In his distellamap project, Ben Fry creates posters from the assembler code of old Atari 2600 cartridges in which he connects the sources and targets of all jump operations with thin lines. The resulting images give an impression of the code flow during the execution.

Another great find by Today and Tomorrow: Sol LeWitt's "Variations of Incomplete Open Cubes".

"Nami", Japanese for wave, is the title of a photo book by Syoin Kajii. Today and tomorrow shows five beautiful examples.

Khristian Mendoza's "Transparency" set. What a great idea. (via tat)

Computer Skills is a piece of performance art by Charles Broskoski.

In December of 2006, I downloaded a torrent (an archive of files distributed by peer-to-peer software) called "O'Reilly Ebook Collection" from a file-sharing site, with no intention of using it.

The archive contained 356 digital books in a variety of formats, all centered around computer programming or computer technology. A few months after downloading the archive, I started reading the books on my computer, as a performance.

It's a nice idea to declare something you do as "performance art". I might try this with "getting up at 6AM" or "having a swim each day". That makes ordinary stuff more fun.

"Concubine" by Clayton Cubitt. The video is not safe for work if your employer has a policy against women in underwear shaving the artist's head.

There are a lot of other good videos on Cubitt's profile page.

Silke Schöner leaves room to breathe in her paintings.

Instead of color-space paintings (associated with emotions), I [Schöner] used empty white spaces to represent the mental/spiritual, whereby the viewer unconsciously adds the "missing information."

There are four beautiful shots of rural landscapes in Shaun Sundholm's "you probably came here to see this" photo set on flickr. Higher resolution versions would make great wallpapers. (Preferably without the writing. Slogans on desktop's get old really fast.) (probably via tat)

Four minutes of flickr browsing later: Okay, never mind.

BallDroppings instructions: Turn your sound up. Draw lines on the black screen to bounce the balls. Enjoy the music.

BallDroppings is like a mashup of Line Rider, a flipper, a pool table and a xylophone. (JS version can be played online.) (via rockitbaby)

A Web Catalogue of Rembrandt Paintings.

Olly Moss' design portfolio.

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"Untitled #1" by Karlchen, 40x12 characters, cat on keyboard, 2009

Paintings by Esther Tyson. Not all of them are especially remarkable, but I like the ones with snow on it.

Oil paintings by Amy Bennett that look like miniature landscapes.

A gallery featuring covers from the New Yorker since 1925. For more than 80 years, the magazine is using basically the same cover. Classy.

Eirik Solheim took images from the same spot (a couple of trees) over the year and merged them to a series of time-lapse videos. Try to watch this in fullscreen HD, it looks so much better.

Media related to Gustav Klimt at Wikipedia Commons.

Art Deco designs by S. Charles Lee. Functional, minimalistic elements are combined to form unnecessarily complicated structures. Many Art Deco buildings would make great science-fiction settings.

Textile designs by Leah Evans. These quilted landscape maps must take forever to create.

3quarksdaily has collected a few sites featuring On Kawara, a Japan-born conceptual artist.

The website for a 2002 MoMA exhibition of the German expressionist artist group "Die Brücke" contains a gallery of over 100 works, mostly paintings. (Based on Flash, so no direct link. Click on "prints" in the upper right corner.)

An overview about street art on BBC Blast's website. I would like to point out Faile, Banksy and Blu.

A gallery of wax paintings by Matt Duffin.

Street with a view. Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley invited residents from Pittsburgh to perform different acts alongside a local street while the Google Street View team drove by and took 360-degree photographs of the scenery. Most things are rather hard to spot, so open the "scenes" page for pointers. (via rockitbaby)