https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/public/ recent bookmarks from matthewmcvickar 2022-01-23T05:28:17+00:00 https://covidartmuseum.com/ matthewmcvickarThe world’s 1st museum for art born during Covid19 quarantine]]> museum covid19 art internet photography https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:e1c032a5a19d/ 2022-01-11T16:13:03+00:00 https://c82.net/mineralogy/# matthewmcvickarAll 2,242 illustrations from James Sowerby’s compendium of knowledge about mineralogy in Great Britain and beyond, drawn 1802–1817 and arranged by color.]]> art science nature https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:991ce02fbe7e/ 2021-12-14T19:42:10+00:00 https://typatone.com/ matthewmcvickarThe act of writing has always been an art. Now, it can also be an act of music. Each letter you type corresponds to a specific musical note putting a new spin to your composition. Make music while you write. ]]> writing music sound art https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:1ea15e6b97e4/ 2021-12-14T19:28:41+00:00 https://frogitivity2.tumblr.com/ matthewmcvickar art internet mentalhealth https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:b4f0146445ad/ 2021-08-05T16:02:25+00:00 https://kidpix.app/ matthewmcvickarJS Kid Pix / Kid Pix 1.0 was released in to the public domain and this is an HTML/JS reimplementation.]]> javascript art software macos https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:c69313ce05f7/ 2021-04-14T03:38:12+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/02/arts/design/shah-jahan-chitarman.html matthewmcvickarCrosscurrents of religion and culture shaped this stunningly detailed portrait of the 17th-century Mughal emperor who built the Taj Mahal. --- Power, for the Mughals, also came from absorbing the cultural forms under their authority, then reconstituting them in their own image.]]> art culture history webdevelopment https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:2499da5c0653/ 2021-03-15T05:02:46+00:00 https://htck.github.io/bayeux/#!/ matthewmcvickarHistoric Tale Construction Kit - Bayeux Two German students originally wrote the Historic Tale Construction Kit, with Flash. Sadly, their work isn't available anymore, only remembered. This new application is a tribute, but also an attempt to revive the old medieval meme, with code and availability that won't get lost.]]> history art humor https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:ec5c2329f377/ 2021-02-12T17:46:10+00:00 https://www.heritagetype.com/collections/free-vintage-illustrations matthewmcvickarFREE Vintage Illustrations for your creative projects! Heritage Library collects beautiful illustrations from the past which are 100% free to use. Get inspired by our free illustration bundles and create gorgeous packaging, postcards and more.]]> _free-images art design https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:4a5352bc0d89/ 2020-12-18T19:10:54+00:00 http://drawing.garden/ matthewmcvickar🌱 A small project by Ben Moren: gardening, but with emojis and less time 🌿]]> emoji web art https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:d1fbd7202d2e/ 2020-11-08T08:05:40+00:00 https://trimet.org/publicart/ matthewmcvickarThe Public Art Program promotes transit use and community pride by integrating permanent and temporary art works into the public transit system — celebrating the contributions of public transportation and recognizing the cultural richness in our region.]]> portland transportation art https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:18664d0dedf1/ 2020-09-10T18:23:34+00:00 http://astronaut.io/ matthewmcvickarToday, you are an Astronaut. You are floating in inner space 100 miles above the surface of Earth. You peer through your window and this is what you see. You are people watching. These are fleeting moments. These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views. They are unnamed, unedited, and unseen (by anyone but you). Astronaut starts when you press GO. The video switches periodically. Click the button below the video to prevent the video from switching.]]> video people art https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:b83b172873f7/ 2020-09-08T23:55:04+00:00 https://notnot.home.xs4all.nl/pareidolia/pareidolia.html matthewmcvickarIn the artwork Pareidolia* facial detection is applied to grains of sand. A fully automated robot search engine examines the grains of sand in situ. When the machine finds a face in one of the grains, the portrait is photographed and displayed on a large screen. Pareidolia was developed for Sea Art on the isle of Texel, commissioned by SEA - Science Encounters Art. The production was supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL. Photo Heleen Vink, SEA Art, church De Burght, Den Burg, Texel, 2019]]> art ai technology https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:cffc282d0ee9/ 2020-09-04T17:56:35+00:00 https://walkcycles.tumblr.com/ matthewmcvickari love the way they move through space]]> videogames animation art https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:e9f0603483e2/ 2020-09-03T16:06:35+00:00 https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/dofaw/education/backgrounds/ matthewmcvickarWhen you can’t experience the forest in person, try connecting with Hawai‘i’s native species by bringing them into your digital lifestyle. With downloadable backgrounds, you can decorate your smartphone or your computer desktop. With our virtual meeting backgrounds you can invite a pueo or a hapu‘u fern to join you on your next video conference call.]]> art hawaii _free-images https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:c9ba68c3f5ea/ 2020-08-13T17:52:58+00:00 https://www.c82.net/mineralogy/ matthewmcvickarAll 2,242 of James Sowerby’s illustrations from his compendium of knowledge about mineralogy in Great Britain and beyond published between 1802 and 1817 and arranged by color.]]> design illustration art geology nature science https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:566b6e18de06/ 2020-08-12T03:47:15+00:00 https://www.adrianbrandon.com/stolen matthewmcvickarThis series is dedicated to the many black people that were robbed of their lives at the hands of the police. In addition to using markers and pencil, I use time as a medium to define how long each portrait is colored in. 1 year of life = 1 minute of color. Tamir Rice was 12 when he was murdered, so I colored his portrait for 12 minutes. As a person of color, I know that my future can be stolen from me if I’m driving with a broken taillight, or playing my music too loud, or reaching for my phone at the wrong time. So for each of these portraits I played with the harsh relationship between time and death. I want the viewer to see how much empty space is left in these lives, stories that will never be told, space that can never be filled. This emptiness represents holes in their families and our community, who will be forever stuck with the question, “who were they becoming?” This series touches on grief and the unknown.]]> art racism violence blm https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:b695c10d6faa/ 2020-08-09T18:52:24+00:00 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1276721178841841664.html matthewmcvickarSome things that Milton Glaser said to my SVA class, which I still think are good. In no particular order: - It should be impossible to be in the arts and not be generous - One of art's highest functions is to prevent ppl from killing each other. - Fame & money are corrosive, and you need to recognize this early - Art is a survival mechanism - Make ppl feel like they have something in common; that they aren't alone - Every artist should view themselves as citizens, not illustrators, designers etc. - Drawing is one of the only times he sees things that are 'real' - It's one of the rare experiences that he creates for himself. "The noise disappears" - Drawing shows your brain - Drawing expressively and evocatively is harder than drawing realistically - Artists don't say "where do I begin?" They've already began. - Drawing is in the realm of the miraculous. It's a miraculous occurrence. - The most modest of subjects can come alive in a drawing - What is the distance between what you see, and what you draw? - ALL my work is personal work. The only boundary is how I determine how it's used. - You get nothing but problems when you do work that conflicts w your integrity. - In any design problem, your client has needs, your audience has needs, but you also have needs - You attract what you do - Everything is connected and has an effect on the world. - There is no such thing as coincidence - Whether you like it or not, your work is ABOUT social responsibility - Don't overprotect. Share your vision at all times]]> art creativity quotations https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:55d326028ff8/ 2020-08-09T18:19:15+00:00 https://github.com/everestpipkin/tools-list matthewmcvickarOpen source, experimental, and tiny tools roundup --- This is a list of smaller tools that might be useful in building your game/website/interactive project. Although I’ve mostly also included ‘standards’, this list has a focus on artful tools & toys that are as fun to use as they are functional. The goal of this list is to enable making entirely outside of closed production ecosystems or walled software gardens.]]> art code design webdevelopment programming https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:25c167156479/ 2020-07-14T20:21:49+00:00 https://www.theuncomfortable.com/ matthewmcvickaris a collection of deliberately inconvenient everyday objects by Athens-based architect Katerina Kamprani.]]> art design humor https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:4d80bea6ebea/ 2020-05-02T21:43:45+00:00 https://www.gotyourback.space/ matthewmcvickarAn ever growing collection of virtual backdrops for use in video call apps. Expressions of optimism and art by the world's best designers, illustrators, animators, photographers, filmmakers and artists.]]> video art wallpaper https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:5d1791bd75f8/ 2020-05-02T21:40:27+00:00 https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio?ii=0&p=0&from=2020-05-02T21%3A36%3A28.3461513Z matthewmcvickarBrowse 676,693 works of art.]]> _museum-art art history free images https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:1f1601024404/ 2020-05-02T21:39:23+00:00 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection matthewmcvickarWhen The Met was founded in 1870, it owned not a single work of art. Through the combined efforts of generations of curators, researchers, and collectors, our collection has grown to represent more than 5,000 years of art from across the globe—from the first cities of the ancient world to the works of our time.]]> _museum-art art free images museum history https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:451fd190753b/ 2020-05-02T21:37:47+00:00 https://www.si.edu/openaccess matthewmcvickar Welcome to Smithsonian Open Access, where you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to nearly 3 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections—with many more to come. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.]]> _museum-art art design history images free https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:e1a469d18a40/ 2020-05-02T21:37:06+00:00 http://parismuseescollections.paris.fr/en matthewmcvickarParis Musées is a public entity that oversees the 14 municipal museums of Paris, including the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Petit Palais, and the Catacombs. Users can download a file that contains a high definition (300 DPI) image, a document with details about the selected work, and a guide of best practices for using and citing the sources of the image. “Making this data available guarantees that our digital files can be freely accessed and reused by anyone or everyone, without any technical, legal or financial restraints, whether for commercial use or not,” reads a press release shared by Paris Musées.]]> _museum-art archive museum art https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:0442d69b0a1a/ 2020-04-19T21:42:12+00:00 https://www.vulture.com/2020/04/fiona-apple-fetch-the-bolt-cutters-songs.html matthewmcvickarWith her first album in eight years, Fetch the Bolt Cutters, singer-songwriter Fiona Apple reached into the past to confront her rapist, middle-school bullies, and herself.]]> art music lyrics https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:c61fbc5ee3be/ 2020-04-18T04:00:42+00:00 https://adventurerooms.tumblr.com/ matthewmcvickar art videogames https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:91b274d439fb/ 2020-04-01T18:12:32+00:00 http://www.xavibou.com/index.php/project/ornitographies/ matthewmcvickarXavi Bou focuses on birds, his great passion, in order to capture in a single time frame, the shapes they generate when flying, making visible the invisible. […] Technology, science and creativity combine to create evocative images which show the sensuality and beauty of the bird’s movements and which are, at the same time, clues for those wishing to identify or recognize them.]]> birds photography art https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:5afb6d803d40/ 2020-03-24T16:34:18+00:00 https://longreads.com/2015/01/28/friendship-is-complicated/ matthewmcvickarArt, commerce, and the battle for the soul of My Little Pony. --- Branded toys routinely make more money than the films and cartoons on which they are based—sometimes a lot more—so it’s logical in a way that yes, children’s television shows and movies are basically long, elaborate toy commercials. If they are to provide something, anything, more interesting or positive for children than a siren call to the toy store, any other potential motives—humor, pleasure, an observation on human nature or a philosophical or moral lesson—are incidental to the prime directive of selling toys, lunchboxes, T-shirts, and all the other branded merchandise known in the trade as “CP,” or consumer products. […] In effect, it’s no longer possible to produce mass-market children’s entertainment outside the parameters of “selling out.” […] All the bronies I have met share this effortless camaraderie; some are shyer than others, but basically they are twenty-somethings with the simple, unaffected friendliness of 5-year-olds. […] There’s a temptation to reckon the attempts of artists like Lauren Faust to create entertaining and meaningful shows within the straitjacket of corporate commerce as entirely futile, hopeless. A mug’s game. But then I remember the Grand Galloping Gala in full swing. In time the techno music was blasting and a throng of kids massed together in the center of the dancefloor, dressed in cosplay pony ears and swishing tails and all sorts of homemade cartoon finery, pogoing, and suddenly it became clear that they were all chanting together. Evan, I said. Are you hearing what they’re chanting. He’s all, What is it? It was this: “Friendship! Friendship! Friendship!”]]> art capitalism media television children https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:9ba00e9f8064/ 2020-03-23T05:02:01+00:00 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/23/fiona-apples-art-of-radical-sensitivity matthewmcvickarFor years, the elusive singer-songwriter has been working, at home, on an album with a strikingly raw and percussive sound. But is she prepared to release it into the world? --- When you tell people that you are planning to meet with Fiona Apple, they almost inevitably ask if she’s O.K. What “O.K.” means isn’t necessarily obvious, however. Maybe it means healthy, or happy. Maybe it means creating the volcanic and tender songs that she’s been writing since she was a child—or maybe it doesn’t, if making music isn’t what makes her happy. Maybe it means being _un_happy, but in a way that is still fulfilling, still meaningful. That’s the conundrum when someone’s artistry is tied so fully to her vulnerability, and to the act of dwelling in and stirring up her most painful emotions, as a sort of destabilizing muse.]]> art music fame https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:6a845b68b609/ 2020-03-19T00:10:51+00:00 https://www.substation.me/ matthewmcvickarSubstation DIY is a free, open, and secure way to set up simple recurring payments and member messaging — as easily as pressing a remix button and adding credentials for Braintree and Mailgun. Try the demo, learn more, then remix your own!]]> diy internet art commerce https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:477cb96024ca/ 2020-03-13T20:11:56+00:00 https://avataaars.com/?ref=producthunt matthewmcvickarMix & match avatar illustrations in Sketch App with this free library.]]> design webdevelopment illustration art free https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:8728f73343b9/ 2020-03-13T20:10:10+00:00 https://www.humaaans.com/?ref=producthunt matthewmcvickarMix-&-match illustrations of people with a design library for InVIsion Studio and Sketch.]]> design illustration art webdevelopment free https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:5eed771cd2d9/ 2020-03-13T20:08:52+00:00 https://www.openpeeps.com matthewmcvickarOpen Peeps is a hand-drawn illustration library to create scenes of people. You can use them in product illustration, marketing, comics, product states, user flows, personas, storyboarding, quinceañera invitations, or whatever you want! ⠀]]> design webdevelopment illustration art free https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:94e39310e8b0/ 2020-03-05T05:42:08+00:00 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/23/the-art-of-dying matthewmcvickarI always said that when my time came I’d want to go fast. But where’s the fun in that? --- Closeness is impossible between an artist and a critic. Each wants from the other something—the artist’s mojo, the critic’s sagacity—that belongs strictly to the audiences for their respective work. It’s like two vacuum cleaners sucking at each other. […] To limber your sensibility, stalk the aesthetic everywhere: cracks in a sidewalk, people’s ways of walking. The aesthetic isn’t bounded by art, which merely concentrates it for efficient consumption. If you can’t put a mental frame around, and relish, the accidental aspect of a street or a person, or really of anything, you will respond to art only sluggishly.]]> death art writing https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:936f902518d5/ 2020-03-05T05:40:59+00:00 https://medium.com/@milowissig/the-painting-yale-lost-59a2c0c5a372 matthewmcvickarIn 2017, I got an interview for the Master’s degree program at the Yale School of Art. When I returned a week later to pick up work I had left there, one of my paintings was gone. What happened to it? This is the story.]]> education art https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:b2eb0108040b/ 2020-03-01T22:26:58+00:00 https://popula.com/2020/02/20/a-renegade-in-atlantic-city/ matthewmcvickar art writing https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:15b87df99441/ 2020-02-26T17:34:55+00:00 https://jspaint.app/#local:e0be5e9370395 matthewmcvickarClassic MS Paint in the browser, with extra features.]]> retro tech art https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:f44d649c6bb2/ 2020-02-21T20:42:26+00:00 http://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/the-wonderful-world-of-tools-made-by-small-teams-solo-devs-and-shareware-weird-beautiful-and-experimental-things-to-be-creative-in-an-analysis-on-building-for-approachability matthewmcvickarSince starting development on the Electric Zine Maker I’ve been hoarding links to interesting, unusual, strange, small, or just cute tools. This has grown to be a strong area of interest as I’ve been diving into what even makes a tool approachable… How much experimental UI or humor is too much? Do people even want tools that are goofy? What else is out there from creators making small and interesting tools that solve a variety of creative problems?]]> art internet tech https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:f68036eee15c/ 2020-02-06T01:37:21+00:00 https://www.zimoun.net/ matthewmcvickarZimoun is a Swiss artist, composer and musician who's most known for his sound sculptures, sound architectures and installation art that combine raw, industrial materials with mechanical elements.]]> audio sound sculpture art noise https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:5d958f866467/ 2019-12-04T20:03:42+00:00 https://giphy.com/paulrobertson matthewmcvickar art anime internet animation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:6d133a353447/ 2019-12-04T19:53:21+00:00 https://href.cool/2010s/ matthewmcvickar culture internet humor art https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:8b4221e52afb/ 2019-09-12T16:37:27+00:00 https://animeraingifs.tumblr.com/ matthewmcvickarOnly Anime & Pixelart Rain]]> anime animation tv art https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:58efd12cfe0d/ 2019-07-19T16:43:24+00:00 https://platforms.fyi/ matthewmcvickarWhat we hear from companies like T and F and Y is that monitoring communication at this scale, preventing that harm, is an unprecedented technical challenge. That’s correct. However… no one asked for communication at this scale! To be clear, it’s a challenge these companies designed for themselves; a challenge they enlarged through relentless, ingenious growth; a challenge they now invoke as if it’s some longstanding problem in fundamental physics. [...] Social media platforms should run small, and slow, and cool to the touch.]]> art internet socialmedia https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:d242d554ee7a/ 2019-07-11T16:53:02+00:00 https://videogamesskies.tumblr.com/ matthewmcvickarYour daily dose of pixelated skies and 8-bit clouds, from vintage and retro video games.]]> videogames art design https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:ece7fd08f278/ 2019-07-11T05:08:11+00:00 https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-Moss-Graffiti-1/ matthewmcvickarMoss graffiti, also called eco-graffiti or green graffiti, replaces spray paint, paint-markers or other such toxic chemicals and paints with a paintbrush and a moss "paint" that can grow on its own. As people become more eco-friendly and environmentally aware, the idea of making living, breathing graffiti has become a more green and creative outlet for graffiti artists. It can also be considered another form of guerrilla gardening.]]> art outdoorart https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:1ac072ef5691/ 2019-06-04T17:39:32+00:00 https://tinysubversions.com/notes/library-archive-tourism/ matthewmcvickarWhen I'm traveling and am at a loss for how to spend my time, I look up as many libraries I can in the area I'll be traveling to, and I check to see if they have special collections. Then I make an appointment with the library to visit those special collections, and usually it means I get to spend a day in a quiet, climate-controlled room with cool old documents. It's like a museum but with no people, and where you have to do all the work, which is honestly my idea of a perfect vacation.]]> library art history howto travel https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:be4b27fca6ec/ 2019-06-04T04:26:54+00:00 https://twitter.com/ErisDrew/status/1098844652290142209 matthewmcvickarArt/music can be disruptive technologies. Art doesn’t just come from reorganization of cultural forms. It is radical when it perturbs dominant cultural modes & shakes people out of their ordinary experience. It has the power to connect us to mysteries of imagination and being.]]> music art https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:d045b58a8389/ 2019-03-14T17:51:26+00:00 https://nubleh.github.io/i_painted/ matthewmcvickar art https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:31ecc1c6620c/ 2018-12-27T16:38:35+00:00 https://siminiblocker.tumblr.com/tagged/The-Long-Way-to-a-Small-Angry-Planet matthewmcvickarSissix and Rosemary, again from Becky Chambers’ ‘The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet.’ I finished the second one last week as well, which has another cast of excellent characters. I love how cozy and lived in these books feel, while still being really thoughtful on challenging your perspective—it’s not something I’d come to expect from science fiction. ]]> art scifi literature fandom fanart https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:0a7ac8c3b11b/ 2018-11-12T02:12:24+00:00 https://www.artic.edu/collection?is_public_domain=1 matthewmcvickarExplore thousands of artworks in the museum’s wide-ranging collection—from our world-renowned icons to lesser-known gems from every corner of the globe—as well as our books, writings, reference materials, and other resources. ]]> art history images free https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:2043fbc7b584/ 2018-06-13T22:12:36+00:00 https://bombmagazine.org/articles/portfolio-21/ matthewmcvickarRenee Gladman is the author of ten works of prose and poetry, most recently *Calamities*, a collection of essay-fictions. Her first monograph of drawings, *Prose Architectures*, was published by Wave Books in 2017. She lives in New England with the poet-ceremonialist Danielle Vogel.]]> book drawing art https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:e2fcb664c2f4/ 2018-06-08T16:08:12+00:00 https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-alexandra-bell-is-disrupting-racism-in-journalism matthewmcvickarThe series had its clandestine début, in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, on New Year’s Eve in 2016. Bell critiqued the Times’s coverage of the death of Mike Brown, in 2014, in which the paper ran side-by-side profiles of the victim and his killer, Darren Wilson, under the joint headline “Two Lives at a Crossroads in Ferguson.” Bell and many other readers felt that the framing of equivalence, and of tragic coincidence, diminished what had happened that August afternoon. Bell erected a diptych of her own, with Wilson’s profile whittled down to read, simply, “Officer Darren Wilson fatally shot an unarmed black teenager named Michael Brown.” The second panel bore the new headline “A Teenager with Promise,” I noted last year, when I interviewed Bell.]]> art race journalism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:dde2a1d4d597/ 2018-06-04T18:10:16+00:00 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/kanye-west-ye/ matthewmcvickarAs West sells it, ‘ye’ is an album devoted to the stand-off between visceral self-loathing and baroque levels of narcissism, further complicated by mental illness and a recent opiate addiction. Listening to ‘Killing You,’ it’s unclear whether West’s violent thoughts are directed at his wife or towards himself, or if he even means it at all: maybe a homicidal fantasy is just another badass way to start an album, an inverted “Ultralight Beam.” It is the work of a broken man, whatever the case. But to meet West on his terms here feels impossible. In his world, self-expression justifies itself, and speaking your most twisted thoughts out loud is an act of bravery, one that makes ‘I Thought About Killing You’ not just a fine thing to write and share, but a work made from a place of love. Art, then, is a way of existing beyond reproach, an excuse for everything.]]> music art https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:78e64672af07/ 2017-03-14T19:43:05+00:00 http://www.gianlucagimini.it/prototypes/velocipedia.html matthewmcvickarBack in 2009 I began pestering friends and random strangers. I would walk up to them with a pen and a sheet of paper asking that they immediately draw me a men’s bicycle, by heart. Soon I found out that when confronted with this odd request most people have a very hard time remembering exactly how a bike is made. Some did get close, some actually nailed it perfectly, but most ended up drawing something that was pretty far off from a regular men’s bicycle.]]> design art psychology https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:4546acfdf5cd/ 2016-02-09T16:07:41+00:00 http://irenydraws.tumblr.com/post/137580759353/so-quite-a-lot-of-people-expressed-interest-in-a matthewmcvickarso quite a lot of people expressed interest in a guide to lion dance! and since the lunar new year is coming up in a couple weeks, which means everyone’s exposure to lions is probably going to increase, i figured i’d go ahead and make it! right click + open in new tab to fullview, etc etc, i hope it’s helpful, although if you only take one thing away from this powerpoint, it’s this: lions are not dragons]]> china tradition dance culture comic art https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:192b0e91594f/ 2015-11-16T03:36:18+00:00 http://katierose.itch.io/mirrorlake matthewmcvickarprocedural salt flats, mountains, forests]]> art internet programming https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:97c4925fb160/ 2015-11-13T04:31:18+00:00 http://nymag.com/following/2015/11/12-weirdest-funniest-smartest-twitter-bots.html matthewmcvickarWe spoke to some of our favorite bot-makers about their favorite Twitter bots — their own, and made by others in the #botALLY community — to surface some lesser-known projects worth following.]]> art twitter internet https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:3e496b9df96d/ 2014-11-22T04:54:37+00:00 http://sa.mattacott.com/?og=1 matthewmcvickar art https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:0e54cd0eae4d/ 2014-04-07T01:57:15+00:00 https://medium.com/artists-on-the-internet/86648df4ffee matthewmcvickar“Isn’t it just so great that you can do everything yourself!” say people who don’t live the reality of having to do everything themselves.]]> art business music diy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:1c8ac2b71025/ 2014-01-03T17:48:28+00:00 http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/personal-ads/ matthewmcvickarIn an online milieu where everyone markets themselves, net artists have made selling out its own medium.]]> business art https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:3a1514b671b6/ 2013-09-25T20:44:32+00:00 http://christopherwhitman.net/blog/?p=664 matthewmcvickarJacob Bakkila could have made his own Twitter account to post gibberish to. But the point was to appropriate something people were already paying attention to. What we thought was marketing rediscovered as art has turned out to be art rediscovered as marketing.]]> internet marketing art https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:1da4306b0899/ 2013-09-07T22:44:40+00:00 http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2013/07/19/203565597/hey-kid-thoughts-for-the-young-oddballs-we-need-so-badly matthewmcvickarLearn the difference between feedback and criticism. Feedback is primarily for you; criticism (in the sense of "a movie critic" or "an arts critic") is primarily not. Criticism is part of an ongoing cultural conversation that's designed to make everybody smarter and better and more thoughtful and to advance the art form itself; it's done even when the creator of a piece is long dead. It's not really for you. Feedback, on the other hand, is aimed at you to make you better, and that's the only kind of feedback worth paying attention to. If you can't listen to it and take it in without your hackles rising, you will never become good. Period, boom, g'bye.]]> advice art creativity criticism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:a163829a8cf1/ 2013-06-28T23:36:48+00:00 http://pitchfork.com/features/afterword/9116-storm-thorgerson/ matthewmcvickarAlong with Pink Floyd, Thorgerson and Hipgnosis were central figures in the transition from 60s psychedelia to the expansive, million-selling radio rock that defined most of the 70s. More than any single figure, he established intricately composed, surrealist photographic techniques, collages, and pictorial reappropriations as key ingredients of mainstream album art.]]> music art design rock https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:59b930dc1aae/ 2013-05-07T18:30:05+00:00 http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2013/04/fan_landers_kickstarter_abuse.php matthewmcvickarLooking expectantly at the rest of the world to validate your interests, hobbies or art is a set-up to feel bad, to brood and be jaded that you are not understood. You need to reprogram your relationship with money as a creative person, because the one you have is like a hex. You need to grow-up your success dream and stop this focus on how it'll make you feel better.]]> music kickstarter musicbusiness internet fame art https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:5d6c2cf0146b/ 2012-12-29T02:35:20+00:00 http://blog.pprbmb.com/ matthewmcvickar art friends https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:431829fb4779/ 2012-12-29T02:31:29+00:00 http://www.20x200.com/ matthewmcvickarAffordable Art Prints]]> art design photography shopping https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:6cfd17af5cce/ 2012-12-29T02:25:09+00:00 http://200friends.tumblr.com/ matthewmcvickarPortraits of 200 friends. A creative collaboration. Monotypes by Adam Funari. Photographs by Michael Keany.]]> self honolulu art photography painting hawaii https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:1846c9bbf712/ 2012-12-07T09:25:26+00:00 http://multicoloredcrow.deviantart.com/art/BOOM-341569521 matthewmcvickar self art painting minecraft friends internet nerds https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:998a55fd3852/ 2012-10-04T10:04:11+00:00 http://schuylertsuda.com/ matthewmcvickarfriends music sound portfolio art https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:10236d788c93/ 2012-06-27T04:17:36+00:00 http://www.arithmeum.uni-bonn.de/en/events/61 matthewmcvickarLeon Polk Smith (1906-1996) was drawn to geometric con- structivist art by the Red Indian attitude to life and nature of his forbears.]]> art https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:2b05a5573c43/