#art
40 items tagged art.
- Anna Hook — Artwork and writings by Anna Hook — greeting cards, ink drawings, and short essays. My mother's work, kept here so it stays reachable.
- Annabella Cards — Greeting cards featuring butterflies, birds, pandas, and nature themes — printed and, for small orders, hand-coloured.
- The Birds Collection — Elegant bird illustrations in various styles.
- Butterfly Collection — Colourful butterfly designs, hand-coloured for small orders.
- Panda Card — Black and white panda illustration, popular when the Panda visited Calgary from China.
- Penguin Collection — Charming penguin illustrations.
- Save The Tiger — An oil-painting postcard to raise awareness about the plight of the tiger.
- The Chess Game — Copyright Anna Hook, 1978. An intricate chess-themed ink illustration.
- The Jewels — Copyright Anna Hook, 1990. A detailed ink drawing.
- Metamorphosis — Copyright Anna Hook, 1988. An evolution-themed work.
- Christmas Card — A holiday card with decorations in bright colours.
- Anti-Fur Drawings — Ink drawings made in support of banning the use of furs.
- Anti-Fur Drawing I — Ink drawing advocating against the fur trade.
- Anti-Fur Drawing II — A powerful illustration showing the reality of the fur trade.
- Two for the Road — Anti-fur advocacy art.
- The Fur Is For… — A thought-provoking illustration.
- Anti-Fur Drawing V — A powerful anti-fur message through art.
- The Discreet — Buñuel and Surrealism — On Buñuel's comedy of a dinner that never quite happens.
- Anna Hook — Bianca — A short film by Anna, in her own hand — the ink drawings she is known for, set moving.
- On Media, Games and Attention — Written while a games developer in San Francisco — on media, play and where attention goes.
- LEGO: Construction Set — The construction set as a way of thinking about software and systems.
- The Case for Mountain Biking on Mars — The speculative piece — recovered in full from the archive.
- A Poem by Todd Kelsey — Todd Kelsey wrote this for us, touched by the idea we were working on.
- Poetry — Poets I was reading in 1996 — Yvonne Trainer, Karen Connelly, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Eliot — with notes on why.
- A Still Life with Midjourney — Looking at my mother Anna's creative and artistic practice, up until her death — and at what the new image machines do to that lineage.
- Principles of Art, Math and NFTs — How artists are using public ledgers as an extension of their practice.
- Visual Design Becomes Language — Visual design tools are changing how we work, how we communicate, and who we are.
- Flowers, Fruit and Fishes — Parameter space explorations of the world — three interactive parametric visualisers celebrating natural forms that resist entropy.
- Ethereal Forest — Where the forest and the network meet — a community I keep coming back to.
- Aaron Hibell — Music for wide landscapes and long drives. On heavy rotation.
- Aridity Lines — TBA21 Academy — A sound collection I return to; oceanic, dry, and strange.
- Writing-on-Stone — Hoodoos on the Milk River and the largest concentration of rock art on the North American plains.
- Game credits — Credited game work, catalogued by MobyGames.
- Zero Theorem — A 3D visual communication / performance system — puppetry and real-time worlds.
- Lightsuit — Wearable LED fashion, hand-built for Burning Man 2011 — 300 addressable lights, an Arduino, and a lot of sewing.
- Blox — Tell stories in 3D by editing an ordinary text file — objects, relationships, and what they do over time, played back as an interactive 3D experience.
- Videos — Clips from the YouTube channel — experiments, trails, talks and family footage. Each page here is a stub; the video plays on YouTube.
- My Friend's Noise Rig — A friend showing off a modular noise setup.
- Oakland Fence — Animation Sequences — Testing animation sequences for the Oakland Fence project.
- She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not — With sound.