Three sites lead by the People

DRAWBALL

http://www.drawball.com/

Drawball.com, as the name implies, is a Flash site where you draw freehand inside a giant ball. Drawball consists of two balls, one for more serious, legitimate drawing, and another for vandalism. All the art on drawball is generated by the users and anything can be drawn or drawn over so there will always be new content generated. Drawball is free for anyone to use and you don’t need to download any software (except maybe flash), no sign up is required there is also a forum where you can post/show off the work users have done and claim credit for it.

Screenshot of Drawball from a few months ago.




Sketch Swap

http://www.sketchswap.com/

Sketchswap.com is a site that allows users to draw something on screen then submit it to sketchswap & receive another a picture another user has drawn. Users can draw as little or as much as they want to recive a picture. When reciveing a picture it is drawn in a nice animation of how the user drew it. The site on whole is very easy to use as there is only one page & a large white box to draw in using the mouse. There is not really much of a user community to go with the website, a couple of google searches led me to articles but no community. People again can draw win anonymity.

Sketch i recieved




YTMND

http://ytmnd.com/

Your The Man Now Dog is a is an online community centered on the creation of hosted web pages, users can sign up and submit there designs and YTMND will host them. Most of YTMND consists of Pictures & music added together making a reference too popular culture or inside jokes. Most of the content which is uploaded on to YTMND is from all over the internet and recycled into even more crap. YTMND is a good example of user lead websites beacuse it allows user freedom to design whatever they want and if its popular becomes a "fad". The site is also very easy to navigate and with a nice search tool.

Example of YTMND's

Boris Vs the germans

Internet

The site which started it all.

Colour and The Intangible Exhibition at Djanogly Art Gallery, Lakeside

So Sometime last week, Friday I think went on a cool trip to the Colour and The Intangible Exhibition at Djanogly Art Gallery, Lakeside. Got a few pictures 007 style (they didn't like people taking pictures) so I'm going to write about one picture which I could get a decent picture of, which is the one which looks like its of a old BT advert...

So what was the Artist thinking about when he/she Designed the spinning vortex of colour? Well one possibility is that they had seen a BT commercial from a while back which looks very similar to the Artists work, so that could be one of the things which influenced them. The Artist was trying to make the colours stand out from the background making it a more striking image, attracting the viewer into the picture. The artist has initially only used the 3 primary colours and as the specks of light cross then you see the other colours made by mixing of 2 primary colours. If you were to interpret the image I think a good way to describe it would be to say that if you have these these things were are fine by themselves but then bring them together and mix them up to get something new and maybe even better.