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Category Archives: Art

Slugs on artistic things that catch my eyeballs.

camera work

by Rob Friesel

There seems to be this camera and photography fetish among geeks and code jockeys. Or maybe that’s my over-extended exaggeration because of a few choice examples? Or maybe it’s not; maybe it’s just that geeks are drawn to cameras because it’s like any other fetish of taxonomy and technicalities. Regardless, I’m falling in love with […]

linkdump.20060712

by Rob Friesel

A couple of nice article slugs on LifeHacker about how to keep a budget and how to manage your emergency fund… B^2 plug for Dale Bailey‘s collection The Resurrection Man’s Legacy. Looks like it will be a good bunch of reading. Pink’s Wired article “What Kind of Genius Are You?” is available online. Interesting read: […]

Chernobyl Art

by Rob Friesel

26-04-1986.com: Flash heavy site but full of beautiful (if utterly haunting) images taken in Chernobyl to comemmorate the event.  There are some images of derelict military equipment that give me surprisingly more shivers than the images of the empty radioactive orphanage.  (At least I assume it’s an orphanage.) Previously on F_D: 20 Years of Chernobyl

children suck at drawing

by Rob Friesel

No, really. They do. Even the best artist under 10 is a source of infinite comedic value. Via Boing^2: children suck at drawing (warning: it’s a Flash piece) – – amusing and vaguely reminiscent of that Maddox Mission Crappy Artwork stuff from a while back. See also: Children’s artwork as Lush Paintings (also via Boing^2).