Graphics Workshop

Mural Animation

paigehowarth — Wed, 28 May 2008 16:30:38 +0000

This is holy amazing. The imagery is pretty disturbing, but anything that takes as long to produce as this must’ve is worth a peek. I’m floored.

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Alphabet Pop-up Book in Action

paigehowarth — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:06:41 +0000

From designer Marion Bataille comes this fantastic alphabet pop-up book that belongs in your library. Young children need to be exposed to this book!

Buy your copy today on amazon.com.

Yeondoo Jung, Art Interpreter

paigehowarth — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:28:00 +0000

Yeondoo Jung is a Korean artist who reinterprets childrens’ crayon drawings as live-action tableaus, then photographs them. His website is currently down, so I’ve compiled some of his work here for your enjoyment.

Free Photoshop book

paigehowarth — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:44:32 +0000

The Sitepoint Photoshop anthology is a great reference book, containing many tricks it tooks me years to discover. It contains lots of meat, and very little fluff. Of course there any many such books out there, invaluable resources all, but this one happens to be a limited-time free download.

The press-quality PDF is a whopping 278 pages, and contains great information for young grasshoppers and Grand Viziers alike. It’s available until mid-June, so act quickly and save 30 bucks.

Wordpress uprade

paigehowarth — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:31:20 +0000

Well, I bit the bullet and upgraded Wordpress to v. 2.5.1. I received a warning from my hosting company yesterday that I’d reached my CPU usage limit. Curious, I checked my access logs and discovered that a spammer has gained access to my root’s .htaccess file. It interestingly would redirect you from any file within certain virtual directories (via, pharm, etc.) to a page containing an iframe with a spam page’s content. I’m probably completely misstating this, but whatever. Anyway, I bumped up security and reinstalled Wordpress, which was surprisingly easy. Bonus: my issue with posting video is now fixed. Hurray!

Fusion Man

paigehowarth — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:22:13 +0000

Jet-powered wings! This is just beautiful.

Rally Stripes

paigehowarth — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:51:52 +0000

This was fun- I installed some decals on my dream bike, a Vespa Rally 200. Snazzy!

The Making of Starship HBO

paigehowarth — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:35:44 +0000

Finally, an excuse to blog about the beloved 80s-era intro: Starship HBO. If watching the extended version wasn’t enough of a magical experience for you, try this mini-documentary - a 1982 behind-the-scenes look at making HBO’s miniature model city. Apparently they fabricated tiny bums and hookers to ease the boredom of the 3-month project.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Et_LsxlX8Y

Packing Tape Art

paigehowarth — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:39:55 +0000

The works of art pictured above were created by Mark Khaisman, out of packing tape layered on plexiglass. The tape happens to be translucent, and when the plexi substrate is backlit, the effect (I’m told) is breathtaking.

Mark was born in Kiev in 1958, studied Art and Architecture at the Moscow Architectural Institute, and currently lives in Philadelphia.

His website

Wall Stickers

paigehowarth — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:38:51 +0000

My friend Nicko and I have been throwing around business ideas lately, and room graphics really resonated with us. It appeals to Nicko’s artistic sensibility, and my own love of custom work. Oh, and I already have the capability.

I threw up a bare-bones website, and we are going to do a couple of tests in order to work out kinks and build a portfolio. If you want in, email me!