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- shertzerj, on 10/12/2007, -4/+64Very cool. Really reminds me of how much I suck at art. :)
- jhaven, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28http://www.duggmirror.com/design/Amazingly_Realistic_Art_Done_Entirely_in_Crayon
No fullsizes though - Arbinshire, on 10/12/2007, -11/+36Psst.. The correct word would be, "They're"
- jayhawk88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25And the web server is apparently made out of Lego's.
- potentato, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27Asking an artist to spell correctly is like asking the sky to turn orange. Sure, it happens sometimes, but most of the time, you just have to deal with a blu sky.
- yukevster, on 10/12/2007, -5/+27How do you install greasemonkey script in Opera?
- wistar, on 10/12/2007, -7/+26Wow. If he is using Crayola, as little pigment as they put in Crayolas, this guy is able to get these results. That's mastery, all right.
- kman2k1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Google Images: http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&safe=active&rls=GGGL%2CGGGL%3A2006-17%2CGGGL%3Aen&q=don+marco+crayon&btnG=Search
Better than nothing. - violentvinyl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16@ Kranklin
It's a little pretentious to expect people to not only plan for their sites to be overwhelmed with traffic, but god help us, make it so it's also easy to mirror. Originally I was going to Digg you down...
...then I ran off to make sure my own site would survive a similar hit. - josegutz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14What I'm wondering is how'd he stay inside all those lines?
- dustedbunny, on 10/12/2007, -9/+21What kind of school did you go to where they taught a class on crayons?
- Jadix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11So was google's first storage system...
http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2348-10877-6052633.html - Kranklin, on 10/12/2007, -8/+19"No fullsizes though"
Thats why people shouldent use Javascript to open up new Windows with links, at least link to in the the href and and have the onclick do all the work - emeriste, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9In the comments part of the site (before it crashed) he said he just uses Crayolas. And on another page of the site is a black and white picture of him holding colorful Crayolas in his hand and in his pocket. It is a neat picture. It's worth checking out the rest of the site some time when it recovers from the Digg effect. There are quite a few images in his gallery.
- Kourgin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Lol @ dustedbunny
He didnt say it was a class on crayons... He said it was a class "unit" on crayons. - daldredge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Read the parent again & pay close attention to "1st grade"
- Moopy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9The point of his art is to use Crayola crayons, which are basically name brand low class crayons compared to the spectrum of art supplies available to him.
- gambl0r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Yeah, no one should need to plan on making their site easier for someone to mirror. I question the legality of diggmirror rehosting content and putting ADS at the top of the page. Even if they are saying they are mirroring the content, it's still not their content to repurpose and especially generate money from.
Back on topic, javascript links are not great because of people with javascript turned off, not because diggmirror can't steal what's behind them. - JayWright, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10No, you would probably get pretty good at playing with your penis all day. C'mon now.
- shosterman, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Here are some more crayons to check out. Reviews by Spider-Man!
http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0913/
""Blue Violet," meet "Red Violet." You guys are brother and sister. That means no hanky panky. And your mother was a big whore." - eclectro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I like the comment about the photography-camera. Art needs to take people places where they would not normally go with a camera. Before the camera, art was the only thing giving us pictures. So the threshhold is undoubtedly higher now. Brilliant technique is not enough, but truly good art will stand the test of time and keep people's interest. Of course, a gimmick can become overused, aka bev doolittle. Just MHO.
- Bloodwine, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11faux-photorealistic truckstop art is more visually appealing and interesting to look at than most of the ***** so-called artists create nowadays.
- EtherGnat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Art by Crayola. Server by Fisher-Price.
- Charlotte_Web, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Digg effect... I think we melted his crayons. :-(
- Herd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Opera has greasemonkey built in. Simply drop the js script into the userjs folder.
http://www.opera.com/support/tutorials/userjs/examples/#greasemonkey - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10they have a crayons class at the college i go to
- aelias, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Maybe this will clam up those parents who think their kids' 'purple hippo with feathers' makes them the next Basquiat.
Suck it, 3rd graders. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Next project - draw up a thickpipe with lots of bandwidth . . .
- Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Yeah, because other web servers are infallible when being dugg.
- jellyroll713, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Who are you to judge what is and isn't art? I'm sick of you "critics" who can't do anything but detract other's work. These creations no doubt to the man alot of time to produce and that in and of itself makes it worth something.
- missflibbles, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Photorealistic drawings and paintings can be art, but the majority of the crap I see with wolves and eagles doesn't exactly qualify. I hate the idea that if you can draw or paint very technically well, it makes you an artist.
No. There's a difference between good technical skill and being an artist. I'm (sort of) technically skilled, but I'm no artist. - SenatorPenguin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6There about a bajillion crayola colors, byt I'm surprised how exact he was. I can't even aim and draw a line with crayola, because the tip keeps changing shape as you go.
- shout, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6yeah not really.
- ahhell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Wow. Too bad the actual site got destroyed.
- chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10it's not the tools but the talent.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+11I bet he got an "A" in his 1st grade art class unit on crayons.
- toconnor, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I am better than your kids.
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=irule - covertbadger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@CatalystGhost
Just to play devil's advocate, why is the reproduction (photorealistic or otherwise) of an image necessarily considered art, and yet an abstract expression of emotion (two dots or otherwise) is idiotic? Are you suggesting that a soulless copy of a photograph is somehow more artistic than something that is pure imagination? I think the problem here is that you have no idea what 'art' is.
Moreover, why do you think it is wrong for others to criticise art, but OK for you to do so when it happens to be something you don't like? - richardiscool, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3He needs a dumptruck.
- astrotrain, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4** with afro and paint board impersonating Bob Ross **
And we want to put a pretty bush over here, lets use #5 green crayon, ah that's it
this is happy little b..**snap***, oh this bush isn't happy anymore because his
#5 green crayon just broke... - AMCer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Server is already trashed :(
- CrackHappy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@toconnor
You owe me a new keyboard, mouse, monitor, shirt, tie, pants, and shoes.
After the second one I had to stop looking at them, I'm at work. I'll have to look at the rest at home later. - masamunecyrus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I would assume that drawing (i.e., painting) with wax (i.e., crayons) is just as possilbe as painting with ink & oil.
That said, doing either of those competently is insanely difficult. - hottslurry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This reminds me of how I recently tried to draw pixelated pictures on the sidewalk using ordinary Crayola Sidewalk Chalk. It didn't work out quite as well as this guy's.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hottslurry/213488411/
I've admitted openly that my attempt was just creative, not artistic. If one of you were to happen to consider my endeavor "art", I would be hard pressed to deny you that claim even if I felt otherwise. - rspeed, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Goddamn IIS.
- AMCer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I bet his cable/dsl company is PISSED atm!
- Jadix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4theres no way a printer can ever be better than an artist, in my opinion.
- dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Thats why people shouldent use Javascript to open up new Windows with links, at least link to in the the href and and have the onclick do all the work" it also breaks my normal "middle-click a bunch of interesting looking thumbnails" thing, it's very annoying seeing a bunch of blank tabls with "javascript://windowopen(etc)" in them..
CoralDNS and Duggmirror aren't working right, is there a better cache/mirror?
- Ben - ZenFu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Wow, that Solitude pic looks like it's a stained glass window or something. The lighting's amazing!
Impressive art, especially considering the artist used crayons. - DigiDave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think this is a good example of crap-like materials being used for serious art.
Crayons for paintings
How about garbage being used by designers to create new buildings
http://digg.com/environment/Green_Buildings_Made_of_Trash
The fact that it angers you just means that it's being effective. If you didn't think twice about it, THEN it would be crappy art. -
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