Liu Bolin is a young Beijing based artist who has exhibited primarily in china until last year’s solo show in Paris and a group show with the gallery in Miami. He recently finished a show in New York showing off a variety of his work. He specializes in covering his subjects head to toe in paint, camouflaging themselves in front of the Chinese flag, a billboard or downtown Beijing. Bolin’s process is demanding often working on a single photo for up to 10 hours, he has to make it perfect, somethings people passing don’t notice him until he makes a movement.
I really admire what Bolin has achieved with his art work, it’s nothing like other work out there. I used to hate painting on a flat surface let alone a textured one. This is why I use computers for my artwork because it has ctrl+z, you can’t do that with painting.
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After my last article on a jquery image caption I have continued to fiddle with jquery and something I felt would be good to have is a FAQ slider, a bit like an accordion. I am sure you have seen one around but if not its basically a list of Questions and once clicked apon the answer is show below.
This is my first tutorial on jquery so just bare with me…Jquery seems to be something I really want to learn but I just cant find the time to learn it. Everytime I open my Learning Jquery 1.3 book from Packt a deadline comes up, so the book it placed back on the shelf to gather dust! But finally I found a perfect moment to fiddle with it. So I have put together a simple effect using an image and a caption which slides up when hovered over. It was actually pretty easy to achive.
I sit at a desk pretty much all day I have noticed many websites using natural elements in there web projects, from wood panel backgrounds to full on field of grass. By using such textures you can give the illusion of your site being 3D also its something we can relate to, maybe you have a memory of rolling in the mud when younger or laying in a corn field with someone your fond of! I’m going to run through a few of my findings.
If you didn’t know I am a huge sports fan so I have been waiting for the new EA sports 2010 versions to come out, and I must say the covers are amazing this year! EA sports have slightly modified their trademark plain white with a cut out player and added some grit!
The days of flat/block color text are dead you can apply many effects by just being a bit creative with CSS, CSS3 makes it a little bit easier with the text shadow style BUT until ie6 dies designers are having to find alternative ways to create text effects.
