Tuesday, December 9, 2014

snoring




Popeye the Sailor Man is a cartoon fictional character, created by Elzie Crisler Segar,who has appeared in comic strips and theatrical and television animated cartoons. He first appeared in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre on January 17, 1929; Popeye became the strip's title in later years.

Although Segar's Thimble Theatre strip was in its tenth year when Popeye made his debut, the sailor quickly became the main focus of the strip and Thimble Theatre soon became one of King Features' most popular properties during the 1930s. Thimble Theatre was continued after Segar's death in 1938 by several writers and artists, most notably Segar's assistant Bud Sagendorf.

In 1933, Max and Dave Fleischer's Fleischer Studios adapted the Thimble Theatre characters into a series of Popeye the Sailor theatrical cartoon shorts for Paramount Pictures. These cartoons proved to be among the most popular of the 1930s, and the Fleischers—and later Paramount's own Famous Studios—continued production through 1957.

Over the years, Popeye has also appeared in comic books, television cartoons, arcade and video games, hundreds of advertisements and peripheral products


Monday, December 8, 2014

serendipity


Serendipity means a "fortunate happenstance" or "pleasant surprise". It was coined by Horace Walpole in 1754. In a letter he wrote to a friend Walpole explained an unexpected discovery he had made by reference to a Persian fairy tale, The Three Princes of Serendip. The princes, he told his correspondent, were “always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of”.



Curator Jasia Reichardt introduces the 'Cybernetic Serendipity' exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8TJx8n9UsA

Sunday, December 7, 2014

doubts


Dust on the window pane blocks your view. But what if this became a canvas for art?



Scott Wade, an artist from San Marcos, Texas, uses dust covered car windows as a canvas for a very innovative form of art - dust art. 
It takes him hours to perfect a drawing, and maybe just a light shower to wipe it off. But the unique art piece an be enjoyed in the meanwhile is just amazing!




source: http://adreamcar.blogspot.in/2012/03/dust-on-car-window-so-extraordinary-art.html