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Shepard Fairey Pleads Guilty Over Obama ‘Hope’ Image

The street artist Shepard Fairey, whose “Hope” campaign poster of Barack Obama became an enduring symbol of his last presidential campaign, pleaded guilty Friday to a charge stemming from his misconduct in trying to bolster claims in [...]

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Childhood comic collection expected to fetch $2M | Unplugged – Yahoo! Games

What a story!

The collection includes an Action Comics No. 1, from 1938, which features the first appearance of Superman and is expected to sell for about $325,000. A Detective Comics No. 27, from 1939, features the first appearance of Batman and is expected to get about $475,000. A Captain America No. 2, from 1941, [...]

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Lucy Prebble on Gaming

I may seem laughably sentimental about what’s essentially pixels jiggering about. But somewhere deep inside when I was little I wanted to be an artist. And a whole art form has developed in my lifetime. I remember for the first time reading: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own [...]

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Lucy Prebble on Gaming

I may seem laughably sentimental about what’s essentially pixels jiggering about. But somewhere deep inside when I was little I wanted to be an artist. And a whole art form has developed in my lifetime. I remember for the first time reading: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own [...]

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I know that look.

This was my 9yo today.

She doesn’t get into fights with other kids, just with us — about going to bed, or getting up, or drinking out of a cup with a creepy pirate on it, or doing any lesson other than theater or art.

Beyond throwing an eraser or stuffed animal in huffy [...]

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Gallery: Pepper Spray Cop Squirts the Internet in the Eye

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Coloring Pages

Over the past few weeks, I spent several hours trying to help keep the little Oompa-Loompas quiet between their rehearsal numbers. The kids seemed amused when I started drawing characters from the show. Here’s Veruca, holding the golden ticket.

Some of the younger kids asked for copies they could color. More are on the Art/Architecture [...]

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‪Uncanny footage of an outdoor sculpture.‬‏ – YouTube

‪Uncanny footage of an outdoor sculpture.‬‏ – YouTube.

Blender Camera Mapping Tutorial

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James Goodwin Clonney: Mother’s Watch

This painting, of two impish children taking advantage of a moment of unsupervised freedom as their mother naps, is one of my favorites from the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, here in Greensburg. The pun in the title intrigues me, as does the amazing complexity of the children’s clothing.

The painting was not there [...]

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Robert Lepper’s Typewriter Peacock

I love this piece, on display at the Westmoreland Museum of Art, as part of “They Practice What They Teach: Artist Faculty of Carnegie Institute of Technology.”