gallery

1479 pieces, shuffled — reshuffle

Sketchbook 41 spread: a wall of ballpoint portraits from a games conference in Montréal, labeled with names — Darren Wershler, Brian Greenspan, Jim Bizzocchi, Nick Montfort, Bernard Perron — and 'I cannot draw Thomas Grip' Side by side: the 1796 silhouette of Flora, an enslaved American woman, on Instagram — and a white 3D-scanned head in profile, echoing her Early game avatar: a low-poly nude brown-skinned woman with black bobbed hair, arms at her sides, texture seams still showing, on a purple base Sketchbook 49 spread in wine-red pencil: sleeping subway riders, a heavy downcast face, and two men leaning close over something in their hands Yellow poster in underlined black capitals: You are about to do something you shouldn't — The Game Is Up! festival, 7 to 16 February 2007 The Piraeus Apollo: an archaic Greek bronze kouros mottled with green patina, standing with both forearms extended, one palm open Instagram story from earlymusicinstruments: the pegbox of a viola da gamba in progress, its scroll crowned by a small sculpted head in a cap Till We Have Faces, pages 292 and 293: Orual chews the strange bread of the gods, declares herself Ungit, and despairs that no man will love an ill-favoured woman Anatomical fantasy drawing: skeleton of a crouched werewolf-like creature, skull snarling, drawn inside its transparent body outline Garden corner with prikneus (rose campion) in bloom — magenta flowers on silvery stems among potted plants Long pink-and-black text conversation about BioShock: 'i didn't find it gorgeous at all... Hellgate <--vs--> Anne Carson. Anne Carson wins!' Copper photogravure plate for Saint John the Baptist held in the light: Auriea's face reflects inside the etched figure's hood, a blue fingernail at the edge Grey Blender wireframe of a bunny-eared girl's head, dense mesh face with two flat ears sticking up Sketchbook 48 spread: notes on Bernini and Poussin at a dinner party, Michelle's advice on chalk drawing, Subleyras and the 1740s turn to Neoclassicism — 'David, the father of us all' A whole pumpkin pie on a metal plate with one slice cut and slightly pulled out, on black granite John William Waterhouse's Consulting the Oracle: a priestess by lamplight speaks to a semicircle of veiled women leaning in around a marble floor Quest3D tutorial titled Multi-texturing the Earth: handwritten arrows explain copying a grass surface to a dirt surface with a black-and-white alpha map Studio corner crowded with wood frames holding small game-screenshot prints, art postcards pinned above a green cutting mat Sketchbook 43 spread: pencil lilies in a glass jar — 'Nature is organized. It's like all my life I've been worshipping the wrong goddess' — facing faint studies of hands and feet The metal ENIGMA nameplate from a German Enigma cipher machine: capital letters inside a pointed oval badge Film still of a woman with red fabric mask across her eyes and ink marks on her face, beside a mosaic of the same image reduced to color swatches Sketchbook 41 spread on grey paper: a blue circle with traced hands, and portraits of grandmother in a blue headscarf, hooded mourners, roses, and publishing-platform notes below Work desktop: ballpoint sketches of a man's eyes, a red-ink figure drawing, and a 3d man with a dotted wireframe mask — '144 character modeling - Grandmother' in the dock Sketchbook 46 opening: 'This book begins on a plane. The Crystal Ship is being filled' — a painted airplane window on orange paper with budget notes ('learn to drive, NOT OPTIONAL'), facing a watercolor of Michaël asleep in a blue shirt Five penitent Magdalene paintings side by side, including Georges de La Tour's candlelit versions, each with long hair, a skull, and upturned eyes Timothy Stotz's chart The Flowering Staircase, 1435–1935: five centuries of master-apprentice lineages from Michelangelo and Raphael down to Matisse and Ted Seth Jacobs Black-and-white café table: a Früh Kölsch bottle and two tall glasses, one full, one nearly empty Nine well-used colored pencils and pastels fanned out on grey — silvers, blues, reds, black and brown A dense strip of engraved sheet music in 12/8, marked 'mhm' at the start, black notes crowding the staff Album cover of Bama the Village Poet's Ghettos of the Mind: a bald head in profile whose brain is a collage of sepia photographs iTunes playlist of J-rock and anime songs: Fujin-yo, Morning Musume, L'Arc-en-Ciel, Sambomaster (playing, five stars), The Blue Hearts, RahXephon tracks, Afrirampo Twitter exchange from February 2012: Auriea tells Hasan Niyazi she wants to make games with metaphysical catharsis; he wagers such a game is two console generations away; she replies 'we will be working to bring the future to you TODAY!' A single seedling pushing up through dark soil, seed husk still capping one cotyledon like a hat Giuseppe Maria Crespi's Hecuba Blinding Polymestor: the Trojan queen in torn white silk drives her thumbs into the bound king's eyes as he claws backward in the dark Cover of sketchbook 47: a graphite study of the Farnese Hercules from behind set into the gilt-framed panel of a worn red book cover Journal spread: a red panel with a dark folded form at center, flanked by dense pages transcribing a conversation — 'he had been paralyzed from the waist down...' Museum vitrine with a device to measure the scent of a flower: white blossoms sealed in a glass bottle, tubing running to a small wooden pump box beside a porcelain jar Sketchbook 42, page 11: ballpoint still life on tan paper — a two-liter Sprite bottle, glass mugs, eyeglasses, a crumpled wrapper, and a TV remote Close-up of a Path girl's face bottom half: sallow skin, wide dark hollow eyes, flat lips, red hair edges at the ears Roma sketchbook: a weeping face drawn in red pencil beside a Palazzo Barberini ticket dated 10/05/2006 and postcards of Canova's Pauline Borghese and Caravaggio's Narcissus The MinoRinth play space in the studio: a spiral labyrinth taped in white on a wooden floor, an HTC Vive headset resting at its lit center, controllers at the edges New watercolor tin open on a plaid lap: two rows of half-pans from reds through blues to ochres, a water brush laid across Handwritten notebook page in blue ink headed Museum Quality Artwork: notes on institutional credibility, the frame of the museum, and the aging of bytes Four loose cards from sketchbook 47: a candlestick still life, the Farnese Hercules from behind, an ecstatic upturned face with raised arm, and a light gestural nude stepping forward Sketchbook page in faint pencil: a domed high church on a cliff above the sea, with ruled text beginning 'The high church of Oorcon looms massively...' ZBrush sculpt of a stylized animal skull mask, yellow-green over white with red striped horns and black flame markings Sketchbook 22B spread: a silvered page with a Handloom Batik Ganesha card taped on, opposite a drawing of a woman in a slip with one blackened arm against blue-patterned shadow Sketchbook 47 Rome spread: full-page graphite study of a sprawling classical nude with an arm flung overhead, beside grotteschi from Palazzo Doria, a Pietro da Cortona sketch, and notes on feeling at home in Rome E-book page with a note reading What I strive for when I write, pinned to Bloy's description of Huysmans dragging the Mother Image down the staircase of terrified Syntax Entropy8Zuper! flag emblem: a black pennant with white 8 and zig glyphs waving inside a red circle on black

1329 more ›