Looking for the perfect Valentine’s Day card for your loved one? Well grab your closest paper cutter and make your Valentine one of these pixel heart cards. Perfect for showing your loved one you care and… you know… all the romantic jazz. Get their pixel heart pumping and download the cutting files and all the instructions here. If you’ve somehow misplaced your paper cutter, the instructions also explain it the old fashioned way.
P.S. We started convoke in February 2009 with a post about left 4 dead Valentine’s Cards, if you’re feeling nostalgic.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s been ages since you’ve gotten a post out of us. We’re sorry; sometimes life gets in the way of living. Or blogging. Or whatever. Maybe we’re just lazy. But none of that matters. What matters is, I’m back and I’ve brought a peace offering to show just how much I care.
That offering, my friends, is a freakin’ geodesic dome made out of fluorescent lights. B. Fuller is probably looking down on this and saying, “Why didn’t I think of that?”
Michal Maciej Bartosik made this and some other pretty awesome light installations, but there’s more. After this, Bartosik went right to work outfitting another dome with tesla coils. That’s right: TESLA COILS.
And that is what we call critical success.
While EVOL might not have the same recognition as an artist like Banksy, he wields the stencil with just as much flair. His work falls into two categories: incredibly simple, or exceedingly complex. While the latter is interesting in its own right, using no less than six stencils to produce the piece illustrated above (on cardboard!!!), it’s his simple ideas that really shine.
See what I mean after the break.
This hyper-patriotic gig poster makes Bioshock Infinite’s Columbia look like Red Square. It’s got everything: eagles, arrows, both stars and stripes, the Illuminati, and like 11 different fonts!
I’ve got a soft spot for hand-drawn type, and Jon Contino really nails it in his work. The roughness and imperfection of the letters really sells these turn of the century styled designs.
There’s been a lot of anamorphic art circulating lately, and impressive as it is, the process is usually pretty simple. A fixed viewpoint is established, and paint or materials are added to the scene until the illusion is complete. This picture by Georges Rousse is the first time I’ve seen someone do the opposite, which is to say actually subtract material from an existing structure. The result, while structurally unsound, is far more impressive.
More of Rousse’s work at butdoesitfloat and today and tomorrow.
Call me old fashioned, but nothing says “I love you” like giving away your pills when you’re at critical health. Alexandria Neonakis, aka Beavotron, has created a set of Valentine’s day cards based on Valve’s zombie slaying co-op game Left 4 Dead. Apparently, this is an annual endeavour. On her website, you can see cards from previous years including Team Fortress 2, World of Warcraft, and Shadows of the Colossus.
She’s encouraged people to download and print them off, so let Boomer bile show that special someone how much you really care.
