Archive for the ‘Art’ Category

Beauty Is Embarrassing

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The world of Wayne White is a place I want to experience. He’s worn many hats such as a painter, sculptor, cartoonist, puppeteer, set designer, art director, animator, and illustrator. He created and voiced Randy among many other contributions to Pee Wee’s Playhouse. I find his attitude and approach to making extremely contagious.

All of this energy and humor is captured in Neil Berkely’s documentary, Beauty is Embarrassing, which will premier at SXSW next Saturday! Go check it out. Below you can see the incredible trailer and some of Wayne’s paintings.


Realistic Childrens Paintings

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What if children’s drawings were drawn more realistically? That’s the question that Dave DeVries answered when he created The Monster Engine. Sadly, the Monster Engine site is down, presumably from all of the traffic it is getting, but after the jump you can see more crazy cool examples of this work.


Peter Callesen

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Peter Callesen‘s creative abilities are phenomenal. Not only are the concepts great, the execution is on point. He blends cutting paper with sculpting the scraps to create fantastic scenes and metaphors. See more after the jump.


Hudson – Against the Grain

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I love this stop motion video for Hudson, created by Jonathan Chong. Very resourceful, clever stuff.


YES – Facebook

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YES gallery, an incredible source of inspiration, recently had a ‘Facebook’ event at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati.

Participants had their photo taken in the face-book set, the image was immediately uploaded to a shared folder, the photo was then color corrected, re-sized, saved for web on another computer, and then uploaded to Facebook by the user. The final outcome was an online ‘album‘ of every one’s ‘Face Book Profile Picture’.

Pretty amazing! Andrew of YES is contstantly firing out light hearted, socially active, and visually stunning work. After the jump you’ll see photos from other oversized projects as well as new limited edition prints from Andy Rementer, Elsa Lang, and Denis Carrier.


Note Cards

Let’s jump rope!

The internet, it’s open.

Not your typical Walgreen’s pharmacy.

It’s called the spoon prank, and it is hilarious.

Brine Icicles don’t mess around. They’re killer.

Would you ride a giant spoke-less ferris wheel?

Stop annoying your neighbors with these cheap soundproofing techniques.

One of our favorite Austin spots receives FFFest praise for their “Slayer Dog”

One used time traveling DeLorean for sale. $600,000 OBO.

How good at Kerning are you? Why not test yourself?

It’s October, so why not celebrate with some Dia De Los Modernists posters?

While we’re talkin’ food, how about a pencil sharpener that dispenses parmesan pencil shavings? Yum!

Need to peel an entire head of garlic in under 10 seconds? Do it with two bowls.

This is the kinda Garden Gnome that lets people know you mean business.

Darth Vader blows some hot air.

You really need to be following Adam Garcia’s sketchbook blog.

That’s a really cool fountain. I want that in my yard.

Hey Portland! Cheat Local!

Marty McFly and Doc Brown have a backstory finally.

It’s the cartoon color wheel.

What if Charles Schulz wrote Jaws?

If there’s anything you learn from this, it’s that you shouldn’t get a discount taxidermist.

Not that you don’t already, but keep in mind that chain emails are bad.

I’m all for this kind of nuclear proliferation.