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  • Casart® Coverings,  Celebrations & Events,  Culture,  Everyday,  Humor,  New Orleans,  Slipcovers for Your Walls (casart blog)

    Super Art Smackdown Bet

    The Saints better win the Super Bowl! There’s a high stake art bet taking place between the NOMA (New Orleans Museum of Art) and Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA). If Saints win, IMA will send, “The Fifth Plague of Egypt,” painted in 1800 by William Turner and if the Colts win, NOMA will send, “Ideal View of Tivoli,” painted in 1644 by Claude Lorrain. This is was an inside bet between museum directors William Anderson of IMA and John Bullard of NOMA, each equally confident that they won’t have to comply. The Times Picayune describes the humorous details of the high brow chat and circumstances. No details, however, on how…

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  • Creative Process,  Film,  Humor,  Technology

    Impossible Animation?

    This fascinating short animated film, Pigeon Impossible came my way. I’m impressed with Lucas Martell’s film making, technical ability and creativity and sense of humor. Very clever, particularly with simple things captured like the movement of Agent Becket’s hand when opening the briefcase and the pigeon pecking had me laughing, as the typical behavior of pigeons goes. Now, I’m wondering about the Washington Monument (watch the film and you’ll see what I mean).  Here’s a link to the actual process of how he rendered it and other links to how he did some of the lighting and camera shots. Scary that I understand this, but don’t pretend to know how…

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  • Artists,  Casart® Coverings,  Fashion,  Functional Art,  Humor,  Murals

    What to Wear

    As a follow up to my art dress, graffiti and the invisible artist posts, here are more examples of what to wear — artistically that is: Chor Boogi not only paints murals, he paints lovely ladies. Evidently Lui Bolin wasn’t the first artist to make himself invisible. I found this on an interesting blog, Butterfly by Day, plus I like the name. It reminds me of casart coverings and our butterflies. I like Susan Sontag’s opening quote on this Veruschka’s website (photo link above). To learn more about Veruschka’s interesting life as a famous fashion model, click here. Finally, looking for that perfect party dress for New Year’s? Here’s one…

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