visual arts
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Webtoon Walks Back ‘Side-Hustle’ Ad Campaign After Online Fury
Yesterday, Webtoon issued an apology after a New York City ad campaign went viral on Twitter. Kennedy Homan, a Webtoon author herself, took a photo of an ad on a subway platform that read “Comics are literature’s fun side-hustle” next to images from the Webtoon Lore Olympus, the most popular comic on Webtoon with over…
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7 Outrageous NFT Heists
NFTs were supposed to be a wonderful thing: helping artists maintain control over their own work. I’m not against that at all. But as interest in NFTs has seemingly boomed and busted in the recent years, so too has whatever integrity the world of NFTs had. Forgery and counterfeit pieces are running amok, and artists…
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This 3D-Printed 35mm Movie Camera Is an Absolute Marvel of DIY Design and Engineering
There are many reasons even big-budget movie and TV productions have switched to using digital cameras — the most obvious being that shooting on film is expensive. It’s why amateur filmmakers rarely opt for the 35mm cameras that dominated Hollywood for years, but Yuta Ikeya found a way to make them more affordable by designing and…
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At $32,623, Would You Add This 1923 Ford Hot Rod to Your Bucket List?
Today’s Nice Price or No Dice Bucket T represents one of the few car models to be lionized in song, by Jan & Dean no less! Let’s see if this tidy but wild hot rod has a price that might be music to your ears.