Race of Jesus CGI

An 18-second video sample from episode three of the BBC history series Son of God. The video is a sample of an animation produced by design team Red Vision, and displays a facial reconstruction created by forensic anthropologist Richard Neave. Neave's reconstruction was based on a skull of a first-century Galilean Semite.

Nail Art Video

Though not widely thought of as a form of art, I think this takes a great deal of creativity and a good bit of skill.

Watch Idea Channel: The World of Nail Art on PBS. See more from Idea Channel.

Pre-Photoshop Fakery

Here is a link to an Atlantic post about image fakery before Photoshop. It's impressive to think about the physical splicing that had to occur for these images to take shape.

Hank Willis Thomas

Thomas is a conceptual photographic artist. His work was recently published in the Lens blog for the NYTimes. His work deals with race in a way that requires conversation. In fact he states, “I take pleasure in talking about things that people say we don’t need to talk about anymore. Just because we think we’re over race, doesn’t really mean that we’re over it.”

I particularly think his series, "Branded", is relevant because of our icon conversation this week.

Munch's "Scream" is Up for Auction

OnPoint story about the sale of this famous masterpiece.

Jim Crow Museum

The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University in Michigan is a unique museum "using objects of intolerance to teach tolerance and promote social justice".

While I realize some may find this to be an offensive museum/collection, I think the dialogue this museum is meant to contribute to is more important than our initial reactions of shock and being appalled at the material within it. Below is a quote from the curator of the museum about the collection itself.

"I am a garbage collector, racist garbage. For three decades I have collected items that defame and belittle Africans and their American descendants. I have a parlor game, "72 Pictured Party Stunts," from the 1930s. One of the game's cards instructs players to, "Go through the motions of a colored boy eating watermelon." The card shows a dark black boy, with bulging eyes and blood red lips, eating a watermelon as large as he is. The card offends me, but I collected it and 4,000 similar items that portray blacks as Coons, Toms, Sambos, Mammies, Picaninnies, and other dehumanizing racial caricatures. I collect this garbage because I believe, and know to be true, that items of intolerance can be used to teach tolerance."

Creative Dad

Dad creates photos of daughters in imaginative ways.