Hacker News with Generative AI: Art

Cassette Futurism (wikipedia.org)
Cassette Futurism bezeichnet eine ästhetische Richtung im Retro-Futurismus, die von der Technologie und dem Design der späten 1970er bis frühen 1980er Jahre inspiriert ist[1][2].

Art, Design, Retrofuturism, Aesthetics, 1970s-1980s

8 points by doener 8 hours ago | 0 comments

High-School Band Contests Turn Marching into a Sport–and an Art (newyorker.com)
Band kids today don’t just parade up and down the field playing fight songs. They flow across it in shifting tableaux, with elaborate themes and spandex-clad dancers.

Music, Art, Performance, Education, Culture

9 points by PaulHoule 3 days ago | 1 comments

January 6th the Board Game? (npr.org)
Fight for America! is a new art installation about democracy that invites audiences to play a war game — battling over the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Politics, Art, Games

15 points by rolph 4 days ago | 1 comments

Half-Life 2 and Dishonored art lead Viktor Antonov has died (eurogamer.net)
Half-Life 2 art director and Dishonored designer Viktor Antonov has died aged just 52.

Video Games, Gaming, Art, Design, Obituaries

595 points by Trasmatta 4 days ago | 123 comments

Statement or eyesore? Japan's divisive brutalist buildings – in pictures (theguardian.com)

Architecture, Japan, Art, Criticism

79 points by PaulHoule 4 days ago | 37 comments

Banksy Fights with Greeting Card Company for Control of His Trademark (robbreport.com)
Banksy, the anonymous British graffiti artist, risks losing the right to his own name in a landmark case brought against him by a greeting card company.

Art, Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark

54 points by abetusk 7 days ago | 19 comments

The Human Alphabet (publicdomainreview.org)
In Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women (1868–69), we are told how “Demi learned his letters with his grandfather, who invented a new mode of teaching the alphabet by forming letters with his arms and legs, thus uniting gymnastics for head and heels.” Composed across more than half a millennium, the images gathered below also unite contortion and composition, and seem to celebrate the innate humanness of writing, which tops the list of qualities that distinguish our dear species most distinctly

History, Literature, Art, Human Body

31 points by crescit_eundo 8 days ago | 12 comments

Visualizing data is an art (perthirtysix.com)
The TeamOur PhilosophyNBAInstagramTwitterLinkedIn

Data Visualization, Design, Art

180 points by skadamat 8 days ago | 61 comments

Show HN: Built a site to find London's best art exhibitions (happenz.org)
Indonesian artist explores ancestral memory and gender through paintings, installations and scent, reclaiming traditionally male Balinese art forms.

Art, London, Exhibitions, Culture, Indonesia

22 points by bozkan 9 days ago | 10 comments

Pied Beauty: Wari Tie-Dye Textiles (Ca. 425–1100) (publicdomainreview.org)
When the lords of the Inca were forced to send tribute to the Spanish, they made their payments, in part, in panes de grana — “cakes” or “loaves” of the cactus-eating cochineal beetle (magno or macnu in Quechua), which when pulverized and mixed with mordant produces a blood-red pigment whose intensity was unrivaled by anything previously known to Europeans.

History, Art, Textiles, Ancient Civilizations, South America

12 points by prismatic 10 days ago | 0 comments

First Copyright for a Single Image Made with AI (cnet.com)
The image, called "A Single Piece of American Cheese," was created using Invoke's AI editing platform.

Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, Art, Generative AI

5 points by sophrocyne 10 days ago | 1 comments

Show HN: A unique generated maze to share with your Valentine (berk.es)
Lost in Love is a project by Bèr Kessels to create and share a unique maze for you and your love.

Creative Projects, Valentine's Day, Art, Web Development

100 points by berkes 10 days ago | 20 comments

Ask HN: Easiest way to create simple illustrations? (ycombinator.com)
Id like to for example generate simple line drawn images of feet/rollerblading in various angles with arrows.<p>Or if I was making a tutorial on archery, generate various frames of a person holding a bow at different draw lengths, etc.<p>Now obviously theres a ton of ways to do this, what I am wondering if what's the laziest way I can do them?

Illustration, Design Tools, Art, Tutorials, AI

4 points by andoando 11 days ago | 8 comments

Jacksonpollock.org (2003) (jacksonpollock.org)

Art, History, Websites

495 points by memalign 12 days ago | 145 comments

An Artist Helped Drivers with a Counterfeit Highway Sign (2023) (thedrive.com)
When Caltrans couldn't make a useful sign to direct motorists through a confusing interchange, a brave artist snuck his own onto an existing one.

Art, Transportation, California, Design

4 points by wallflower 12 days ago | 0 comments

Masters of the Knight: The Art of Chess Carving in India (atlasobscura.com)
In the bustling streets of Amritsar, India, the markets are lined with shops full of colorful tapestries and sweet treats like warm local chai served in clay mugs. But the real treasures are kept behind closed doors.

Chess, Art, India, Culture, Crafts

9 points by bookofjoe 13 days ago | 0 comments

Procedural Hydrology: Dynamic lake and river simulation (2020) (nickmcd.me)
In Art, Engineering, Game, Procedural Generation

Procedural Generation, Simulation, Engineering, Art, Game Development

31 points by debone 13 days ago | 4 comments

Trails of Wind (2019) (figures.cc)

Trails, Art, Photography

11 points by matthberg 14 days ago | 2 comments

Show HN: An homage to Tom Dowdy's 1991 screensaver, "Kaos" (thestrikeagency.com)

Show HN, Retro Computing, Screensavers, Art, 1990s

153 points by noduerme 14 days ago | 75 comments

UbuWeb – Founded 1996 (ubu.com)
A year ago, we decided to shutter UbuWeb. Not really shutter it, per se, but instead to consider it complete.

Web Design, Art, History, Archive

7 points by XzetaU8 14 days ago | 2 comments

Explorable Flexagons: Learn to create and flex flexagons (2020) (loki3.com)
Learn to create and flex flexagons

Math, Art, Puzzles, Papercrafts

47 points by PaulHoule 14 days ago | 10 comments

Origami by Meenakshi (origamee.net)
A gallery of my designs and origami resources

Origami, Art, Design

140 points by Tomte 14 days ago | 7 comments

Bezier Curves and Picasso (jeremykun.com)
Some of my favorite of Pablo Picasso’s works are his line drawings. He did a number of them about animals: an owl, a camel, a butterfly, etc. This piece called “Dog” is on my wall:

Art, Design, Computer Graphics

4 points by memalign 16 days ago | 0 comments

Dolní Vĕstonice Portrait Head: The oldest known human portrait in the world (livescience.com)

Archaeology, History, Art, Prehistory

112 points by bookofjoe 17 days ago | 43 comments

The Art of Dithering and Retro Shading for the Web (2024) (maximeheckel.com)
I spent the past few months building my personal website from the ground up, finally taking the time to incorporate some 3D work to showcase my shader and WebGL skills.

Web Development, 3D Graphics, Art, Design, WebGL

155 points by matthberg 18 days ago | 20 comments

GenAI Art Is the Least Imaginative Use of AI Imaginable (hai.stanford.edu)
The prevailing public mindset that AI is only a labor-saving tool betrays a lack of understanding of why people create and a lack of imagination of this technology's potential.

Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Art, Creativity

138 points by jebarker 20 days ago | 143 comments

Show HN: Krita RGBA Tech – Exploring Filter Engines in Open-Source Art (github.com/Draneria)
This is a set of brushes that emulate metallic effects, for Krita.

Open-Source, Art, Software, Design Tools, Krita

50 points by draneria 26 days ago | 9 comments

GenAI Art Is the Least Imaginative Use of AI Imaginable (medium.com)
Recently, AI music company Suno’s CEO was quoted as saying “I think the majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of the time they spend making music” in what sounds like yet another justification of Suno’s prompt-based (and very popular) generative AI music service.

Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Music, Art

44 points by chaosprint 27 days ago | 57 comments

Masters of the Knight: The Art of Chess Carving in India (atlasobscura.com)
In the bustling streets of Amritsar, India, the markets are lined with shops full of colorful tapestries and sweet treats like warm local chai served in clay mugs. But the real treasures are kept behind closed doors.

Chess, India, Art, Culture

6 points by Brajeshwar 27 days ago | 0 comments

A 1920s Art Party with Tamara de Lempicka (dailyartmagazine.com)
Let’s imagine a glamorous party in the 1920s – and our host is the grand Tamara de Lempicka! We can hear jazz playing in the background and see flappers dancing everywhere… Let’s meet the famous personalities of the 1920s who would most likely attend a party like this one.

Art, History, 1920s, Parties

15 points by aureliusm 27 days ago | 1 comments