Where is Desiree?
Posted 03 Mar, 2006 at 07:44 by blue in /Arts | Permanent link
Here is a neat little bit of Camoflague. Now, you too can play your own home-made version of Where's Waldo.
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The Art Of Retouching
Posted 25 Aug, 2005 at 07:38 by blue in /Arts | Permanent link
This is both fascinating, interesting, sickening and neat all at the same time.
It is a portfolio for a retouching studio. You know... the people that go in and airbrush out wrinkles (some of us call them laugh lines) to make supermodels look 'even better'.
Click on one of the images in the gallery and wave your mouse over it to see the original. It's a good (yet sad) commentary on what the population finds attractive and what they find unacceptable.
Bigger breasts. Bigger butts. No frizzy hair. Less clothing (though sometimes more in some of the shots). No body hair. Scars, wrinkles and bags under the eyes... forget it. One side not symetrical with the other... no problem. I will admit that they also adjust the lighting, color depth, shading and remove any objects in the frame that detract from the image as well.
While I can admire the obvious skill he shows in some photos and how subtle some of the changes are... overall I just found it kind of sad that society demands that the photos need to be retouched.
Even so... kind of a neat site to look at.
Hmm... maybe I should have some photos of me done. I always wondered what I'd look like as a blue eyed, bleach blonde, beach bum. Do you think I should get my ass enlarged? ;)
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26 Things Photographic Scavenger Hunt
Posted 20 Jul, 2005 at 08:59 by wendy in /Arts | Permanent link
Some of you have likely heard of 26 Things before, but just in case you haven't...it looks like it could be quite entertaining. I'm likely too busy at the moment to participate, but if any of you do, please send me a link to your photos!
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Whimsy
Posted 10 Jul, 2005 at 12:51 by wendy in /Arts | Permanent link
Outside my window
Perched on a hilltop - A Crane
Assembling itself
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Speaking of online comics
Posted 31 May, 2005 at 12:04 by wendy in /Arts | Permanent link
everyone should go check this out.
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Sand Art
Posted 11 Apr, 2005 at 08:29 by blue in /Arts | Permanent link
This is a little old, but I figure a few of you might now have seen it.
The SICAF (Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival) festival in Seoul opened in 2003 with a fantastic display of sand art by Ferenc Cako.
I don't know if it is the music, the images, or the fact that I don't like working on Monday mornings, but just watching this seems to put me into a very relaxed and mellow mood.
Hope it works for you too.
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Infinite Cats
Posted 22 Mar, 2005 at 11:06 by blue in /Arts | Permanent link
Since people seem to appriciate cat-based art, I thought I'd add another contribution to this ever growning segment of modern art.
The Infinite Cat project is really quite something to see. If you have a cat, you might even want to take part.
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Small Plastic Things And Cats?
Posted 26 Feb, 2005 at 19:21 by blue in /Arts | Permanent link
Ahhh... Now I get it!
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Gaytz parody
Posted 26 Feb, 2005 at 07:39 by wendy in /Arts | Permanent link
Check this out...at first I thought it was just a joke
"Hargo Day was established to also recognize the human capacity for appreciation, wonder, and awe that can be achieved when small plastic things are arranged in a certain order near and around a cat."
But no, Geoff Hargadon's Somerville Gates are getting a rave review.
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Queen of Wands and the marble game
Posted 25 Feb, 2005 at 15:46 by matt in /Arts | Permanent link
There's a game that actors (or at least student actors) sometimes play, one of a number of "closing night" games, that involves a marble. The first person on stage carries a marble, see, and that marble is not permitted to leave the stage within the constraints of the play's direction. The marble is supposed to be passed from actor to actor, on stage, and preferably without the audience ever noticing that there's something strange going on.
Earlier this week, Queen of Wands came to an end. The main character drove off to Boston and a new life. Speculation was rampant that she would join the regular cast of Something Positive, as there had been several past cross-overs between the strips. Well, yesterday that question was answered fairly definitively.
Now, if that was all there was -- random character killed off as a twisted sort of tribute -- then that would be funny enough. But then other cartoonists started to grab for the marble, most notably Straub of Checkerboard Nightmare. (Eric Burns at WebSnark -- an online comics commentator, how cool is that? -- has been tracking appearances, so see his site for more.)
The cool part about this, and the part that reminds me of the marble game, is that most of the sightings so far have been in passing... that is, there's nothing happening that mightn't normally happen in the comic in question. Someone dies in the background; in Something Positive, that's not entirely unexpected. Vaporware kills a random pedestrian; this is entirely in character. The Kestrel references aren't the focus of the strips: they're clever, but not in some sense the point. And so -- if you read one of these "tribute" strips without knowing the background -- it's as though there's nothing strange going on.
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I've gone and fallen in love
Posted 22 Feb, 2005 at 15:18 by wendy in /Arts | Permanent link
I really can't explain it...but I want to take him home with me.
Apparently I fall into category number 2.
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Bunny of the Month
Posted 22 Feb, 2005 at 15:14 by wendy in /Arts | Permanent link
Tell me you don't want one of these...bunny...details here.
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Anyone interested in photography...
Posted 26 Jan, 2005 at 14:31 by wendy in /Arts | Permanent link
or simply in looking at beautiful pictures...go take a look at Phil Douglas's beautiful website. This is the sort of thing I want to learn how to do...maybe I need to start lugging my camera around with me...I haven't been using it at all lately which is pretty sad.
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Little Dragon - January 4th, 2004 - Theatre Pas Murailles
Posted 11 Jan, 2005 at 10:27 by kael in /Arts | Permanent link
This was a sort of coming of age story about a girl who begins to believe that her father was Bruce Lee.
As plays go, it is very physical, but it also contains interesting character interplays. It definately is a Canadian play, just by virtue of certain dialogue and musical references.
Sound and lighting were both well done. The sound in particular used a fair amont of contemporary music.
I'm not really a theater critic, I just know what I like, and I certainly liked this.
For more info, you can check this link out.
Playing at Theatre Pas Murailles at 16 Ryerson (NE of Queen and Bathurst).