M of the M

Mario of the Month for February- found: here.

The Art of Money

There is a great web page on art made from money here at the Brain Pickings website.
Image shows a hand-made work by American artist Mark Wagner.

With a tip'o'the hat to www.marginalrevolution.com

Painting backwards

I love Alexa Meade's backwards painting (click the link if you want to know why it's backwards).

Words of wisdom

"If you could kick

the person in
the pants
responsible

for most of
your trouble,
you wouldn't
sit for a month."

                                             Theodore Roosevelt

[Image is of ROOSELVELT Park Fountain and has nothing to do with ROOSEVELT, but I mistyped and the photo seemed apropros.]

M of the M

Mario of the month for December. Photo found here.

Zigzag Philosophy

Image via Wikipedia

I don't know what to make of this site.

Motherlode of Super Mario images

Check out this site with "45 Unusual Stylish Super Mario Brothers Artworks".

From: http://www.kerismith.com/

Non-interactive art

Nothing to click on here.

Interactive art

Click anywhere and draw.

Scanwiches

What is there not to love about this site devoted entirely to showing scanned images of sandwiches?

Searching by colour

I like this site that lets you search for images by their colour.

Cool drawing program

MyOats is a cool on-line drawing program.

Super Mario etched onto a PC

Details at: Kotaku.com (which incidentally has 1320 blog entries labeled 'Super Mario'!)

Shadow art

I am amazed and impressed by this shadow art.

Evolving Mona Lisa

This guy wrote a genetic program (a computer program that uses natural selection to solve problems) that simulated/replicated the Mona Lisa using 50 semi-transparent polygons. I wonder if any human would have been able to figure out how to do that?

Shown: The 348th and 904,314th generations of evolution.
Via: BoingBoing

Complexification

I have long been a fan of www.complexification.net, a website devoted to artistic computer programming. It uses a free computer language (specialized for visual programming) called Processing that I have always wanted to spend some time learning. There are many more examples here.

Nathan Sawaya: Amazing Lego Artist

Nathan Sawaya is an amazing Lego artist, whose show is coming to Edmonton soon.

Super Mario clouds

Click on the image for more info.

Yellowtail

Cool interactive art.