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This is a great article about art apps. The one that interests me the most is ArtRage. It is amazing that a computer app can mimic the look of a real watercolor. One color actually bleeds into the next.

A useful listing of apps related to the Arts and education for all age levels. I personally have used the Musee du Louvre app listed in the article and found it very useful when traveling to Paris, or just for reliving the visit to the Louvre. This site deals primarily with the fine arts, but is useful for anyone interested in the subject of art.

Pro Music Apps.com is a great website for music production apps and virtual instruments that can be downloaded and used on a Tablet or iPhone as well as a PC. This site has a little be of everything including Promotional section for Artist profiles.

Several cool links to free and paid apps that are useful tools for costume designers or anyone working with textiles and designs. As a costume designer for my school's theater and musical productions, I have used several of the applications listed here.

A free animation app for making videos. This site has more features in free mode than Xtranormal does. It is useful for students for use in alternative learning exercises or for anyone who wants to make a simple animated video. This site/app was recommended to me by my animation major daughter.

I always wanted to make an animated story. I'm going to use goanimate for this weeks technology assignment.

This NYTimes article discusses the influence of technology on an art museum, and the potential effect it could have on the art world. The Cleveland Museum of Art has created an iPad app for its entire permanent collection, something that is almost unheard of as of yet. The app can revolutionize the way people see the exhibits and view art museums. The app seems like a fantastic way for people to be more interactive with a piece of artwork on a wall in a museum. This seems to be an example of technology boosting and enhancing the art experience.

A selection of free and paid apps for use in stage and theatre designs. Especially useful for lighting designers and technicians is the portable gel book. Very cool!

Not yet convinced that this app would actually do anything for me other than entertain me when stuck in traffic (not that I ever am)

A mobile app that works as a thesaurus for phrases

Really cool digital makeover app. Accurate placing and looks real!

A list of six apps for museums such as MoMA, Guggenheim, and the Louvre that offer different features to enhance your visit at these museums.

This is a great list of apps for iPad users in the art world.

This might be a little out there for some ... but this guy is brilliant. He is using a $2 app on an iphone to do this. Definitely worth a watch.

Very cool!! Creating one's own personal transportable accompaniment...and it was funny.

This is an article on a new iphone and ipad app designed by ShinyArt and created by Mobovivo that allows you to view video art exhibitions on your phone or ipad.

The MoMa Art Lab app for your iPad. You can create sounds, shapes, poems and drawings to share and save. You can also learn about featured art at the MoMa.

Vine is an app for twitter that allows you to make short looping videos, which you can share with the world. I linked the wiki page here, as it has more information, but you can visit them on twitter at: https://twitter.com/vineapp The Tribeca Film Festival opened a competition for Vine videos for this year's event. http://www.tribecafilm.com/blogs/six-second-films-vine-competition

Poetreat is a mobile app that will suggest words that rhyme. You can choose the style and meter.

The Fractured Atlas Blog has a running tag called #TechToolTuesday. They highlight a new app every Tuesday that can help with everything from time management, website making, marketing, and finances that are all either free or reasonably affordable.

Daniel Levitin is the Author of "This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession". He is a musician and neuroscientist and this post is him giving a talk about his research and book at Microsoft Research. One of his main premises from his research is that music may be more fundamental to humans than language.

This is a very riveting talk. I didn't come away with the idea that music might be more fundamental to humans than language, but that music is fundamental, as is language, and that each of us is a musical expert, if not expert performers!

I have continued thinking about this topic...Levitin also intimated that musical capacity is similar to language acquisition in that there is a window of time in which that capacity needs to be triggered in order for fluency in music to be attained. The window for language acquisition is birth to puberty. If your language capacity is not triggered within this time frame, you can't learn to speak as we understand speech. I wonder if this is really true of musical capacity...perhaps, but perhaps not in the way that it is of language. Of course they massive amounts of research have been applied to the question of language.

"Technology and the Arts" is a podcast hosted by Brian and John, Brian is a communications professional, comic book-style artist, songwriter, and blogger. John is a designer, artist, writer, poet, technologist, consultant, open web advocate, and open source evangelist. Episode 56 has some good apps for you iPad musicians Both Brain and John are from Jersey and haven't been active since Sandy went through…