Penalty! Unnecessary Blandness! Redesigning the Worst NFL Helmet Graphics
The author redesigns the helmets of the Redskins, Buccaneers and Patriots.
Category Archives: Art
What Do You mean, "You Don't Get It?"
Name that Fractal
This is an open question: What is this fractal? It’s a method for filling a 2D plane with circles in an orderly way – circles made of circles, all the way down. There are published examples of similar systems, like the Apollonian Gasket, the Kleinian Groups, Indra’s Pearls, but I’ve never seen this particular arrangement before, and I’ve been looking for over ten years. Is this a trivial variation on something already known? Or a new and undiscovered thing? I have no idea. I found it while doodling in math class.
Update: It’s an “orbit of a circle under a Kleinian group generated by two Mobius transformations (one elliptic of order 4, one parabolic)” explanation (PDF)
Warhead Not Included
Look it Up on the Way Down
AT Europe: London Close-up – The Amazing Staircase
Limited by space, we melded the idea of a staircase with our client’s desire for a library to form a ‘library staircase’ in which English oak stair treads and shelves are both completely lined with books. With a skylight above lighting the staircase, it becomes the perfect place to stop and browse a tome.
Nonmoving Motion
Sculptures in Motion by Peter Jansen
Peter Jansen must have watched the slow motion parts in The Matrix thousands of times. A student of physics and philosophy, the Dutch artist captures sequences of human movements within a single frame of space and time.
Having a Scotch
Crafts constructed from simple invisible tape and colored with permanent markers.
You Want Fries With That, Capice?
Fast food spokespersons/icons as goodfellas. The original B&W sketch has some extra commentary/backstory
Of the bosses, Sanders has been around the longest, but he is by no means the most powerful of the five families. He’s old, Southern money and old school, the latter of which has made him somewhat outdated, however it’s the former that’s kept him secured. In actuality it’s the new blood, McDonald’s mob family, that’s become the more dominating in recent years, partly because of his zeal and entourage of equally unorthodox, but extremely loyal, gangsters (such as hitman Grimace).
Along these lines, I’ve long suspected that Winnie “the Pooh” was actually a mafioso, shaking down the other characters for honey. It would go a long way toward explaining rabbit’s nervousness (much like the undertaker in The Godfather) whenever he’s around.
Not Your Normal Snapshots
Force of Nature: Artist Puts Petal to the Metal for Electrifying Images
Buelteman’s technique is an elaborate extension of Kirlian photography (a high-voltage photogram process popular in the late 1930s) and is considered so dangerous and laborious that no one else will attempt it—even if they could get through all the steps.
Tighten Those Lips!
flickr: WWIII Propaganda Posters
Loose tweets sink fleets!
The timing of stumbling across this is interesting, what with the Facebook kerfuffle involving the wife of the head of MI6