Scannable Bar Code Portraits, Wild Flag Interview, 'Hunger Games' Stars, And More!

Tuesday, April 17, 2012 Bar Code Portraits You Can Really Scan Scott Blake makes incredible interactive portraits out of bar codes, illustrating how black-and-white data can come to resemble a personal connection. The Omaha-based artist creates convincing human expression out of symbols of commodity, depicting the strange relationship between who we are and what we consume. Wild Flag Put Their Friendship To The Test Tyler Shields Is Hungry For Stardom Prize Winner Faces Unemployment? A Strange And Beautiful One Woman Show BLOG POSTS George Heymont: You Can't Fix Stupid One of the most memorable characters in American literature is stupid in the oldest and truest sense of the word. Although he appears to be warm, human, and inhabits the body of a man, his mind and personality never progressed past childhood. Thomas Shahan: Invaluable Tips for the Macro Photographer (PHOTOS) Tracey Harnish: Broken Textured Seeing Part of the "Not Dead Yet" series, below are 10 Questions for artist Keltie Ferris. One of her fundamental beliefs about the way she works? "Work shouldn't feel like work, it should be something more like a need." Napoleon Perdis: Changing Faces: The Transformational Power of Makeup Contemporary artist Cindy Sherman is a woman who has manipulated makeup to her advantage in her work. Her retrospective features a staggering array of images Sherman created by dressing as women of every age and from every conceivable era. Michael Kaiser: Engaging Audiences Our art must change, our approach to marketing must change and the nature of the audience experience must change. If we continue to operate in the same manner as we did in the twentieth century, the arts will die.

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