A couple of days ago (Friday 10 May 2013) I became aware of a rather interesting project on KickStarter.com. Two guys – Pablo Garcia and Golan Levin – have designed something called the NeoLucida, ...

Looking to support some awesome photography projects? Channel you inner venture capitalist and get in on these crowdfunding prototypes. The camera lucida, an old 19th–century optical technique that ...

As long ago as 1807 – and possibly up to 200 years earlier – many artists used an optical device known as a camera lucida to help them in sketching subjects. A controversial theory even suggests that ...

Back at the end of May I wrote about a great Kickstarter project which updated the Camera Lucida. The Neo Lucida is a prism on a bendy stick that you can use to superimpose the scene in front of you ...

With regard to my previous blogs – Mega-cool Camera Lucida app for the iPad and Stand back! I’m poised to use my Camera Lucida iPad app! – I just created my first drawing using my iPad Camera Lucida.

They say there is nothing new under the sun, and nowhere is that more true than Kickstarter, where anything old and cool is being made new again. We've seen this before with everything from da Vinci ...

As the debate rages on about the value of AI-generated art, [Chris Borge] printed his own version of another technology that’s been the subject of debate about what constitutes real art. Meet the ...

The studio’s glazed end walls provide bidirectional views: the southeast window looks up the grassy hillside, whereas the northwest window overlooks the town below. The client can adjust the amount of ...

INTERESTING modifications of the camera lucida for making larger drawings were recently described in these columns 1. A novel use to which I have put this apparatus may also assist biologists in their ...

On Monday, June 1st, the chamber group Camera Lucida gives a rare San Diego performance of Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, along with Franz Schubert's String Quintet in C major. Camera Lucida is ...

In his new piece, performance artist Dickie Beau channels the voices of the dead. Three dark figures connect themselves to laptops and their bodies and faces contort while posh ghostly voices seem to ...