Whoa, hey! Your mid-week Quickies are here, courtesy of the Old Fashioned I had at the new bar down the street that just opened this evening (it was tasty). Dive in!
Teeny miniature scenes – artist Dan Ohlmann creates these exquisite, miniature scenes that made me double-take. How…?
Gorgeous – You know those 4800+ high definition photographs, taken by the Apollo astronauts, that were recently released? Director of photography Tom Kucy has taken some of them and brought them to life in this brief video, Ground Control. -Via Donna
This week in Art Crimes!
Artist Theaster Gates bought a dilapidated bank on the south side of Chicago for $1 and turned it into an Art Bank. And Holy Moly, is it beautiful.
From the art collective that brought us the @Horse_ebooks Twitter account, how to create art that’s meant to go viral.
New Hubble images bring us Jupiter in ultra high def. Animations included!
From Laughing Squid: “Ground Control” is a short video by director of photography Tom Kucy that brings to life some of the photographs taken by Apollo astronauts during their missions using 3D graphic effects. A new high-resolution collection of those photographs was recently uploaded to Flickr.
Featured image via NASA/ESA/Goddard/UCBerkeley/JPL-Caltech/STScI
Brian George,
I personally think that Jupiter is the prettiest of the gas giants.
I agree!