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Why Is Gmail Still in Beta?
Gmail turned five on Wednesday, April 1. Launched in 2004 as an invitation-only e-mail service, the Google product now has more than 100 million users. Yet it's still in "beta"—a term of art traditionally reserved for prototype software that's ready for testing. What gives?
8 Apr 2009, 2:23 am | click here to view more
50 Recent Inspiring Graffiti Trends From Around The World
From Obama road art to the Simpsons, here are 50 graffiti trends that will inspire you.
6 Apr 2009, 7:53 am | click here to view more
Insanely Amazing Digital Paintings by Vitaly Alexius
The digital paintings of Alexius are something out of this world, the scenarios that he so wonderfully recreates brings to ming the apocalypse, and a beautiful one at that. These pieces of art are amazing, and you need to look them to believe just how great they are.
6 Apr 2009, 2:27 pm | click here to view more
Prepare for ludicrous speed: Ars reviews the 8-core Mac Pro
What has two "Nehalem" Xeon processors, eight cores, a non-workstation class graphics card(?!), and a positively stratospheric sticker price? The answer is, of course, Apple's new Mac Pro tower, an aluminum-clad whale of a machine that art director Dave Girard put through its media-creation paces in this massive review.
6 Apr 2009, 11:37 pm | click here to view more
Stock art website with stolen art suing original artist
Stockart.com sent artist Jon Engle a bill for $18,000. Other than the price, the unusual thing was that the bill was for images from several of his possess designed logos.Now, the company is threatening to sue and even destroying the artists reputation by contacting his clients and informing them their logo may be stolen work.
4 Apr 2009, 3:36 pm | click here to view more
O aXXo, Where Art Thou?
In what must appear like a lifetime to his loyal fans, the popular DVD ripper aXXo hasn’t uploaded any torrents for three weeks. As always, rumors surface that claim to explain the hiatus. Has aXXo been arrested, or transferred to one of the MPAA’s covert detention facilities?
31 Mar 2009, 8:37 am | click here to view more
Got art? Need a review? (Austin American-Statesman)
Consider the economy of the art world. What defines an artist's value? Many things, not the least of which is a review (presumably a positive one) by a critic of record. Good reviews can legitimize artists, bolster sales of their work, leverage their careers.
3 Jul 2009, 7:59 am | click here to view more
Art attack (BBC News)
Bill Thompson on mixing art and technology
3 Jul 2009, 7:54 am | click here to view more
Vancouver Art Gallery has tentative deal with union (CBC.ca)
Vancouver art gallery workers have reached a tentative deal in a contract dispute with their employer.
3 Jul 2009, 4:21 pm | click here to view more
Residents' feedback alters art for Goodyear firehouse (The Arizona Republic)
Goodyear paying $45K for the art project at year-old flame station, located in PebbleCreek community.
3 Jul 2009, 1:25 pm | click here to view more
Police: Man Steals Art, Claims To Be Creator (News Channel 5 Cleveland)
CLEVELAND -- A man who claimed to be an artist is in jail for stealing art. Police arrested Richard Owens for stealing three pieces of art worth $12,000.
3 Jul 2009, 1:19 pm | click here to view more
I'm sick of lousy British art exhibitions (Guardian Unlimited)
Britain's art establishment is something I try not to think about too much. Reviewing exhibitions, you often receive mad. After a while the anger turns to contempt; why do so many leading museums and galleries put on bad or average shows?
3 Jul 2009, 12:08 pm | click here to view more
Safed: Step back in history, appreciate art (Inside Bay Area)
The tragic history in Safed has given way to a city wealthy in religion and art.
3 Jul 2009, 11:40 am | click here to view more
Why art is vital to freedom (The Christian Science Monitor)
On July 4, remember Solzenhitsyn's words: 'Art serves to battle lies and preserve the moral history of a society without the transitory and debasing rhetoric of bureaucrats.'
3 Jul 2009, 10:05 am | click here to view more
Most Popular: M.C. Escher
M.C. Escher (1898-1972) has been requested at least 6 times for “Feel Art Again.” Since yesterday marked the 37th anniversary of Escher’s death, it’s only fitting that today’s “Feel Art Again” post is devoted to the Dutch printmaker.
29 Mar 2009, 3:14 am | click here to view more
John McEnroe Duped In Art Scam
Former tennis champion John McEnroe was duped along with Bank of America, investment firms, art owners and collectors in a sophisticated $88 million art investment scam revealed in New York on Thursday.
27 Mar 2009, 8:36 am | click here to view more
Concept Art: Math To Build Another Solar System
The Orbitals is a collection of particles operating on one simple rule: pick another particle in the system and orbit it with a fixed radius at a constant velocity . . . In this variation, a single root particle is instantiated in the middle of the stage. every other particles introduced to the system fall into orbit at some level.
26 Mar 2009, 2:33 am | click here to view more
10 Most Outrageous Insurance Frauds
In the movies they are played by Pierce Brosnan and Gene Hackman and justify art stealing or snatching of old Nazi German gold. In real life however they are bald, fairly unattractive, miserable figures devoted to the unglamorous and unforgiving life of insurance frauds.
24 Mar 2009, 8:53 am | click here to view more
The 13 Coolest Things Made from Recycled Bottles
From funky recycled art to Earthships, gifts, boats and an island, glass and plastic bottles can be recycled into a surprising range of objects.
23 Mar 2009, 10:18 am | click here to view more
Darth Vader money
DeviantArt's Diablo2003 whipped up these Vaderbucks for Star Wars Fan Days 2007, where he was an artist guest. Thomas, who suggested the link, says he thinks they're cooler-looking than greenbacks
22 Mar 2009, 9:15 am | click here to view more
Art Venegas leaves as UCLA men's track coach (AP via Yahoo! News)
Art Venegas is out as UCLA's men's track and field coach after 10 years.
2 Jul 2009, 9:10 pm | click here to view more
Art in Review (New York Times)
Paula Hayes at Marianne Boesky Gallery, “Looped and Layered” at Thomas Erben Gallery, “Négritude” at leave Art and more.
2 Jul 2009, 7:45 pm | click here to view more
Spain's Bullfighters Turn On Each Other
The awarding of a fine arts medal to a celebrity torero has some of Spain's best bullfighters fuming. Are they right to defend their art, or is it jealousy?
16 Mar 2009, 12:15 pm | click here to view more
6 Unique Twitter Visualizations
Art, imagery, graphs, and maps help place context and a visual component to numbers, locations, and data. TwitterTwitter reviewsTwitter reviews, the ultimate collection of 140-character thoughts and data, does not arrive with image sharing, video embedding, or almost any other visual feature.
16 Mar 2009, 11:00 am | click here to view more
iPhone art by Jorge Colombo
Art on the iPhone using Brushes application - scenes of New York City.
15 Mar 2009, 9:30 pm | click here to view more
Turning SXSW Tweets into Art
These 5 colorful JavaScript-only visuals extract meaning from SXSW-related tweets... the top words among SXSWers only, the best and worst parties, where people are tweeting about & what they're gossiping about. No Flash!
14 Mar 2009, 1:58 am | click here to view more
Fantastic Typography Blogs For Your Inspiration
Some say that web design without typography is like an orange without its peel, it just isn’t complete. Typography encompasses the reality of effective web design and achieves success in creating web page identity, eye-catching sites, and the enhancement of visual appearance. Typography is much more then the “art of text”, it’s the evolution...
12 Mar 2009, 7:24 pm | click here to view more
10 Incredible Living Walls
The idea of a living wall conjures up every sorts of images, but in reality it is nothing more than a wall completely covered in vegetation. This form of urban gardening is often designed as an art form to decorate buildings in cities and has been hailed as one way to make cities more enjoyable, healthier and ultimately greener places.
11 Mar 2009, 10:37 am | click here to view more
Top 40 Video Game Covers of All Time
While video game cover art is often as carefully designed as any movie poster, this area of graphic design is rarely given much thought. In this post we'd like to change this by high-lighting 40 brilliant examples of game art and explaining why they are so darn good.
11 Mar 2009, 10:04 pm | click here to view more
Giant baby robot spits fire
Sculptor Kenji Yanobe’s Giant Torayan robot, a 7.2-meter (24-ft) tall mechanical baby that sings, dances and spits flame, was sighted in Tokyo’s Roppongi district last night. The flame-breathing robot spent the night on middle stage at “Roppongi Art Night,” an every-night event featuring installations and performances by dozens of artists.
1 Apr 2009, 7:13 am | click here to view more