Tuesday, June 03, 2008
 
this guy is good

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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
 
how very odd
Animated graffiti.

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Monday, March 31, 2008
 
not so silly
When I was a kid I used to love three things about MAD Magazine: Spy vs. Spy, the little tiny cartoons hidden in the margins, and the fold-ins on the back cover. The New York Times has a nice retrospective of Al Jaffee's fold-ins here.

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Friday, February 08, 2008
 
mwuaha ha ha, mwuaha ha ha ha
Stupid plot tricks.
If I Ever Become the Evil Overlord

Section A: The Bad Guy

1. My Legions of Terror will have helmets with clear plexiglass visors, not face-concealing ones.

2. My ventilation ducts will be too small to crawl through.

3. My noble half-brother whose throne I usurped will be killed, not kept anonymously imprisoned in a forgotten cell of my dungeon.

4. Shooting is not too good for my enemies.

5. The artifact which is the source of my power will not be kept on the Mountain of Despair beyond the River of Fire guarded by the Dragons of Eternity. It will be in my safe-deposit box. The same applies to the object which is my one weakness.

6. I will not gloat over my enemies' predicament before killing them.

7. When I've captured my adversary and he says, "Look, before you kill me, will you at least tell me what this is about?" I'll say, "No." and shoot him. No, on second thought I'll shoot him then say "No."

8. After I kidnap the beautiful princess, we will be married immediately in a quiet civil ceremony, not a lavish spectacle in three weeks' time during which the final phase of my plan will be carried out.

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lines alive
pointlessly captivating.

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Tuesday, February 05, 2008
 
animator v. animation
The animator always wins.

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Friday, February 01, 2008
 
for Shel Silverstein
Highslide JS

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Wednesday, January 09, 2008
 
earthbowls
In the future, everything you want will be downloadable. Except food, I suppose. But your personalized topographic wooden art bowls certainly will be, and in fact are right now at Fluidforms. Here's how it works. You type your location into the Google Maps window on the site, and it provides a three-dimensional topographic view of the city where you live as a wooden block. This is Montgomery, where I live:

You choose the exact portion you want represented in wood and order it, they carve it on some weird machine, and within a few weeks you have something that looks like this:

Very cool. Living in Colorado would heighten the effect, I imagine.

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If I had a hammer
Highslide JS
This guy knows how to use nails. Lots of them.

Thanks, Richard

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Friday, December 28, 2007
 
the eyes have it
See them here.

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Saturday, December 15, 2007
 
guess who this is

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Thursday, November 29, 2007
 
mesmerizing
Highslide JS

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Monday, November 12, 2007
 
detail
How many of these people can you identify?

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Thursday, November 08, 2007
 
Some artists of note
Jacob Magraw
James Roper
James Jean
Jerico Santander
All the artists at Desktopography

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Monday, October 29, 2007
 
lilliputian
Little people are all around us.

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Wednesday, October 24, 2007
 
art's sake
Highslide JS
I could browse the Artchive all day.

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Tuesday, October 23, 2007
 
the value of art
I really want to see the documentary Who the #$&% is Jackson Pollock? The subject of the film is a painting found by Teri Horton at a yard sale which she has spent the last 14 years trying to verify is an authentic Jackson Pollock. If it is, she owns a potential fortune. According to at least one art expert, it's the real deal. But if it's not, well then who's to say what it's worth?

I wonder if this same sort of controversy could have ever arisen around another artist's work. I mean, stone cold convincing forgeries have been around for years, but Pollock's splatter paintings are so . . . um . . easy. (ducks to avoid torrent of rage being hurled from art critics and scholars) I'm no expert, but it is possible that many could do the same thing on canvas. At least some have felt that way. The film reportedly address these issues, so it looks promising. Here's Ms. Horton with the "art." (<--quotations will be removed upon the painting's authentication.)

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Wednesday, October 03, 2007
 
Of Muppets and Men
These videos give depth to the laughing brilliance that was Jim Henson.

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color harmony

Chuck Anderson is good. Very good.

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Thursday, September 20, 2007
 
juxtapose

Josh Keyes is weird but wonderful.

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Tuesday, August 28, 2007
 
a picture you can't refuse
For fans of The Godfather, here's an image created from the words of the entire script.

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Friday, August 24, 2007
 
hoo boy
Top ten freakishly bizarre people physically modified people. My favorite? This guy:

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Wednesday, August 22, 2007
 
the emptiness

found here

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Friday, August 17, 2007
 
i love coffee/you

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Tuesday, August 07, 2007
 
whoa
eye candy.

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Wednesday, August 01, 2007
 
beyond mural
The artist Blu is a very odd sort of fellow. You can see more of his art here. Of course this is one of my favorites.

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Thursday, July 26, 2007
 
they're not joking
Visit the Museum of Bad Art (MOBA)

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Wednesday, July 25, 2007
 
babel

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Monday, July 16, 2007
 
the coolest wedding ring I've seen

Made by this guy.

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Tuesday, July 10, 2007
 
tiny sculptures
of little people.

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Monday, July 09, 2007
 
paper trail
Richard Sweeney makes incredible origami.

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Tuesday, July 03, 2007
 
Who knows what movie you saw this painting in?

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Monday, July 02, 2007
 
anthropomorphization

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Friday, June 29, 2007
 
charming
The art of Tomasz Maronski.

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Saturday, June 23, 2007
 
we've all been there

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Friday, June 22, 2007
 
deeper into the bizarre
And Steven Cerio does indeed go there.

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vandalism?
Impressive graffiti.

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Thursday, June 21, 2007
 
delightfully bizarre
The art of d'Holbachie Yoko

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Monday, June 04, 2007
 
mesmerizing

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Monday, May 07, 2007
 
image:
life meets art

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Friday, March 30, 2007
 
Much like The Last Supper by Michaelangelo, Stonehenge has become a subject for the postmodern meme. Some of you may be familiar with this variation and some of you may be familiar with this.

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Tuesday, March 13, 2007
 
flash
This is exceedingly odd.

This is exceedingly diverting.

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Friday, March 09, 2007
 
stills
For those who are looking forward to seeing Frank Miller's new movie 300, be sure and check out the actual artwork that inspired the film. Here are all five parts of the graphic novel in a compressed zip file: Enjoy.

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Tuesday, January 23, 2007
 
tranquil
Imagine diving off the coast of Grenada and coming across these.

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Thursday, January 18, 2007
 
this is pretty

More eye candy here.

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Friday, January 12, 2007
 
i like this

Jacek Yerka

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Thursday, January 04, 2007
 
unfortunately I remember many of those
Introducing...the evolution of dance.

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Friday, December 29, 2006
 
splash
Have you ever looked at a Jackson Pollock painting and said to yourself. "Heck, I could do that"? Well, now you can.

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Thursday, December 28, 2006
 
nice

found here.

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Wednesday, December 06, 2006
 
favorite artist of the week: Vladimir Kush



Link.

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Tuesday, November 28, 2006
 
now that's a tub

from these guys.

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my new favorite artist: Octavio Ocampo
Stunning, clever

You'll also like Rob Gonsalves.

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Saturday, November 25, 2006
 
this guy is good

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Wednesday, November 22, 2006
 
Harry Eng, the Master Bottle Filler
How does he do this?

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Friday, November 01, 2002
 
Since college and all that implies I have been a fan of recreational mathematics. This site is a listing of some very nice fractal web sites, where you can download eye candy by the bushel. Wow, man..

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