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These 3 people make art for shows like Critical Role and Dimension 20. Here's how to get a nerdworld dream job too.

Sun, 12/01/2024 - 18:42

Tech Insider : Business, Style

Art from Hannah Friederichs, for Critical Role. The image depicts the characters of CR's campaign 3 party, Bells Hells, on an airship. — Hannah Friederichs has made art for Critical Role's show, bringing the cast's Campaign 3 characters to life. She and other artists sat down with BI to talk about how they got the gig.
Hannah Friederichs

Careers, Entertainment, critical-role, dimension-20, art

Tron Crypto Founder Spends $6 Million on a Banana and Says He Plans to Eat It

Thu, 11/21/2024 - 15:05

Gizmodo

Cryptocurrencies, art

Why professional colored pencils are so expensive

Mon, 11/11/2024 - 14:56

Tech Insider

Student-grade colored pencils and professional-grade ones vary drastically not only in their price but how they're made. A set of 120 Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils costs $350, 14 times as much as a similar box of Crayola colored pencils. And some brands price their sets at over $550.

Retail, Video, art, expensive, Luxury, colored-pencils, professional-art

First Painting Created by Humanoid Robot and Sold for Auction Clears Over $1 Million

Sun, 11/10/2024 - 13:00

Gizmodo

Artificial Intelligence, Ai-Da, art, Robots

An artist used his $500 monthly basic income to build his hip hop career: 'It's not feasible to create art in a place of distress.'

Sun, 10/13/2024 - 05:02

Tech Insider : Economy, Economy

Tarli, a hip hop artist in St. Paul, poses in a black top and gold necklace — Tarli, 36, is a participant in Minnesota's guaranteed basic income program for artists.
Photo Courtesy of Tom Smouse

economy, finance, economy, finance, basic-income, UBI, income-inequality

How descendants of Taj Mahal artisans are keeping marble inlay work alive

Fri, 10/11/2024 - 15:28

Tech Insider : Travel

Parchin kari, or pietra dura in Italian, is the art of marble inlay, which involves carving out marble slabs and inserting precious and semiprecious stones to create elaborate floral and geometric patterns.