Meet the Little-Known Genius Who Helped Make Pixar Possible [ungated] – “Alvy Ray Smith helped invent computer animation as we know it—then got royally shafted by Steve Jobs. Now he’s got a vision for where the pixel will take us next.”[1,2,3] Pixel is…
Chuck Close 1940 – 2021
Photorealist painter and printer Chuck Close died yesterday at the age of 81. One of the most prominent of the photorealistic painters of the late 60s and early 70s, Close painted immense, highly detailed canvas portraits from photos he would take of h…