Jorge Colombo drew this week’s New Yorker cover using an iPhone application called “Brushes.” An additional app, Brushes Viewer, generated the video recap of how the image got made. Check out how the cover image got made below:

So “Janet Jackson”, a UC Berkeley graduate student, three other graduate students, and I had just wrapped up our presentations at the Expanding Literacy Studies International, Interdisciplinary Conference for Graduate Students at “the” Ohio State University in Columbus. It was a glorious day, bright and sunny, and we were thrilled that we were all […]

In a series entitled “Ghost in the Machine,” iri5 creates artwork using old cassette tapes and reels. She has created portraits of celebs and musicians like Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, and Jim Morrison. Of her work, she says:

It feels great to work with strange, older materials. Things that have […]

Tomorrow night the Berkeley Center for New Media will host artist Ray Beldner for a talk called “Flickr, Flarfing and Babelfish: The Internet and Art Practice“, part of the long-time Art, Technology and Culture series. The talk/performance sounds intriguing, featuring how objects, databases, images, and other treasures ‘found’ on the web […]

Sonja Lind over at Papyrus News posted on a project that represents webpages as graphs.  Go check it out!

Here’s FIT (click on image to increase size):

blue: for links

red: for tables

green: for the DIV tag

violet: for images

yellow: for forms

orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes

black: the HTML tag, the root node

gray: all other tags

It’s infinitely cooler […]