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Stan Heller combines photography with anaglyph art to create his illustrations and comics (Anaglyphs are sterographic images that use special glasses with red and cyan lenses to create the illusion of dept). In 3D, a retrospective of Stan’s art, opens this Saturday, November 14th at Mission Comics and Art in San Francisco and runs through December 17th. The show collects 5 years of his experiments with 3D including images from his most recent book “Not Quite Here”.

Stan was also one of the few brave souls who attempted to create a 24 page comic during the recent 24hr Comic Book Day challenge at Mission Comics last month. You can read his 3D comic from that challenge here. Stan also collaborated with me on a this anaglyph to promote my 24hr comic BOOF!, which was created at the same event.

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photo by Scott Beale

The next Dorkbot SF takes place on Wednesday, November 18th at Noisbridge in San Francisco and features presentations by Anselm Hook (Augmentia – Scratching the surface of Augmented Reality), David Gessel (Stalking Slanderizing Trolls), Shelly Farnham (Steve the Robot H.E.Ai.D.: a Large Scale Generative Music and Laser Play Space) and Gian Pablo Villamil (360 Degree Panoramic Video Without the Megabucks).

See the Dorkbot SF #48 event listing for more info.

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Adam Koford, aka “Ape Lad” had been creating an awesome series of avatars for his Twitter account. In keeping with Twitter’s 140 character limitation, Adam has been restricting the design of his avatars to the shape of the default Twitter bird avatar.

Here’s the an example of a default Twitter avatar for comparison.

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Pink Tentacle has a great round-up of sci-fi art by Japanese illustrator Shusei Nagaoka, who created several classic album covers including the 1977 album “Out of the Blue” by Electric Light Orchestra (ELO).

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Jamie Tanner created a wonderful comic “The Squid” specifically for the funding platform Kickstarter to help promote his new graphic novel project.

via Drawn!

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I Heart Guts has created a wonderful illustrated guide to The Good Ol’ Menstrual Cycle.

via WeLoveDatavis & The Daily What

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“Speechless” is a new site specific public art installation by Brian Goggin located in the new Lafayette Library and Learning Center in Lafayette, CA. Brian will be unveiling of the installation this Saturday, November 14th as part of the grand opening of the library.

Festivities begin at 9:30 am – all ages are encouraged to attend. The grand unveiling commences at 10 am after a short parade from the old library to the new, whereupon a show of fantastic wonder will awe the community at large.

More on Brian Goggin’s “Speechless” installation:

Set against the new Lafayette Library a giant wavering bronze stack of paper rises. Had one taken a page from every book in the library collection – stacking one on top of the other – a stack of paper equivalent in height to this sculpture would result. The towering sculpture winds and teeters reaching absurd, precarious proportions. Wind has caught the top pages blowing them across the outdoor plaza, up and through the stairway corridor. Some pages furl in mid air, flying above the walkways while others wrap around trellis posts, past the library walls. Each fluttering page is precisely etched with “drawings” created with layers of text and graphics from the library’s books. The pages glide through the walkways creating a visual flow inspired by the natural air currents streaming through architectural gullies and star and planet constellations.

The bronze pages allude to all pages ever printed. The etched pages use as their pallet imagery scanned directly from books drawing from all sections of the library’s book collection such as philosophy, literature, math, poetry, history, biography, science, and of course art. The dispersing pages fluttering out from the toppling stack is inspired by the library collection’s grand expansion in size and new knowledge platforms beyond books. The expansion is visually alluded to in this site-specific installation – the concurrent transformation of how we learn is captured by the dynamic, dreamlike flight of the bronze pages wafting gracefully through the air.

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Kinetic Steam Works Roll Out takes place this Saturday, November 14th where KSW will be rolling out their big steam powered toys at their new HQ in in West Oakland.

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guest post by Josh Ellingson

Statistically speaking, you are probably already aware of the “Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School” phenomenon. The caberet informed, rock ‘n roll figure drawing event is now in over fifty cities worldwide and gaining momentum frenetically. It’s so popular that the Los Angeles chapter has recently decided to take the show on the road. Dr. Sketchy’s Roadshow is currently traversing California, spreading glitter and pencil shavings from Sacramento to Alhambra.

The sketch-curious of San Francisco can get their Anti-Art School fix monthly at 111 Minna Gallery. Host Alice Stribling taps into the Bay Area’s wealth of unique performers and original characters for models unlike anyone you’ll find at the local art college. The friendly staff at 111 Minna keep the bar open and if you’re lucky, the model might perform a strip-tease at intermission. It’s easy to see how this thing catches on. The next Dr. Sketchy’s SF features punker/burlesque icon, Eva Von Slut. Here’s the info:

Tuesday, Nov. 24th 2009
7pm – 10pm
111 Minna Gallery,San Francisco CA
21+
$10 General admission
$7 students/teachers with ID
FREE for barflies, so bring your non-sketchy friends!

http://drsketchyssf.blogspot.com/

Visit founder Molly Crabapple’s home base at http://www.drsketchy.com to find out more. Here’s my Dr. Sketchy’s Twitter list for those inclined to follow a chapter near you: http://twitter.com/ellingson/drsketchys/

Big thanks to Alice Stribling for providing photos for this post. There are lots more photos and sketches at the Dr. Sketchy’s SF Flickr Group Pool.

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Yes, in San Francisco even dog poop can be appreciated as art, represented here in stencil form on a Valencia Street sidewalk.

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photo via Form & Reform

The Electrobite Olenoides is a wonderful metal trilobite vehicle that you can ride around on, build from an electric wheelchair . It was created for Burning Man 2009 by our friends Jon Sarriugarte and Kyrsten Mate of Form & Reform, the same guys who made the SS Alpha Fox and Golden Mean Snail Car.

The Electrobite is featured on latest episode of Boing Boing Video, which was shot in September during Dorkbot SF #47 at TCHO in San Francisco.

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For Halloween Sarah McPherson pixelated herself and went as “Low Resolution”.

via Make

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photo by Eric Testroete

Eric Testroete created an amazing papercraft self portrait as a Halloween costume, wearing his surreal big head over his real head.

It was kind of inspired by big-head mode seen in videogames. I really wanted to get the faceted geosphere look with wireframe.

Here’s Eric’s documentation of the project.

via Adam Savage

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The current issue of Make Magazine (Volume 20) has a great cover illustrated by Adam Koford featuring Adam Savage of MythBusters as an astronaut.

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photos by Todd Freeman

Printmakers Todd Freeman and Meg Perec of Freeman & Perec recently created “Sixty Foot Ghost”, a site specific art installation that recreates a 60′ giant squid. The project was created for ArtPrize 2009 and is currently on display at 47 Commerce SW in Grand Rapids, MI.

Large animals captivate like few other beings can. They are deified, hunted, consumed and catalogued. While our culture has seemingly amassed a working knowledge of all living species on the planet, one of the world’s giants has successfully eluded the scientific community for centuries. Save for a few partially decomposed specimens virtually nothing is known of Architeuthis dux, the Giant Squid. Architeuthis is a 60 foot ghost, moving unnoticed through deep and dark.

Our representation of the giant squid was conceived out of a need to see the animal for ourselves, beyond pale museum subjects or small renderings in books. At life size, the true scale of Architeuthis becomes clear, a massive, unfamiliar animal deserving of the same fascination and wonder owed to any whale, elephant or dinosaur. Our intent is to bring the myth into a gratifying real space, and give the viewer a chance to be confronted with one of the largest and most secretive animals to ever live.

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The Oatmeal has created an illustrated guide on “How To Use An Apostrophe”.

via Matthew Inman

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“Stabby The Narwhal” a “twisted” Dr. Seuss spoof by Jim Benton.

via The Daily What

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Doctor Popular made a comic illustrating The Most Amazing Halloween Costume Ever based on a reverse trick or treating story on Metafilter by np312.

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photos by Scott Beale

Here are a few photos from the first night of the Tom Kennedy Art Auction to benefit the Ripper Journey Foundation. On November 7th there will be a Rock Star Hat Party, followed by a Closing Night Party on November 12th.

Photo Gallery: Tom Kennedy Art Auction

Here are some more photos and video from Emily Duffy.

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photo by Because We Can

Because We Can created a really cool 3D Wikipedia Globe with removable puzzle pieces for the Wikimedia Foundation headquarters in San Francisco.

Here’s some other wonderful things that they have created for commercial and residential projects out of their custom Design-Build studio.

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