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Sand Art
Thursday, September 10th, 2009 | art | No Comments
Environmental Graffiti have a small piece on Peter Donnelly, an artist who uses the beach as his canvas.
A Picture Made From The Scales of Butterfly Wings
Thursday, September 10th, 2009 | art | No Comments
This weeks Economist has this article about the Museum of Jurassic Technology. They’ve republished one of the more incredible exhibits: a picture made from the scales of butterfly wings.
Skin Your Laptop
Friday, May 15th, 2009 | art | No Comments
Gelaskins provide a beautiful way of personalising your laptop or phone. They have skins from many artists as well as matching ‘wallpaper’, including Amy Sol, featured yesterday.
Amy Sol
Thursday, May 14th, 2009 | art | 1 Comment
Amy Sol is a prolific artist whose most striking works are illustration on wood, with the grain pattern showing through. Her blog is really interesting, showing the behind-the-scenes work that goes into her art, her sketches, work-in-progress and preparing the wood panels.
Sweet Little Universe
Friday, May 1st, 2009 | art | No Comments
Pierre Javelle and Akiko Ida have created their own little universe of active people, but with a twist. They’re all miniatures on food. You’ll have a laugh with these. Pity about the Flash interface though.
(via paintalicious)
Museum of Bad Art
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 | art | No Comments
It’s been said many times that the internet is empowering people, giving a medium of expression to everyone, and providing an audience for every content producer. With this in mind, let me introduce you to the Museum of Bad Art, a site dedicated to profiling and commenting on the worst of the worst of modern art, namely the sort of crap that you or I would generate.
Hokusai’s Rabbit Wave
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 | art | No Comments
I’m a bit obsessed with Hokusai’s Wave. I don’t know what draws me to it, but I love Kozyndan’s Rabbit Wave parody (pictured). You can find more fine work on the rabbit theme at Kozyndan’s site.
Working in Photoshop 3
Thursday, April 16th, 2009 | art | No Comments
Bob Staake is an illustrator who regularly does graphics for the cover of The New Yorker. In this video he shows that it isn’t the tool that counts, it’s the talent.
Bag Monsters
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 | art | No Comments
Joshua Allen Harris creates art that at first glance looks like rubbish, but let the wind catch it and it’s a living sculpture. Check out his Inflatable Bag Monsters.
“Everybody loves it, everybody’s interested in it and how it works. It’s magical. It’s what art is about.”
Make Your Own Paper Toys
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 | art | No Comments
If you ever have some spare time on your hands, and a hankering to put the same to good use, check out Custom Paper Toys. The artist also makes little paper toys that move, that he calls automa. And if you like that kind of thing, he has a heap of links to other paper toy makers, so if you have a couple of years to spare, you can keep yourself busy.
Limoonland
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 | art | No Comments
I’m enchanted with the art you can see on limoon’s website. The art has a sublime timeless serenity to it.
Google Holiday Logos
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 | art, humor | No Comments
You might have noticed that Google changes their logo to commemorate various holidays. Of course, they’re only online for 24 hours, and nobody is that wired to have seen them all when they were posted. But Google keep an archive of them here: Google Holiday Logos.
Golden Parachutes & The Financial Crisis
Thursday, March 26th, 2009 | art, infographics | No Comments
Jess Bachman has made a really cool infographic detailing the golden parachutes that some of the US top bankers received in 2007 and 08. It’s a great way to impart the morally criminal activities that these bankers have gotten away with. This is just the latest in a series of visual guides to the financial crisis at mint.com beginning with The Crisis, The Bailout and The Unemployment Rate.
You can find further poster infographics at Bachman’s website: WallStats.com, including a superb giant poster detailing the US 2009 budget.
Haven’t I Seen That Ad Before?
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 | art, conspiracy | No Comments
If you sometimes experience a strange sense of Deja Vu when you see an advert, maybe there’s something to it. The two adverts above both promote teeth whitening products, the one on the left is Orbit, from 2002, and the one on the right is Dr Sedoc, from 2008.
Joe La Pompe has made it his mission to expose these copycat advertisers, and has a huge collection of faxsimile ads for your viewing pleasure. What’s not surprising is that two ad agencies would both create a similar campaign, but what is surprising is just how similar two adverts can be. So, are great minds thinking alike, or is it more like Picasso said, “Bad artists copy. Great artists steal”.
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