Text: Hi. I am Frank from learningIT and I am checking out this site called “Let them sing it for you.” All you do is type in text and they take parts of famous songs to sing it back. It’s kind of cool.

I wonder how long this took to come up with? The files are not downloadable for copyright reasons I’m sure. I used WireTap to record mine from my computer and then uploaded it to SoundCloud to share.

(This could make a great music trivia game wouldn’t it?)

All this recent artwork posting is due to several of my units finishing simultaneously and me making the conscious decision to try and do more art. Next year I’ll start that personal art blog.

In the meantime, allow me to indulge in sharing this quick painting/ink sketch of my dad and I in a photo booth when I was approximately 5 or 6 years old. He regrettably passed away this year.

(270mm x 345mm)

The premise is to be influenced through music to explore creativity. I chose “In Sickness and in Health” by The Legendary Pink Dots from their The Whispering Wall album. I had no plan in mind and simply went with it, playing the song over and over for about an hour until the work was complete. It’s harder than it sounds and I doubted myself throughout the whole experience.

My goal was to simply break out of my comfort zone and explore new possibilities and various techniques that I usually don’t use. I used graphite, pastel, ink, coffee, charcoal, gouache, watercolour and collage.

The final piece itself is not a work of art, but a document of an exploration process, something newer art students may struggle with. I recorded the process in the video below and sped it up reducing it from fifty minutes to approximately three (you may also click the photo to take you to the Flickr page).

Star Wars: Uncut Trailer from Casey Pugh on Vimeo.

(video link here – I’ve posted this before. Check the tags to see 2 more)

Read the full story here.

Use the force this weekend ; )

Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, currently on display at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab. It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.

Enter your name, and Personas scours the web for information and attempts to characterize the person – to fit them to a predetermined set of categories that an algorithmic process created from a massive corpus of data. The computational process is visualized with each stage of the analysis, finally resulting in the presentation of a seemingly authoritative personal profile.

Read full here.

Try it here.

These Star Wars light saber chopsticks will be on sale in Japan from November for approximately 10 USD from Kotobukiya. You may also visit here (Japanese only) for more info. C’mon, you know you want them.

My Influences from FNC videos on Vimeo.