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"While at least Life-magazine-killer TV has served as a platform for the creation of some great artworks (HBO's "The Wire," created by newspaperman-turned-TV-auteur David Simon, comes to mind) and inspired the creation of new art forms (see the upcoming Smithsonian retrospective of the work of "father of video art" Nam June Paik), it's hard to imagine what of lasting value hot web-native media brands like Gawker and BuzzFeed are contributing to visual culture and art history. Which brings me to an email I got last Wednesday from Gawker promoting its "top story" of Dec. 5., titled "The 13 Most Powerful Images of Naked Celebrities of 2012," which quickly racked up more than a million page views. It was a sequel to a Gawker post from the previous day titled "The 19 Most Powerful Images of 2012," which was mostly a shameless, edited-down rip-off of a BuzzFeed post titled "The 45 Most Powerful Images Of 2012," consisting of intense wire-service photojournalism from Reuters, the AP, Getty and others, which derive most of their support from old-school print-centric publications around the world. Gawker's excuse for its act of, uh, curation: "Who has time to scroll through 45 pictures?""

app that lets kids make pasta art digitally -- for each noodle used in the art they will 10 noodles to feeding america.

Artist Doug Aitken's latest project, Station to Station: A Nomadic Happening, puts art and innovation on railway tracks by transforming a train into a travelling art studio that is set to run cross country from New York to San Francisco. http://stationtostation.com

Talk about perspective. Art collective Boa Mistura in Brazil took on a project to brighten some neighborhoods. They painted narrow passageways with bright colors and uplifting words that mean beauty, love, pride, and more - the catch is the words can only be seen from a certain perspective when the person is at the top of the passageway.

used in daily 7.1 Twitter art (uses template)

This guy is replicating outdoor ads on stairs, turning around the typical situation where ads steal from street art.

shadow art for new castle

Intersection of barcodes and art. When one of the over 1500 barcodes that comprise the celebrity images is scanned, a video clip of that celebrity was played on a nearby laptop. 

Interesting applications of augmented reality in the art world.

were legitimate artists you guys.

using paintball guns to create street art for Mountain Dew

Created by BBDO San Francisco for Barefoot Wine and Bubbly, this billboard is made up of 17,500 of pieces of trash picked up on the beach. promotes the upcoming film by director Jason Baffa called One Beach, a film about art innovators who support clean and sustainable beaches with their art.

"Here's more proof that retail store windows can blend art and merchandising to create attractions worthy of pedestrian traffic. The Issey Miyake store in Tokyo features chairs that are half real, half art."

Hmmm, machine creativity may be the tipping point to superiority: https://qz.com/1205270/art-made-homo-sapiens-smarter-than-neanderthals-and-better-equipped-to-survive/

TBS noticed that lots of people make Conan-based art and created both physical and digital museums