I think I have a new favorite video game artist. I’ve already got a set of Scott Campbell’s hilarious Pac-Man illustrations in my house, and now I’m totally in love with his new “Great Showdowns (of the 8-Bit era)” series that he did for the 2008 iam8-bit video game art show at the World of Wonder gallery in Hollywood, Ca.
Scott’s mini paintings (3″ x 5″ each) offer a whimsical take on the confrontations between classic video game characters and their various nemeses. Dig Dug tries to make friends with Pooka and Fygar instead of exploding their insides, while Frogger contemplates how exactly he’ll jump onto that damned log so he can make it home from work once again. Back in the day, I pumped so many quarters into Moon Patrol, that the moon buggy vs. happy rock scene is my personal favorite.
While the original paintings have already found good homes, for $100 you can get your hands on a set of 5 mini prints (limited to just 30 per edition), signed and numbered by Campbell over on A Paper Tiger If you want a set for your wall, you’d better hurry.
Written by technabob on August 25th, 2008 with no comments.
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Here’s a concept device for snooty french artists who wear berets and hold a palette in one hand, while grimacing and scoping out the landscape between forefinger and thumb. This nice looking Palette-Digital Artist is an entry in the Microsoft NextGen PC Design Competition for 2008. It’s a handheld touchscreen PC, and like a traditional palette, it has a thumbhole for easy handling.
The design will make you feel like a futuristic Picasso and it will let you digitally paint your next masterpiece with a stylus. It’s wireless of course, so you could paint anything and not be tethered to the PC. The shape is amazing and could be used for many things, not just painting. Pretty nice.
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Written by Conner Flynn on March 28th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Looking for a way to make your game room really special? Look no further than these original 3-dimensional arcade artworks by sign maker Melissa Jones.
Melissa creates original wood carvings of classic arcade characters, then creates a resin casting of the original and hand paints each one with bold acrylic colors.
Her arcade designs include classics like Donkey Kong, Galaga, Robotron 2084, Pac-Man, Dig Dug, Q*Bert and Burgertime among others.
Prices for individual castings range from about $20 to $60 a piece, but complete sets with a matching canvas backdrop run from $225 to $375. But for about $2000, you can deck out your entire room with this complete collection.
She’ll also do custom orders on request. Check out Melissa’s entire collection over on her site NiceCarvings.
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Written by technabob on March 15th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Sound Advance, the company known for their truly invisible in-wall loudspeakers, will introduce a trio of new models at the 2007 CEDIA Expo in Denver, Colorado. Like all Sound Advance designs, the new models are designed to be completely hidden from view after installation, flush behind finished walls or ceilings and painted, papered, or otherwise covered in exactly the same way. Homeowners thus can experience genuinely high-fidelity music playback while preserving pristine, uncluttered interior surfaces.
The new SA3, SA 1.5 and SAW is the companies flagship with its proprietary Planar Diaphragm mid/high-frequency source with conventional, direct-radiator cone woofers of very low-profile design. The Planar Diaphragm—a rigid, flat-panel, expanded-polystyrene foam diaphragm with carefully engineered density and zone-controlled flexibility and driven by dual, specially developed voice-coil assemblies—radiates sound smoothly and evenly in a nearly hemispherical pattern, all the way to 20 kHz. The result is uniquely broad sound coverage and even, accurate musical response.
It will also use the Sound Advance SA3, which pairs a 48 square-inch Planar Diaphragm with a 50 square-inch low-frequency driver of conventional cone design, for powerful, full-range reproduction extending to an impressive 40 Hz from a 16×24-inch unit. The new SA1.5, combines the same mid/high panel with a smaller, 33 square-inch bass driver in a compact package just 16×12 inches.
A matching subwoofer, the SAW, is supplied with a dedicated outboard power amplifier. The 16×32-inch SAW pairs two 50 square-inch bass units forming a truly invisible subwoofer capable of powerful deep-bass output all the way to 20 Hz. The SAW amplifier supplied with the subwoofer, is a dedicated single-channel design that produces 150 watts, and incorporates sub-crossover, phase, and level controls, with flexible connections to accommodate any multiroom or home-theater system.
The speakers will be available on January 2008 and will be sold as follows:
SA3-$1300.00
SA1.5-$800.00
SAW-$750.00
Related topics:
Creative I-Trigue 2300 Speakers
LG Portable Stereo Speakers
Griffin Journi Portable Speakers for iPod
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Written by Maverick on September 6th, 2007 with no comments.
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