25 Last Minute Traditional and Downloadable Halloween Masks : Speckyboy Design Magazine
Have you remembered your Halloween mask? If you haven’t, we have a cheap and cheerful solution to your problem: Downloadable traditional Halloween masks. Yep, click on any of the mask images below and press ‘print’, and hey presto you have your very own DIY Halloween mask, you will be the envy of everybody (not, really!). Below you will find masks for traditional Hallween monsters (Frankenstein, Dracula, Witches…), Star Wars characters, and you will even find a mask for the very cool Christopher Walken. Happy Halloween! Happy Ghost Halloween Pumpkin Bloody Vampire Dracula Witch Chin Mask Frankenstein Chin Mask Frankenstein Full The Grinch Creepy Eyes Ghost Yoda Mask Chewbacca Mask Darth Vader Mask C3PO Mask R2D2 Mask Shocktrooper Mask The Emperor Mask Anakin Skywalker Mask Obiwan Kenobi Mask Christoper Walken The Free Fun Fings Mask Collection
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The Boing Boing post that inspired “The Strange Case of Origami Yoda.” « The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
Lots of people ask me how I got the idea for the book and my answer goes like this: “I was messing around on the Internet and saw a picture of an incredible origami Yoda. But I knew it was too hard for me to fold, so I tried to make my own simple version. When I was done I realized it was a finger puppet and then … blah blah blah.” Well, I think I have found the actual post where I first saw that origami Yoda. It’s a Boing Boing post, written by Cory Doctorow himself. And it had a drawing of the Yoda, not a photo. (I think this image is from the PDF of the Kawahata instructions, which is here.) One odd thing though, this post is from 2005 and I would have thought the whole thing happened in 2006.
How To Make Your Own Cinemagraphs: A New Take on GIFs
We hate to break it to you, but it doesn't look as if GIFs are disappearing anytime soon. Those ancient animated images — once limited to gaudy "under construction" signs and chain-mail fodder — are receiving a new lease on life as of late, thanks to a little something called cinemagraphs. This is actually just a fancy name for an animated GIF, but specially designed with a purposeful artistic goal. One photographer, Fernando J Baez, describes the technique as "more than a photo, but not quite a video." One of Jamie Beck's animated photographs, otherwise called a cinemagraph. Photoshop. Vimeo is the best place to go looking for beautifully shot, high-quality videos, so we're going to start there, though you can also shoot your own! Motion workspace is active (found under Window > Workspace). FIle > Export > Render Video, and accept the default settings. In our sample video, there's lots of motion, with people moving up and down the various escalators —except for one.
The Art of Paul Kuczynski
Take a look at some paintings by artist, Paul Kuczynski. More after the jump.
Making a Frabjous
George W. Hart is a professor at Stony Brook and is one of our favorite artists, making a wide variety of stunning geometric sculptures. On his of his many works that has particularly captivated us for some time is a sculpture called Frabjous. When we realized that George had posted a template for this sculpture we dropped everything, grabbed the cardboard and hot glue, and raced to build our own. You’ll need papercraft type building materials: Paper, cardstock, or cardboard, and tape or glue. Also good scissors and/or a hobby knife with sharp blades. You can download the PDF template for Frabjous on its web page. The sculpture is made out of 30 identical pieces, with this S-curve shape. Cut out your template at your scale of choice. You need 30 pieces so this can *ahem* take a while. Big hint for cardboard: replace your blade often. Once you have all the pieces, then comes the challenging part, putting it all together. The first hint about construction is to look at the corners.
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3D Paintings on Panes of Glass
Using multiple layers of clear glass, Canada based David Spriggs and Chinese born Xia Xiaowan, transform flat artwork into 3D sculptures. Viewers are treated to different shifting perspectives of the works based on where they stand in the art space. Spriggs work revolves around powerful explosive imagery, often resembling storms, cosmic blasts or firework like explosions. Xiawan’s “spatial paintings,” which often feature distorted figures, are drawn individually using colored pencil on tinted glass. Only when these pieces are combined on their floor racks do the images create the whole hologram like effect. See Also INCREDIBLE 3D ILLUSTRATIONS JUMP OUT OF THE SKETCHBOOK For more on David Spriggs see his beautiful website at davidspriggs.com or for more on Xia Xiaowan see Wikipedia Above and Below: Xia Xiaowan’s distorted 3D figures Artist: Xia Xiaowan Below: David Spriggs beautiful paintings fill the room with stormy emotion. Artist: David Spriggs
