Dafuq? Painting from Shawn Huckins

 Shawn Huckins’s Athenaeum exhibition features a number of recognizable figures and paintings with a layer of current commentary that is familiar to anyone on instagram, snapchat, twitter, imgur, etc. The tension is funny, surprising and sad. 

Thomas Jefferson: Panic Four (Spotty WiFi), 2017. Acrylic

Major John Biddle: Panic Two (Loading Spinner), 2017. Acrylic

Charles Loring Elliot: Panic One (Low Battery), 2017. Acrylic

Evening Glow At Lake Louise: Panic Three (Mac Spinner), 2017. Acrylic

Richard Heber: To Dante, You’re All I Have, Just Please Don't Ever Text Me Again, 2017. Acrylic

Edgar Allan Poe: Sarcasm Noted, 2017. Acrylic

Richard Dana: Zero Fucks Given, 2017. Acrylic

Mrs John Biddle: Delete Me, 2017. Acrylic

Cole’s Cloud Study: The Fuck?, 2017. Acrylic

Bierstadt’s Rocky Mountains (Who Needs The PCA?), 2017. Acrylic

General Henry H Sibley: UGH, 2015. Acrylic

Abraham Lincoln: Pffff, 2017. Acrylic

Midshipman Augustus Brine: You Have No Idea How Much I Love You, I Don’t Know Whatever, 2017. Acrylic

Mrs James Warren: Blah Blah Blah, 2017. Acrylic

George Washington (The Lansdowne Portrait): I Can’t Pretend That This Is Poetry, 2017. Acrylic

Euphoric Vision of the Future of Personal Media

​This moving and impactful video footage, paired with this is a speech by Antoine Cartier-Wells, founder of Memorize, a Paris based corporation, leading this technological revolution with their Sensen technology. 

APP of the Day - Buffer

Buffer pushed out a new update today making the already useful and powerful app even more so.

It is literally a buffer where all your links you want to share on Facebook, twitter and Linked in are stored until the timing is right. The app then automagically posts it, avoiding the flood of links washing out the nuggets of awesomeness you've found.

Buffer Free in the iTunes App Store

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3 - Street Art Snarks at Social Media Through Social Media

Parisian artist Above "ironically" is using social media to tell us we are too connected to social media. Very meta.