Man, these are stunning—and they’re all done in camera:
First coated in black, the anonymous subjects in Tim Tadder’s portraits are cloaked with hypnotic swirls and thick drips of bright paint. To create the mesmerizing images, the Encinitas, California-based photographer and artist pours a mix of colors over his sitters and snaps a precisely-timed shot to capture each drop as it runs down their necks or splashes from their chins.
You can find more of the artist’s work on Behance and Instagram.
I’m excited to see the tech my team has built into YouTube, Duo, and other apps land in Arts & Culture, powering five new fun experiences:
Snap a video or image of yourself to become Van Gogh or Frida Kahlo’s self-portraits, or the famous Girl with a Pearl Earring. You can also step deep into history with a traditional Samurai helmet or a remarkable Ancient Egyptian necklace.
To get started, open the free Google Arts & Culture app for Android or iOS and tap the rainbow camera icon at the bottom of the homepage.
Seems like the Illustrator feature sneak-peeked last year is about to be released. Of course, I wouldn’t be a salty B 🙃 if I didn’t slip in some reference to all this going back ~15 years to Adobe Kuler & Illustrator Live Color & whatnot. (Okay, there—personal brand promise kept!)
Okay, not wars—how about enamel pins? Color me a little skeptical that the augmented reality portion of these pins will get much use, but hey, if it’s just a nice little bonus on something people already wanted, what the heck?
This video showing the relative size of stars & the reasons for these phenomena is just so entirely charming
And how great that it’s from an animation shop named Kurzgesagt (“German for ‘in a nutshell’). I must know more of these peeps.
Offering me a cookie, are you, German website? “Akzeptieren,” jawohl!
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Loathe as I am to have Pepe the Frog appearing on my blog, this new documentary—which muses on everything from meme culture & nihilism to artistic ownership & meaning—sounds pretty interesting, and some of the animation is beautiful. The trailer’s worth a look:
I dig it, though everything depicted is much more AR than what I think of as Photoshop—and I’d love to live in a world where AR & spatial effects are this delightfully easy to create.
Hey, remember highways?
Remember places?
They still exist, quarantine notwithstanding, and Worldgrapher + Visual Suspect have made some trippy, beautiful footage showing some:
Made by simply cropping and duplicating real footage, the dizzying video twists and turns through complex interchanges that are repeated in patterns and emblazoned with headlights and the city’s glow. Many of the shots descend into the center of the transportation systems, glimpsing the moving cars and traffic lights.
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Kids reflected on “I show kindness by…,” and from the 54 state & territory winners announced previously, the community has voted to whittle down to five finalists that you can see here.
Looom is all about simple, approachable cel animation:
Meanwhile, per DesignTaxi,
Shapr3D is an iPad drawing app that lets you create 3D drawings without having to use a desktop computer or CAD software. Designs created in this “pro-level” tool are compatible with major CAD file formats and support instant exports for 3D printing.
