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2CELLOS (Sulic & Hauser) – Welcome to the Jungle (Guns n’ Roses Cover)
Let's end the week with a great reminder of what happens when creative ideas are juxtaposed and used as a foundation for something new.
Based on a true legend of the famous unsolved code. The film contains 16 hidden messages that hold clues to the characters' secrets. Eight are fairly easy requiring only a close eye. Six are moderately difficult using various encryption methods. Two are extremely difficult requiring a genius mind to decrypt. Follow the film http://www.facebook.com/thomasbealecipher More about the film, http://www.thomasbealecipher.com Distributed by Short of the Week, http://www.shortoftheweek.com
The Thomas Beale Cipher: A short film by Andrew Allen
Using pioneering animation techniques to create a look never seen on film before, this 10-minute award-winning film tells the true legend of history's most challenging cipher. Professor White, cryptographer extraordinaire, is on the trail of the notoriously uncrackable Thomas Beale cipher—a century-old riddle hiding the location of a fortune in gold that has tormented its pursuers since inception. But White is not alone—shadowy forces are tight on his tail.
The film contains 16 hidden messages that hold clues to the characters' secrets. Eight are fairly easy and require only a close eye. Six are moderately difficult using various encryption methods. Two are extremely difficult and will require a genius mind to decrypt.
A New High Score for Video Games? NEA Declares Them Art
The National Endowment for the Arts has renamed and rebranded its Arts on Radio and Television grants, which will now be called Arts in Media grants: "We'll continue to support television and radio," NEA director of media arts Alyce Myatt explains in a video about the change, "but we're also going to fund content developed for the Web, for theatrical release, for mobile phones, content to be distributed via satellite, and even content for game platforms."
(via artinfo.com)
Smithsonian American Art Museum - The Art of Video Games
The Art of Video Games exhibition will explore the 40-year evolution of video games as an artistic medium, with a focus on striking visual effects, the creative use of new technologies, and the most influential artists and designers. This website offered participants a chance to vote for 80 games from a pool of 240 proposed choices in various categories, divided by era, game type and platform. Voting took place between February 14, 2011 and April 17, 2011. The exhibition will be on display at the museum from March 16, 2012 through September 30, 2012.
(via artofvideogames.org)
The world-famous cellist in a suit and a young man in a baseball cap make an unlikely pair. Until the music starts playing and the young man starts slowly moving, his body bending and collapsing to the mournful tune. A friend of Yo-Yo Ma’s, the cellist, caught Lil Buck dancing on YouTube and paired the two for a collaboration for an event to bring the arts back into schools.
Award-winning designer, Bierut is a partner in the New York design firm Pentagram. He was commissioned by the New World Symphony to create a new logo inspired by the Gehry-designed performance hall itself. Here he shares the path he took to create the logo—a process by which art of one sort influenced art of another.
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