Posts Tagged ‘illustration’
22
Dec
2008
The Art of the Doodle
Why pen and paper are not dead and what Aspirin has to do with Thom Yorke.
It’s a well-documented fact that creative people, whatever their craft, doodle. Documented mostly on napkins, sticky notes, torn off notebook pages, and other random scraps of paper. Doodling is a silver bullet for everything from fleshing out that big idea to relieving creative boredom, an art form so underappreciated yet so necessary for keeping the cogs of the creative world turning.
One brave blog is out to claim doodling the kind of status it deserves. Doodlage is a rich and diverse tribute to the art of doodling, spanning the entire spectrum of doodlers — from the professional illustrator to the everyday cubicle slave stuck on a long call with nothing but a pen and the back of a spreadsheet.
Granted, some of the stuff featured is the brilliant work of world-class artists, but that’s okay because Doodlage, not unlike us here, seems to be in the business of indiscriminate inspiration.
Doodlage scours the web for doodly goodness, whatever medium or shape it may take — from to fascinating notebook doodles (some of which remind us of a certain Thom Yorke album cover), and everything in between.
And since this is exactly the kind of stuff to make you seem all smart and thoughtful in the otherwise cheesy and cliché-driven ordeal of holiday gift-giving, be sure to check out the Doodlage Shop on Etsy.
Doodlage is the work of creative duo RaShell and LeO, both of whom you can follow on Twitter.
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15
Dec
2008
History, Animated, Quick and Uneuphemistic
The moon hoax, why Nixon lost the debate, and what dinosaurs have to do with Gerald Ford and a chicken.
Despite our general dismissal of history as a boiling pot of mistakes that humanity never learned from, we have to admit it offers a great and telling tale or two. And the History Channel is out to prove it.
The Great and Telling Tales of History is a brilliant series of 1-minute films in which history’s walking encyclopedia, historian Timothy Dickinson, tells us, in a grandfatherly voice and an endearing British accent, little-known and fascinating facts about the history of politics, pop culture and the world at large.
But what makes the films truly marvelous is that we’re taken through the unexpected twists and turns of history by artist Benjamin Goldman’s wonderful animation — dark and delightful at the same time, every bit as full of unexpected twists and turns as the stories themselves.
The talks aren’t just mere recaps of history, either. They’re full of Tim Dickinson’s own, often unapologetic and unorthodox, theories about the world — like the rather snarky short on drugs, in which he shares this uneuphemistically true sentiment about human nature:
The point is, we are fundamentally dissatisfied with our standard biological condition, and we’ll find one way or another of altering it.
Some of our favorites: Jimmy Carter vs. the Killer Rabbit, The Brain, The Strange Case of Mary Toft, and Charles Darwin.
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