Art Imitates… Art

This is one of Brandon Jan Blommaert’s junk sculptures.  I love the idea of re-using junk but I think what I like the most is the close resemblance to the monster in Where the Wild Things Are… which, by the way, should be an awesome movie!

Flip It Good

Mister Kama used a series of drawings on label stickers and an elevator handrail as his flipbook canvas in Milan.  Check it out…

For another interesting flipbook idea, check out Erbert and Gerbert’s Human Flipbook.

Owww… that REALLY hurt!

 

Doesn’t Banksy’s latest NYC piece remind you of the YouTube darling, Charlie Bit My Finger?

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For my tenth installment of All Things English…

English supermodel Kate Moss has officially earned her weight in gold thanks to English artist Marc Quinn’s latest sculpture called Siren.  His sculpture of Moss is said to be the largest solid-gold statue to be made in the world since the time of Ancient Egypt.  Quinn estimated the value of [...]

Crappy Morning

GENEVA (AFP) – A giant inflatable dog turd by American artist Paul McCarthy blew away from an exhibition in the garden of a Swiss museum, bringing down a power line and breaking a greenhouse window before it landed again, the museum said Monday.
The art work, titled “Complex Shit”, is the size of a house.  The [...]

Wonderland

Korean artist, Yeondoo Jung decided to bring children’s drawings to life in a series of photographs called Wonderland.  After collecting more than 1,000 drawings from children ages 5-7 in South Korea, he narrowed the drawings down to a small selection of favorites and staged full-scale photo shoots to bring each to life.

My initial thought when I saw [...]

Where on (Google) Earth is Waldo?

Melanie Coles, a young web designer and artist, has developed a modern day viral game of Where’s Waldo as her graduation project from the Emily Carr Institute.

Her project consists of creating and hiding a massive painting of Waldo on a rooftop somewhere in Vancouver in hopes that it will be captured by the Google Satellite and included in the Google [...]

Sunny Side Up

Yesterday, Dutch artist, Henk Hofstra, installed his art piececalled “Art Eggcident” on the Zaailand, one of the largest city squares in Leeuwarden, Netherland.
The installation consisting of several large eggs (each 100 feet wide) will remain sunny side up for the next six months.

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My fourth installment of All Things English… 
I had a feeling this would become a trend given peoples reactions to my previous post Tide Chandelier…

This, my friends, is literally glowing trash art… a.k.a. another trash chandelier.  And once again, it looks pretty cool. 

This design is by David Batchelor, who although actually Scottish, lives his life as a sculptor, artist, [...]