Arty Things 4

Yet another posting of arty things I have found on the internet. I doubt anyone will actually make it all the way through these but, in my opinion, they're well worth it. Anyone who goes gets a cookie. Or a muffin. In any case, Enjoy!

PB&J Sushi
-These remind me of the 'fancy sandwiches' my grandma used to make. Hers had maraschino cherries and cream cheese, or tuna and cucumber. But why not Peanut butter and Jam?

Then and Now
-A photo of what I think is a park in the seventies to what it looks like now, forty years later.

Cotton Monsters
-Strange and adorable plushie monsters made from old recycled clothing. Checking out her studio work is well worth it. My favourites are the pink mass of eyes and tentacles and the wearable monsters.

Scribbler
-I used to do this in Junior high, draw a line and then keep scribbling until it looks like there are a million little spiderwebs over everything. The more lines you draw, the longer the animation goes for. Good for killing some time.

Love by Pablo Neruda
-Neruda is one of my favourite poets. He writes mostly melancholy love poems and I've only read the English translations, but they're still beautiful. This isn't my favourite poem of his but it comes close. Any chance I'll get, I'll toss something of his in.

Recycled Chipmunk
-A quick tutorial on how to make a chipmunk/squirrel plush out of those old dollar store gloves. I'm kind of amused by plashes made from recycled stuff.

Leonid Afremov
- I'm a big fan of colour and visible brush strokes in paintings and this guy has both. This painting is long since sold and I can't remember the name of it but I still think it's worth a look. I'm particularly fond of the water/sky blur.

Vintage Tattoos
-Tattoos have been around for a very, very long time. They're an ingrained part of our culture in every era. But I think this images of vintage tattooing will surprise you.

Street Crimes by Banksy
-I love graffiti. I love the brashness, disrespectful, temporary quality of it. I'm a particular fan of this person.
"Banksy is a quasi-anonymous English graffiti artist. His artworks are often satirical pieces of art on topics such as politics, culture, and ethics. He’s gone from a teenage tagger to a well-known artist making multi-million dollar art. His style and message have, ironically, been wholeheartedly embraced by the very type of people he mocks."
Seriously, check this one out.

A notice
-Am I weird in the fact that things like this make me smile?

Altered Books
-"Cut the bindings off of books found at a used book store. Find poems in the pages by the process of obliteration. Put pages in the mail and send them all around the world. Lather, rinse, repeat."

Michael Kutsche
-I came across this guy's work on dA a long time ago and became a fan of this warped but realistic style of painting.

In Search of Missing Pieces by Bruno Catalano
-A series of sculptures all based on the same idea of absent but filled space.

Steampunk Sculptures
-This one is for a friend who both loves and hates Steampunk. I, on the other hand, adore tiny leather and steam robots. I also feel these have a very 'Tim Burton-esque' style to them.

The Last Answer
-I can either say a lot about this one or let it stand on it's own. As it is, I think it's better if you come to it only knowing it's a story about what happens after we die and that's only scratching the surface. If you like irony, this is a good read for you.

The Egg
-If you didn't like the one above, here's another idea of the world that is the great beyond. A little more 'hopeful' this one is.

Macro Ant
-I've heard a lot of discussions whether photography is an art form or if it's simply what is before the lens that is the art and the camera an instrument of capture that cheapens the moment. In any case, this is a super amazing picture that is worth taking a look at.

Invade a Hospital
-Posters like these get grouped into the 'brash graffiti' category. I like it when people point out contradictory opinions.

Tom Otterness
-This guy specializes in large public sculptures, such as playgrounds and his squishy human form creatures. It's worth a look through his gallery and his explanation of his process.

Beanie with a Beard
-This is one way to keep your face warm during the winter. And who says knitting is a dying art?

I do not love you by Pablo Neruda
-Fine, I caved. This is my absolute favourite Neruda poem. Absolute favourite. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Pin-up art that kicks you in the teeth
-Ha. Thought you were getting away with a posting from me that didn't include pin-up art? Think again!
"Aly Fell's pinup art includes robots, zombie-slayers, vampires, witches, demons and supervillains. And transdimensional dragon hunters! It's well worth checking out the rest of Aly Fell's amazing body of work, which pays homage to some of our favorite glamor artists as well as comics artists and classic pulp fiction."
I adore the absinthe fairy at the end.

Hyperrealistic Sculptures
-Carole Feuerman creates sculptures that look as intensely real as she can get them. Things like this always creep me out but I figured I'd share anyways. Also, not sure why all the women she sculpts are wet...

Hyperrealistic Painters
-To continue with the creepy, here are some paintings that are done so realistically they look like photographs. However, even with that, I find that I spend some time trying to figure out what's wrong, because even with the amazing skills, you can see something is off.

Scary Flying Fish Digital Painting
Uhm. Random digital painting I thought was cool. Enjoy.

Edmud Dulac
-When I was younger, I could have sworn I had a book of fairytales illustrated in this style. And this is a style I love to death. I'd love to do an old classic fairytale play (ie. Beauty and the Beast) with throwbacks to this sort of colour and movement.

Rainbow Eucalyptus
-"No artist can rival Mother Nature when she’s at her most creative—the Rainbow Eucalyptus’s existence is proof alone of that. Take a look at these colorful trees and try not to call them works of art."

Macbre Kid's Book Art
"Here is a collection of wonderfully weird illustrations by Gōjin Ishihara, whose work graced the pages of numerous kids' books in the 1970s. The first 16 images below appeared in the "Illustrated Book of Japanese Monsters" (1972), which profiled supernatural creatures from Japanese legend. The other illustrations appeared in various educational and entertainment-oriented publications for children."

Thing in a Jar
"The glass jar acts as a physical barrier, preventing the viewer from directly accessing its contents. The murky fluid acts as a visual barrier, making the exact details of the form indistinct. The viewer is forced to fill in the gaps with their own imagination."

John Miranda's Photography
And a perfect example of why I want to go to Greece.

Papercraft Self Portrait
-And you thought your halloween costume was cool?

Twelve Animals
"In a series of illustrations entitled "Twelve Animals," graphic artist Kentaro Nagai rearranges the world map to create the beasts of the Chinese zodiac."

European Street Art
More graffiti from a collection of artists from all over the world. Well worth taking a look at.

Flowered archway
-I love gardens that double as art and the shaping ability of plants never ceases to amaze me.

Prayer Pin
"Under 500 magnification it was found that the tiny etchings seen on the heads of the pins
were the words to The Lord's Prayer, which is 65 words and 254 letters long. Of the seven pins, six were silver and one was gold - the gold pin's prayer was flawless and a true masterpiece."

Abandoned Theme Parks
-Places like these make me itch for a camera and some bizarre costumes to put on my models and to go traipsing about the creepy location, taking equally creepy pictures. Too bad there's nothing this awesome around here.

Modern Living - Neurotic Series
-This collections of animations had me intrigued, amused and playing with it for hours. I love the stark 'noir' feel and the passively aggressive nature in which the viewer interacts with the animations. I also really like the feeling of being confused but desiring to know more.
Just check it out. You'll understand what I mean.

Tee-Store Designs
A collection of witty pop-culture reference t-shirt designs.

Sketchbook of Irina Vinnik
-There are some people who keep 'journals' which house a growing collection of their artwork. When I find people who have uploaded them, I spend hours paging though the little secret peek into their art world. I'm jealous of people who have a commitment to fill a book like that and I'm super jealous of the abilities they have to do so in an eye-pleasing manner.

recreating children's drawing by yeondoo jung
"the artwork of children is fascinating on many levels. however their uninhibited imagination is not always very true to reality. so when korean artist yeondoo jung set out to turn the drawing's of 5-7 year old children into reality, some interesting environments were sure to arise. after he collected over 1,000 drawings, a select few were selected and turned into reality through a series of photo shoots titled 'wonderland'. the results are just as fascinating as the original drawings."

coffee culture by shenkar college of engineering and design
"Under the supervision of alex padwa and david spectre, students at the shenkar college
of engineering and design, ramat gan were encouraged to look closely at the various
daily coffee rituals and consumptions for their coffee culture project. here are a few
images of the works they developed."

Illustrations
I can't read the language on this site, so I couldn't pick out the artist's name but I highly enjoyed the images they created. Puts me into that fairytale vibe.

Earth from Above
"Earth From Above" is the result of the aerial photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand's five-year airborne odyssey across six continents. It's a spectacular presentation of large scale photographs of astonishing natural landscapes. Every stunning aerial photograph tells a story about our changing planet."
I wish I could fly, sometimes

A Mirrored Memory
"Texas based photographer, Tom Hussey reflects on his recent collaboration with the pharmaceutical company, Novartis for their ”Reflections” campaign.
”Based on an earlier portfolio image, I was awarded a job for an Alzheimer’s drug called the Exelon Patch made by Novartis. The Exelon Patch helps patients maintain long-term memories during the early stages of this horrific disease. I was fortunate to be included in a lot of the early concept stages for the campaign. I knew immediately location scouting and casting were going to be very important to evoke the emotions associated with the disease. The campaign has been extremely successful for the promotion of the brand and people universally respond to the images. After we shot the campaign, the images went into testing and legal review. They were so well received that the images, all 10 of them, were printed full page in the brochures and other collateral.” -Tom Hussey"

Evol
"EVOL is a berlin based street artist that transforms banal urban surfaces, into miniature architectural surfaces through pasting. using pasted paper, EVOL transforms electric boxes, small planters and other geometric city forms, into miniature apartment buildings and other structures. each piece of paper is printed with a repetitive pattern of flat gray walls dotted with plain window frames. once applied to a surface, the paper transforms the form into small building that EVOL often adorns with small characters. EVOL performs this process within different cities and has even been commissioned to do installations in galleries, where he was created entire blocks of miniature buildings."

Wasted Beauty
Just... check this one out. And if you want to read anything, be careful with your mouse. Mousing over erases the words.

Save Food from the Refrigerator
"Jihyun Ryou, Design Academy Eindhoven graduate, did his Master Thesis about food preservation. By accumulating traditional oral knowledge, he looked at a feasible way to bring the knowledge into everyday life."

Protest Signs
You may not count this as art but if I learned anything from my 360 Performance creation class, this most certainly is.

Bokeh Photography
"The term bokeh is derived from a Japanese word which means “blur.” In photography, bokeh is the aesthetic quality of the blur, or the effect of the out-of-focus regions of an image. This technique is usually done in order to make the main subject stand out in the photo. Lens aberrations and shape of lens aperture are the major things that help in achieving bokeh."

I Like You When You Are Quiet
I'm sure you're tired of Neruda by now, but hey, the man is the master of the backwards compliment. Placed alongside the original Spanish.

Awesome Origami
"Origami is the traditional Japanese art of paper folding. It has now become a beloved art form for people around the world. I use to make little paper cranes and hearts and thought I was the origami master. These origami creations make my child’s play look like crap.
These creations truly amaze me. How someone can get from a flat sheet of paper and turn it into something that looks so organic make paper look so lively."

Skate & Destroy
-"So what ever happens to used skateboard decks? Most of them end up under the bed and surface only during nostalgic moments when you want to remember a time when you were not a 42 year old balding executive. However a lucky few, end up being turned into cool stuff like these amazing artworks from art collective harsh.
A refreshing take on eco and recycled artwork, the HARVEST project showcased a selection of the collective’s work throughout the years, following a philosphy to embrace sustainability through finding new applications for used possessions."

Combo Couch
-Best couch ever! I want one!

DIY Solar Lamp
And we'll finish it off with a adorable little idea to bring free light into your house.


Thanks for looking. I hope you enjoyed. :D