art – rich text https://www.lafferty.ca Rich Lafferty's OLD blog Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:31:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.2 Spam art https://www.lafferty.ca/2008/02/28/spam-art/ Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:27:45 +0000 http://www.lafferty.ca/2008/02/28/spam-art/ Remember Spamusement? When it was still current, it featured quick pen drawings based on spam subject lines. It was hit and miss but mostly hit; however, it dried up in June 2007.

But today Neatorama linked to Kipling West’s Fresh Spam blog, in which she puts considerably more effort than Spamusement did into illustrating spam, switching styles as often as the Perry Bible Fellowship and often choosing intricacy over the quick, like in Cloven Chimera Buyers below — although she’s not afraid of a straightforward take either.

Cloven Chimera Buyers, Fresh Spam by Kipling West

I enjoyed Spamusement’s approach but I really like what West’s doing.

I don’t know if this next one has the staying power that Spamusement or Fresh Spam will have, but Neatorama also linked to Linzie Hunter’s flickr gallery of spam-subject posters, like so:

I love this kind of hand lettering, although I’m not sure if using spam subjects makes it better or worse. Anyone know of more (non-spam) hand-lettering blogs or Flickr users showing off their handiwork?

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Ginsberg reading “Howl” https://www.lafferty.ca/2007/10/12/ginsberg-reading-howl/ Sat, 13 Oct 2007 02:21:55 +0000 http://www.lafferty.ca/2007/10/12/ginsberg-reading-howl/ Allen Ginsberg reads “Howl”. October 9, 1975 [26’52”, 13MB mp3]. Extracted from this Naropa Archive reading.

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Science tattoos https://www.lafferty.ca/2007/09/22/science-tattoos/ Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:58:49 +0000 http://www.lafferty.ca/2007/09/22/science-tattoos/ Science tattoos on Flickr. [via The Loom]

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Eyes! https://www.lafferty.ca/2006/01/08/eyes/ https://www.lafferty.ca/2006/01/08/eyes/#comments Sun, 08 Jan 2006 09:57:00 +0000 Illustrator Keri Smith takes a sheet of round stickers and a Sharpie to the streets, leaving her town looking like something Richard Scarry came up with. I know what I’m going to grab next time I’m in Office Depot, derivative or otherwise.

(Found via the excellent illustration blog Drawn!, which I’ve seen off and on over the years but never remembered to read regularly. I’ve spent the last couple of hours digging through its archives.)

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Fantastic 3d rendering https://www.lafferty.ca/2005/07/29/fantastic-3d-rendering/ Fri, 29 Jul 2005 05:44:00 +0000 Check out this amazing 3d rendering of a ZX-6R. The level of detail is amazing, especially for the parts that are obscured by the fairing anyhow. This forum thread follows the development of the model over 5 months and shows high-resolution versions of some of the preliminary work and the naked bike. ]]> Wireframe graphics on a Commodore 3032? https://www.lafferty.ca/2005/05/19/wireframe-graphics-on-a-commodore-3032/ https://www.lafferty.ca/2005/05/19/wireframe-graphics-on-a-commodore-3032/#comments Thu, 19 May 2005 07:25:00 +0000 Graphics Demo is brilliant. I wish I had thought of this first. Be sure to see the video.

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