Chicken Pics
Erika’s chickens (featuring a bonus Kristina, who is not a chicken).
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Eggs - Hicks.design
Most days I cook eggs 🍳 and then paint them 🖌. These are those eggs.
Lovely!
But, wait …what’s this?
My favourite condiment with fried eggs is marmite mayo (4 parts mayonnaise to 1 part Marmite).
Okay, now I think this officially qualifies as outsider art.
Is Me Cavechild Getting Too Much Pictogram-Time? - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
Sometimes me think me should just tear bull pictogram down. Can bull pictogram really be worth it? Sure, pictogram help advance caveculture and foster writing system. But what good that stuff if whole cave society is just bunch of brainwashed bull-pictogram-watchers? You know what Aiden say yesterday? When he grow up, he want be bull-pictogram-painter! That not real job! Real job hunter! Or at least gatherer! How many bull-pictogram-painters world need?
Paint Holding - reducing the flash of white on same-origin navigations | Web | Google Developers
This is an excellent UX improvement in Chrome. For sites like The Session, where page loads are blazingly fast, this really makes them feel like single page apps.
Our goal with this work was for navigations in Chrome between two pages that are of the same origin to be seamless and thus deliver a fast default navigation experience with no flashes of white/solid-color background between old and new content.
This is exactly the kind of area where browsers can innovate and compete on the UX of the browser itself, rather than trying to compete on proprietary additions to what’s being rendered.
I commissioned an oil painting of Barbra Streisand’s cloned dogs
There’s something deliciously appropriate about using a painting cloning service to clone a photograph of some cloned dogs.
“Did you just order an oil painting of Barbra Streisand’s dogs?” is the most Simon and Natalie thing ever.
Although this comes close:
Inside a super fast CSS engine: Quantum CSS (aka Stylo) ★ Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
Lin gives a deep dive into Firefox’s new CSS engine specifically, but this is also an excellent primer on how browsers handle CSS in general: parsing, styling, layout, painting, compositing, and rendering.
Fluid Paint
The texture here is shockingly realistic.
The Improbable, Bold History of Space Concept Art – How We Get To Next
A brief history of space concept art—Norman Rockwell, Chesney Bonestell, Robert McCall, Pat Rawlings, David Meltzer …all the classics.
CSS Containment Module Level 3
A way of declaring the scope of an element’s layout and paint styles, which browsers can then use as a hint to optimise performance. It’s already shipping in Chrome and Opera.
Meet the Father of Modern Space Art | Atlas Obscura
A profile of Chesley Bonestell. It’s amazing to think how much of his work was produced before we had even left this planet.
Classic Programmer Paintings
Painters and Hackers: nothing in common whatsoever, but this are classical painters depictions of software engineering.
Troubleshooting rendering performance issues - YouTube
Harry packs a lot of great tips and tricks into one short video about performance troubleshooting. It’s also a great lesson in unlocking some handy features in Chrome’s developer tools.
Great stuff!
A look at detecting, pinpointing, measuring, and fixing rendering performance issues.
Splatter
Unleash your inner Jackson Pollock.
Netherlandish Proverbs – Pieter Bruegel the Elder – An Analog Project
A lovely Yuletide present from Brian and co.—an exploration of the proverbs embodied in Bruegel’s painting.
Simon Stålenhag Art Gallery
Scenes from a future Sweden.
astronautdinosaur.com
Ballardian astronaut paintings by Scott Listfield.
concept ships
An online animated spaceship and experimental aircraft art magazine. Gorgeous.
Heavy Artillery Graffiti
These are the guys that painted the walls across from the Clearleft office. Every day, at least 10 people take pictures of their work.
frameboX - Salad
Giger's alien made of vegetables, Arcimboldo style.
Saturday in the Park with Friends Painting Seurat on the Rock River - a photoset on Flickr
I think Seurat would have liked the fact that all these pictures are made up of pixels. Digital pointillism.