Welcome!
Welcome!
This section will focus on all things 'arty'... i have a passion for digital art and animation and we will start there;)
This photo contest, Heat, is inspired by San Francisco's unexpected November heat wave. And since fall hasn't been shining so brightly on other cities, we figure the rest of the country could use some heating up as well.
As a special treat, Canon is sponsoring this photo contest. Enter to win a Canon PowerShot SD1100 IS.
Use the Reddit widget below to submit your best Heat photo and vote for your favorite among the other submissions. The 10 highest-ranked photos will appear in a gallery on the Wired.com homepage. Show us sweaty glasses of ice water, oasis mirages in the middle of a baking desert, and flaming foundries filled with molten metal. Make us sweat on the doorstep of winter as we face the months of rain and snow ahead.
The photo must be your own, and by submitting it you are giving us permission to use it on Wired.com and in Wired magazine. Please submit images that are relatively large, the ideal size being 800 to 1200 pixels or larger on the longest side. Please include a description of your photo, which may include exposure information, equipment used, etc.
We don't host the photos, so you'll have to upload it somewhere else and submit a link to it. If you're using Flickr, Picasa or another photo-sharing site to host your image, please provide a link to the image directly and not just to the photo page where it's displayed. Using an online photo service that requires that you log in will not work. If your photo doesn't show up, it's because the URL you have entered is incorrect. Check it and make sure it ends with the image file name (XXXXXX.jpg).
Please bookmark this page and check back periodically over the next two weeks to vote on new submissions!
Also, check out the winner's galleries from our previous contests: Fall, Holga, Red, Self-Portrait, Night, Macro, Transportation, and Black and White.
Vote on heat photos submitted by other readers.
Show entries that are: hot | new | top-rated. Submit your heat photo.
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:Conveying the excitement people feel about music in a still image can be like describing sight to the blind. The 10 reader-elected finalists of our music photo contest may not make you hear music, but they expertly capture a musical moment. Blair takes home the gold with his photo "The Horn Player" at left. Click through the gallery to see the contestants who were nipping at his heels.
Since we had so many great photos that we thought should've received more votes, and because we love to anger readers with our selections, we've also compiled a Wired.com Editor's Choice Music Photo Gallery.
Our next twice-monthly photo contest is Heat. It's cold outside this winter and we need to warm our feet by your photographic fire. Check out the contest page for more information.
Left:
The Horn Player
Submitted by Blair
Photographer's comment:
"Covent Garden, London.
:DreadHead
Submitted by Amaiia
Photographer's comment:
"Guitarist of the famous French ska band Fizcus live @ Seasplash Festival, Croatia."
:Jeff Locke
Submitted by Christie Hemm
Photographer's comment:
He's good.
:Fizcus
Submitted by Podi
Photographer's comment:
"French ska band Fizcus on concert
"13/1 sec, f/3.5, flash on, second curtain"
:The Underbelly
Submitted by Elizabeth Kovach
Photographer's comment:
"Messing around with the organ."
:On the Outside
Submitted by Ross Gilmore
Photographer's comment:
"Old busker plays his banjo, against a 14-foot-high security fence, at an outdoor rock concert."
:Tickling Ivory
Submitted by Bob
Photographer's comment:
"Hands playing piano."
:My Stepfather's Piano
Submitted by Tin Man
Photographer's comment:
"I'm no photographer, I'm a musician, and this is my art. My stepfather left me this piano when he died in 1998, and I use it to compose. Its sound is not great by traditional standards, but to me it is wonderful.
:Tandoori Tunes
Submitted by Joakim Lloyd Raboff
Photographer's comment:
A musician sat down and played a tune while I tried to listen to a podcast on the beach in Goa, India."
:Yaya
Submitted by amaiia
Photographer's comment:
"Jadranka Bastajic Yaya, lead singer of Croatian band Jinx.
"Canon EOS 350d, f/4.0, 1/200, 50mm"
:Though Wired.com readers selected 10 excellent photos in our music photo contest, we here at the photo department like to fight for the underdog. Here are our 10 favorite submissions that we think deserved more attention.
Our next twice-monthly photo contest is Heat. It's cold outside this winter, and we need to warm our feet by your photographic fire. Check out the contest page for more information.
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Arcade Fire Encore
Submitted by Ryan Muir
Photographer's comment:
"The Arcade Fire set up their in-crowd encore right in front of my face. Spotlights shining on them from a distance thousands of people scattered around thinking the show was over. Took me by surprise as much as anybody else.... This was pretty much the most memorable concert-going experience of my life. So glad to have had my camera.
:Gospel Groove
Submitted by Anonymous
Photographer's comment:
"A group of young South Africans perform a special gospel set for me and a group of visitors to their school in the Cape Flats."
:1898 Piano
Submitted by Dan Snyder
Photographer's comment:
"In my backyard."
:Stephen Malkmus of Pavement Houston, 1999
Submitted by Scot Ferguson
Photographer's comment:
"Stephen Malkmus of Pavement Houston, 1999, their last tour."
:Adding to the Noise
Submitted by throughHislens
Photographer's comment:
"Music means a lot to me, so that's why it was saddening to see this on the ground. But, you can see this transition in music, in that the different mediums that make it up are slowly transitioning into something that was not available at the start. Bittersweet.
:Barefoot Rock
Submitted by Casey Moore
Photographer's comment:
"Land of Talk SXSW 2008."
:Bunny Surf
Submitted by M. Young
Photographer's comment:
"Taken at the Vans Warped Tour, Mansfield, Massachusetts, August 2008."
:Achtung Accordion!
Submitted by Fritz Speilemann
Photographer's comment:
"Although far from my favorite instrument, this young dude played his instrument like a god!
:Drum
Submitted by Casey Cramer
Photographer's comment:
"Drum in empty prayer room in Hunder Gompa, Nubra Valley, Ladakh, India"
:One-Man Band
Submitted by Elias
Photographer's comment:
"Took this photo in Bath, England. This man was playing on the sidewalk, with both a violin and a guitar simultaneously. He had hooked up the guitar to a foot pedal that played certain notes as he turned the crank."
Your assignment for this photo contest is both simple and difficult: music. Move beyond the band and concert cliches and show us what music means to you.
Use the Reddit widget below to submit your best music photo and vote for your favorite among the other submissions. The 10 highest-ranked photos will appear in a gallery on the Wired.com homepage. Show us your grandpa's old dusty stacks of shellac, the piano in the backyard overgrown with moss and ivy, an exotic minstrel in the heart of a Mediterranean bazaar. Deliver us to psychedelic synesthesia by making us hear your vivid photos with our eyes.
The photo must be your own, and by submitting it you are giving us permission to use it on Wired.com and in Wired magazine. Please submit images that are relatively large, the ideal size being 800 to 1200 pixels or larger on the longest side. Please include a description of your photo, which may include exposure information, equipment used, etc.
We don't host the photos, so you'll have to upload it somewhere else and submit a link to it. If you're using Flickr, Picasa or another photo-sharing site to host your image, please provide a link to the image directly and not just to the photo page where it's displayed. Using an online photo service that requires that you log in will not work. If your photo doesn't show up, it's because the URL you have entered is incorrect. Check it and make sure it ends with the image file name (XXXXXX.jpg).
Please bookmark this page and check back periodically over the next two weeks to vote on new submissions!
Also, check out the winner's galleries from our previous contests: Fall, Holga, Red, Self-Portrait, Night, Macro, Transportation, and Black and White.
Vote on music photos submitted by other readers.
Show entries that are: hot | new | top-rated. Submit your music photo.
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:After weeks of excellent submissions in our yellow photo contest we at the Wired.com photo desk have a new favorite color. Here are the 10 highest reader-voted submissions. Mikage Rinoa takes home the gold (ahem) with his photo "Yellow Dew Drop" at left. Mr. Rinoa will be receiving a subscription to Wired magazine and a digital picture frame for his desk.
Since we had so many great photos that we thought should've received more votes, and because we love to anger readers with our selections, we've also compiled a Wired.com Editor's Choice Yellow Photo Gallery.
Our next twice-monthly photo contest theme is music. Show us photos so vivid they make us hear with our eyes. Check out the contest page for more information.
Left:
Yellow Dew Drop
Submitted by mikage14
Photographer's comment:
"Experimenting with refraction."
:Broken Window
Submitted by Paul Scrafton
Photographer's comment:
"Broken window on train awaiting refurb at Tanfield Railway, County Durham, United Kingdom."
:Walkway Tunnel
Submitted by HK
Photographer's comment:
"Taken in Lodalen Valley, Oslo, with a Canon XSi. 20mm, F/3,5, ISO 1600."
:The Yellow Umbrella
Submitted by Kreego
Photographer's comment:
"A yellow umbrella travels in France and Switzerland, inspired by the American adventures of a famous red velour sofa in the 1970s "
:Jin Mao
Submitted by Dana Underwood
Photographer's comment:
"Looking up 56 stories in Shanghai's Grand Hyatt lounge."
:Blue Sky Yellow Wall
Submitted by Paul Scrafton
Photographer's comment:
"The Centre For Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom."
:Caboose
Submitted by MojoPhotoCo
Photographer's comment:
"The historic Heber Creeper's yellow caboose reflected in a lot of melted snow."
:Ulica Kanonicza
Submitted by parisa.tabriz
Photographer's comment:
"An especially yellow alley in Krakw, Poland.
:Duck Race
Submitted by Anonymous
Photographer's comment:
"Trondheim, Norway"
:Golden Fog
Submitted by Franc
Photographer's comment:
"Early morning soccer warmups in the Houston area."
screenphuck - phucking up y0 desktop
Plexis Windows GUIKit by *iiswiis is a beautiful and complete GUI customization kit for Windows. Make your deepest, darkest fantasies come alive on your desktop!
MobileMe Official + Bonus by ~jasonh1234 is a beautiful set of MobileMe inspired icons for those users of the service. These icons are the perfect way to represent the beleaguered service, offering some style to an otherwise boring application.
My buuf deux for Firefox v3.x by ~terpmeister is a Firefox 3 theme utilizing icons from my favorite all-time icon set ever created.
Levis Loco for Windows XP by ~eamon63 just shows that Windows users can never get enough of the sexy Mac OS X GUI, no matter if it is the Apple default or a third-party designed skin.
Animation movies
Animation movies
Below are some animation gems i have discovered on the Internet:'Delivery' - a short film by Till Nowak... You got to see this!
'Dragon' - Finalist in the Delta Fly-In Movie competition - excellent, you will have to click this link to go and watch it, but it is worth the journey believe me!
Digital Art Recommendations
Digital Art Recommendations
Here are some great digital art sites that some up and coming artists i know have recommended and i like too... it is their comments that introduce each website:
Mephistoau ... some sites Mephistoau recommends are:
Brilliant concept art - some of the best in the world... Conceptart.orgAnother stunning forum... Cgtalk... CGSOCIETY... Society of Digital Arts.
If you like oil painting, this guy is a must... Donato Gioncola
If i had a nickel for every damn time i've said i wanted to paint like this guy... Dan Milligan
This guy is an amazing illustrator... James Jean
This guy has been basically a mentor... Jon Foster
Again someone i've looked up to for years... Daarken
If you want brilliant use of colour, this guy is for you...Waheed Nasir
If you are a 3D fan, then here you go... 3D Kingdom
and more... Nicolas Bouvier Rick Berry
Jennifer ... some sites Jennifer recommends are:
Norman Rockwell... I have been a fan of Norman Rockwell's art ever since I can remember...Cartoon Brew... To be proficient in your craft you must know the history of your craft. Cartoon Brew is a great website to learn about the happenings in the animation world, with the occasional piece of history and history in the making with the inside to up coming features and TV shows. The contributors to this site are some of the animation world?s best talent.
Animation World Network... As important as history is to our success, knowing what is up and coming is just as important. Awn will give you access to everything you need to get your carrier started. Every school and every studio is listed in its database. Daily articles keep u up to date on technology and current projects.
Spazbot recommends:
Linda Bergkvist ... She's got
"dark beauty" down to a science, and her paintings all have stories
behind them (all tragic ;__; and really well written! She's good at
everything!)
Tarzan recommends:
Deviantart... is a great place to see many upcoming artists. It's like the Myspace of illustrators.
Have fun :)
Spray Painting
Spray Painting
Art and music must be one of the best ways to expose the soul from all the protection we build around it.Watch this guy exposing his soul and creating his art using spray cans and a lot of talent... truly amazing
Watch Video here
How he can turn a bunch of areosol cans and their content into something truly beautiful just using some passion and talent.
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