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Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Warhammer 40K Armor That’s Ready for a Fight

Kinpatsu Cosplay has been hard at work on her biggest armor cosplay yet: a Sisters of Battle set of armor from Warhammer 40K. Known as the Adepta Sororitas, the all female division is split into squads led by Sister Superiors. Kinpatsu based her costume on a design from Ted Beargeon and crafted it for the Magic International Cosplay Masters at the Monaco Anime Game International Conferences. She used EVA foam for the structure and layers and used Worbla for some of the details.

Admire the details in the below photos and stay tuned to Kinpatsu’s Patreon page for more about this costume.

See more of the costume on Kinpatsu’s Facebook page.

via Reddit

Doodle 4 Google Submission Window Closes March 2! #ArtTuesday

Reaching the home stretch, don’t forget to enter Doodles by 3/2! From Google:

Does art inspire you? Clouds that look like faces? Sugar? Discovering new galaxies? Artists have looked to the world around them for centuries to gain inspiration. This year’s 10th anniversary of Doodle 4 Google asks students to do the same. The winner’s artwork will be made into an interactive doodle on Google.com as well as loads of scholarships and prizes.

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!

vtol’s ‘you, me and all these machines’ Interacts Vocalist with Robotic Device (Powered by Arduino, Pure Data, and LEDs for Conducting the Score) | #ArtTuesday

This is a pretty wild artwork. The swiping microphone and pulsating LED and other effects make for some pretty intriguing sound patterns – not to mention the intriguing visual of the vocalist wearing the unit on their head. In classic ::vtol:: fashion the device is beautifully made too.

“You, me and all these machines” is a performance for voice and electronic devices. The vocalist puts on his or her head a specially designed wearable interface tool to interact with the voice and display a visual score. Technically, the device consists of several elements: a narrowly directional microphone driven by a motor; an LED strip that shows the vocalist score; remote control with a joystick used by the second participant to control the interface. Shifting the microphone against the mouth makes it possible to achieve interesting sound effects, and makes it easier to manipulate the vocalist’s voice. The LED line consisting of 10 diodes is a very primitive, but effective and convenient way of interacting with the vocalist, and the way of interpreting the values is predetermined before each performance. During the performance, a sound canvas is formed, thereby changing the dynamics, consisting of a set of looped fragments created within voice and interface processing elements, without using other methods to generate sounds.

Doodle 4 Google Submission Window Closes March 2! #ArtTuesday

Reaching the home stretch, don’t forget to enter Doodles by 3/2! From Google:

Does art inspire you? Clouds that look like faces? Sugar? Discovering new galaxies? Artists have looked to the world around them for centuries to gain inspiration. This year’s 10th anniversary of Doodle 4 Google asks students to do the same. The winner’s artwork will be made into an interactive doodle on Google.com as well as loads of scholarships and prizes.

vtol’s ‘you, me and all these machines’ Interacts Vocalist with Robotic Device (Powered by Arduino, Pure Data, and LEDs for Conducting the Score) | #ArtTuesday

“You, me and all these machines” is a performance for voice and electronic devices. The vocalist puts on his or her head a specially designed wearable interface tool to interact with the voice and display a visual score. Technically, the device consists of several elements: a narrowly directional microphone driven by a motor; an LED strip that shows the vocalist score; remote control with a joystick used by the second participant to control the interface. Shifting the microphone against the mouth makes it possible to achieve interesting sound effects, and makes it easier to manipulate the vocalist’s voice. The LED line consisting of 10 diodes is a very primitive, but effective and convenient way of interacting with the vocalist, and the way of interpreting the values is predetermined before each performance. During the performance, a sound canvas is formed, thereby changing the dynamics, consisting of a set of looped fragments created within voice and interface processing elements, without using other methods to generate sounds.

The Book of 19th Century Board Games Georgian and Victorian Board Games: The Liman Collection #ArtTuesday

Georgian and Victorian Board Games: The Liman Collection from Pointed Leaf Press looks like it contains a wealth of design inspiration. via Hyperalleregic.

Showcasing 50 games that were made for both instruction and delight, the book reflects on a transatlantic market that flourished into and through the 19th century. Although games were often printed on linen or board instead of delicate paper, many fell apart due to enthusiastic use. But those that survived open a window onto the time period in which they were created, reflecting its social and moral priorities as well as a wide range of educational subjects. Georgian and Victorian Board Games: The Liman Collection will appeal to both experts and people who will discover this unusual art form for the first time. The oversize format allows for a close inspection and reading of the wonderfully imaginative and interesting information on the museum-quality game boards while reproductions of some of the pages from the detailed instruction booklets allow for an even deeper look into the games and how they were played. The games themselves are beautifully detailed—produced by a handful of the best-known publishers of the era, the hand-color engraved games look as vibrant and colorful as they did two centuries ago.

Spanish Cave Art from 65,000 Years Ago #ArtTuesday

Using uranium-thorium dating, paleoanthropologist were able to discover new cave art…and it’s possibly from Neanderthals.

Via Smithsonian

Put yourself in the distant past, 65,000 years ago, and imagine entering a cave in Spain. Keep in mind this was the era of megafauna, animals like saber-toothed cats and cave hyenas and cave bears that were 50 percent larger than modern grizzlies. “[Humans] would’ve used small torches and their field of view would’ve been so small, and the light would’ve been flickering,” says archaeologist Chris Standish, of the University of Southampton. “You have all these fantastic speleothems [formations like stalactites] in the cave and sometimes calcite crystals that sparkle. So it must’ve been quite amazing, but also very daunting.”

Yet humans entered the caves again and again, armed with their flickering torches and red or black pigments, all so they could leave their mark on the walls. For decades, these abstract artistic renderings have been a meager glimpse of life in the Ice Age, and evidence of the cognitive abilities of our ancient ancestors. Or so we thought.