Websites as Abstract Artwork

A new Google Chrome extension called Abstract Browser transforms your favorite websites into vivid, geometric artwork. The extension was created by artist Rafael Rozendaal as a source of inspiration for creating brightly colored jacquard tapestries by replacing blocks of words, photos and videos with random colors. It’s become an interesting way to see the skeleton of a website, revealing just how crowded and complex a …

The Brontosaurus is Back

The once-renounced Brontosaurus is finally being restored to dinosaur status after new research discovered that the vertebrate actually did exist. The friendly, four-legged veggie-eater (which you may remember from the Jurassic Park movies) was previously rejected by taxonomists who argued it was no different than the already established Apotosaurus. A new analysis identifies several distinct features that now differentiate the two, bringing the Brontosaurus back …

What is Modern Art’s Favorite Color?

Martin Bellander, a PhD psychology student at the Karolinska Institutet, created a data visualization that illustrates the use of various colors in paintings over the past 200 years. Bellander pulled the data from a website that offers images of over 94,000 paintings between 1800-2000. The visualization shows a significant trend toward the use of the color blue, possibly the reflecting changing prices in paint, an …