AI Generated Valentine’s Day Cards
It’s not Valentine’s Day and we don’t care because we just discovered these AI-generated Valentine’s Day cards and we love them. Behold their glory here. (Thanks, Ed!)
How Animal Crossing and the pandemic informed Takashi Murakami’s Art
Takashi Murakami talks about how the pandemic and the online world influenced his art. “Murakami’s interest in the metaverse during the pandemic accelerated whilewatching his son and daughter, 11 and 8 years old, respectively, play the Nintendo video game Animal Crossing: New Horizons. His daughter was admiring fireworks […]
“Calligraphy Fragments”
The Universtiy of Oregon has a sweet collection of calligraphy fragments. “This exhibition introduces two gems of UO’s collection of Japanese calligraphy: the album of calligraphy known as tekagami in the collection of the Knight Library Special Collections and UO Archives (SCUA), containing a total of 319 examples; […]
The Wicker Man (1973) in Animal Crossing
The Gutter’s own Carol recreates some scenes from The Wicker Man (1973) in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. You can see them here.
“Looney Tunes without Looney Tunes: Existential, Surreal, and Creepy Backgrounds”
“The Instagram account Looney Tunes Backgrounds has compiled over 900 backdrops from the legendary cartoon, going all the way back to the ’30s, so now we can all take a thoughtful look at them. What’s interesting is that without the flickering back and forth of cartoons, these painted […]
“‘Unset 1965’: The Epistolary Horror of Shing Yin Khor”
Artist Shing Yin Khor’s “Unset1965” “is an short epistolary horror story, delivered in the mail between May to October 2022. It is a story about the California desert, ghost towns on old Route 66, and falling in love with a old motel that needs you as much as […]
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