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Apple unveils new 2018 iPad Pro, MacBook Air, Mac Mini, and Apple Pencil

31 Oct

Today, Apple announced updated MacBook Air, iPad Pro, Mac Mini, and Apple Pencil models at its event in Brooklyn, New York. Both the iPad Pro and the MacBook Air received considerable design changes, including the addition of Touch ID to the latest MacBook Air model and an elimination of the home button from the new 11″ and 12.9″ iPad Pros. This follows last month’s iPhone event.

The 2018 iPad Pro swaps Touch ID for Face ID, the face-scanning security technology first introduced with the iPhone X. Both the 11″ and 12.9″ 2018 iPad Pro models feature an all-screen design with Liquid Retina displays, rounded corners, flat edges, and a 5.9mm thickness, making them the thinnest iPads to date.

The new iPad Pro features Apple’s A12X Bionic chip with four performance cores and four efficiency cores, as well as a new performance controller that Apple says allows all eight cores to be used at once. This is joined by Apple’s own seven core GPU, which the company claims offers “console-quality graphics.” As rumored, Apple has replaced the Lightning connector with USB-C.

Apple is offering the new 2018 iPad Pro tablets in space gray and silver with 64GB, 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB configurations; both WiFi-only and WiFi+cellular options are available. Prices start at $ 799 USD for the 11″ model and $ 999 USD for the 12.9″ model.

Full details on the new iPads are available here.

The two new iPad Pro tablets are joined by an updated Apple Pencil, the stylus that originally launched as an iPad Pro exclusive. The new Pencil model charges wirelessly and attaches magnetically to the iPad Pro’s edge. This eliminates the highly criticized Lightning connector found on the bottom of the original Apple Pencil. The updated model likewise packs a touch sensor that can detect taps, which Apple describes as a new way to interact with apps.

Joining the new iPad Pro models is the fabled MacBook Air update, which brings Touch ID to the Apple laptop, as well as a 13″ Retina display, faster SSD options, a Force Touch trackpad, an Apple T2 Security Chip, Thunderbolt 3, and wide stereo audio. Other features include a FaceTime HD camera, the ability to display 48% more color than the previous Air generation, an 8th-generation Intel Core i5 processor and Intel UHD Graphics, up to 13 hours of battery life, and a new “wedge-shaped” design.

Apple is offering the 2018 MacBook Air starting at $ 1,199 USD. More information on the laptop can be found here.

Joining the MacBook Air is a new Mac Mini with quad-core and six-core processor options, up to 64GB of RAM, the Apple T2 Security Chip, Thunderbolt 3 ports, and what Apple says is five times faster performance than the previous model. The updated model boasts 10Gb Ethernet, all-flash storage in capacities up to 2TB, HEVC video transcoding up to 30 times faster than before, and an enclosure that’s the same size as the previous model.

Apple says it used entirely recycled aluminum for the enclosure and increased its use of post-consumer recycled plastic for parts. The company claims these two things combined reduce the Mac Mini’s carbon footprint by almost 50%.

The 2018 Mac Mini is available from Apple now starting at $ 799 USD. More information on the model can be found here.

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Apple’s 2018 iPad 9.7″ is the first entry-level model with Pencil support

29 Mar

During its event on March 27, Apple introduced its new sixth-generation iPad, a 9.7″ model with a starting price of $ 329. The new iPad is the first non-Pro model to support Apple Pencil, the maker’s own stylus. Despite its low price, the new iPad features a Retina display A10 Fusion chip, and support for augmented reality experiences.

This is the first entry-level iPad to support the $ 99 Apple Pencil, a stylus that makes it possible to write, draw and edit images. Key to its high usability is palm rejection technology, which prevents the iPad from registering touches from the user’s hand while they’re using Pencil. The stylus offers low latency with both pressure and tilt support.

Pencil aside, the 6th-gen iPad 9.7 is powered by an A10 Fusion chip with desktop-class 64-bit architecture, offering 50% faster graphics and 40% fast CPU performance over the previous model. Apple explains that the new hardware is capable of handling “graphics-intensive apps,” including photo editors.

The iPad runs iOS 11, the latest version of iOS that brings major updates to Apple’s mobile operating system. As with the iPad Pro devices, the new iPad features iOS 11’s Dock, which is similar to the dock found on macOS. Other 6th-gen iPad 9.7 features include an aluminum unibody construction, support for Apple SIM, advanced sensors array for motion tracking and AR apps and both front- and rear-facing cameras.

Apple is offering its new iPad in Silver, Space Grey and Gold color options with 32GB (starting at $ 329) and 128GB (starting at $ 429) of storage. Apple Pencil is sold separately. Apple provides a comparison chart helping potential buyers contrast the new iPad’s features with existing iPad models.

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Art of Deception: Pencil Drawings Look Like Colorful 3D Splashes of Paint

01 Oct

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Seeming to rise up off the canvass, a viewer would be impressed to discover these swaths of paint to be two-dimensional in nature, but then further shocked to realize the material isn’t paint at all but pencil.

Australian artist Cj Hendry has an eye for hyper-realism, but in this series: instead of using it to draft convincing landscapes or portraits has turned to emulating oil paint.

Layers of carefully applied pencil slowly add depth and dimension to the flat surface, capturing the lush appearance of semi-liquid paints. The effect is so convincing the artist often includes a hand and pencil in photographs of the work to highlight the fact that what is being seen is both two-dimensional and drawn with pencils.

It is a dramatic shift from previous work by Hendry done in black and white. And going to color didn’t mean just picking one per piece, either — each of these colorful works employs a number of different colors, which is not at all obvious at a glance.

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Pencil Art: 50+ Sculptures Explore the Hidden Beauty of This Utilitarian Object

04 Sep

[ By SA Rogers in Art & Sculpture & Craft. ]

A pencil is usually a tool, but what happens when artists subvert its common usage, transforming it into a medium for sculpting instead? Extraordinary sculpting skills paired with a steady hand and a magnifying glass make it possible to carve amazingly tiny figures out of the pencil’s lead. Some artists see flowers or portraits in cast-off pencil shavings, or glue masses of the writing instruments together to sculpt and sand them into new forms punctuated by the graphite or colored pigments inside each pencil’s core.

Pencil Lead Carvings by Salavat Fidai

HBO Asia recently commissioned an incredible set of Game of Thrones-themed pencil lead carvings from Russian artist Salavat Fidai, including the sigils of each House, a White Walker, the dragons and the Iron Throne. It takes Fidai about 6 to 12 hours to sculpt each one using a craft knife, a magnifying glass and a microscope. The artist says the most challenging piece in the collection was the throne, which took over three weeks to perfect. Of course, the Game of Thrones pieces are just the latest works from Fidai, who has also carved tiny architecture, superheroes and other fictional characters, and much more.

Vases Made of Pencils by Studio Markunpoika

Hundreds of pencils are glued together into a solid mass and then carved on a machine lathe to create vases and other decorative objects, revealing the insides of the pencils. Studio Markunpoika describes their process: “‘Amalgamated’ is a collection which explores the relationship of a mass produced ‘tool’ and its individual purpose. The beauty of the pencil as an object seems to go unnoticed if utilized only for their primary purpose. ‘Amalgamated’ is a visual and tactile investigation using pencils as a raw material. This holistic principle has been the fundament for creating this set of vases; let the pencils become a thing themselves.”

Pencil Lead Carvings by Dalton Ghetti

The most impressive works by Dalton Ghetti are undoubtedly those which turn single pencil leads into chains. You can’t help but stare at each one for a while, wondering how he managed to pull them off. The fact that the artist has been refining his process since childhood might tell you a thing or two about how he’s able to pull pieces like these off – or that some of his pieces can take months or even years to complete. He also carves his tiny sculptures without the aid of a microscope or magnifying glass, using sewing needles and razor blades.

Pencil Sculptures by Jennifer Maestre

The colorful bristling creatures of Jennifer Maestre seem to have come from the depths of the sea, their appendages recalling the natural shapes of urchins, anemones, coral, octopi and jellyfish. The artist uses colored pencils as a medium for her unusual sculptures. “The spines of the urchin, so dangerous yet beautiful, serve as an explicit warning against contact. The alluring texture of the spines draws the touch in spite of the possible consequences. The tension unveiled, we feel push and pull, desire and repulsion. The sections of pencils present aspects of sharp and smooth for two very different textural and aesthetic experiences. Paradox and surprise are integral in my choice of materials.”

Pencil Lead Carvings by Cindy Chinn

Cindy Chinn takes advantage of the length of graphite contained within a pencil, tunnel-like inside the wood, and translates it into lines of marching elephants or trains. Her ‘Elephant Walk’ series was commissioned by the California-based Epiphany Elephant Museum. Of the train piece, Chinn says “This piece was designed using straight lead pieces for the rails, with the tiny carved train placed and securely glued on top of the rails. The train engine is only 3/16” of an inch tall. The pencil is 5-5/8” long and mounted in a wood shadowbox frame as shown in the photos.”

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Pencil + Sharpener: Redesign Solves 3 Classic Drawing Tool Problems

27 Jun

[ By WebUrbanist in Design & Products & Packaging. ]

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Pencils require sharpening, run out of eraser and turn into unusable stubs as they near the end of their lifespan, but this clever gadget aims to change all of that, solving all three issues at once.

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Even in today’s digital world, artists, designers, writers and musicians still fall back on this traditional tool. The Pencil+ helps on multiple fronts, but functions first as a pencil holder, enabling the user to tuck various lengths of pencil into a central void.

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What keeps the pencil from slipping too far in? An adjustable eraser serves as a backstop, letting you move the pencil portion backward to fit and forward as the pencil gets shorter. Meanwhile, the back of the holder (normally where one would find an eraser) doubles as a sharpener, keeping it always on hand for reworking broken or worn tips.

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“Worry no more because with pencil+,” say its creators, “you can now have a sharpener, extender, eraser holder and transporter for your favorite tool” which is available in Teak, Ebony, Wild Olive, African Padauk and Indonesian Redwood”

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A few potential critiques come to mind: first, someone employing this device will have to deal with an additional step to access an eraser. Second, the holder is necessarily wider than a pencil, so it will require some getting used to in terms of grip and function. Third, the eraser length is a function of pencil length, so storing a lot of extra eraser could be an issue (though easily longer than a normal one). Still, one can be sure, at least, never to lose track of one’s sharpener, and also that a single pencil will last a lot longer.

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Lead Finger: Incredible Miniatures Carved Out of Pencil Tips

30 Jul

[ By Steph in Art & Sculpture & Craft. ]

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Eagle feathers, the folds on Yoda’s robe and individual bricks on iconic buildings are among the impossibly tiny details captured in pencil lead by miniaturist Salivat Fidai. The Russian artist uses an X-acto knife to carefully scrape away minuscule shavings of graphite, revealing everything from realistic dinosaur heads to the Eiffel Tower.

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Sped-up videos on Fidai’s Instagram give us a look at the process, which starts with scraping away an inch or two of wood to reveal the graphite core. The artist creates the basic shape of each sculpture and then makes the refinements. This technique requires not just an eye for detail but a very light hand as well, to avoid putting too much pressure on the lead and snapping it.

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They’re all cool, but perhaps most impressive are the ones featuring little pieces that have been carefully separated from the main graphite core, like this lock. Many originals are up for sale at the artist’s Etsy shop.

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Another artist creating similar works is Dalton Ghetti, a carpenter by trade who uses sewing needles and razor blades to carve entire chains of graphite as well as other sculptures, all without the benefit of a magnifying glass.

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Pencil vs. Camera: Illusion Drawings Pop Off the Page

28 Jan

[ By Steph in Art & Drawing & Digital. ]

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You might think artist Ben Heine has Photoshopped himself into his own pencil drawings, but he’s actually standing on top of them. Much like the mind-bending optical illusions produced in chalk by sidewalk artists, these are flat drawings that just seem like they’re three-dimensional.

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The Belgium-based multidisciplinary artist mixes photography and drawings for the series ‘Pencil vs. Camera,’ one of his best-known projects. The drawings seem to pop out from the page when viewed from a certain perspective, making it look like the artist is interacting with his own creations.

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“I just make art for people,” says Heine. “I want them to dream and forget their daily troubles. I used to write poems many years ago, I want to convey a poetic and philosophical meaning into my pictures, each new creation should tell a story and generate an intense emotion, like a poem, like a melody.”

Ben Heine Scenery Drawings

Another part of the series blends Heine’s drawings with landscape photos so they match up. The artist selects a location, draws a fanciful illustration, and then takes a photo of the combined results.

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The Pencil vs Camera Photo Project That Will Make Your Eyes Pop Out of Their Sockets

29 Nov

I’m going full steam ahead to continue our series of articles about awesome photography projects from all over the world. I hope you enjoyed the Cars Adventures and Oh, My Head photo projects we’ve previously posted! Today, I’m going to share with you the Pencil vs Camera project pictures by Ben Heine. His works are bursting full of surrealistic poetry, Continue Reading

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Photoshop Pencil Sketch Technique

22 Oct

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Make a Photo-Roll Pencil Holder

16 Oct

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Your photographs are good at being held *in* things: albums, boxes, frames …

But are they good at holding things?

Put ‘em to work! Transform your photos into a useful DIY photo-roll pencil holder.

It’ll brighten up your desk, and make daydreaming of summer days that much easier.

In just a few steps, you can roll your photographs into picture-perfect container.

Thanks to our pal Tali Schiffer who showed us how to make this one of a kind photo-roll box!

How to Make a Photo-Roll Pencil Holder

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Why it’s cool:

ingred-sm This sweet lil photo-rolled box can be used for just about anything you can think of.

Sure it makes an awesome pencil holder, but would also store film, computer cords, and camera batteries quite nicely.

Show your desk some love with this quick way to spruce it up.

Ingredients:

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Empty Box
Colorful Tape
Old Magazines or Photographs
Utility Knife or Scissors
Cutting Surface
Pencil
Ruler
Glue

STEP 1: Prep Container

paint-sm Start by cutting the flaps off one side of the box.

This will make it easy to stuff all the goodies inside.

Be sure the opposite end is taped or sealed.

You don’t want anything spilling out of the bottom!

Step 2: Dress it Up:

paint-sm Use colorful tape to line the top edge, where you just cut the flaps.

Place tape on both the inner and outer edge of the box to give a nice, finished look.

You can do this by taping both sides, or by folding the tape over.

TIP: Slit the corners of the tape to make folding over corners a little smoother.

Step 3: Measure:

paint-sm Measure the height of your box, and cut your images to fit.

TIP: If you print your own photos, make sure to measure your container beforehand to make sure you have enough coverage.

Step 4: Roll:

paint-sm Take one edge of your image, and wrap it around a pencil or small paintbrush.

Keep rolling the whole page. Leave 1″ at the end of the image.

TIP: Make sure you roll your image with the side you want on the outside.

Step 5: Glue:

paint-sm Use a thin layer of glue on that last inch of photo.

Roll it completely, and wait a minute or two until it has started to dry.

Slide it off your paintbrush, and set aside for now.

Step 6: Repeat:

paint-sm Keep it going!

You need a lot of these suckers to cover that box.

TIP: We used about 18-20 rolls for each side of the box, but this will be different for each box.

Step 7: Stick em down:

paint-sm Cover one side of the box with glue.

Lay your rolled photos on the box, starting at one end and working your way across.

Let that side dry.

Step 8: Finish ‘er off:

paint-sm Repeat your process with the three remaining sides.

Marvel at your masterpiece! (Well done!)

Take it further

Make your container even more spectacular by repeating rolls to make one image.
Why stick to pens? Use it as a planter box or store photos in it
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Apple unveils new 2018 iPad Pro, MacBook Air, Mac Mini, and Apple Pencil

Apple’s 2018 iPad 9.7″ is the first entry-level model with Pencil support

Art of Deception: Pencil Drawings Look Like Colorful 3D Splashes of Paint

Pencil Art: 50+ Sculptures Explore the Hidden Beauty of This Utilitarian Object

Pencil Lead Carvings by Salavat Fidai

Vases Made of Pencils by Studio Markunpoika

Pencil Lead Carvings by Dalton Ghetti

Pencil Sculptures by Jennifer Maestre

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The Pencil vs Camera Photo Project That Will Make Your Eyes Pop Out of Their Sockets

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Make a Photo-Roll Pencil Holder

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