Fun on Friday #59: Sketchfu

Sketchfu is an online painting package but with a twist... or even a few twists. For example, the creation process is captured and can be played back as an animation and people can collaborate on drawings.



Learn how to draw cartoons, comics, and anime at Sketchfu!

You don't have to leave the picture open for others to edit (like the one above). If you want, you can protect your work of art and simply let people watch the animation (like the one below).



Learn how to draw cartoons, comics, and anime at Sketchfu!

Leave comments on my pictures and, as always, if you create something yourself, share it back by letting us know here where it is.

Fun On Friday #47: But Is It Art?

Daughter Number 2 brought this one to my attention: We Feel Fine. The site's tagline is: "An exploration of human emotion, in six movements" - which is at least intriguing if not downright interesting.

Big Heart of Art - 1000 Visual Mashups
Originally uploaded by qthomasbower (away - ill)

I'll quote a fairly large chunk from the site's Mission statement, however, you really have to see it, and play with it, yourself to get an idea of what it is all about:

Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling". When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the "feeling" expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.)...

The result is a database of several million human feelings, increasing by 15,000 - 20,000 new feelings per day. Using a series of playful interfaces, the feelings can be searched and sorted across a number of demographic slices, offering responses to specific questions...

If you haven't done so already, go to the We Feel Fine site, open it, and explore!

Fascinating and mesmerising... but is it art? I think probably yes. What do you think?