A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
I like these little masterpieces by Marco Sodano. Pixel-art using LEGO, if you like 🙂 Self-Portrait, Vincent Van Gogh (1889) Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci (c. 1503–1506) Girl with a Pearl Earring, Johannes Vermeer (c. 1665) More artworks in the links. LEGO – MASTERS (Set 1) →LEGO – MASTERS (Set 2) →
Recently Banksy put up a new work on the walls of a defunct prison in England. The work depicts a prisoner escaping, dangling off the wall using a long strand of paper emerging from a typewriter, instead of the usual bedsheets. Taking footage and audio from Bob Ross’ The Joy of Painting they also released …
A landscape, painted with CSS: Click the image to go to the CodePen. Do note it’s quite heavy on resources (hence why I haven’t embedded it here). 👋 Psst, try changing the color of the sun 😉
Google Maps Hack by Simon Weckert: 99 second hand smartphones are transported in a handcart to generate virtual traffic jam in Google Maps. Through this activity, it is possible to turn a green street red which has an impact in the physical world by navigating cars on another route to avoid being stuck in traffic. …
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Tinderin, by Dries Depoorter: Side by Side profile pictures of LinkedIn & Tinder of the same person. Series of 10 photo frames. Quite sure those are the “clean ones” … 🔥 Be sure to check out Dries his other work too. Installations such as Quickfix, a vending machine that sells followers and likes, are really …
Handcrafted recreation of an 18th-century oil painting using just HTML and CSS. Here’s an analysis of it using the Chrome DevTools, as recorded by Paul Irish: Chrome only though: Because of the artistic nature of this project I have not concerned myself with cross-browser-compatibility, so the live preview will most likely look laughable in anything …
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What if one were to create water popsicles from sewage water? Art students Hung I-chen, Guo Yi-hui, and Cheng Yu-ti from the National Taiwan University of the Arts did just so: The group collected polluted water from 100 locations in Taiwan, first freezing the collected sewage samples and then preserving their creations in polyester resin. …
