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Tweenbots by Kacie Kinzer:
Given their extreme vulnerability, the vastness of city space, the dangers posed by traffic, suspicion of terrorism, and the possibility that no one would be interested in helping a lost little robot, I initially conceived the Tweenbots as disposable creatures which were more likely to struggle and die in the city than to reach their destination. Because I built them with minimal technology, I had no way of tracking the Tweenbot’s progress, and so I set out on the first test with a video camera hidden in my purse. I placed the Tweenbot down on the sidewalk, and walked far enough away that I would not be observed as the Tweenbot––a smiling 10-inch tall cardboard missionary––bumped along towards his inevitable fate.
The results were unexpected. Over the course of the following months, throughout numerous missions, the Tweenbots were successful in rolling from their start point to their far-away destination assisted only by strangers. Every time the robot got caught under a park bench, ground futilely against a curb, or became trapped in a pothole, some passerby would always rescue it and send it toward its goal. Never once was a Tweenbot lost or damaged. Often, people would ignore the instructions to aim the Tweenbot in the “right” direction, if that direction meant sending the robot into a perilous situation. One man turned the robot back in the direction from which it had just come, saying out loud to the Tweenbot, “You can’t go that way, it’s toward the road.”
The Tweenbot’s unexpected presence in the city created an unfolding narrative that spoke not simply to the vastness of city space and to the journey of a human-assisted robot, but also to the power of a simple technological object to create a complex network powered by human intelligence and asynchronous interactions. But of more interest to me, was the fact that this ad-hoc crowdsourcing was driven primarily by human empathy for an anthropomorphized object. The journey the Tweenbots take each time they are released in the city becomes a story of people’s willingness to engage with a creature that mirrors human characteristics of vulnerability, of being lost, and of having intention without the means of achieving its goal alone. As each encounter with a helpful pedestrian takes the robot one step closer to attaining it’s destination, the significance of our random discoveries and individual actions accumulates into a story about a vast space made small by an even smaller robot.

I feel like it’s things like this that give me some scrap of hope for humanity as a whole.

i want to see this happen in Vegas

yes please happen in vegas

Seattle, Seattle, do Seattle! :)

OMG, click the link and watch the video, I had the silliest smile on my face and kept cooing.
SO CUTE.
And it’s kind of adorable how interested and helpful people were.

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iamjapanese:

KATSUSHIKA Hokusai（葛飾北斎 Japanese, 1760-1849）
Goldfinch and Cherry Tree　鶯　垂桜　1834
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Tumblr artists discovery - Mar 2012

This month, some awesome artists found on Artists On Tumblr:
Eddie Villanueva | eddievillanueva - painting (abstract)*
Paul Bailey | paulbaileyart (UK) - painting*
Louise Hubbard | hubbardlouise - illustration
Canvas Birds | angelarizza - illustration
davidohlerking - painting
Holly Sharpe | hollysharpe - illustration
Smolik | smolikdesign - drawing *
Ghostco | ghostco - illustration *
Jonny Ruzzo | likeomfgitsjonny - drawing
Yoalys Duran | yoalys - illustration
Dylan Miller | dmillustrations - illustration
Sishirprithvi Bommakanti | sishirbommakanti (b.1990, India) - mixed media (friends+monsters)

Some artists discovered thanks to curators that should not be missed:
Jon Carling | joncarling - drawing [via bookspaperscissors]*
nokkasili - drawing [via bookspaperscissors]
naomi nowak | bluecohosh - drawing [via bookspaperscissors]
Clinton McKay | clintonmckay - painting (abstract) [via dailyartjournal]
Leslie Avon Miller | leslieavonmiller - painting (abstract) [via dailyartjournal]
Colette W. Davis | colettedavis - painting (abstract) [via dailyartjournal]
Leontine Greenberg | leontinegreenberg - illustration [via darksilenceinsuburbia]*
Mark Warren Jacques | markwarrenjacques - illustration [via darksilenceinsuburbia]*
Mister Beaudry | misterbeaudry - drawing [via darksilenceinsuburbia]*
Feline Zegers | felinezegers - illustration [via darksilenceinsuburbia]
marialikestodraw - drawing [via darksilenceinsuburbia]
Jean Le Roux | jeanleroux - illustration [via designaemporter]
Jarek Kubicki | jarekkubicki - illustration [via felixinclusis]
AlessioNeroni | alessioneroni - photo (conceptual) [via greyfaced]
Surrogate Self | surrogateself - illustration, gif [via notgrey]
Pow Wow | powwowblog - street art [via oxane]
Laura Makabresku | lauramakabresku - photo [via rerylikes]
Fredrik Rättzen | fredrikrattzen (Sweden) - illustration [via rerylikes]
Aonghus Kneeshaw | brogai-deasa - illustration [via rerylikes]
ebulle - photo [via rerylikes]
tarawray - photo [via sfmoma]
Niall McClelland | niallmcclelland - abstract [via smolikdesign]
Richard E Flanagan | richardeflanagan - illustration [via surrogateself]
Tyler Varsell | tylerelizabeth - collage [via tumblropenarts]*
Richard Auxilio | auxiliofaux - photot [via yama-bato]*

Some artists submitted/suggested by our followers that worth to visit:
Nigel Van Wieck | okimage & nigelvanwieck - painting
Ryan Salge | ryansalge (USA) - illustration
Baska Trzybulska | happy-crucian - ceramic
atza - drawing
rebecca-ines - painting
Nigel Van Wieck | okimage (USA) - painting (hyperrealist)
H.L. Goyer | cloudgazerstudios - illustration
skinnygaviar - illustration
francescapozzi - photo
Andrea Mora | amart-art - digital expressionism
Sarah Sitkin | sssleepallday (USA) - photo & digital art*
Tara Wray | tarawray (USA) - photo
Kenan | ustacatali (Istanbul) - photo
Isabelle Depraz | deisa (Suisse) - photo
archiart (France) - architecture art
Andrew Mosley | drewmosley - illustration
Indrajeet Chandrachud | indrajeetchandrachud (USA) - painting (architectural landscapes) *
Mat with 1T | mat1t - illustration *
Edwin Gardiner | redonschildern - painting *

Also we are glade to find some Parisian artists:
Sean Hart | seanhart-diary - street art
Tom Monglu | moglu (English living in Paris) - abstract Collage*
Luo Ros | louros - painting*
plaisirs de myope | plaisirsdemyope - collage*
severineide - photo
anotherday-alk - photo
daily-picking-trip - illustration & travel
ikanografik - drawing & graffiti
mondeflottant - drawing
corbreuse - photo
retiredpainter (Londres/Paris) - painting
macsime - painting
thibaultmuller - photo
carlosdavidphoto - photo
drewmosley - illustration
hm-said - painting
David Pérez | davidfeliperez - drawing

N.B. Due to an editing error, we lost our previous Tumblr artists discovery list that we’ve been editing for March. If you have sent us your portfolio, got our positive answer but don’t find your link here, please contact again! Read this note for more details.

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peterpayne:

Um, why do we have a Lucky Star and K-On! patch for Left 4 Dead 2, but no Highschool of the Dead patch??

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Digital art doesn’t equal art? Radical, fundamentalist, digital artist?
lulz I can’t stand people like this.
I’ve been drawing since kindergarten. As young as I was I’d admired my father while he painted and drew pictures. When the counselor would ask me what my dad did I would say he was an artist and I wanted to be just like him when I grew up. Really, he was a nurse, a cosmetologist, and art was something he’d done very well into high school.
He taught me how to be serious about art and to push myself to do it. To go darker, to add depth, and pay attention to details. Even if you couldn’t tell they were there or washed out by light. He encouraged me to study the Masters. I did and I still am.
Digital art takes skill. The software doesn’t do it for you. A person still has to put their heart into art. Making sure the shading, blending, lines, and proportions aren’t wonky. Don’t have a light source on something you’re drawing? You still have to imagine how the light would hit it and make shadows just the same as if you were drawing with graphite or other mediums.
Photography is just taking a picture of things that already exist. It’s an instant medium and you have to take factors into consideration to get that perfect shot. And try again if you don’t like it.
I could put a bunch of nails in the wall and tie string around them, sit a black light in the corner of a room, or plaster a bunch furniture and rugs together on a wall and call it art. Do you know many people would probably be pissed at it getting called art?
I have a tablet, ja. But I barely draw with it. I usually doodle in SAI but I haven’t done anything serious yet. I still struggle to blend colors as weird as it sounds. It just takes practice and ambition to get better at what I want to do. We can do anything as long as we push ourselves.