KHS Digital Media Arts

If you are trying to create more realistic environments for your Flash animations, here is a great resource for learning to draw in perspective.   Vanishing Point: Perspective for Comics From the Ground Up   by Jason Cheeseman-Meyer breaks perspective principles down into clear, concise steps, walking through from one-point to five-point perspective techniques, including complex forms and figures in each. 

Colour Lovers is a creative community where people from around the world create and share colors, palettes and patterns, and discuss the latest trends in color. You can also create your own repeating patterns. Using shapes, shades and layers, you can create a pattern to which you can add any color palette, and allow others to as well. You can then purchase the pattern as a print or on fabric.

Street Art View  is a collaborative collection of sites from google street view showcasing street art all over the globe.  You can find famous street artists like Banksy and Shepard Fairey and many more.  Maybe someday the Loris? Here is a work created by one of my favorite street artists, David Walker

Amazing Scanning Electron Microscope Pictures Who needs a macro lens when you could have an electron microscope! More here!

Artist Bex Wild   paints on her flatbed scanner with amazing results.   The paintings seem alive and liquid, bursting with color.  Bex explains her technique step by step here.   You can check out  the wonderful images she shares on   her page   as well as check out other scanner artist at    http://www.scannography.org/      Another artist,  Pery Burge , forgoes the scanner and uses a digital camera as well as video to record various colored inks as they move through water.  Artist  Holton Rower  also uses the process of pouring paint in his work.  He has documented his work below.    

The Revenge of SpaceLemon (29/365) , a photo by Photocritic.org on Flickr. The reason why this photo came out as it did, is because of the camera settings: The camera was set to ISO 100, with f/9.0 aperture and 1/200 second shutter time. Set your camera to precisely those settings, and take a photo indoors, without using a flash. Even in a relatively well-lit room, that will result in a very dark photo indeed. Check out the rest of the article at  http://www.pixiq.com/article/darkening-a-room

This is next on my list of things to buy and figure out!  Twixtor is a simple After Effects/Final Cut Pro plugin that will make your video look like it was shot at incredible 1000fps levels. It adds frames instead of merely slowing down your footage.  I want that!   Below is a link to a blog that I love reading with all the info you need.  You have to check out the vimeo links to more cool examples. How to get super slow motion effects with any camera!

Creative photography and a well-executed ad campaign for Mint Vinetu Bookstore—designed by Love Agency . Follow the link to see more examples. http://www.loveagency.lt/mint-vinetu-pabuk-kuo-nors-kitu Credits: Advertising Agency: Love Agency, Lithuania Creative Director: Tomas Ramanauskas Art Director: Gediminas Saulis Copywriter: Tomas Ramanauskas Photo Studio: Cyclopes-photo.com

I found a site that tests your personality based on your most and least favorite colors. You DO NOT have to give them your email or fill anything out for results.  I took the test and it told me I was a "Organizer" and then a "Do-er". LOL  How accurate is it for you? Click here to take the color test!

MEH.