industryterm:paint

Quelques liens sur la peinture à l’oeuf (tempera à l’oeuf).
Je veux me remettre à peindre un peu. J’adore cette technique : très économique et simple au départ. Le rendu des couleurs est vraiment magique. Ce n’est pas une technique réputée facile (on peut aller très très loin), surtout pour les styles un peu « improvisés » (comme le mien).

Site anglophone, plutôt complet :
http://www.eggtempera.com

Pigments :
http://www.danielsmith.com/content--id-105

Techniques :
http://www.temperaworkshop.com/technique/technique1.htm
http://alessandrakelley.com/egg/whyegg.html
http://www.finearttips.com/2009/12/luminous-egg-tempera-tips-from-a-master (conseils + liens)
http://www.squidoo.com/eggtempera (liens)

#peinture #tempera #oeuf

Gone In 60 Frames Per Second: A Pinterest Paint Performance Case Study | Smashing Magazine
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2013/06/10/pinterest-paint-performance-case-study

Frame rate is the rate at which a device produces consecutive images to the screen. A low frames per second (FPS) means that individual frames can be made out by the eye. A high FPS gives users a more responsive feel. You’re probably used to this concept from the world of gaming, but it applies to the Web, too.

Long image decoding, unnecessary image resizing, heavy animation and data processing can all lead to dropped frames, which reduces the frame rate, resulting in janky pages. We’ll explain what exactly we mean by “jank” shortly.

#paint #frame_rate

“‘We Have Always Fought’: Challenging the ‘Women, Cattle and Slaves’ Narrative” by Kameron Hurley — A Dribble of Ink
http://aidanmoher.com/blog/featured-article/2013/05/we-have-always-fought-challenging-the-women-cattle-and-slaves-narrative-

Populating a world with men, with male heroes, male people, and their “women cattle and slaves” is a political act. You are making a conscious choice to erase half the world.

As storytellers, there are more interesting choices we can make.

http://aidanmoher.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/art-by-jason-chan.jpg
#sexisme #littérature #livres #écrire

A Seattle, une invasion de super-héros embarrasse la police | Big Browser
http://bigbrowser.blog.lemonde.fr/2013/05/02/justicier-a-seattle-une-invasion-de-super-heros-embarrasse-l

Affublés de capes et de masques de Superman, Spider-Man ou autres héros de la culture de masse, ils entendent compléter l’action de la police en agissant en justiciers dans leur ville. Mais à Seattle, dans le nord-ouest des Etats-Unis, la police s’en inquiète plutôt, relate un article de Slate. En témoigne un rapport indépendant sur l’action des forces de l’ordre locales, qui évoque la présence embarrassante de ces énergumènes déterminés à rétablir l’ordre public.

Seattle Is Overrun With People Who Dress Up Like Superheroes and Cause Trouble
http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/2013/05/01/phoenix_jones_rain_city_superhero_movement_seattle_is_overrun_with_people.htm

What’s that? You haven’t heard of the superhero menace? Seattle, being a somewhat silly place, is the home town of the Rain City Superhero Movement, a group of eccentric citizens who roam the streets wearing homemade superhero costumes, occasionally attempting to stop crime but mostly posing for photographs. Last year, several of the Rain City members inserted themselves into the protests, attempting to stop the anarchists from causing trouble. The independent review on May Day 2012 found that the superheroes just made things worse: “Rain City Superhero Movement individuals were allowed to participate in the melee at 1010 5th Avenue (U.S. Appeals Federal Courthouse). Their participation resulted in allegations of assaults/crimes.” That’s just what that stupid J. Jonah Jameson said about Spider-Man. At least Spider-Man gets results!

#milice

You are a guinea pig
http://mondediplo.com/openpage/you-are-a-guinea-pig

A hidden epidemic is poisoning America. The toxins are in the air we breathe and the water we drink, in the walls of our homes and the furniture within them. We can’t escape it in our cars. It’s in cities and suburbs. It afflicts rich and poor, young and old. And there’s a reason why you’ve never read about it in the newspaper or seen a report on the nightly news: it has no name — and no antidote. The culprit behind this silent killer is lead. And vinyl. And formaldehyde. And asbestos. And (...)

Deux ans de charité publique permettent l’établissement d’une liste de 60.000 molécules candidates pour la réalisation des panneaux photo-voltaïques du futur.

The list, culled from about seven million organic molecules that a crowdsourcing-style project has been crunching over the past two-plus years, could lead to PVCs that cost about as much as paint to cover a one-meter square wall.

Ce genre de recherches n’est pas assez valorisant pour un scientifique. Les perspectives de valorisation sont trop faibles pour un entrepreneur, vu la difficilté à en faire breveter mondialement les résultats. Ce qui démontre l’importance de financements autonomes pour la recherche, dans ce secteur tout comme celui notamment de la recherche médicale, toujours biaisée en faveur des traitements industrialisables et onéreux.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9238429/Harvard_global_grid_computing_project_will_help_create_printable_sola

Down With Argo : Ben Affleck’s Iran hostage movie is the worst.

Inévitable critique d’Argo, couronné hier “Meilleur film” aux Oscars.

http://mobile.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2013/01/down_with_argo_ben_affleck_s_iran_hostage_movie_is_the_worst.html

CSS browser rendering optimizations :

http://addyosmani.com/blog/devtools-visually-re-engineering-css-for-faster-paint-times

Avec (et pour ?) Chrome/webkit...

#css #webdev #webdesign #performance

What Can You Make With $80 And A Hot Glue Gun?
http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2012/11/05/163904731/what-can-you-make-with-80-and-a-hot-glue-gun?sc=tw&cc=twmp

http://vimeo.com/52258194#

Supplies were purchased at a cost of $80 (a hot glue gun, glue sticks and paint pens) or scavenged (cardboard boxes collected from a grocery store, box cutters “lying around the house”) and used to create 188 large cardboard word sculptures that could be worn over the head. Those word masks were then worn by friends and “random people” and filmed at more than 65 locations. “The process sounds just as laborious as it was,” LAMAR+NIK wrote, “but in the end we truly believe we have created something we had never seen before.”

#video #hiphop

Exploratory Programming by No phenomena
http://rashkovskii.com/2012/09/30/exploratory-programming

The utter beauty of software creation is that code we write can become alive almost instantaneously. You can play with it, see how it feels, experiment. It gives you the ability to bring part of your vision very quickly and iterate relentlessly until things get right

#programmation

Théorie et perception humaine de la couleur :
http://blog.asmartbear.com/color-wheels.html (intro)

http://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/color1.html

#couleur #physiologie #perception #psychologie

The Moral Hazard of Drones - John Kaag & Sarah Kreps
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/the-moral-hazard-of-drones

Third, the impressive expediency and accuracy in drone targeting may also allow policymakers and strategists to become lax in their moral decision-making about who exactly should be targeted. Consider the stark contrast between the ambiguous language used to define legitimate targets and the specific technical means a military uses to neutralize these targets. The terms “terrorist,” “enemy combatant,” and “contingent threat” are extremely vague and do very little to articulate the legitimacy of military targets. In contrast, the technical capabilities of weapon systems define and “paint” these targets with ever-greater definition. As weaponry becomes more precise, the language of warfare has become more ambiguous.

#drones

Cultural Appropriation 101 by *Kxhara on deviantART
http://kxhara.deviantart.com/journal/Cultural-Appropriation-101-259795232

This news article touches upon subjects that are sensitive to many people. Ordinarily, I try my best to avoid drama and online conflict, but I feel that this growing fashion trend needs to be addressed before it becomes the popular thing to do. It is my hope that through calm, rational discussion and input from users, we can start a dialogue that puts an end to ignorance and puts artists on the path towards creating beautiful works of art that do not unintentionally offend various groups of people.

The issue I am speaking of is Cultural Appropriation.

I started noticing the beginning of this trend around last summer. Art and fashion seem to have taken a turn towards incorporating stereotypes of First Nations people, creating photoshoots, clothing and artwork featuring warbonnets, feathered headbands, eagles, dream catchers, moccasins and more. This fashion trend appropriates the culture of First Nations people, usually without consent, or thought for what is considered sacred. Often, profit is made by non-First Nations people from First Nations cultural heritage being incorporated into artwork without permission. This is part of the reason why many people initially find such artwork offensive.

#appropriation_culturelle #racisme #art #mode

jermalism: Abandonment Issues: Bon Voyage Motel
http://jermalism.blogspot.fr/2012/05/abandonment-issues-bon-voyage-motel.html

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5464/7215652378_b6d2189877_z.jpg

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5151/7215641250_8b73a4d871_z.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7102/7215703630_6bda36dbc9_z.jpg

Bon voyage is a french phrase meaning good journey, or have a good trip. Fitting name for a highway side motel, especially now that it is in the latter days of its existence.

Bahrain: A New Sectarian Conflict? by Joost Hiltermann
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/may/08/bahrain-new-sectarian-conflict

Part of what makes the current situation in Bahrain so disturbing is that the regime has succeeded in replacing the narrative of a peaceful movement for reform with an altogether different one: that the country’s majority Shia are intent on driving the Sunnis off the island and handing the country over to Iran. Although last year’s protests were led by predominantly Shia opposition groups, Bahrain’s urban populations have long been mixed and the uprising also drew Sunnis dissatisfied with how the country was run. But now, by mobilizing Sunnis against Shia protesters on the claim the latter are manipulated by a predatory Iran, the regime has made Shia-Sunni hostility the conflict’s overriding theme.

Layout paint flashing in Firefox « JAWS
http://msujaws.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/layout-paint-flashing-in-firefox

Starting in #Firefox 11 (currently in the beta channel), there is a hidden #preference (nglayout.debug.paint_flashing) to enable what we call “paint flashing”.

Whenever the layout engine determines that a region of the browser requires repainting, the region is tinted with a random color value. Regions experiencing heavy paint flashing can turn your browser in to a fun rave, but also show web developers (and browser developers too!) areas of the code that aren’t being as optimal as possible.

#webperf #repaint

Tyree Callahan’s Chromatic Typewriter
http://hifructose.com/the-blog/2050-tyree-callahans-chromatic-typewriter.html

By replacing the ink ribbon with paint blocks on an antique typewriter, artist Tyree Callahan has created a new conceptual instrument (it’s mechanics don’t allow it to actually paint) in which the notions of paint and words converge. Initially

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7146/6693149111_25b4a7e0ce_o.jpg

#art #couleur via @b_b

senseless drawing bot
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/17389/senseless-drawing-bot.html

http://vimeo.com/30780208

featuring a motorized skateboard base, the construction consists of a single arm equipped
with a rotary encoder attached to the fulcrum of the pendulum. as the robot moves from
side to side, the swinging motion of the arm is amplified through the physics of inertia
which is delineated by a quick release of paint from the spray can. the resulting collage of lines
is a complex illustration derived from a simple operation.

Eye blog » Type Tuesday. Brooklyn car park hosts Steve Powers’ concrete love letter to the city
http://blog.eyemagazine.com/?p=8996

Powers says ‘A neighbourhood in decline has always been an ideal place to work. Generally, you are only improving the situation with a little bit of paint, and the work tends to last longer than in the pricey precincts of the city.’

#typographie

The Compulsively Tidy Ursus Wehrli Visually Organizes Life in His Latest Book, “The Art of Clean Up” | Colossal
http://thisiscolossal.com/2011/08/the-compulsively-tidy-ursus-wehrli-visually-organizes-life-in-his-la

http://thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ursis-1.jpg

http://thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ursis-2.jpg

Larry Page Wants to Return Google to Its Startup Roots | Magazine
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/03/mf_larrypage/all/1

“You can’t understand Google,” vice president Marissa Mayer says, “unless you know that both Larry and Sergey were Montessori kids.” She’s referring to schools based on the educational philosophy of Maria Montessori, an Italian physician born in 1870 who believed that children should be allowed the freedom to pursue their interests. “In a Montessori school, you go paint because you have something to express or you just want to do it that afternoon, not because the teacher said so,” she says. “This is baked into how Larry and Sergey approach problems. They’re always asking, why should it be like that? It’s the way their brains were programmed early on.”

Mystérieux #totems contemporains // AJ Fosik Outstanding Artworks | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials
http://abduzeedo.com/aj-fosik-outstanding-artworks

Is really funny how internet at the same time that brings us some fresh artists, it just don’t tell us more about them. AJ Fosink is one this cases, he got just a Myspace account and a Flickr, with no references about his person. The first time I saw his artworks I though they were hyper realistic paintings, however I got quite confused when I discovered it was all about wood, paint and nails.

http://imgs.abduzeedo.com/files/articles/aj_fosik/3.png

http://imgs.abduzeedo.com/files/articles/aj_fosik/4.png

http://imgs.abduzeedo.com/files/articles/aj_fosik/11.png

http://imgs.abduzeedo.com/files/articles/aj_fosik/13.png

#sculpture #art

Household Hints With Sex Toys
http://www.homemade-sex-toys.com/household

Sex toys aren’t just for fun in the bedroom – they have many practical uses in your home and office. Here are a few suggestions for repurposing some of your favorites. Pull out those long forgotten toys and put them to work!

#écologie #ressources #humour #for:rezo.net