoingBoing (who got it via the Make blog) here is a cool set of haunted papercraft toys that you can make yourself. It includes a spooky variation of the illusion I blogged about here, where a static paper sculpture seems to move in response to your motion, and track you with its […]

Those guys on worth1000.com have truly amazing Photoshop contents, and this contest themed “Escher Blowout” has some incredibly cool stuff. Check it out.

I was searching for a program that I only vaguely recall (which I didn’t find) but I did find Ed Halley’s GIMP Tutorial on Using Multiple Exposures which has many cool ideas on creating translucency (ghost) effects, removing moving cars from highways, creating crowds, and blending exposures. Bookmarked for future ideas.

Courtesy of the Make Blog, here’s a link to a site which contains site with PDF files you can print to make all different kinds of graph paper. Useful!

It’s no surprise: I’m a bit of a scifi geek. But just a bit. I’m not hugely well read in the genre, although I have read a lot of the classics by Bradbury, Hogan, Asimov and Clarke, and even some of the more modern stuff by Gibson and Orson Scott Card. Most of these books […]

During our (alas, last) class today, they were passing around Martha Dahlen’s book, Brush with Life. A very nice, spiral bound book. I’ll have to pick up a copy, and this post will remind me to do so. 🙂

Dan took some nice pictures while walking around San Francisco today. He snapped this picture: which I liked, but I thought could use a bit more oomph. So, I fired up gimp, cut the bird out, and manipulated the contrast of the bird and the background separately, and came up with this. Probably overdid the […]

Mei Wah is a page to help you learn Chinese. Well, at least some of the Chinese you need to read a menu in a Chinese restaurant. Cool! What’s even cooler is that through this page, I found out that McCawley’s legendary ::amazon(“0226555925”, “Eater’s Guide to Chinese Characters):: is back in print! I first heard […]

Well, today was Chinese Calligraphy class again. This is one of the better attempts at writing the character for “Dragon” 龍 or long2 as writin in pinyin. Not very good, and a crappy scan because our scanner doesn’t have a bed big enough to scan large art. I’ve acquired some books on Chinese writing to […]

It has a light side, and a dark side, and it binds the universe together. You can also turn it into wallets.

I liked this tutorial on making stencils from freezer paper. Apparently the shiny wax that is on freezer paper allows you to iron it onto cloth and it will hold in place while you ink your stencil. I’ll have to give this a try.

Check out Stencil Revolution for some cool tutorials on how you can create your own stencils and use them to make art, either in the form of graffiti or just T-shirts.