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Bubble Wrap Artist Creates Masterpieces by Injecting Paint into Each Bubble
- RickJWagner 6y agoA new take on pixel art!
- mc32 6y agoKinda like halftone too.
- nathancahill 6y agoPointillism was the original pixel art.
- kleiba 6y agoWhat about cross-stitching?
- samwestdev 6y agoMosaics
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 6y ago> When he started out, Hart was only able to inject a few cells at a time before having to step back to review his progress. He’s since invented a computer algorithm that gives him a working bird’s eye view. While it makes the process faster, it’s still time-consuming. A cool hacker project would be to make a “bubble printer” with an automatic injector that given an image will try to reproduce it in bubble wrap.
- pimlottc 6y agoI agree with you. At the same time, I suspect that the act of filling each bubble by hand is an important part of the process for this artist.
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoThat's exactly it; with art, the process is part of the product. Because if you look at any picture objectively, you think "Anyone could do that", which is why a lot of people pull up their noses at art, and by extension, anyone pursuing a career as an artist. But art where the process is part of it is just one of the many branches of the art world. A lot of people consume the arts on a regular basis without even considering it. UX is part of it, TV shows, films, video games, basically all media is an expression of art and will have a small army of artists working on them.
- kumarvvr 6y agoAnother cool hack would be to generate a color palette paint generator. A smaller version of those used for house painting colors.
- layoutIfNeeded 6y agoYeah, it would be a cool demo for a pick-and-place machine.
- lm28469 6y agoBut then it wouldn't be the same kind of art anymore. Just like you can have a machine paint 50000 exact copy of Mona Lisa and you wouldn't even be able to sell them for the price of wood making up the frame
- mustyoshi 6y agoHow do you tell hand injected vs machine injected bubbles apart?
- LeifCarrotson 6y agoYou don't need to be able to tell them apart to value one at $15,000 and another at $15. Hand-injected and machine-injected history of a given bubble may not be a distinguishable property within the natural universe, but it's important to art collectors, in a similar way that the copyrighted or not-copyrighted status of bits gives them an invisible color to lawyers: https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23 https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
- em-bee 6y agodidn't andy warhol manage to make valued art from prints?
- AndresAlla 6y agoYou mean something like https://www.robotmuralist.com/ https://www.robotmuralist.com/ but for bubblewrap instead of graffiti on walls? Lot of R&D could be shared, I guess.
- kumarvvr 6y agoI love art like this, but does it require any special skill? Color data for each bubble can be generated using a python script. Palette can also be generated computationally. I am not diminishing the artists work or effort, but in the future, will art be prized for skill and novelty? Or will it be dismissed as "anyone can do that" ?
- ricc 6y agoArt is not about skill anymore in the (post-)modern world.
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoWas it ever? The stick figures and hand prints found in old caves are some of the most valuable pieces of art (culturally and anthropologically speaking) out there, but the people that made them were just doodling.
- ricc 6y agoI’d argue though these cave artists are more skilled (artistically) when compared against their peers.
- rtkwe 6y agoAs many people as you ask you'll probably get that many answers of what defines art. As for people dismissing art as "anyone can do that" that's been happening for decades now. There's a lot of different types of art; some is about an idea, some is about technique in capturing a scene, or trying to invoke a certain reaction/emotion. As for skill who cares many people could have done this but this is the person who did these and they're neat and interesting. There's room for all sorts of art/games/movies why try to gatekeep what is really art or something? Most generations there's a good chunk that looks back and say "now that was real _____, not like what they're making today." And every generation what was the true version of the thing changes, it's more nostalgia than anything it seems. > I am not diminishing the artists work or effort Well... you are by saying 'anyone could do this' and implying it doesn't require special skill.
- coolspot 6y agoCan it be purchased as NFT, tho? That is the real question.
- rkagerer 6y agoNeat! Real-world pixel art.
- rapnie 6y agoIt's indeed a lovely work this artist creates. Should be quite satisfying to work with bubble wrap like that, and earn a living. Good News Network in general has content that elicits good feelings. Not such good news and good feeling are the 11 trackers on the page. But I guess they also have to earn a living.
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoAt least as a consumer and with browser addon technology, you get the executive decision to block all of those. At least, as long as Google and Firefox and co don't remove this possibility.
- tempodox 6y agoLike Andy Warhol's halftones, using a different canvas.
- mysterydip 6y agoToday I learned bubble wrap started as a wallpaper alternative and pivoted to the shipping industry. Another good example how your product may be excellent for a different audience than intended.
- psychiatrist24 6y agoCool idea, but tbh I want to see what it looks like once some of the bubbles have been popped.
- dan1234 6y agoYou can't pop them because the paint dries inside leaving no air pocket (This was mentioned in the video at the bottom of the page).
- 40four 6y agoI was confused for a minute to but then realized how it works. > “Each project produces two separate paintings—the pixelated picture in front, and an impressionist image rendered by the drippings from the back”
- nikolay 6y agoTo sum it up: pixel art but with a tremendous plastic waste.