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  • eBoy’s FixPix iPhone game is basically the greatest thing ever made

    eBoy’s FixPix iPhone game is basically the greatest thing ever made

    Posted on May 6, 2010 | No Comments
    Okay, so this isn't out yet, but it's hard to deny that the eBoy-designed Delicious Toys-developed game FixPix is probably the best idea anyone has ever had since the wheel or sliced bread. Maybe that's a little hyperbolic, but as you know, we are huge fans of eBoy and their mind-boggling pixel art. Now the design collective's cityscapes and fantastical scenes have been turned into an iPhone app where you can piece the 3D milieus back together by tilting your phone this way and that. As we said, the title isn't available, but there's an awesome demo site where you can play around with the concept, and it's likely FixPix could see Apple approval any day now. We can barely contain ourselves. Check out a video of the game in action after the break.

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  • Are video games art?

    Are video games art?

    Posted on April 19, 2010 | No Comments
    I'm hesitant to write this because, really, who cares? And I don't mean that in a negative, cynical way at all, but rather in a practical way. Clearly there are people who enjoy playing video games, just as there are people who enjoy creating video games. Why should these people concern themselves with whether or not Roger Ebert, a 67-year-old man who wouldn't know the difference between World of Warcraft and The Legend of Zelda if you smashed his face in with the blunt end of the Master Sword, “approves” of their pastime or vocation?

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  • There’s Gelaskins for iPad now~!

    There’s Gelaskins for iPad now~!

    Posted on April 6, 2010 | No Comments
    Forgot to mention this last night, so apologies in advance. Y'all know Gelaskins, right? The neat-looking, device-sized decals that you stick to your laptop, phone, or whatnot? They're available for the iPad now. Rejoice!

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  • Rat Rod bikes – the bicycle as art?

    Rat Rod bikes – the bicycle as art?

    Posted on March 23, 2010 | No Comments
    Living in Nevada, I get to see all kinds of art projects on the road as Burning Man approaches. I will admit however, that none of them look quite as cool as these, a combination of the "rat-rod" and an art bicycle.

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  • Desktop lamp powered by hamster cells

    Desktop lamp powered by hamster cells

    Posted on March 8, 2010 | No Comments
    This seems a bit odd, but here's another take on alternative power; Dutch designer Joris Laarman came up with a concept for a desktop lamp that glows from bio-luminescent hamster ovaries. Seriously, I'm not making this stuff up.

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  • The blind camera shows you someone else’s pictures

    The blind camera shows you someone else’s pictures

    Posted on March 5, 2010 | No Comments
    Here's an interesting item, from artist Sascha Pohflepp. It's called Blinks and Buttons, and it's a "blind camera." Possessing no lens and no viewfinder, the "camera" still takes a picture when you press the big red shutter button.

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  • Video game inspired skateboard decks

    Video game inspired skateboard decks

    Posted on February 5, 2010 | No Comments
    Artist Logan Zawacki (what a fun name!) put together some pretty impressive game-themed skateboard decks for the I’M BOARD skateboard art show held earlier this week in Florida. Zawacki created four decks in all, each with the following theme: Mega Man, Super Mario Bros. 3, Street Fighter II, and TMNT: The Arcade Game. If you look [...]

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  • The motherboard as art: The Mona Lisa

    The motherboard as art: The Mona Lisa

    Posted on November 12, 2009 | No Comments
    Well, I think we finally know what Asus does when they get a dead motherboard. They take it apart, and turn it into a picture! Behold the loveliness that is the Motherboard Mona Lisa, a model of PCI and AGP slot beauty and mystery.

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  • David Hockney paints with his iPhone, results not typical

    David Hockney paints with his iPhone, results not typical

    Posted on October 11, 2009 | No Comments

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    Artist David Hockney isn't afraid of picking up new media -- over the years, he's used Polaroids, photocollages, and even fax machines to create his art -- in addition to regular, old-fashioned painting. Now, he's taken to using his iPhone to create new works of art. The resultant "paintings" have been exhibited at the Tate Gallery and Royal Academy in London, as well as galleries in Los Angeles and Germany. Like artist Jorge Colombo (whose iPhone fingerpainting was featured on the cover of The New Yorker), Hockney uses the iPhone app Brushes to create his works. In an interview with the New York Review of Books, Hockney notes that he prefers and still uses the original version of the app, not the more recent updates. Hmm... maybe the reason our own Brushes paintings stink is because we're using the update!

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