Neowin News Feed for: Art

Quora's Poe AI platform adds StableDiffusionXL image creation bot

Paul Hill — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 08:42:01 +0000

Quora's AI platform Poe has added support for StableDiffusionXL, an AI bot that can create unique images based on user prompts. There are also custom bots using SDXL with more unique focuses. Read more...

Google Arts & Culture learning gateway now available

Paul Hill — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:58:01 +0000

Google has launched a learning gateway for its Arts & Culture content to help educators use the material to teach children that are currently learning online due to lockdown restrictions. Read more...

Save 80% off the Pencil Kings Ultimate Character Drawing & Design Course Bundle

News Staff — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 15:30:01 +0000

Learn from artists that have worked at the world's best studios: Marvel, DreamWorks, with basic to advanced courses on drawing, anatomy, painting & more. Save almost $150 off the cost of this course! Read more...

Google's Art Transfer lets you add famous art styles to pictures

Paul Hill — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 12:14:01 +0000

The Google Arts & Culture app will now let users apply famous art styles to the photos they take. Google worked with cultural institutions, such as the UK's National Gallery, to add different effects. Read more...

An artist is selling a laptop containing six of the world's most dangerous malware

Namerah Saud Fatmi — Sun, 26 May 2019 02:12:02 +0000

A piece of art called ‘The Persistence of Chaos' is being auctioned off by a contemporary artist in New York. The artwork is a laptop containing some of the most destructive viruses in existence. Read more...

Samsung's The Frame TV gets additional masterpieces thanks to new partnerships

Paul Hill — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 23:26:01 +0000

Samsung's Art Store, which is available on The Frame, has gained an additional 62 pieces of art from three different museums. Among those added include some well known pieces by Van Gogh. Read more...

Google rolls out app to see which piece of art you look like

Paul Hill — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 20:36:01 +0000

Google has updated its Arts & Culture app in order to introduce a new feature called Art Selfie. The new feature lets you snap a selfie then Google searches for artworks that look like you. Read more...

Mozilla announces $225,000 for projects examining AI's effects on society

Paul Hill — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 10:40:01 +0000

Mozilla has announced a new pot of cash that it intends to disperse among seven projects to help them highlight the potential downsides to artificial intelligence on society. It has pledged $225,000. Read more...

This Chinese driverless electric train, known as the the ART, is off the rails

Richard Tyr Blewitt — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 14:58:01 +0000

It's just a bus? or a tram? It's getting harder to tell. The Autonomous Rapid Rail Transit, doesn't use a normal track, it follows white lines on the road and will be in a Chinese city by 2018. Read more...

Images of Windows 10 box art make their way to the internet

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 17:32:01 +0000

Windows 10, Microsoft's highly anticipated operating system, is going to be released this month, and newly revealed images show how the box art design of the OS might look like. Read more...

NeoBytes :) Drone painter makes a portrait of Google Chairman Eric Schmidt out of human poop

Justin Luna — Fri, 22 May 2015 14:40:01 +0000

An artist has taken the time to paint a portrait of the ex-CEO of Google Eric Schmidt. But he did not just use ordinary materials; he used human poop for it, then dubbed the portrait as "Eric Shit." Read more...

Microsoft's Cube is a Kinect powered party

Brad Sams — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 03:02:02 +0000

Every so often, we see Microsoft build projects that are not necessarily for sale but to show what can be done when barriers are knocked down; the Cube is an art project with a lot of cool technology. Read more...

Artist paints insanely realistic portrait of Morgan Freeman entirely on iPad [Update]

George Tinari — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 01:23:10 +0000

British artist Kyle Lambert is bringing his art to the iPad, or maybe bringing the iPad to his art. His latest creation is a highly realistic portrait of Morgan Freeman made entirely on the tablet. Read more...

Take a look at this creepy pixel sculpture created with Kinect

Nathan Liu — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 22:59:05 +0000

An artist has painstakingly recreated his daughter in a pixel sculpture, using an Xbox Kinect to scan her body. The extremely wide potential of the Kinect has once again been been highlighted. Read more...

Japanese man creates stunning art in Excel

Tim Schiesser — Sat, 25 May 2013 01:17:35 +0000

An elderly Japanese man has spent the last ten years of his life creating absolutely beautiful artwork in Microsoft Excel, saying that the spreadsheet tool is easy to use and perfectly capable. Read more...

Digital artist creates Instagram for Windows Phone concept

Anthony Tosie — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 15:12:07 +0000

A digital artist has released a concept of what Instagram could look like if it came to Microsoft's Windows Phone platform, featuring a Metro interface used in the smartphone operating system. Read more...

Digital artist proposes Xbox brand overhaul

Anthony Tosie — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:56:39 +0000

A digital artist has come up with his own interpretation of how branding for Microsoft's next gaming console should look, using a look reminiscent of Microsoft's own Metro design language. Read more...

Microsoft unveils Windows 8 box art, comes in 5 flavors

Brad Sams — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:14:13 +0000

Microsoft has not only announced today that pre-orders for Windows 8 are a go but also it is showing off the 5 different boxes that the retail packaging will be available in for purchase. Read more...

More Windows 8 box art revealed, "Pro Pack" spotted too

Brad Sams — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 16:36:57 +0000

Microsoft's box art has previously shown off but new images highlight more variants than we had seen in the past. The boxes will likely comes in dark and light editions with a pro pack spotted too. Read more...

Tim Burton turns to the crowd for new story

Matthew Jones — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 07:42:24 +0000

If you’ve ever had the desire to work with an Academy Award and Golden Globe-nominated director, producer, writer and artist, here's your chance. Tim Burton, the man behind films such as Sweeney Todd, Charlie and the... Read more...

New York University professor to implant camera in his head

Matthew Jones — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 02:23:56 +0000

For the next year, Wafaa Bilal plans to document the world from a different perspective - specifically, from the back of his head. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Iraqi assistant professor in the photography... Read more...

A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter

Brad Sams — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:00:27 +0000

Everyday we hear of odd items being sold on eBay but sometimes an odd item has the ability to alter the way we perceive ‘art’. A piece of art has been put up for... Read more...

Microsoft Store reveals official Windows 7 box art

Sam Symons — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 10:44:28 +0000

There has been a fair bit of debate about the final box art design for Windows 7; you may have seen earlier that CentrumXP revealed versions of it, which some were doubtful of, but now... Read more...