“Theo is a 28 year old designer and illustrator from the northern parts of Holland. He first came in contact with design and illustration while he was into the creation of electronic dance music and needed promotional material. This in time led to a passion for webdesign. He chose to study communication and multimedia design and after he got….” [read more]
Be sure to check out Theo’s work on Behance as well.
Happy New Year From Echofour Studios!!!
Get ready for a plethora of new article posts to celebrate the start of 2013, many of which would not otherwise be posted for months. I guess you could say that Echofour Studios is bringing the you future today.
NEW YEARS ANNOUNCEMENT
Dear Followers,
The end of the year is coming up and Echofour Studios wants to celebrate its first year on Tumblr in a very special way. That’s why it has been decided that on January 1, 2013 Echofour Studios will be bringing the future to you today. A plethora of new articles planned to be posted several months in the future will be released on New Years Day. The articles section for 2012 will be archived to make room for fresh content in the new year as well. Here’s wishing you the best for the rest of the holiday season.
-Flex McCool-
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Just to remind you of tomorrow’s schedule, I’m reblogging this post again.
(Originally from Dec. 20, 2012)
(via flexmccool)
Source: iechofour
NEW YEARS ANNOUNCEMENT
Dear Followers,
The end of the year is coming up and Echofour Studios wants to celebrate its first year on Tumblr in a very special way. That’s why it has been decided that on January 1, 2013 Echofour Studios will be bringing the future to you today. A plethora of new articles planned to be posted several months in the future will be released on New Years Day. The articles section for 2012 will be archived to make room for fresh content in the new year as well. Here’s wishing you the best for the rest of the holiday season.
-Flex McCool-
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Inspiring Themes - Cartography
[Art ideas to live by]
Maps have been around for at least 3000 years, the earliest for certain coming from the ancient city of Babylon. Through the ages maps have become more and more elaborate. From the artistic maps of medieval times to the modern day google maps, mapmaking (aka cartography) is something the world can’t do without. But one thing most people don’t think about when viewing maps is that many maps are artistic with all the effort that goes into them. Some artists will try to map things in the normal scientific way but some artists will create maps in untraditional styles. These include fantasy maps, star maps, mental maps and more. Some have even created their own worlds using maps as a guide. George Lucas’ “Star Wars” universe and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth are perhaps some of the most well known of these things. For any artist looking to design new worlds, this is an excellent project to look into.
The images above were created by the following deviantART artists:
http://gamera1985.deviantart.com
http://thevalcian.deviantart.com
http://keithwormwood.deviantart.com
http://ykansaki.deviantart.com
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For further reading on the subject click on the links below:
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/HistTopics/Cartography.html
http://academic.emporia.edu/aberjame/map/h_map/h_map.htm
http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/pres/map/maphis.html
http://geography.howstuffworks.com/terms-and-associations/map5.htm
http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~cherlin/History/Papers2000/sullivan.html
http://www.govloop.com/profiles/blogs/the-art-of-map-making-how-great-maps-tell-compelling-stories
http://panhwar.com/Article33.htm
From its 5 month run here on Echofour Studios the My Choice articles have become a reflection of the editorial taste of this blog. Now it has become too tedious to produce given its popular worth so it has been retired as a theme. To anyone who reads or follows this blog, feel free to dabble your interests by reading the My Choice articles of the past. Every last one is listed below so check it out and prepare for future endeavors such as Concept Art.
-My Choice-
This is a series of Top 10 lists (and maybe some Top 5 lists here and there) designed so that you can peer into the mind of this blog’s admin, Flex McCool and all his preferences. It can help you get to know him better or it might just inspire you. Just be warned, there might be some spoilers involved.
Top 10 Crazy Ideas About Super Mario
Top 5 Video Game Items That Don’t Exist
Top 10 Quotes From Video Games
I can’t say that I know a whole lot about all the superheroes I’m about to talk about. I’m going to state what I do know to form my conclusions. This isn’t a list of which comic books I read the most as a kid. Some of these I’ve never read anything about, I’ve only been told things about them. That being said, I’m not rating on what happens in detail. This is about who has the coolest image in my opinion and why I think that. Everyone has their own opinion and depending on what you come to know, these things may change. I don’t deny that but I am writing this in the present and I can’t speak for my future tastes. Anyway, I though this might be interesting to go into. Here we go….
Weapons mean everything in the world of masculine gaming….that being said, the coolest weapons to me aren’t actually the most gory of things. The list is as follows….
With these, I don’t need to list a description. It’s just which one is cooler to me and nothing else to it.
by $techgnotic
Dante Alighieri
by :devTLishman:
Oct 30, 2012 by :devtechgnotic:
Opening the Darkest Door
I have recently come across a most disturbing phenomenon in my studies of the Diabolic Infestation of the Soul. It seems there is a most frightening psychological conundrum when considering the concept of demonic possession even the most remote possibility of reality upon our earthly plane is the notion that just believing it may be true could very likely be the spark needed for the Demon to discover, seek out, and ultimately inhabit its next vessel of evil: You.
From the Exorcist through Paranormal Activity, generation after generation of &l
Artist Watch - Arthur Radebaugh
“‘In the late 1950s and early ’60s, no one shaped Americans’ expectations of the future quite like Arthur Radebaugh, the illustrator of the popular newspaper comic “Closer Than We Think” as well as countless advertisements and magazine covers.“We all dream of a better, brighter, more exciting future where the wonders of technology are there to serve and entertain us,” and Radebaugh “made that fabulous world of tomorrow seem practically at our fingertips,” says Todd Kimmell, the director of the Lost Highways Archives and Research Library, which is dedicated to American road culture.An exhibition that Kimmell co-curated in 2003 traveled from Philadelphia to France to Detroit and won Radebaugh a new generation of fans. “The Da Vinci of retro-futurism,” a Wired magazine blog called him.Radebaugh was a commercial….”’ [read more]
Image Sources:
http://www.paleofuture.com/storage/thumbnails/3374620-6636935-thumbnail.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1271907083166
http://www.lambiek.net/artists/image/r/radebaugh_arthur/radebaugh_1958.jpg
http://www.paleofuture.com/storage/thumbnails/3374620-5954711-thumbnail.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1267456206585
Inspiring Themes is a new article series I have planned for this blog. It will sit alongside the Artist Watch, My Choice and Amazing Products articles. The description is as follows:
“This is a series of articles showcasing a unique and interesting theme shared by multiple works of art. The purpose of such articles is to educate and inspire so that other artists may be motivated to create their own original concepts using these themes as a starting point.”
Be sure to look under the Articles Tab every so often to keep up with new posts.
by $techgnotic
Suggestivism
Birth of a New Category or Beginning of the End of Categories?
:icontechgnotic: Jul 26, 2012 by :devtechgnotic:
Just when you thought there couldn’t possibly be another “ism” on the art world horizon, what with the growing accessibility of all
art technique and technology rendering all the “schools of art” equally available and doable and therefore making impossible the dominance
or even existence of any current art “movement” … comes “suggestivism,” the “ism” best summing up what art is in our lives today, defined
more by what it
by $techgnotic
StarCraft II is the hot tournament videogame that just may breakthrough as the harbinger of the esports phenomenon and one of the great cultural game-changers of all time. Midnight in Anaheim. Caffeinated casters boom rapid fire commentary rattling the packed hall. Elite StarCraft players from around the globe execute complex strats that would have made Rommel the Desert Fox himself proud. 15,000 are in attendance, on the edge of their seats, and cheering as loudly as any soccer match as they watch the 30-foot screens hanging from the rafters. Another few hundred thousand are watching the streams live. The feeling is that of an NCAA Final Fou
Mind Blowing Hyperrealistic Sculptures
Check out this article by clicking the link above. It features several works of art that are scary-realistic.
Top
![Artist Watch - Theo Aartsma
“Theo is a 28 year old designer and illustrator from the northern parts of Holland. He first came in contact with design and illustration while he was into the creation of electronic dance music and needed promotional material. This in time led to a passion for webdesign. He chose to study communication and multimedia design and after he got….” [read more]
Be sure to check out Theo’s work on Behance as well.
Image Source](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbyygdQG481r4v2bso5_500.jpg)
![Artist Watch - Theo Aartsma
“Theo is a 28 year old designer and illustrator from the northern parts of Holland. He first came in contact with design and illustration while he was into the creation of electronic dance music and needed promotional material. This in time led to a passion for webdesign. He chose to study communication and multimedia design and after he got….” [read more]
Be sure to check out Theo’s work on Behance as well.
Image Source](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbyygdQG481r4v2bso4_500.jpg)
![Artist Watch - Theo Aartsma
“Theo is a 28 year old designer and illustrator from the northern parts of Holland. He first came in contact with design and illustration while he was into the creation of electronic dance music and needed promotional material. This in time led to a passion for webdesign. He chose to study communication and multimedia design and after he got….” [read more]
Be sure to check out Theo’s work on Behance as well.
Image Source](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbyygdQG481r4v2bso3_500.jpg)
![Artist Watch - Theo Aartsma
“Theo is a 28 year old designer and illustrator from the northern parts of Holland. He first came in contact with design and illustration while he was into the creation of electronic dance music and needed promotional material. This in time led to a passion for webdesign. He chose to study communication and multimedia design and after he got….” [read more]
Be sure to check out Theo’s work on Behance as well.
Image Source](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbyygdQG481r4v2bso2_500.jpg)
![Inspiring Themes - Cartography
[Art ideas to live by]
Maps have been around for at least 3000 years, the earliest for certain coming from the ancient city of Babylon. Through the ages maps have become more and more elaborate. From the artistic maps of medieval times to the modern day google maps, mapmaking (aka cartography) is something the world can’t do without. But one thing most people don’t think about when viewing maps is that many maps are artistic with all the effort that goes into them. Some artists will try to map things in the normal scientific way but some artists will create maps in untraditional styles. These include fantasy maps, star maps, mental maps and more. Some have even created their own worlds using maps as a guide. George Lucas’ “Star Wars” universe and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth are perhaps some of the most well known of these things. For any artist looking to design new worlds, this is an excellent project to look into.
The images above were created by the following deviantART artists:
http://gamera1985.deviantart.com
http://thevalcian.deviantart.com
http://keithwormwood.deviantart.com
http://ykansaki.deviantart.com
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For further reading on the subject click on the links below:
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/HistTopics/Cartography.html
http://academic.emporia.edu/aberjame/map/h_map/h_map.htm
http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/pres/map/maphis.html
http://geography.howstuffworks.com/terms-and-associations/map5.htm
http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~cherlin/History/Papers2000/sullivan.html
http://www.govloop.com/profiles/blogs/the-art-of-map-making-how-great-maps-tell-compelling-stories
http://panhwar.com/Article33.htm
http://www.shadowedrealm.com/maps/political/
http://hiddenway.tripod.com/world/](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb2w57WwkD1r4v2bso1_r2_500.jpg)
![Inspiring Themes - Cartography
[Art ideas to live by]
Maps have been around for at least 3000 years, the earliest for certain coming from the ancient city of Babylon. Through the ages maps have become more and more elaborate. From the artistic maps of medieval times to the modern day google maps, mapmaking (aka cartography) is something the world can’t do without. But one thing most people don’t think about when viewing maps is that many maps are artistic with all the effort that goes into them. Some artists will try to map things in the normal scientific way but some artists will create maps in untraditional styles. These include fantasy maps, star maps, mental maps and more. Some have even created their own worlds using maps as a guide. George Lucas’ “Star Wars” universe and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth are perhaps some of the most well known of these things. For any artist looking to design new worlds, this is an excellent project to look into.
The images above were created by the following deviantART artists:
http://gamera1985.deviantart.com
http://thevalcian.deviantart.com
http://keithwormwood.deviantart.com
http://ykansaki.deviantart.com
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For further reading on the subject click on the links below:
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/HistTopics/Cartography.html
http://academic.emporia.edu/aberjame/map/h_map/h_map.htm
http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/pres/map/maphis.html
http://geography.howstuffworks.com/terms-and-associations/map5.htm
http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~cherlin/History/Papers2000/sullivan.html
http://www.govloop.com/profiles/blogs/the-art-of-map-making-how-great-maps-tell-compelling-stories
http://panhwar.com/Article33.htm
http://www.shadowedrealm.com/maps/political/
http://hiddenway.tripod.com/world/](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb2w57WwkD1r4v2bso2_500.jpg)
![Inspiring Themes - Cartography
[Art ideas to live by]
Maps have been around for at least 3000 years, the earliest for certain coming from the ancient city of Babylon. Through the ages maps have become more and more elaborate. From the artistic maps of medieval times to the modern day google maps, mapmaking (aka cartography) is something the world can’t do without. But one thing most people don’t think about when viewing maps is that many maps are artistic with all the effort that goes into them. Some artists will try to map things in the normal scientific way but some artists will create maps in untraditional styles. These include fantasy maps, star maps, mental maps and more. Some have even created their own worlds using maps as a guide. George Lucas’ “Star Wars” universe and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth are perhaps some of the most well known of these things. For any artist looking to design new worlds, this is an excellent project to look into.
The images above were created by the following deviantART artists:
http://gamera1985.deviantart.com
http://thevalcian.deviantart.com
http://keithwormwood.deviantart.com
http://ykansaki.deviantart.com
—
For further reading on the subject click on the links below:
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/HistTopics/Cartography.html
http://academic.emporia.edu/aberjame/map/h_map/h_map.htm
http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/pres/map/maphis.html
http://geography.howstuffworks.com/terms-and-associations/map5.htm
http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~cherlin/History/Papers2000/sullivan.html
http://www.govloop.com/profiles/blogs/the-art-of-map-making-how-great-maps-tell-compelling-stories
http://panhwar.com/Article33.htm
http://www.shadowedrealm.com/maps/political/
http://hiddenway.tripod.com/world/](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb2w57WwkD1r4v2bso7_r1_500.jpg)
![Inspiring Themes - Cartography
[Art ideas to live by]
Maps have been around for at least 3000 years, the earliest for certain coming from the ancient city of Babylon. Through the ages maps have become more and more elaborate. From the artistic maps of medieval times to the modern day google maps, mapmaking (aka cartography) is something the world can’t do without. But one thing most people don’t think about when viewing maps is that many maps are artistic with all the effort that goes into them. Some artists will try to map things in the normal scientific way but some artists will create maps in untraditional styles. These include fantasy maps, star maps, mental maps and more. Some have even created their own worlds using maps as a guide. George Lucas’ “Star Wars” universe and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth are perhaps some of the most well known of these things. For any artist looking to design new worlds, this is an excellent project to look into.
The images above were created by the following deviantART artists:
http://gamera1985.deviantart.com
http://thevalcian.deviantart.com
http://keithwormwood.deviantart.com
http://ykansaki.deviantart.com
—
For further reading on the subject click on the links below:
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/HistTopics/Cartography.html
http://academic.emporia.edu/aberjame/map/h_map/h_map.htm
http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/pres/map/maphis.html
http://geography.howstuffworks.com/terms-and-associations/map5.htm
http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~cherlin/History/Papers2000/sullivan.html
http://www.govloop.com/profiles/blogs/the-art-of-map-making-how-great-maps-tell-compelling-stories
http://panhwar.com/Article33.htm
http://www.shadowedrealm.com/maps/political/
http://hiddenway.tripod.com/world/](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb2w57WwkD1r4v2bso3_500.png)
![Artist Watch - Arthur Radebaugh
“‘In the late 1950s and early ’60s, no one shaped Americans’ expectations of the future quite like Arthur Radebaugh, the illustrator of the popular newspaper comic “Closer Than We Think” as well as countless advertisements and magazine covers.“We all dream of a better, brighter, more exciting future where the wonders of technology are there to serve and entertain us,” and Radebaugh “made that fabulous world of tomorrow seem practically at our fingertips,” says Todd Kimmell, the director of the Lost Highways Archives and Research Library, which is dedicated to American road culture.An exhibition that Kimmell co-curated in 2003 traveled from Philadelphia to France to Detroit and won Radebaugh a new generation of fans. “The Da Vinci of retro-futurism,” a Wired magazine blog called him.Radebaugh was a commercial….”’ [read more]
Image Sources:
http://www.paleofuture.com/storage/thumbnails/3374620-6636935-thumbnail.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1271907083166
http://www.lambiek.net/artists/image/r/radebaugh_arthur/radebaugh_1958.jpg
http://www.paleofuture.com/storage/thumbnails/3374620-5954711-thumbnail.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1267456206585](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbnsv1Cbic1r4v2bso1_500.jpg)
![Artist Watch - Arthur Radebaugh
“‘In the late 1950s and early ’60s, no one shaped Americans’ expectations of the future quite like Arthur Radebaugh, the illustrator of the popular newspaper comic “Closer Than We Think” as well as countless advertisements and magazine covers.“We all dream of a better, brighter, more exciting future where the wonders of technology are there to serve and entertain us,” and Radebaugh “made that fabulous world of tomorrow seem practically at our fingertips,” says Todd Kimmell, the director of the Lost Highways Archives and Research Library, which is dedicated to American road culture.An exhibition that Kimmell co-curated in 2003 traveled from Philadelphia to France to Detroit and won Radebaugh a new generation of fans. “The Da Vinci of retro-futurism,” a Wired magazine blog called him.Radebaugh was a commercial….”’ [read more]
Image Sources:
http://www.paleofuture.com/storage/thumbnails/3374620-6636935-thumbnail.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1271907083166
http://www.lambiek.net/artists/image/r/radebaugh_arthur/radebaugh_1958.jpg
http://www.paleofuture.com/storage/thumbnails/3374620-5954711-thumbnail.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1267456206585](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbnsv1Cbic1r4v2bso2_500.jpg)
![Artist Watch - Arthur Radebaugh
“‘In the late 1950s and early ’60s, no one shaped Americans’ expectations of the future quite like Arthur Radebaugh, the illustrator of the popular newspaper comic “Closer Than We Think” as well as countless advertisements and magazine covers.“We all dream of a better, brighter, more exciting future where the wonders of technology are there to serve and entertain us,” and Radebaugh “made that fabulous world of tomorrow seem practically at our fingertips,” says Todd Kimmell, the director of the Lost Highways Archives and Research Library, which is dedicated to American road culture.An exhibition that Kimmell co-curated in 2003 traveled from Philadelphia to France to Detroit and won Radebaugh a new generation of fans. “The Da Vinci of retro-futurism,” a Wired magazine blog called him.Radebaugh was a commercial….”’ [read more]
Image Sources:
http://www.paleofuture.com/storage/thumbnails/3374620-6636935-thumbnail.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1271907083166
http://www.lambiek.net/artists/image/r/radebaugh_arthur/radebaugh_1958.jpg
http://www.paleofuture.com/storage/thumbnails/3374620-5954711-thumbnail.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1267456206585](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbnsv1Cbic1r4v2bso3_500.jpg)
