Jun 16 2005
Seeing is not the perception of reality, we are constantly interpreting and constructing a reality based on visual input. An anamorphosis is a deformed image that appears in its true shape when viewed in a particular unconventional way … the viewer must seek out the unconventional viewpoint from which the visual trick is resolved. In [...]
Jun 09 2005
Colombian artist Fernando Botero responded to his distress over the prisoner abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison by creating his latest series of paintings depicting the violence, inspired by written descriptions of the abuse rather than by the photographs. Referring to Pablo Picasso’s masterpiece Guernica, Botero said his intent is to emblazon the images [...]
Jun 08 2005
An interesting and amusing site about the misuse of Chinese characters in Western culture, Hanzi Smatter, reminds me of another of my favourite sites, Engrish. Rather than being a communication tool, written language may be used as a design element in products, advertising or tattoos. There may be no attempt to get it right, nor [...]
