Andrea Joyce Heimer’s In The Summer We Started Drinking During The Hot Of The Day And By Night Time We Were Monsters Now Available as a Puzzle #ArtTuesday

In September I was lucky enough to spend a day at the Armory Show. Being surrounded by radically different styles and mediums was simultaneously overwhelming and exhilarating. I had a hard time maintaining any sort of focus and felt myself being pulled from one booth to the next… until my eye fell upon booth S7, Half Gallery, featuring Andrea Joyce Heimer’s art. Shout out to the Half Gallery rep for letting me get momentarily lost in Andrea Joyce Heimer’s work. I haven’t stopped thinking about Andrea Joyce Heimer’s creations, from the distinctive technique, form and perspective to the story being told in every moment of each piece. So of course I was delighted to see one of her paintings was available in puzzle from! Really looking forward to acquiring this puzzle to spend some time with In The Summer We Started Drinking During The Hot Of The Day And By Night Time We Were Monsters! Check out Andrea Joyce Heimer’s site, give her a follow over on Instagram and check out Kinstler for a quick write up and In The Summer We Started Drinking During The Hot Of The Day And By Night Time We Were Monsters in puzzle form from

Heimer told us that she hoped to start an artist residency nearby. She planned to have zebras. “There are a couple of breeders in Washington state, so that’s going to be one of the draws: to come hang out with the zebras,” she said. It sounded like a pretty epic time. Like being in one of Heimer’s paintings, come to think of it.

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Every Tuesday is Art Tuesday here at Adafruit! Today we celebrate artists and makers from around the world who are designing innovative and creative works using technology, science, electronics and more. You can start your own career as an artist today with Adafruit’s conductive paints, art-related electronics kits, LEDs, wearables, 3D printers and more! Make your most imaginative designs come to life with our helpful tutorials from the Adafruit Learning System. And don’t forget to check in every Art Tuesday for more artistic inspiration here on the Adafruit Blog!

Turn your Raspberry Pi into a Roland MT-32 MIDI emulator #MIDI #RaspberryPi #Emulation @_d0pefish_

mt32-pi turns your Raspberry Pi 3 or later into a Roland MT-32 emulator and SoundFont synthesizer based on Circle, Munt, and FluidSynth.

Turn your Raspberry Pi into a dedicated emulation of the famous multi-timbre sound module used by countless classic MS-DOS, PC-98 and Sharp X68000 games!

Add your favorite SoundFonts to expand your synthesizer with General MIDI, Roland GS, or even Yamaha XG support for endless MIDI possibilities.

Includes General MIDI and Roland GS support out of the box thanks to GeneralUser GS by S. Christian Collins.

No operating system, no complex Linux audio configuration; just super-low latency audio.

Easy to configure and ready to play from cold-boot in a matter of seconds.

The perfect companion for your vintage PC or MiSTer FPGA setup.

Tested on Raspberry Pi 4 Model B and Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+, B, and B+. Pi 2 works, but only with concessions on playback quality. Pi Zero and 1 are unfortunately too slow (even with an overclock) and unsupported.

See more in the GitHub repo.

Rossum’s Universal Robots at 100

A century ago was the world premiere of R.U.R.: Rossum’s Universal Robots by Karel Čapek. That’s means it’s been a century since the word “robot” was invented. Here’s more from Centauri Dreams:

According to an interview given to a Czech newspaper more than a decade later, the true creator of the word was Karel’s brother, Josef, a talented painter and poet. While Karel could not decide what to call artificial people, Josef (who lived with him at the time) suggested the work “robot” coming from robota, meaning hard work, usually done involuntary in serfdom. A similar word, denoting labour or hard work, is present in all Slavic languages (e.g., “робота” in Ukrainian, “rabota” in Serbian and Croatian, etc.). Formally, of course, one could argue that the word was coined in 1920, when the drama was written, and Karel’s conversation with Josef took place, but the neologism began to spread only after the premiere in 1921.

R.U.R. is arguably still the most important and the best written science fiction play ever. It is far from being Čapek’s only claim to fame, however. On the contrary, he was extremely, unbelievably, fantastically prolific for a man of lifelong poor health who died at 48. He wrote a dozen novels, hundreds of short stories in all genres, a book on gardening, 5 books of letters describing various travels all over Europe, children books, literally thousands of newspaper articles, essays, vignettes, and Borges-like “apocrypha”. His novels, both realistic (Hordubal, Meteor, Ordinary Life, Life and Work of the Composer Foltýn) and SF (Krakatit, The Absolute at Large, and his most significant work, War with the Newts) are all very complex affairs, full of difficult philosophical and psychological ideas, but also mostly ironic and often spiced with Monty-Pythonesque black humor.

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The Un-Gravity Constructions of Cinta Vidal #ArtTuesday

The Upside-Down, however well-designed, wasn’t exactly the place where you might pull out an image for an art gallery. But Cinta Vidal brings an upside down to everyday life. Here’s more from JUXTAPOZ:

Multidisciplinary artist Cinta Vidal illustrates new perceptions of city landscapes by detaching and reimaging the architectural formations that function as the backdrops of life. For Vidal, depicting macro and micro levels of inverted apartment buildings and city structures illustrate the various ways the world is experienced by a mass population. Having grown up with an affinity for drawing, Vidal became an apprentice at Taller de’Escenografia Castells Planas, one of the most prestigious scenography ateliers in Spain and across Europe. There, she learned the trades of scenography, painting large-scale scenes and settings for theatre and opera backdrops. Utilizing this experience, Vidal uses acrylic paint on canvas to create what she describes as her “un-gravity constructions.” She paints each artwork with close attention to detail, fully realizing each structure and the unfolding scenes within. Vidal’s combination of saturation, detail, and balance work together to allow the viewer’s gaze to absorb these various and often intersecting viewpoints.

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Every Tuesday is Art Tuesday here at Adafruit! Today we celebrate artists and makers from around the world who are designing innovative and creative works using technology, science, electronics and more. You can start your own career as an artist today with Adafruit’s conductive paints, art-related electronics kits, LEDs, wearables, 3D printers and more! Make your most imaginative designs come to life with our helpful tutorials from the Adafruit Learning System. And don’t forget to check in every Art Tuesday for more artistic inspiration here on the Adafruit Blog!

NASA publishes ‘First Woman’ graphic novels about the Moon #AR #WomenInStem @NASA @NASAArtemis

NASA‘s new graphics novel First Woman tells the tale of Commander Callie Rodriguez, the first woman to explore the Moon. While Callie is a fictional character, the first female astronaut and person of color will soon set foot on the Moon – a historic milestone and part of upcoming NASA missions.

Issue #1: Dream to Reality follows Callie’s trailblazing path as the first woman on the Moon. Callie and her robot sidekick, RT, overcome setbacks, disappointment, and tragedy along the way. From her childhood dreams of space travel to being selected as an astronaut candidate, Callie takes us on her journey to the Moon.

Through a series of graphic novels and digital platforms, First Woman aims to capture our attention and unite the next generation of explorers who will return to the Moon.

First Woman App

First Woman graphic novels are XR (VR and AR) enabled. Download the app to walk through life-size scenes from the graphic novel and explore NASA’s highlighted technologies, which helped Callie, and will help real astronauts, sustain life on the Moon. (Android and iOS)

Availability

Issue #1 is available online and via PDF on NASA’s website.

Lantern Corps Ring

A nice addition to your Lantern cosplay.

via E Spire on instructables

Greetings Hero,

You probably are not worthily enough to be chosen to join a Lantern Corps, like me.

However, I do have a solution for you.

We are going to make our way to the Lantern Corps, by starting making what is most significant about the Lantern Corps.

The Ring.

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The Jim Henson Foundation presents — American Puppet Theater Today: The Photography of Richard Termine

This exhibit looks fantastic! Photographs by Richard Termine, on view at La MaMa Gallery.

La MaMa Gallery is located at 47 Great Jones Street, New York, NY 10012 — not far from Adafruit HQ!

New York-based photographer Richard Termine has documented American Puppet Theater for over 30 years. Termine’s work captures the animated gesture of the puppet in still images. Over 100 images and objects in this exhibition illustrate the dynamic range of Puppet Theater being created by a vibrant community of artists in the New York City area, as well as some of the excellent work presented at National Puppet Festivals across the United States.

A special section, “Puppetry During the Pandemic,” celebrates resilient puppet artists who continued to create and perform new work through the past year.

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