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Portion Sizes in 'Last Supper' Paintings Grew Over Time | LiveScience
From the 52 paintings, which date between 1000 and 2000 A.D., the sizes of loaves of bread, main dishes and plates were calculated with the aid of a computer program that could scan the items and rotate them in a way that allowed them to be measured. To account for different proportions in paintings, the sizes of the food were compared to the sizes of the human heads in the paintings.

The researchers' analysis showed that portion sizes of main courses (usually eel, lamb and pork) depicted in the paintings grew by 69 percent over time, while plate size grew by 66 percent and bread size grew by 23 percent.

Both Wansinks suggest that as food has become more available over the last millennium, the way people, including artists, view and depict food has changed accordingly, with the same dinner scene being viewed as having more on the table in more recent decades and centuries.
food  visual  art  tfyl 
march 2010 by bkerr
A Very Haeckel Christmas - a set on Flickr
"Ernst Haeckel's 1904 'Kunstformen der Natur' [Artforms of Nature] is a classic of biological illustration. What is less generally known is that the artist started as a Christmas card designer. The book was originally simply an album of holiday designs."
bio  art  christmas  illustration  via:vaguery 
december 2008 by bkerr
Pasta&Vinegar | Mini street art
"Mini street art seen last week in Amsterdam, a little door+street number plate that we encountered while wandering around."
streets  micro  doors  amsterdam  not  annarbor  art  or  cloying  rustbelt  eatertainment  fairy  door  bullshit 
october 2007 by bkerr
Neighborhood Notes | Creative Expression
"This car was spotted parked near the Armory on Memorial Weekend, and shows why it pays to have a digital point and shoot in your pocket. I don't know why I like art cars, but I do."
portland  automotive  art  transportation  artifacts 
june 2007 by bkerr
Google Maps -- Art Supplies in the Ann Arbor Area
"A list of vendors in the Ann Arbor area that sell stuff artists want."
annarbor  michigan  art  supplies  $  google  maps  via:vielmetti 
june 2007 by bkerr
Jack Warren, Towers Open Fire
"Using loose pages from found books, journals and historical files as a backdrop, the drawings and paintings included in this exhibition comment on the boundaries of language and engage in ... dialogue between the artist's work and the source material."
art  exhibition  gallery  events  burroughs  collage  decoupage  drawing  abstraction  towers-open-fire 
may 2007 by bkerr
Brandon Bird: "Bad Day on the High Sea"
britta sez: "it is hard to resist a fight between a tyrannosaurus rex, a sperm whale, and a pink squid." There has to be a rock-paper-scissors variant embedded in here someplace.
visual  art  depicting  aquatic  combat  giant  squid  sperm-whale  tyrannosaurus-rex  ocean  send-your-armies 
april 2007 by bkerr
Robert J. Bolesta | Value Pack
"Alphabet made of raw hamburger. Each character hand-shaped, packaged, and photographed individually."
meat  art  typography  via:schollm 
april 2007 by bkerr
GNO
"Global Noise Online (since 2005.10) is an information centre for sound art and new media art, with an emphasis on China and other developing areas in the world."
sound  music  newmedia  word-falling  photo-falling  art  weblogs  china  via:msittig 
march 2007 by bkerr
cpb::softinfo | google groups search terms hack
AWESOME: "When making Google Art, you post to Usenet entirely in plain ASCII text ... You then indicate within your post the search queries (and their order) for which users should search Google in order to see the post appear in the proper colors."
google  groups  usenet  text  color  art  search  highlighting  subversion  via:britta 
march 2007 by bkerr
Barcelona ACCESSIBLE
"40 people with disabilities use mobile phones to photograph every obstacle they come across on the city's streets. By means of multimedia messages they create a map of inaccessible Barcelona on the internet."
barcelona  urban  mobile  accessibility  maps  art 
march 2007 by bkerr
MONSTER BRAINS
Collecting monstrous representations in media and history.
monster  images  art  weblogs  via:hrheingold 
february 2007 by bkerr
Ann Arbor Area Krappy Kamera Club - Cheap Shots
Exhibition, March 23--April 6 in Nickels Arcade. "The work in this show was created by seventeen artists from the Michigan area who call themselves the Krappy Kamera Club. This will be their first public showing in Ann Arbor."
a2b3  annarbor  photography  art  gallery  krappykamera  via:anikarenina 
february 2007 by bkerr
Catherine Garnier :: Table for Two
Interactive comic prototype, play with and send in feedback for this person's MFA thesis.
net  art  comics  interaction 
january 2007 by bkerr
Social Design Notes | Negative Campaigning
"A great action in NYC, taping placards over those outdoor video billboards attached to subway entrances. The typography is composed of holes in the board, illuminated by the video ad beneath."
urban  advertising  art  nyc 
january 2007 by bkerr
A&D Galleries | IF OTHER, PLEASE EXPLAIN…
exhibition @ Work gallery on State Street.
identity  art  events 
january 2007 by bkerr
Wikipedia | Falcoon
Artist responsible for godawful artwork in Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin.
games  ds  castlevania  por  lousy  art 
december 2006 by bkerr
Composition on the Table
Review of "Composition on the Table", of which Electroplankton's "Luminaria" is the handheld version.
art  music  toshioiwai  electroplankton 
december 2006 by bkerr
Wired 5.05 | Portrait of the Artist as a Young Geek, May 1997
"Toshio Iwai has the soul of an artist - but the head of a nerd. He's using both to invent interactive, digital art."
games  art  music  toshioiwai 
december 2006 by bkerr
Grand Text Auto | Deconstructing Networks
Exhibit of Jonah Brucker-Cohen's weird network-art in Montréal.
portable  personal  computing  wireless  networks  art  design  gallery 
october 2006 by bkerr
Corner Brewery | Report from the Shadow Art Fair
Sounds like it was a big success, I'm sorry I wasn't in town that weekend.
annarbor  ypsilanti  beer  art  events 
july 2006 by bkerr
Cover art for "A Scanner Darkly"
This is one of those dated-yet-timeless SF covers. At least you can infer that the artist had appreciated the book.
lit  sf  book  art 
june 2006 by bkerr
Bill Watterson at Kenyon College Commencement (May 20, 1990)
"If you ever want to find out just how uninteresting you really are, get a job where the quality and frequency of your thoughts determine your livelihood."
comics  work  art  etc  via:thedaniel 
may 2006 by bkerr
Art-o-mat
"Art-o-mat machines are retired cigarette vending machines that have been converted to vend art."
art  commerce  retro  design 
april 2006 by bkerr
Ironic Sans | "Animated Manhattan" Archives
Collected reviews of animated (TV and movie) depictions of New York.
newyork  tv  design  art  animation  images 
april 2006 by bkerr
ZeroOne San Jose & ISEA2006
"A Global Festival of Art on the Edge & the Thirteenth International Symposium of Electronic Art."
art  architecture  urban  spaces  design  conference  cities  events  electronic  fun  digital  media  culture  via:vielmetti 
march 2006 by bkerr
Roadside America | Giant Jesus Statue, Monroe, Ohio
"Jesus has risen near the interstate north of Cincinnati."
urban  religion  art  ideas/bad  via:srah 
november 2005 by bkerr
Smithsonian Magazine | Hiding in Plain Sight
"A veteran photographer shows the extraordinary knack that some animals have for...disappearing."
science  art  animals  images 
october 2005 by bkerr
Never Learn to Type | road trip
Sue took some sweet pictures of an art exhibit over the weekend. (She also bought us dinner, yay!)
family  art  glass  photos 
october 2005 by bkerr
Sony Pictures - MirrorMask
I've been out of touch! The Gaiman / McKean film opens in wide release this weekend (!).
movies  comics  visual  art  design 
september 2005 by bkerr
MacOSX向けのバイナリ群
Great arcade of little freebie OS X games with excellent visual and audio design. psy-no and Torus Trooper are probably my favorites of the lot.
mac  games  visual  art  REZ 
september 2005 by bkerr
THUNDERCUT
The person in the crosswalk gets a cute little wardrobe...
urban  pedestrian  art  images  via:boingboing 
september 2005 by bkerr
Ninjatoes' papercraft webpage
Advance Wars paper craft cute lil' jeeps.
games  diy  art  gba  awesome 
august 2005 by bkerr
InteractiveStory.net | Facade
The long wait is over. Check this out!
games  art  design  lit  language 
july 2005 by bkerr
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