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Ian Yang

Flickr: Art.In.General - 3 views

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    A flickr group exclusively for all the members from Art.In.General, a Diigo group where we collect and share bookmarks related to all types of news, information, knowledge and resources about Art.
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    Finally and officially, we have another place on flickr to make a rendezvous! I believe that many of you have been a flickr member for a long time, so let's start sharing your works already! Have fun! :D - Ian
Ian Yang

Flavorwire » Idle Doodles by Famous Authors - 3 views

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    It makes me really happy finding this page on Twitter! Seeing all those doodles and sketches from classical writers like Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, and Vladimir Nabokov not only makes the experience of reading so much precious but brings one closer to the authors. Ian
Ian Yang

How about a small group on Flickr for all of us? - 4 views

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    Today when I was browsing on Flickr, it kind of occurred to me that could opening a group for Art.In.General be a good idea? it's gonna be all about members' works, of course, for showing off your talents, killing time and making friends. I need more opinions from you guys to make a proper decision, so let's talk about this! ^^
Ian Yang

Visual Photo Guide | Photography for the rest of us. - 1 views

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    I think that everyone can learn a thing or two about picture taking at this nice place full of interesting topics, like "How to Make Fake Miniature Scenes", "Quick Introduction to HDR Photography", etc.
Ian Yang

S60 5th Edition Application: XpressSketch for Nokia N97, X6, 5580XM, 5530XM… ... - 3 views

  • XpressSketch isn’t a simple drawing app but rather a powerful drawing tool offering following features: Faster and smoother drawing. More than 50 thousand colors.  Do not hesitate, what color to choose, use the convenient palette of colors. 8 tools (list will be expanded in future versions) In pencil, there are 8 different brushes (work tool “brush” in the next versions will be improved, you will be transparency) Easily zoom, easy and rapid movement of the canvas. Ability to save images in formats jpg and png, open any image, create a new canvas with arbitrary dimensions.
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    This great tool alone is good enough for me to love my Nokia 5230.
Ian Yang

Multicolr Search Lab - Idée Inc. - 2 views

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    Awesome tool for searching creative commons images on Flickr based on colours. :D
Ian Yang

ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: Artistic Creativity and the Brain -- Zeki 293 (5527): 51... - 6 views

  • Visual art contributes to our understanding of the visual brain because it explores and reveals the brain's perceptual capabilities. As Paul Klee once wrote, "Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes things visible." But visual art also obeys the laws of the visual brain, and thus reveals these laws to us. Of these laws, two stand supreme.
  • The first is the law of constancy. By this I mean that the function of the visual brain is to seek knowledge of the constant and essential properties of objects and surfaces, when the information reaching it changes from moment to moment. The distance, the viewing point, and the illumination conditions change continually, yet the brain is able to discard these changes in categorizing an object.
  • The second supreme law is that of abstraction. By abstraction I mean the process in which the particular is subordinated to the general, so that what is represented is applicable to many particulars. This second law is intimately linked to the first, because abstraction is a critical step in the efficient acquisition of knowledge; without it, the brain would be enslaved to the particular. The capacity to abstract is also probably imposed on the brain by the limitations of its memory system, because it does away with the need to recall every detail. Art, too, abstracts and thus externalizes the inner workings of the brain. Its primordial function is thus a reflection of the function of the brain.
Ian Yang

Awww yeah. You found Humble Voice. - 1 views

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    Another cool place to let your creativity be read, heard and seen.
Ian Yang

15 Places to Make Money Creating Your Own Products - 0 views

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    You are welcome, Alex. Just remember: they all have some cons and pros, so make sure you understand the policy or rules of each website. :)
Ian Yang

Creators: From Chaucer and Dürer to ... - Google Books - 0 views

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    When a guy starts talking about Shakespeare, Albrecht Dürer, Picasso and Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, I know I'm gonna have a real good time! :P
Ian Yang

Photoshop Tutorials - Psdtuts+ - 0 views

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    RSS feed for all Tutorials and ArticlesRSS feed for all Tutorials and Articles - Just HeadlinesRSS feed for VideosRSS feed for FreebiesRSS feed for Community LinksEmail Subscriptions for all Tutorials and ArticlesTwitter Follow for all Tutorials and Articles
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    About:\nPsdtuts+ is a blog/Photoshop site made to house and showcase some of the best Photoshop tutorials around. We publish tutorials that not only produce great graphics and effects, but explain the techniques behind them in a friendly, approachable manner.
Ian Yang

Keys to drawing - Google Books - 0 views

  • Dodson offers a complete system for developing drawing skills, basing his approach on 55 "keys" to drawing -- rules that don't need to be memorized, but realized. Dodson helps artists learn to trust their eyes and sharpen their observation skills through 48 practice exercises, reviews, and self-evaluations. Topics include learning to control proportion, scale, movement, depth, pattern and more!
  • Merely to see, therefore, is not enough. It is necessary to have a fresh, vivid, physical contact with the object you draw through as many of the senses as possible — and especially through the sense of touch. Our understanding of what we see is based to a large extent on touch.
Ian Yang

History of Art: Arnold Bocklin - 2 views

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    Some of Bocklin's greatest.
Ian Yang

Arnold Böcklin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • Influenced by Romanticism his painting is symbolist with mythological subjects often overlapping with the Pre-Raphaelites. His pictures portray mythological, fantastical figures along classical architecture constructions (revealing often an obsession with death) creating a strange, fantasy world. Böcklin is best known for his five versions of Isle of the Dead, which partly evokes the English Cemetery, Florence, close to his studio and where his baby daughter Maria had been buried. An early version of the painting was commissioned by a Madame Berna, a widow who wanted a painting with a dream-like atmosphere.[1]
  • Böcklin exercised an influence on Surrealist painters like Max Ernst and Salvador Dalí, and on Giorgio de Chirico.
Ian Yang

caravaggio.com home page - 0 views

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    P.S. It seems that my Firefox suffers from temporary breakdown when viewing the website, so you better try some other browsers like Google Chrome or IE.
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    Living 400 years ago in the time of the counter reformation; in the time of Shakespeare; Caravaggio staged scenes with lighting that inspires modern film directors. Having lived with high quality images and movies; it is difficult for us to conceive the effect his realism had in its days. Every one of his works raised a scandal; and each one haunts us with intrigue even today.
Ian Yang

Visual Thinking - 2 views

  • Artists have long been trying to understand how we preceive, and much of our understanding of vision comes from learning how artists manipulate images into meaningful and realistic scenes.
  • According to Professor McKim, visual thinking is carried on by three broad kinds of visual imagery: images we see (not the things themselves we are seeing); images we imagine (and dream); and images we draw.
Ian Yang

Martine Johanna - 0 views

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    Drift, 2008
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