Black Box
Installation by Dániel Cseh combines 3D printing and robotics with his own head mounted display to explore the fake concrete corridors of a maze:
The Black Box is a robotic installation, a reference to Vilém Flusser’s concept of the technology that intentionally conceals its inner workings. As its metaphor, by borrowing the body and the senses of a robot, the observer wanders in a maze closed off from the outside world. Unlike virtual reality, this inner universe of concrete has mass, it occupies space, it’s a subset of our physical world. This makeshift symbiosis of flesh and machine becomes complete, when, through its own reflection in a mirror, it emerges as a hybrid being moving in unison with itself.
ONIBI - cover
Onibi is a 128 pages graphic novel inspired by our travels in Japan.
It will be published by Issekinicho next october.
Paul Davey, Jamaican Art
Paul Davey aka on deviantArt as Mattahan is a 24-year-old artist / illustrator based out of Manchester, Jamaica.
Paul Davey, alias Mattahan, is a freelance illustrator and digital artist who was born in Jamaica. His works, as he states are related with himself and those around him. His aesthetic combines the art of comics and surrealism.
Pilot film of “Funan, the new people” (Funan, le peuple nouveau) french animated feature film by Denis Do.
This movie is inspired by Denis’s mother personal story, that takes place during the Khmer Rouge era in Cambodia.
Produced by Les Films d'Ici.
Yôkai!!!
A few pictures from books we use as reference. Yôkai are monsters of Japanese folklore. They are both funny and frightening so everytime we run into one of them, we don’t know how to behave…
There You Go is a very cool isometric puzzler that’s packed with inventive puzzles, fun easter eggs and stylish visuals. A fun puzzle game that encourages experimentation and will really make you think outside the box.
I never did show you guys the paintings from the Guru Galeria show in Mexico City! Well, here they are. You can see more on PyramidCar.com!
And here’s what happens when you put all he pieces together!
Collaboration Flûtiste x Souviens Ten-Zan
lady-sisu-deactivated20160715 asked:
Hey! Just before I ask, this is a totally amazing blog. Kudos to you for making it. So, I was wondering if you have any painting(s)/picture(s) references towards the following ethnicities and their clothing: (this is set during the 1800s ). A Prussian General, a Victorian Gentleman, a Victorian painter woman, a Greek male scholar, a Portuguese prince, and a Dutch prince. ( I was planning to make a story about these, and i need references, so that i could draw them. ) Help a friend out?
medievalpoc answered:
Well, thank you.
First things first, none of the categories you’ve defined here are “ethnicities”.
They’re all jobs and nationalities, or jobs and time period, depending on what you mean by “Victorian.” I’m assuming that, since you’re asking me, you want to see people of color wearing these outfits before you draw them? That’s not really necessary. You can really just search for fashion references, then make the person in the outfit a person of color.
I’m guessing you’re making a comic or illustrated story, since you mention wanting visual references for drawing-there’s nothing stopping you from making a bazillion drawings of people of color wearing whatever historical costume you fancy them wearing.
Sadly, some people seem to find it brain-breaking to envision a person who isn’t white wearing a dang cravat, so this blog is full of images of actual people (even religious and mythological subjects used models), so have at it if you need inspiration.
If you want to just browse around, you should check out the “1800s Week” tag here; that’s more if you just want general visual fashion references like this:
But to go bit by bit specifically, I’ll do what I can for ya.
1. Prussian General
This one’s not hard at all, you’ll find thousands of resources from a google image search, or you can check out what the Deutsches Historiches Museum has available.
Here’s Gustav Sabac El Cher, an Afro-Prussian military musician:
You might find Germany and the Black Diaspora: Points of Contact, 1250-1914, ed. Mischa Honeck, Martin Klimke, and Anne Kuhlmann useful for your research here.
For European generals of color in general (ha…), you might wanna check out Ivan Abramovich Gannibal (1735-1801):
And Abram Petrovich Gannibal, his father, and incidentally the great grandfather of Alexandre Pushkin, whose unfinished novel Peter the Great’s Moor, is about his life as a military commander:
And of course, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie:
2. Victorian Gentleman
This is also not very difficult. If you want specific names or regions to explore, and we take “Victorian” to mean “British”, here’s an interactive map of Black Londoners 1800-1900 you can check out, all people who actually lived and worked there. There’s Black Victorians/Black Victoriana by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina; There’s also John Archer, the mayor of Battersea South London.
You also don’t get more “Victorian” than Queen Victoria’s actual secretary, Abdul Karim (called “the Munshi”):
And then there’s always the unparalleled hotness that is a young Alexandre Dumas (yes, THE Alexandre Dumas!!):
3. Victorian Painter Woman
Well, here’s Edmonia Lewis, an artist living & working in Europe during the time specified:
A woman of Ojibwe, Haitian, and African-American heritage, she was accused of poisoning her female classmates with an aphrodisiac because she was gay, then a LOT of bad stuff happened, then some good stuff, then some WEIRD stuff, and somehow she ended up rich, single, and working in Rome until her death, sometime around 1911.
I wanna say there was evidence that this woman painted by Eugene Delacroix was a working artist in Paris as well:
For more on art and artists, check out What Jane Saw, which is a recreation of an actual art exhibit Jane Austen attended in 1813, it’s pretty great.
Also Fanny Eaton:
4. A Greek Scholar
Okay, for this one you’ve GOT to check out Christos the Athenian:
He was multilingual, an independent thinker, and had good knowledge of politics and diplomacy. He was a distinguished and much loved member of Athenean society, a favourite subject of many contemporary painters, sculptors, and poets. When the painter Gyzis came to Athens, Christos was a living legend and he painted him on many occasions between 1871-1875 other than the portrait:
Head of an Arab
Oriental man with a musical instrument
Oriental man smoking
Oriental man with fruit
The punishment of the chicken thief (first man on the right)
5. A Portuguese Prince
You don’t really have to guess with this one; here’s Michael of Braganza (1802-1866), as Infante of Portugal in exile in Vienna:
6. A Dutch Prince
Welp for that you’re gonna want either William II or III of the Netherlands and they basically all just look like this more or less:
As you can see, once you get to princes there’s not “a Prince” it’s literally just “the prince at this time of this nation was this guy” type of thing. At least when it comes to Crown Princes and such, but you can go ahead and check out the families and the youngest sons and daughters and royal nephews or whatever and see who they were. It just depends on if you’re like, writing historical fiction and want to keep your facts straight or if you’re doing some kinda alternate-history or fantasy type deal in which case you can quite literally do whatever you want.
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