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iCE's Modern Version Of Old-Fashioned Quilting Bee
Ant writes "tiles.ice.org is a Web site with a cool art idea as a tribute to Salvador Dali. It is iCE (remember ANSI art, you old school computer users?)'s answer to the old-fashioned quilt party, minus the gathering of elderly women. It's a unique opportunity for collaborative artwork on the net. A huge image, composed of individual 'tiles' is created, one piece at a time. The goal when making a tile is to mesh your work as smoothly as possible with the surrounding tiles, while creating something cool, artistic, and if applicable, on-topic. Check out the finished sample. I love the ants in the quilt tiles!"
...can I PLEASE use the internet now?
No good deed goes unpunished. - Avon, Blake's 7
... we can quilt goatse into it!
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now thats some surreal collaborative art...
Ahh... I love the thought of posting a site dedicated soley to serving images upon the Slashdot main page. In fact, I can't possibly think of any faster way to completely annihilate a server and it's connection to the internet.
Like linking to a predominately text site doesn't trash the site, someone thought it would be a good idea to link to a picture site? Like what, you expected people to be able to view any of the pictures before the server turned into a steaming pile of goo?
Well, I got to see one, nya nya nya!
Tiles was a project i beleive started by our dear friend Slothy of iCE who i've worked with on more than one occasion and have known since i was 16 as an iCE member.
iCE has always been an excellent organization of artists that are extremely talented and have remained friends for a long time now. Tiles is proof of the many great ideas Jon (slothy) has had over the years. Looking at the work in the tiles is pretty interesting and its a lot of fun.
Nice to see it on slashdot. I know Jon and other iCE members such as myself are frequent readers of slashdot.
Enjoy!
I dont think the purpose of this is to achieve any new leaps in artistic expression. There is more to working with a group than just "progress" and gains. There is a lot to be said for the fun involved and the ability to share and meld your ideas with the ideas of others. I assume you don't listen to any music, surely that art by committee has no soul. Or books illustrated by people other than the author, or even collaborative writings. Hell, researchers should stop working in teams and just go at it alone....how else will we progress? Now that I think of it, I can't believe I even bit at your flamebait. Oh well.
I remember iCE.. when I was begging for my board to be a distro in the Chicago area at the tender age of 13. RaDMaN from ACiD occasionally reads the slash - and as I understand it, ACiD is still an art group to this very day. I'm glad to see iCE is still around as well.
Two thumbs up for L337 TheDraw skills.
Even with art, it's not the AIDS quilt we remember, it's Van Gogh's Starry Night. The individual is the creator of art. Art by committee is soulless.
The only people who actually think that "art by comittee is soulless" are the pseudo-intellectuals who don't/can't really apprecaite art, so they critize it to beef up their ego/self-esteem.
Going by the logic here, a museum is also a "soulless" place, because it is, by definition, art by comittee. A comittee decides what's in the museum and the museum contains a hodge podge of different artists. Thus all art, except stand alone art in the middle of a field, with no one around to view is is "soulless."
Now how silly is that. Art is created by the artist for their own edification. Art is viewed/consumed by the viewer for their own enjoyment. That's what art is, there's nothing soulless or soulful about it... you get out of art what you put into it, whether you are the viewer or the creator.
Then by your definition since a movie is made by a team it's not art. I know the argument to this is that a movie has a strong director whos vision shapes the movie but anyone with input changes the final result. e.g. Kubrick made Dr Strnglove but would it have been the same without Peter Sellers or Slim Pickins?
You are so boring that when I see you my feet go to sleep.
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Folk art is quite different than Fine art. Folk art has a distinct culture behind it whereas Fine art is typically an individual expression (sometimes a statement). Yes, you're right, people remember the individual in Fine art whereas Folk art is about a community.
Your assertion is that recognition is the inherent drive for art. I always thought it was expression. It's also not art by committee, it's art by community.
Not since Marie-Antoinette played milkmaid has looking simple and honest been so fake and complicated.
http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/82e3e840a62dd614b 01cd89182c8373a/index.html/
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http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/82e3e840a62dd614b 01cd89182c8373a/index.html
Actually, you'll be pleased to know that iCE is much more than somewhat active. We're still releasing our digital art packs monthly, and I've been heading up the Photography Department for almost 12 months now.
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Drop by when we're got getting destroyed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/02/043922 6&tid=152
What this really needs is a download button so I can download the composite quilt and use it as a desktop or something
I guess I'll just have to take a couple screenshots and stitch them together manually...
What a dweeb. Say, if you don't like /., how about you just go away?
/. exists, they have a moral right to partake in its direction.
/. has some serious problems with the degree of professionalism demonstrated by some of the editors. There are times I'm surprised that /. hasn't been sued for libel for some of the inaccurate information they've posted in stories where even RTFA'ing would of informed them otherwise. Hundreds of thousands of geeks come here daily and many are inevitably going to give some degree of credence to what they see on the front page. I'm not asking for the New York Times here but at least some basic proofreading and making sure the facts are vaugly right before they post it for everyone to see would be nice.
Yeah, because when something good has problems you should just abandon it instead of trying to correct them. Those who post the stories and comments are the reason
The main effect of your ranting is to make me rather like "michael", whoever he is. He's certainly an improvement on you.
Ahh, because the messenger defines the message? Just because the messenger isn't perfect does not change the fact that
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