The BBC reports that previously unknown digital works by American artist Andy Warhol were discovered and recovered from 30 year old Amiga disks with the assistance of Carnegie Mellon University Computer Club. In total, 18 images were recovered, most are also signed by Warhol.
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Warhol Works Recovered from Old Amiga Disks
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Bartman12345 on Friday April 25 2014, @02:21AM
When the Amiga 1000 was first released, much was made of its Deluxe Paint software. I wonder if these recovered images were created with this software... it was pretty revolutionary in its time.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 25 2014, @02:36AM
studioforcreativeinquiry.org/public/warhol_amiga_r eport_v10.pdf
has all the details
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday April 27 2014, @09:41AM
Corrected link: studioforcreativeinquiry.org/../warhol_amiga_repor t_v10.pdf [studioforc...nquiry.org]
Summary: ..bad. And prevented image scripts to run
* Use hardware that record flux timing
* Convert flux timings to floppy format using software algorithms
* Make use of Kickstart 26.1
* Learn to decode PLBM which is a planar stacked format using palette
* Bad sectors are
(Score: 2, Interesting) by stroucki on Friday April 25 2014, @03:13AM
It looks like some of the pictures were done using video acquisition, and the signature looks like it was done with a graphics tablet. Pretty desirable hardware for the day.
(Score: 1) by PlasticCogLiquid on Friday April 25 2014, @06:01AM
Dpaint was awesome!
(Score: 1) by art guerrilla on Friday April 25 2014, @02:35AM
...from 500 to 2000, and astounded me when i went to some amigacon thing in ny,ny, and they showed 'mandela', where you were projected on a screen background you could interact with and -in this instance- play sounds/music...
meh, *now*; but w-a-y cool back in the bronze age of computing...
seems kind of weird it took so long to get the files translated, didn't quite follow the reasoning on that...
up until it faded to nothingness, i had a printout on the wall above my screen, from an old deluxe paint version where i did a portrait of my dog from a photo...
it was no warhol, but i sure loved being reminded of my good old boy...
many fond memories of using the amiga...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 25 2014, @03:02AM
I suppose you mean 'mandala'. 'Mandela' is the surname of the late former president of South Africa who brought an end to Apartheid.
(Score: 3, Funny) by epitaxial on Friday April 25 2014, @02:59AM
To think we almost lost artwork from Andy Warhol! I don't know who is worse, him or Yoko Ono. One of Warhol's pieces is a canvas that he urinated on. People pay money to visit his museum and see piss soaked canvas.
(Score: 1) by boris on Friday April 25 2014, @03:18AM
Art is subjective I suppose, and I wouldn't be interested in your example either, but you cannot deny his influence on the art and design especially today is huge.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Friday April 25 2014, @03:34AM
The canvas is just the provocation. The actual art is the people paying to see it because his name is on it. It is insightful and hilarious. The best part is that the people who actually get to enjoy it are the ones who don't pay.
There's a lot more to art that purdy pichers.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday April 25 2014, @04:05AM
Art, like Slashdot and Soylent news, does indeed depend on who signs the post. For instance, if David Duke created a login and posted a link to White Nationalist art, you all would call for him to be banned and beaten if not killed.
But, if some hipster posted a link to White Nationalist art, and added the disclaimer that he was half-black and doing it "ironically," you all would cheer and pay 500 bucks each for a "limited edition" print of that racism, because it would be "cool" to do so.
Niggers.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 25 2014, @04:15AM
Stay classy Ethanol.
(Score: 2) by JeanCroix on Friday April 25 2014, @01:08PM
(Score: 2) by sjames on Friday April 25 2014, @04:23PM
That's pretty much it.