zds – random thoughts

Amazing skills.. Handcraft art at its best.

Miniature Art on the Tip of Pencil by Dalton Ghetti.

Here a guy took image with 6 month exposure time with pinhole camera:

Photography’s Longest Exposure – household name : : : blog.

Another collection of art and design, this time the theme is spine.

Spine ring

Also check out the rest of the piece by this designer – he has several very nice designs.

Spine bracelet

Another spine bracelet

Goth pewter spine bracelet

Spine Sandals

This was a generous subject; there would have been still some more good-looking stuff, but lets get back to them later. Some designers also disqualified themselves by having “web”"pages” that were just one full-screen flash with poor navigation and images that looked artsy, but were not clear enough to judge the actual designs.

Folks, if you are selling some physical products, there is no reason to make it hard for people to actually see good images of them.. And even less reasons to make it impossible for Google to find your stuff, or for fans to link to them.

YouTube – Auto Assault CG Trailer.

This is CG trailer for MMOG called AutoAssault. I really, really would love to have MMOG like that.

The unfortunate thing is that the game called AutoAssault was made and released, and it was nothing like you can see in the trailer, and got rightfully ditched.

So now we only have the trailer and the hope that someday, someone, will actually make a game that does honor to this awesome trailer. It is completely possible the trailer was sent down from Heaven, but if it was actually made by humans, those humans still exist somewhere. I want them to make a game, not just a trailer.

Please..

I every now and then browse web for art, often to get inspiration. I have some theme or idea in my mind and seeing it in photos or art either confirms the idea to work, gives me new data to enhance my idea or helps me to scrap the whole idea.

Here are some pieces of art that caught my eye; the theme in them is loosely a scarab.

Shinybinary.com – this looks like something that should be laser-engraved from real materials and then backlit.

Diytrade.com

EWPayne.co.uk

IStockphoto.com

Zcache.com

Ronnie James Dio, one of the Great Old Ones of Heavy metal has passed away. Rock in peace, man.

YouTube – Dio – All the Fools Sailed Away.

Some cool photos to brighten up your Friday: Amazing And Unbelievable Photos | Pictures.

Unusually cool photographic art here:

Astral by =alexiuss on deviantART.