Cloudform » retro http://www.cloudform.com Bill Wright's Page Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:42:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Organic Patterned Craftiness in 2008 http://www.cloudform.com/2008/07/08/organic-psychedelic-craftiness-in-2008/ http://www.cloudform.com/2008/07/08/organic-psychedelic-craftiness-in-2008/#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:38:07 +0000 Bill http://www.cloudform.com/?p=91 ...]]> So, 30-40 years after the severe psychedelic patterns and colors of mod went out of style, and 30 years after the dense shag carpets and wood paneling of the 70′s, I’ve seen some great stuff that combines the feel of the two recently.  Damien Hirst from 2007:

If you can’t tell, those are (real) butterflies.  Onto the less sadistic, macramé from 2008:

As I mentioned about gradients recently, I like that dense patterns/textures are around.  It’d be pointless for these higher resolution screens to exist if there wasn’t more information-per-square-inch to have them display.  Speaking of high resolution displays….this is what 10 million pixels looks like:

Coming to a living room near you in about 10 years.

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Doesn’t it look like dude is about to punch you in the face with flavor?

Link to gallery at Sun Sentinel.

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