January 26, 2008

Geek Art(ifacts)

Via Eszter’s Blog, a link to the wonderful and funny Understanding art for geeks - a photoset on Flickr.

You need to know some HTML and spend too much time online to get all the jokes, but even without many will be funny. Half a dozen made me laugh out loud and most made me smile. (Warning: One or two were in bad taste.)

Here’s a sample, a Wikipediaficiation of Cristiano Banti’s, Galileo facing the Roman Inquisition (1857):


Posted by Michael : January 26, 2008 12:33 PM | Kultcha | TechnoLinks
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Since you picked this particular image to showcase, I can't help but mention this project concerning "citation needed" stickers.:-)

Posted by: eszter at January 26, 2008 01:37 PM
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