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CategoryThe Painter in Me is Obsessed with Makeup Tutorials
The latest content consumption hole I’ve fallen down is watching makeup tutorials on YouTube. If you’ve never seen one, they usually go li..
Molly Soda talks about digital performance art, intimate labor, and Detroit
Who is Molly Soda? The 26-year-old artist—easily recognizable for her prominent eyebrows, nose ring, rodent sidekicks, and sparkly GIF acc..
Missed Connections of the Damned
Why so serious? – m4m – (inside my torso)
I’ve always been a sucker for the brooding, sensitive types. So when I glanced over my s..
The Pros and Con of James Turrell
Pros:
By removing all or most context from his illuminated spaces, Turrell draws attention to light itself. That doesn’t sound very..
Ten Reasons the Watts Towers Are Awesome
1. They were created by one man, by hand. Minnesota’s pretty proud of our largest-ball-of-twine-rolled-by-one-man, but even we have to..
Behind Our Future Cities Book Cover
We just heard that pre-orders of our first ever physical book, Future Cities, started arriving yesterday. Now that the book is starting ..
A Visual Guide to What Your Handwriting Says About You
END BAD DESIGN: The Talented Minds at South Carolina’s Fuzzco
I first discovered Fuzzco when one of my favorite web design hubs, Site Inspire, featured their agency website. It’s one of the cool..
Why Artistic Integrity Is Overrated
The other day this bearded dude I was friends with in college told me that his weekend prog-rock project had broken up. I got sad for a se..
END BAD DESIGN: This Week – Zara Gonzalez Hoang
Zara Gonzalez Hoang of Twistcone, creator of the new Monster Coloring Book
Tell us a bit about who you are and the work you do:
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Lies Artists Tell
“I hate selling my paintings. I’m so attached to them.” The reality is, if you painted it once, you can easily paint it again, unless ..
Types of Artists
The Sperm Guy: This guy makes paintings on giant canvases – they could be black blurs or space aliens having cocktails, whatever, but ..