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posted 04/19/08 by Rick Webb

Art. Ha. I’ll spare you all a long diatribe about art and commerce and design and patronage and all of that, and we’ll pretend for now that the issue is very simple and clear and this topic is for that rarefied art stuff that isn’t tainted by the evils of commerce. Yeah. So hopefully it’s all free.

Here are some recent posts from our employees about Art:

Lagoa Multiphysics

posted by Dom Goodrum
Dom Goodrum
Dom Goodrum

Art Director : New York

topics: Social Networking and Community, Creativity, Art Direction, User Experience, and Internet Culture

 on July 20, 2010 at 03:25 PM
filed under: Art
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Hand from Above

posted by Dom Goodrum
Dom Goodrum
Dom Goodrum

Art Director : New York

topics: Social Networking and Community, Art Direction, Internet Culture, Creativity, and User Experience

 on June 10, 2010 at 02:37 PM
filed under: Art
From the always excellent Chris O’Shea
Hand From Above encourages us to question our normal routine when we often find ourselves rushing from one destination to another. Inspired by Land of the Giants and Goliath, we are reminded of mythical stories by mischievously unleashing a giant hand from the BBC Big Screen. Passers by will be playfully transformed. What if humans weren’t on top of the food chain?
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yes for sure

posted by Dom Goodrum
Dom Goodrum
Dom Goodrum

Art Director : New York

topics: Art Direction, Internet Culture, Social Networking and Community, Creativity, and User Experience

 on June 04, 2010 at 12:59 PM
filed under: Art
‘yes for sure’ is an excellent website from artist Rafael Rozendaal.
I’m going to the beach tomorrow so this is totally working for me right now :)
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Gravité by Renaud Halléé

posted by Dom Goodrum
Dom Goodrum
Dom Goodrum

Art Director : New York

topics: Internet Culture, User Experience, Creativity, Social Networking and Community, and Art Direction

 on May 14, 2010 at 11:20 AM
filed under: Art
Great work from Mr. Halléé.
BASED IN MONTREAL, RENAUD HALLEE IS CREATING NARRATIVE AND EXPERIMENTAL WORKS IN FILM AND ANIMATION AS WELL AS COMPOSING MUSIC.
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Cinder!

posted by Keith Butters
Keith Butters
Keith Butters

Co-founder, Chief Experience Officer : New York

topics: User Interface, Agile and Scrum, Creativity, Flash, and Strategy

 on April 29, 2010 at 07:19 PM
filed under: Art
We are incredibly excited to announce that Cinder (formerly known as Flint) has now officially been released into the wild as an open source project. As described on the main page at libcinder.org, “Cinder is a community-developed, free and open source library for professional-quality creative coding in C++.”
So why did we do this, you might ask? Well, it originated as a solution to a fairly kludge-y work-flow we were using to create music visualizers. We were basically designing in Processing, porting to C++ and testing; repeat. At one point we even considered developing a magic-box type macro that would convert a Processing sketch into C++ and then to an iTunes visualizer. I had also coded a basically blank iTunes visualizer that piped FFT data to processing. Good times, but not ideal. At all.
Instead, we started an internal project codenamed ‘Flint ’ (not only because we liked the name, but because the namespace sounded cool: fli::Surface, etc). The project had two main goals:
First, when we needed to be in C++ (for iTunes plug-ins etc.) we wanted to have our creative coders be able to make things directly in C++. It needed to be approachable. For a while, we called this “The Robert Case” after Robert Hodgin, who was a driving force in making a ton of amazing stuff here at TBG.
Second, we wanted to make sure that any approachability enhancements did not prevent the more hardcore developers from doing the “bare-metal” programming. That was the “AFB Case” after Andrew Bell, who wrote the majority of Cinder here, and has been writing C++ code for ever.
We’ve used various incarnations of Cinder on projects like the augmented reality issue of Esquire Magazine, a music visualizer for Relentless, and Magnetosphere, as well as several internal experiments.
I would also like to reiterate some things that we’ve said in the FAQ of libcinder.org. One, we cannot say enough great things about Processing. It’s not only a great way to dip your toe into the waters of creative coding, but also a powerful platform for doing advanced and amazing things. Another incredible project out there is openFrameworks, which is led by some amazingly talented people and has a great community surrounding it.
I am so glad that we were able to make Cinder open source. Andrew and I both expected a certain amount of internal resistance attempting to do so (a lot of hours went into this!), but that resistance never materialized. We have been the beneficiaries of too many open source projects to list, and we all felt that giving back was the only move we could feel good about.
Check out the cinder website here: http://libcinder.org
Grab the source here: http://github.com/cinder/Cinder
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The Water Poster

posted by Dom Goodrum
Dom Goodrum
Dom Goodrum

Art Director : New York

topics: Social Networking and Community, Art Direction, User Experience, Internet Culture, and Creativity

 on April 20, 2010 at 12:14 PM
filed under: Art
Amazing
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Feelings are Facts

posted by Dom Goodrum
Dom Goodrum
Dom Goodrum

Art Director : New York

topics: Social Networking and Community, Internet Culture, Art Direction, Creativity, and User Experience

 on April 19, 2010 at 12:09 PM
filed under: Art
‘Feelings are Facts’ is the latest project from Olafur Eliasson and Ma Yansong.
Finally we can all live together in Photoshop happily ever after…
Watch a video here
Read a blog post here
this site-specific project, located within the big hall of ullens center for contemporary art (UCCA),
beijing is based on a series of previous experiments by eliasson, which deal with atmospheric density.
here, eliasson introduces condensed banks of artificially produced fog into the gallery,
shimmering with an artificial light spectrum, created using arrays of red, green and blue fluorescent lamps.
this illusion in light is not something we find in nature, however, as one walks through the space,
the sights and sensations experience become real.
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Death Becomes U$.

posted by Claudia Allwood
Claudia Allwood
Claudia Allwood

Account Manager : San Francisco

topics: Internet Culture, Art, San Francisco, Apparel and Footwear, and Client Services and Relations

 on February 12, 2010 at 07:59 PM
filed under: Art
Money. Death. Alexander McQueen. Some suicides. An economy.
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