http://www.7luas.com.br Blog 7luas Sun, 29 Aug 2010 03:07:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.7luas.com.br/video/brain-bear/ Nice tips by Bill Griffith about making comics (though lots of them are useful to any kind of artist), from ideas, technique and art to distribution and publishing. Read all of them here (via McCloud) . My favorites: 31) Aside from trying to communicate, don`t think of your readers when ... http://www.7luas.com.br/tudo/bill-griffith-top-40-list-on-creating-comics/ Procedural Painting aplication made in 2007 to generate an image for a "digital art" contest. Click on the image above to see two images generated on the aplication. If you'd like a Wallpaper, save the images in the corresponding links below: Procedural Painting 01: 1600x1200 | 1280x1024 | 1024x768 Procedural Painting 02: 1600x1200 ... http://www.7luas.com.br/tudo/procedural-painting/ Karen Finley is an interesting and controversial american performance artist. The following excerpts are from quer essay I Was Not Expected to Be Talented (1990): Why should I pretend to stop drinking? For the children? Shit, they're the reason I drink! I know everything, that's my problem. I'm ... http://www.7luas.com.br/tudo/karen-finley-2/ It's been a while since I lost my interest for adventure games. There are great titles in the genre, but I just got tired of the frustration of being locked in a room even though I have an axe in my inventory, or having to limit my dialogue to certain ... http://www.7luas.com.br/tudo/heavy-rain-x-facade/ In this audio experiment I tried to resume the White Album from the Beatles as much as possible, but without "squashing" the sound and keeping both the beginning and end of the songs intact. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da: Happiness Is A Warm Gun: I Will: To listen to the whole album go ... http://www.7luas.com.br/tudo/resume-of-beatles-white-album-us/ I just read an article on WIRED about neuromarketing applied to cinema. Here are some excerpts (the highlights are mine): The filmmakers will be able to track precisely which sequences/scenes excite, emotionally engage or lose the viewer’s interest based on what regions of the brain are activated. From that info a ... http://www.7luas.com.br/tudo/youtube-cinema-english/ This month took place in São Paulo the pd~con09 (3rd International Convention for Puredata), in a series of activities and performances. Quoted from their blog: "The International Convention for Puredata (Pd) is a periodic event that started in 2004 and is the most important event of the community of developers and enthusiasts ... http://www.7luas.com.br/english/pdcon09-en/ "Why are you conducting this interview? I want to crystalize the daily situation of talking to myself. (...) If you were alone in the world would you be an artist? I am alone in the world. (...) Are you nice to people? No. I am accurate about my feelings. Do you want to be wealthy? Not any ... http://www.7luas.com.br/english/lucas-samaras-another-autointerview-1971/ A while ago I bumped into this series of very funny game video-reviews called Zero Punctuation - a good place to start watching is the comparison between the titles inFamous and Prototype, here (the series are more or less in the line of Angry Nintendo Nerd). The videos are done by ... http://www.7luas.com.br/english/ben-yahtzee-croshaw-2/