Jeremy Cox of Imaginative Forces’ very effective opening animation for last month’s 2015 SXSW Gaming Awards using macro footage of pixelated shapes and a soundtrack derived from iconic video games.
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Pixel Panties – low-res knick-knacks currently funding on Indiegogo.
When he retired in the 1970s, former commercial artist Hal Lasko (97), better known as ‘Grandpa’, had spent an entire career making art by hand. In the 90s, his family introduced him to Microsoft Paint.
Hal’s work, described as ‘a blend of pointillism and 8-bit art’ is explored in this rather touching short by Josh Bogdan.
NY-based artist Bradley Hart painstakingly injects acrylic paint into bubble-wrap bubbles to create ‘pixellated photorealistic’ pictures. In his artist’s statement, he sez:
The pictures are copies of both snap shots of important people captured by me or given to me and maintained as a part of my own personal photograph collection, as well as powerful images obtained from other sources. […] As the paint is injected into a bubble the excess drips down the back of the piece. Upon completion of the injected work, the drippings are removed surgically from the backside of the plastic to reveal an impression of the work — a derivative work with its own meaning and story.
(Above: Steve Jobs, Dam Square in Amsterdam and Sara, a friend of the artist.)
Currently exhibiting at Gallery Nine5 in New York.
The Pixelator is a web based graphics tool that allows you to upload the url of any image and pixelate it in almost any way (and to almost any extent) you wish.
Above: PixelDavidBegg (it’s alright, he felt nothing)