Posts by Sara Barnes

Sara Barnes

Sara Barnes is a Staff Editor at My Modern Met, Manager of My Modern Met Store, and co-host of the My Modern Met Top Artist Podcast. As an illustrator and writer living in Seattle, she chronicles illustration, embroidery, and beyond through her blog Brown Paper Bag and Instagram @brwnpaperbag. She wrote a book about embroidery artist Sarah K. Benning titled "Embroidered Life" that was published by Chronicle Books in 2019. Sara is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art. She earned her BFA in Illustration in 2008 and MFA in Illustration Practice in 2013.
Resources
September 27, 2019

AI Creates 100,000 Computer-Generated Faces That Look So Incredibly Real

Artificial intelligence has made it easier than ever to produce images that look completely real but are totally fake. Icons8 is a company who wants to put these types of pictures to use, and so they've created Generated Photos, a resource of 100,000 AI-generated faces that are royalty-free. Although there are some portraits that look glitchy (and therefore fake), there are many more that could rival the real people you see in stock photos.

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Food Art
September 25, 2019

Food Artist Gets Kids to Eat Healthy by Turning Meals into Pop Culture Masterpieces

Food artist and mom Laleh Mohmedi transforms ordinary ingredients into edible masterpieces on plates. Working with the likes of pita bread, noodles, and lettuce, she uses the foodstuffs as a painter would wield pigment and brush. The results of her cooking and plating are pop culture portraits of beloved fictional characters. She produces amazing likenesses of all of her subjects—an especially impressive feat considering everything that she produces is edible, too.

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Architecture
September 20, 2019

Eco-Friendly Travel Trailer Has Luxury Design for Cozy Full-Time Nomadic Living

Are you ready to commit to being a full-time nomad? Achieving this lifestyle is certainly a challenge, but it’s made easier with a travel trailer—especially the kind that prizes innovation and sustainability so that you don't need to be on the grid (unless you want to be, of course). Living Vehicle is a travel trailer company that makes it possible to be a nomad without sacrificing comfort or style.

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Photography
September 16, 2019

Photographer Takes a Surreal Twist on High-Fashion Portraits of Opulent Women

Photographer Natalie Lennard, better known as Miss Aniela, offers an unconventional twist on editorial fashion portraits. The images are part of her ongoing series called Surreal Fashion, in which she crafts compositions that initially look like high-fashion spreads but have peculiar qualities once you look closer. A model’s divine blue gown, for instance, leads into an ocean while the train of a yellow dress morphs into a cluster of canaries.

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