So I’m getting into pixel art again (It’s been a few years!).

Polaroid 1000
Polaroid OneStep
Kittens Stuck up Trees (incomplete)
It’s soooo slow creating anything with pixel art via Photoshop’s pencil tool. If you have a PC, stick to paint. Photoshop doesn’t have pixel rulers, shapes or “pixel-art-friendly” paint buckets! It takes literally 3 times more time to produce the same thing on Photoshop…

I’d have to agree that there are creative and very conceptual ad designers out there that could apply all of that to art & design instead of selling products…When was the last time you saw really creative street art that makes you go “wow”? I’m pretty sure you’ve seen more Guerrilla Advertisements that caught your attention.
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Credit OR when was the last time you saw art work (or even design) that made you go “hmmm” and think? And I’m pretty sure more ads make us think about their concepts than art pieces. We *are* constantly being surrounded by them.

I stumbled across this Polaroid threadless t-shirt on the site. Too bad there’s no xs or s for girl’s left

I thought of making my own flash filters with transparent colored paper. The idea is to place these transparent papers over the flash of my Nikon D40 camera and then taking shots with the flash on. The flash should go through the transparent paper, giving the shot a split second of color light.

Playing around with different opacities of transparent paper (by adding/removing the # of sheets I’ve used). Here are a couple of shots (no photoshopping, but similar effects could be achieved digitally through photoshop… where’s the fun though?)
D40: Without any filters:
1 - 2 green transparent sheets:
5 yellow & 1 blue sheet (my favorite):

 

Many green sheets (some yellow) - ugly:

Placing the sheet directly over the filters:

** I find that these effects work better with close up / macro shots because the strength of the flash.

Popular music is filled with craptastic annoying tunes, how do millions of people buy these albums or love these tracks??

When I (rarely) get a top 40’s track stuck in my head, it’s gross, I don’t even like the artist or track, but I have the chorus stuck in my head which makes me listen to the track because of my “cognitive itch.” What is a cognitive itch?

This is kind of scary because popular music is produced with specific type of properties that cause these “cognitive itches.” Okay, it might sound absurd to some, but if you really think about it, there are very common factors with most popular music: repetitive basic chorus & melodies (which makes it easier for us to “memorize” it. Isn’t that quite horrible? It’s like creating subliminal TV advertisements, making us want to buy or do something without us consciously knowing! Oh, but of course there are those who genuinely like these type of music.

This BBC article will teach you more about it