Written on the body
February 8th, 2008
Ariana Page Russell has a skin disease which enables her to write and draw on her own skin:
My own skin frequently blushes and swells. I have dermatographia, a condition in which one’s immune system exhibits hypersensitivity, via skin, that releases excessive amounts of histamine, causing capillaries to dilate and welts to appear (lasting about thirty minutes) when the skin’s surface is lightly scratched. This allows me to painlessly draw patterns and words on my skin, which I then photograph.
It’s simultaneously creepy and beautiful at once.
(Via Kirsty Hall.)
Elseware
January 18th, 2008
A very small Wacom
November 26th, 2007
Colors! is a simplistic digital application for Nintendo DS based on modern painting-
techniques developed for drawing tablets in programs like Photoshop. By taking
advantage of the pressure sensitivity of the DS touch-screen it becomes a perfect
portable digital sketch-book.
A reason I might want a DS, though apparently it requires some hacking to get this to run on a DS. I’d been idly thinking about getting one for things like Brain Age and the new “visual training” game Flash Focus. I’m not really a gamer, but Nintendo really seems to know how to get people like me to play their games.
Japanese manhole covers
October 25th, 2007
Via Drawn, photos of manhole covers in Japan. Oddly ancient and modern at the same time.
