Hacker News with Generative AI: Art

French modernists were alarmed, inspired by newspaper's voracious dynamism (aeon.co)
In the 1860s, Charles Baudelaire bemoaned what we might now call doomscrolling:
Watch Bob Ross' the Joy of Painting Start to Finish: Every Episode X 31 Seasons (openculture.com)
Leaving a permanent record of humanity on the moon – in 100B pixels (aljazeera.com)
‘Sanctuary on the Moon’ is a lunar time capsule that provides a detailed guide to life on Earth for our future selves.
Fluid Simulation Pendant [video] (youtube.com)
An Illustrator Dies, His Last Book Unfinished. In Steps His Son (nytimes.com)
Charles Santore was in the middle of illustrating the children’s book he did not know would be his last when he began to feel weak.
The Free Movie: Frame-by-frame, handrawn reproduction of "The Bee Movie" (2023) (thefreemovie.buzz)
Why the Getty Center Is the Safest Place for Art During a Fire (2019) (getty.edu)
Versal Letters (wordpress.com)
The January Edmonton Calligraphy Society zoom workshop was led by Leslie Winakur, who shared her knowledge of decorated versals.
BlinkenCity: From Art Project to Europe-Wide Blackout Scenario (positive.security)
At the [38c3 hacker conference](https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/infos/index.html), we [presented](https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2024/fahrplan/talk/HSNZGR/) our “BlinkenCity” research, which **started as a fun art project idea**, and **ended up as a plausible European blackout scenario:**
Celebrating the timeless allure of Tintin's aesthetics (collegetowns.substack.com)
The Adventures of Tintin was a Belgian comic by the artist Hergé that ran from 1929 until 1976. As the first publication, Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, is now over 95 years old, the character has entered the public domain in the US as of Jan. 1, 2025.
The Ceramic Archivists (nualacreed.com)
In about 2008, the founder and director of the Internet Archive, Brewster Kahle, traveled to China. There, he saw the famed Terra-cotta Warriors at the tomb of the first Emperor of China and it gave him an idea.
Perpetual Movement: Francis Picabia's 391 Review (1917–1924) (publicdomainreview.org)
Francis Picabia, like his close friend and collaborator Marcel Duchamp, was a man of many names.
New Huawei Headquarters Glass Dome Copyright Infringement Dispute (crowndome.com)
The USA trade war with China is one of the most discussed issues today in the press. I have my own story to tell about my experience in protecting my intellectual property and the integrity of my original artworks. Here we go... A practical study of copyright infringement of a Canadian glass artist
Walking Ripples (fractalkitty.com)
Over the last week I have been drawing circles along paths and then shading them with 2 colors using random numbers to determine their radii.
Picasso was suspected of stealing the 'Mona Lisa' (newyorker.com)
In 1911, the world’s most famous painting was stolen from the Louvre.
Our Paint is a featureless but programmable painting program (wellobserve.com)
Some extra images I did for Comic: Blowback.
Drawing Animals with Margaret Mead (psychologytoday.com)
On Saturday, April 13, 1963, the great baseball player Pete Rose, later disgraced for betting on his own team, hit the first of his record 4,256 hits; the USSR launched its Kosmos satellite from Kapustin Yar near Volgograd; the wreckage of the Dutch ship Vergulde Draeck, sunk in 1656, was discovered; chess champion Garry Kasparov was born; and I was 10 years old, drawing animals on napkins with the most famous public intellectual in America.
The Honorable Parts (scopeofwork.net)
Christopher Payne is watching Gay Burdick work, and I am watching Christopher Payne work.
Doom, the Gallery Experience (itch.io)
DOOM: The Gallery Experience was created as an art piece designed to parody the wonderfully pretentious world of gallery openings.
UK gravestone carvers condemn blatant reproduction of their designs (theguardian.com)
A walk down a churchyard path, passing other memorials and plaques, can be an important, meditative time for bereaved relatives. But some have had an unpleasant surprise when they find that the carefully chosen design and inscription on the headstone they have come to visit has been copied elsewhere.
One Dog vs. the Windows 3.1 Graphics Stack (wuffs.org)
Wherein I learn too much about VGA hardware and generate some really cool glitch art while I try to fix somebody else's fix for a video driver that's older than I am.
The Art and Science of Mess Management (1981) [pdf] (systemswisdom.com)
Jeff Koons on why he has drawn a red line on AI in art: I don't want to be lazy (theguardian.com)
His hands-off approach to the production of his famous balloon dogs and stainless steel rabbits has been criticised in the past but Jeff Koons, the world’s most expensive artist, has drawn a red-line: “I wouldn’t – for my own base work – be looking at AI to be developing my work.”
Art Forms in Nature / Ernst Haeckel 100 Plates 300 Dpi Scans (archive.org)
Ask the publishers to restore access to 500,000+ books.
Most people don't care about quality (shkspr.mobi)
My friend, the photographer Paul Clarke has an uncanny eye for detail. Every single shot he publishes is beautiful - they capture life in a way that I don't have the language to describe. I'm quite content to point my phone at someone, use the default settings, and grab a snap. My photos lack composition, clarity, focus, mise-en-scène, proper lighting and a thousand-and-one details that I've never even thought of.
For four years, I photographed, indexed and classified my entire house (katalog-barbaraiweins.com)
As a neurotic collector, collecting, ordering, categorizing and exhibiting things have always given me immense pleasure.
Penrose Mazes (2020) (justinpombrio.net)
Mazes are typically constructed on regular grids: square, triangular, hexagonal, etc. But what if you generate a maze on top of a Penrose tiling, which is guaranteed to be irregular? (It is an aperiodic tiling.) The resulting mazes have a very characteristic appearance: they are filled with circles and stars, but the tiling they are built on guarentees they never repeat exactly.
Storing 3D scans in a grain of wheat (wafaabilal.com)
Splicing ancient Mesopotamian civilization with post-cultural planetary futures through a poetic act of preservation, my latest work, In a Grain of Wheat, is an interdisciplinary artwork that archives the 3,000 year-old Winged Bull of Nineveh inside the DNA of Iraqi wheat seeds.
A sneak peek at Notre-Dame's new stained glass designs (smithsonianmag.com)
The French government has revealed modern designs to replace six of Notre-Dame’s windows with new stained glass, which commemorate the cathedral's successful restoration after it was nearly burned down.
T * sin (t)' ≈ Ornamented Christmas Tree (2013) (wolfram.com)