Posts Tagged ‘art’
Artist turns CCTV images into paintings
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Posted: 1st, June 2013 | In: Technology, The Consumer | Comment
Dear Artists: Michael Jackson’s chimp is making more money than you as a painter
EVERYONE knows how hard it is to make a living as an artist. Painters live on the breadline in moldy bedsits trying to make it in the cruel artworld.
And all the while, Bubbles, Michael Jackson’s famous pet chimp, is raking it in. That will annoy the piss out of people won’t it? Bubbles has sold two paintings for £2,000 at auction. Imagine the amount of Drum rolling tobacco you could buy with that?
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Churchtanks: Churches turned into weapons of mass destruction (photos)
ONWARD Christian soldiers… Artist Kris Kuksi’s Churchtanks sculptures change churches into tanks. It’s a “process that requires countless hours to assemble, collect, manipulate, cut, and re-shape thousands of individual parts, finally uniting them into an orchestral-like seamless cohesion that defines the historical rise and fall of civilization and envisions the possible future(s) of humanity.”
Fire (and brimstone) at will.
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Posted: 4th, May 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Turning toilet rolls into sculptures
YOU see an empty toilet role. The BBC sees a space rocket. Junior Jacquet sees an opportunity for sculptures. Oddly, the sculptures look like they’ve been modelled on faces contorted in constipation:
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Posted: 11th, April 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Nuxuno Xän’s bushy afro in Fort De France, Martinique
WE love great graffiti. This is a work by Nuxuno Xän, in Fort De France, Martinique. See more great art here.
Spotter: Street Art Utopia.
Posted: 17th, March 2013 | In: Photojournalism, The Consumer | Comment
New York art student strong armed over plans to give away 68 jars of his sperm
MARC Bradley Johnson, 23, a student at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, turned his masturbation into his art. Johnson’s work, Take This Sperm And Be Free Of Me, was 68 vials of his own jizz in a fridge.
Marc’s sperm was not a last-minute attempt to concoct homework from his linen. It represented “creation, parenting, desire, masculinity, fantasy and reality”. He’d give them away to the enthusiasts.
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Posted: 4th, March 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Klonowska makes animal sculptures from shattered glass
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Posted: 3rd, March 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Finding Solitary Movement in a Busy Crowd (Animated Gifs) by Nicolas Ritterone
FINDING Solitary Movement in a Busy Crowd (Animated Gifs) is the work of Nicolas Ritterone.
“One focuses on the individual in a crowd. It particularly imitates the way in which the human eye observes: not viewing a crowd as a crowd, but observing little micro-scenes inside of it.”
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Posted: 15th, February 2013 | In: Gifs, The Consumer | Comment
Frank Lund’s New Brighton pirate ship made from Mersey driftwood and other washed-up stuff (photos)
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Posted: 9th, February 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment (1)
Japanese want to put undercrackers on naked statues
ARTISTS are all absolute filth aren’t they? Go into any gallery and chances are, you’ll see some boobs or, worse still, a little naked, flying child.
Children themselves are encouraged to go into galleries, surrounded by sexual images of bored looking women, naked-from-the-waist-down hobo-looking blokes and infant arses, which means that art is going to corrupt them, no question. No wonder we’re all dirty minded buggers.
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Posted: 7th, February 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Hominid: X-Ray animation
HOMINID is an animated teaser based on the Hominid series of photo composites by Brian Andrews. The series has been exhibited internationally, including at SIGGRAPH, in the Hong Kong Exhibition Center, and at numerous galleries. This animated teaser was produced at Ex’pression College for Digital Arts. Be on the lookout for future Hominid animations. (When I saw this I kept thinking of Cherie Blair.)
Hominid from Brian Andrews on Vimeo.
Posted: 30th, January 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Your terrible client comments are now posters
IRISH graphic designers Mark Shanley and Paddy Treacy took their “favorite worst feedback” and turned into posters.
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Posted: 28th, January 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment (1)
Contest: Find Momo the dog in these scenes
Can you find Momo the dog in these pictures? Momo lives with Andrew Knapp. Momo is a 4-year-old border collie, who likes hiding fetch sticks.
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Posted: 24th, January 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Duane Michals was the Bogeyman
DUANE Michals was The Bogeyman back in 1973. As he said: “To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.”
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Posted: 21st, January 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Photographer snaps his own shadow (photos)
HOW did he do it? PoL Úbeda Hervàs has taken phots of his own shadow. How?
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Posted: 15th, January 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment
The Scotch Tape pictures: how to wear Christmas gift wrapping
THANKS to New Mexico-based photographer Wes Naman we know what to do with all that used Christmas gift wrapping. We wear it. In his Scotch Tape pictures, Naman invited people to wear Sellotape. Most end up looking like Glasgow nightclub doormen. Others resemble the Old Patesians front row and mid-op surgery faces at Mr Trip ‘n’ Tuck’s, Miami surgery:
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Posted: 26th, December 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Kim Beom turns screaming into painting
YELLOW Scream is the work of South Korean artist Kim Beom. This video features Beom screaming at yellow paint. You can see it at the Walker Art Center in 2013.
Says Kim:
“The technique to this painting is to incorporate the sound of screams into the brush strokes…A brush stroke done with screaming is very different from a normal one. … The effect of the screams is recorded with the brush strokes…Aaaaaaaaagh!…
He has tips:
“Now relax and try to feel your breathing, because screaming is part of breathing… a long scream that sounds like when you’re hurt, as if someone yanked your arm behind you or pulled you by the hair.”
Having considered other screams (waking up with Noel Edmonds; “a scream induced by psychological pain”; “a more pained, wronged, and regretful scream”), he concludes:
“Let’s mix a bit of permanent green and add some refreshing hope and pleasure to the screams of joy.”
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Posted: 14th, December 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
This is Brusspup’s new optical illusion video
He writes:
Master of optical illusion Brusspup has a new video … showing some really fun optical illusions using anamorphic projections. The trick is pretty simple: the photographs are skewed but then filmed at an angle where everything looks normal, but when the illusion is revealed it’s still pretty mind-bending. Brasspup also provided downloadable high resolution files of the Rubik’s cube, shoe, and tape so you can print them out on 8×11″ paper, trim, and try for yourself.
Please let us know if you do…
Posted: 3rd, December 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Russian forest now features this 170-ft long Tigger trampoline
THE Archstoyanie festival in Nikola-Lenivets, Russia, features Fast Track, a 170-ft long trampoline. created by Salto. It looks like fun. But it;s art, dammit. It has to be steeped in meaning. Salto explain:
“Fast track” is a integral part of park infrastructure, it is a road and an installation at the same time. It challenges the concept of infrastructure that only focuses on technical and functional aspects and tends to be ignorant to its surroundings. “Fast track” is an attempt to create intelligent infrastructure that is emotional and corresponds to the local context. It gives the user a different experience of moving and percieving the environment.
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Posted: 28th, November 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Great street art of 2012
GREAT Street art:
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Posted: 19th, November 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
The best photos of Misao and the cat called Fukumaru
IN 1999, Japanese photographer Miyoko Ihara began taking pictures of her grandmother, Misao. Then her grandmother found a cat. She called it Fukumaru in hope that “God of fuku( good fortune) comes and everything will be smoothed over like maru(circle)”. The cat had odd eyes. It and Misao are now the stars of a book. The pictures are gorgeous:
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Posted: 19th, November 2012 | In: Photojournalism, Reviews | Comment (1)
Sakir Gökçebag makes art from food
TURKISH photographer Sakir Gökçebag makes art from food. Beats a smily face:
Spotter: ThisIsColossal
Posted: 26th, October 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
The erasing of Alzheimer’s: William Utermohlen draws his disease
ALZHEIMER’S is a cruel disease. American artist William Utermohlen was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 1995. He was 61. He wanted to show others how it felt. So. He painted. In 2007, the disease killed him. The pictures are evocative of turmoil and sense unravelling…
Urban highjacks: photos of the unexpected
URBAN Highjacks is a series of photos by German photographer Robert Rickhoff:
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