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Vibrant Digital Portraits by Artist Alexis Franklin Emphasize the Nuances of Emotions

By Pantaleon|2020-08-03T23:04:44+00:00agosto 3rd, 2020|

All images © Alexis Franklin, shared with permission

Dallas-based artist Alexis Franklin considers her digital renderings a reinvention of the expected. “I’ve always seen the world through a filter that brings vibrance and excitement to things most people wouldn’t notice, and that’s something that I really want to have come across in my work,” she says of her expressive paintings. Through facial expressions, gestures, and color, each work highlights the nuances of the subjects’ experience, personality, and mood.

A church videographer by day, painting is Franklin’s side-project and one for which she’s received an influx of attention in recent days. She illustrated an affective portrait of Breonna Taylor, who was murdered by three Louisville police officers in March, for the cover of O, The Oprah Magazine. The two-decades-old publication has only ever featured Oprah Winfrey. This isn’t the 24-year-old’s first high-profile cover, though: she also created a powerful rendering of Anita Hill for Time earlier this year.

Franklin often shares time-lapses of her paintings-in-progress—which you can watch below and on YouTube and Instagram—that document every step of her process. “I tend to stay in the present with my work. I don’t really imagine where it’s headed,” she writes to Colossal. “I just let each project be what it is, and then I move to the next one with fresh eyes. And I’m very grateful that each project continuously seems to find me!” (via Kottke)



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Interactive Sound Object That Purrs, Meows and Hisses

By Pantaleon|2020-08-03T22:57:46+00:00agosto 3rd, 2020|

In 2014 Emily Groves, Jakub Pollág and Paula Arntzen, and Jackie Ford, students at the Royal College of Art in London, created “Mew”, an interactive sound object covered with fur that responds when it is approached with purring, then when stroked with caterwauling meows and to roughness with hisses.

As you walk towards the curious and gawkish object, it begins to emit a soft purring sound. If you stroke the fur, it will emit distorted meow sounds that are manipulated by the direction your hand moves. Pushing on the object will also alter the sounds, but pressing too hard will make Mew hiss.

via Nag on the Lake

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Musician Demonstrates 16 Ways to Hold a Guitar

By Pantaleon|2020-08-03T22:26:19+00:00agosto 3rd, 2020|

While puttering around at home, musician Lucas Brar decided to film himself holding his guitar in some of the stereotypical, albeit amusing, positions. Brar also performed a number of different songs while striking these poses, thus making all of them appear to be valid.

16 ways to hold a guitar. What can I say, I was bored.

via The Awesomer

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