As beautiful as simple, All jQuery effects using the settings from the examples at jquery.com, one after another. Made by Sebastian Schmieg in 2012. See more;
All jQuery effects > http://sebastianschmieg.com/alljqueryeffects
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
All jQuery effects by Sebastian Schmieg
As beautiful as simple, All jQuery effects using the settings from the examples at jquery.com, one after another. Made by Sebastian Schmieg in 2012. See more;
All jQuery effects > http://sebastianschmieg.com/alljqueryeffects
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Rollin Leonard
Few days ago has taken place the closing of Trunks, Stems, & Heads a solo show by Rollin Leonard at Transfer Gallery where he presented some new great pieces. The photographic work of Rollin is highly focused on human bodies which frequently is his own body and portraits the source to be manipulated and distorted. This time Rollin has also used several models to continue the mesmerising animated and static work in which for some pieces he has translated pixels into cells of plexiglas by installing and distorting the bodies cell by cell, this also reflects how manual is his experimental work process, it doesn't matter if it's physical or digital Rollin animates and works everything manually creating somehow conscious glitches. See more;
"Trunks, Stems, & Heads is a new body of work from Rollin Leonard. The focus of his first solo exhibition is the human form – organs, limbs and torsos are strewn about, arranged into impossible creatures, disfigured through collision and installed as highly aestheticized, meticulously polished piles of digitally mutilated forms. The work is shiny and fleshy, and offers a new take on portraiture that captures the shifting perception of the physical self in our contemporary digital moment.
Human faces, bodies, and familiar objects are frequent subjects for the artist – he is interested in our innate ability to recognize the objects despite scrambling or distorting the image. A face, a subject with high visual elasticity, is especially resistant to being obscured or lost in pattern. Just as you see faces in wood grain, clouds, and shadows, your mind easily knits human form together even when fragmented.
The artist’s photographic practice serves as the basis for the work. After capturing his subjects at precise angles, Leonard manipulates their bodies into highly composed and calculated compositions of looped moving image, digital collage and plexiglass installation pieces." - Transfer Gallery
Yes / No, 2013
animated loop, photographic video application
360° / 18 Lilia, 2013
36 second Yes / No, 2013, animated loop, photographic video
Cell Body (Panty), (Stocking) and (Joe) 2013
730 1 by 1, 702 1 by 1 and 838 1 by 1 inch pieces respectively
c-print face-mounted to 1/2 inch cell-cast Plexiglas
Installation view at Transfer Gallery_
Crash Kiss (Guthrie & Ellis), 2013
Crash Kiss (Jorge & Giselle), 2013
Arm Ball (Rollin), 2013
Arm Ball (Lilia), 2013
Cell Face (Rollin), 2013
41 2 by 2 inch pieces, c-print face-mounted to 1/2 inch cell-cast Plexiglas
Belly Chain on a Donut- Shaped Universe, 2013
tile texture for the Donuts_
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Andreas Nicolas Fischer
Here is a big update about Andreas Nicolas Fischer's work, which presents beautiful organic CGI made using several generative tools, specifically for the project into the post called Brute Forced Method he used a python script within Blender3d creating an endless series of 3d still-life compositions, which it then automatically publishes on his tumblr http://x.anf.nu.
Some of these weird viscous creatures and reflective textures remind me of the living ones created by Yoichiro Kawaguchi back in the late 80's, which were created thanks to his well known technique GROWTH Model, a model based on growth algorithm, and who has been highly inspired by sea creatures. See more;
Skynet, 2012
"Skynet is a non linear animation about a global networked consciousness. It plays with the idea how a single entity could the perceive the world – from a satellite to a microscopic view.
Full sensory awareness encompassing the entire world is rolled into one artificial organism communicating with itself in realtime."
Engineered Viral Strain, 2012 - II, 2013
Brute Force Method, 2013
"There are no efficient algorithms for many computer science problems. The simplest approach is to try all possible (or many) solutions until the desired outcome is reached. This is called Brute Force Method. I created a Python script that creates arrangements of intersecting digital sculptures in front of a “frozen” cloth simulation, similar to a traditional still life, but with no physical constraints. The HDR image texture used to create the reflections on the genometry was taken at my studio, placing the virtual setup in the real world."
Brute Force Approach [Studies], 2013
Arrangement of digital sculptures in front of a “frozen” cloth simulation.
Brute Force Approach II, 2013
Friday, November 8, 2013
Tempting Photo Attachments Lead to Fake AV
One of today's largest malicious spam campaigns continued an occasional theme we've been seeing for a few weeks. A subject line, followed by a single "emoticon" email, with an attachment that promises to be a picture. 
The emails had a wide variety of subjects and were coming in fast and furious around 4:00 this morning:
A query in the Malcovery Spam Data Mine shows the variety of subjects used in the campaign:
count | subjectThe campaign was further confused by the fact that every email attachment had a unique MD5 hash (one of the tricks we use to cluster emails is to look for them to have the same attachment).
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90 | Someone showed me your picture
86 | I love your picture!
85 | This is the funniest picture ever!
85 | What you think of this picture?
84 | You look so beautiful on this picture
80 | Tell me what you think of this picture
78 | You should take a look at this picture
78 | Take a look at my new picture please
75 | Is this you??
69 | Someone told me it's your picture
66 | Should I upload this picture on facebook?
62 | Picture of you??
50 | Your friends won't be happy about that
48 | My private picture only for you
47 | Private
46 | Your picture is all over the web now
44 | Keep it secret
43 | Keep it private
43 | Could you explain please?
43 | Do you think I'm attractive?
41 | Photo of you naked??
40 | Do you think I'm 'pretty or ugly?
40 | My private photo for you
39 | Do you think she is hot?
37 | Hey check out this picture
37 | I just can't belive this
35 | You look terrible on this photo
35 | I found this picture of you
35 | My private picture
35 | To show how much I love you
35 | Please rate my picture
35 | Your wife won't be happy about that
34 | How do you think she looks?
34 | Please tell me this is your photo
33 | Shame on you
31 | Your opinion needed
30 | Check out my photo but keep it private
26 | I love you so much please check my photo
22 | My private photo
11 | What you think about my halloween costume
7 | Your wife wont like this picture
7 | Happy Halloween
6 | Check this out!!
6 | Best halloween costume
6 | Your wife will be shoked
6 | Worst picture ever!
5 | Private picture of you?
5 | Biggest pumpkin lol
5 | Halloween costume
4 | You are fucking ugly
4 | Biggest fail of the month
4 | Best halloween costume ever
4 | You are so sexy
3 | Are you crazy??
3 | Naked picture of you
3 | You like my halloween costume??
3 | WTF?
3 | Busted you naked
3 | WOW WTF is this???
2 | Please explain??
2 | Let me know if this is really your picture
2 | Check out my halloween costume
2 | Seen this shit before??
2 | LOL
1 | Spam: My private photo
1 | Can't belive this!
(66 rows)
I won't go into the technical details of how it works, but the ZIP file contained an SCR file -- an old filetype that used to be a common way for people to share "Screen Saver" files. Trying to "view" the Image file from inside the .ZIP actually results in the .SCR file being executed, and downloading and executing the file "soft.exe" from the website at 91.216.163.208 as you can see from this code-dump of the SCR file.
The file failed to run in our default analysis Sandbox so we had to break out the Raw Iron ... since the malware was being so paranoid, I used a camera to document what came next rather than taking screenshots in the program.
The Fake AV was called "AntiVirus Security Pro" and popped up in the typical fashion to run a "Full Scan" of my system:
While it was running a pulled a running process name and found that the malware had copied itself to my "Local Settings\Temp" directory and was running from there with the name "dnn9d9n39dn93nd39b9d393d3bdb.exe" (as you can see in the CMD window behind the scan above.) That file was 569,344 bytes in size.
After the scan completed, I went ahead and told it to Repair All of the threats it had found.
Unfortunately, it failed to repair some of the infections, because I was running a "limited version" of Antivirus Security Pro.
But there is HOPE! Even though "Not all threats have been eliminated." I could "Buy Full Edition" to fix the remaining 19 threats! What a relief!
When I chose not to do that right away, the Fake AV popped up occasional helpful HINTs that said "We strongly recommend activating full edition of your antivirus software for repairing threats."
Pretty darn expensive Fake AV! To the authors - please note that you are more likely to get the $99.99 for a LIFETIME license as opposed to six months. Nobody is going to pay $59.99 for a 30 days license, but we also aren't going to pay $99.99 for only 6 months! Maybe you could try 1 year, 2 year, 5 year?
Sadly, my credit card didn't clear. I'm shocked. I tried really hard to make up a valid card number! The good news is that the "Antivirus Tech Support" link on my desktop would take me back to the shop anytime I wanted to try again by visiting "techprotectorltd.com":
Fake AV IS A CRIME! REPORT IT!
Were you a victim of this scam? Whether you paid for the Fake AV or not, I would strongly encourage you to report your experience to the Internet Crime and Complaint Center by visiting: IC3.gov and using the "File a Complaint" button!
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Roland Schimmel
"Over the last two decades, Dutch artist Roland Schimmel has produced a compelling oeuvre of abstract paintings to which digital animations have been added more recently (these films are “illustrated” by music of composer David Lopato). What the works have in common is the exploration of sensorial frontiers. the paintings and animations depict optical structures or fields, in which the soft contours of shimmering haloes and hard edges of black holes pop up and meet. Observing the encounter of these contrasting forms evokes physical sensations of expansion and contraction reminiscent of op art’s push and pull effects." - Minus Space. See more;
Blind Spot I, 2004
Blind Spot II, 2004
Blind Spot III, 2004
Acrylic paintings on canvas
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
The Wrong - New Digital Art Biennale
Protey Temen
Finally last friday first November was launched a huge event on the Internet, an online art biennale called The Wrong including 30 "pavilions" and more than 300 artists. It has been created by David Quiles Guilló who previously has made other great projects such as ROJO and physical events like NOVA Festival.
The 30 pavilions have been curated by different artists who have selected the participants and designed their own website to showcase the pieces, below into the post there are listed all the active pavilions so far, I recommend to take it easy, you will need more beer in your fridge for sure, there is so much great stuff presented in this online biennale using different digital formats.
I haven't finished yet to see all the works properly but I like the variety in general, also to know about new names and young artists and to see fresh and new work from people I admire. Regarding to the pavilions I like different qualities from each of them such as the curation, the design, aesthetic, presentation, the interaction and functionality with the environment, the social connection, feedback with visitors.
I haven't finished yet to see all the works properly but I like the variety in general, also to know about new names and young artists and to see fresh and new work from people I admire. Regarding to the pavilions I like different qualities from each of them such as the curation, the design, aesthetic, presentation, the interaction and functionality with the environment, the social connection, feedback with visitors.
The online biennale will be open till 31 December of this year, during this time it will be quite active and featuring new pavilions, don't miss anything by following all the the feedback of on its fb page here. There is also an unlimited pavilion called Homeostasis Lab which displays a selection of artwork submissions of artists and general public interested in participating in the event, another pavilions give this option too.
The Wrong has recruited several art spaces in cities around the world (listed below) as The Wrong Embassies, a temporary AFK project, where the physicalexperience of the digital biennale will take place with live performances, workshops and exhibitions. See more;
The Wrong Online Pavilions
And one day, boom: the pavilion of exploded reality!
And one day, boom: the pavilion of exploded reality!
by Chiara Passa
Beyond Folklore, Olia's Chapel
by Helena Acosta
Caóticamente Random
by Johann Velit
Flesh and Structure: The Biopolitical Commons
by Erik H Rzepka
Swimmingpool Pirahnas
by Ellectra Radikal & Systaime Alias Michaël Borras
Wilderness of Mirrors
by Max Hattler
Wonder Cabinet of the Big Electric Cat
by Play Damage
Young Internet Based Artists
by Anthony Antonellis
The Wrong Embassies
Transfer in Brooklyn, Smart Objects in Los Angeles, Paradise Hill in Melbourne, Mutuo in Barcelona, Plutón in Valencia, TAL in Rio de Janeiro, Espacio Tumba in Buenos Aires, Hit The Dirt in Santiago de Chile, NNM Studio in Lima, LabLT in Montevideo, Un Lugar in Quito, Áncora in Valparaiso.
The Wrong
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