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seriously who doesnt love spike jonze? this is amazing! 3,000...

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:33:03 -0400

seriously who doesnt love spike jonze? this is amazing! 3,000 pieces of handcut felt were used to make this stop motion animation. watch it. love it. find out more here.

alvaro tapia hildalgo...

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:01:25 -0400

wow! i simply just love alvaro hildalgo’s work! the colors are beautiful, the creepy expressions and the simplicity of the drawing are spot on! i have been looking at this work for days now, it’s so much fun and the dude has tons of it on his site. i had a hard time choosing a few ( i know, i always say that, but it’s because these people are rad!). so anyway check him out and buy his work on society6, i did! here are some of my favorites:

yeah poe!

heck yeah! and john waters too:

the colors in this one are amazing:

ok just one more, bride of frankenstein:

yowayowa camera woman...

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:11:00 -0500

this tokyo based photographer sets up portraits of levitating females almost daily! yowayowa updates her site frequently so you can see “today’s levitation”. the shots are really great and almost seem like a moment frozen in time more than levitation, but the models are so serious so it feels very strange. check her out! here are some of my favorites:

matthew cusick...

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:14:18 -0500

is a new york based collage/paint/video artist. i guess i have either been getting into collage more or there’s just more of it out there than usual right now. either way, matthew cusick is pretty amazing. i was attracted mostly to his map collages, their tedious and detailed quality is really quite amazing. he somehow pulls off making something that is usually very confusing for me to look at into something i can immediately recognize and relate to. but i must say all of the work on his site is worth looking at.

christian northeast...

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:53:27 -0500

i was browsing through the communication arts typography annual and came across christian northeast’s work (he did the cover, but it didn’t catch my attention as much as the work inside). i love his process which is scanning old lithographs and reassembling them into nostalgic style imagery of monsters, beasts, humans and pretty much everything else you can think of. some of his beasts remind me of maurice sendak (you know, the guy thats so famous for his book where the wild things are). anyway, take a look, these are some of my favorites, but there were tons to choose from so be sure to check out his site!

david choe watercolors...

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 09:56:45 -0500

i absolutely adore david choe, his style is fluid and expansive and his subjects can be anything from witty to serious. i recently came across these watercolor portraits he did of michael jackson and pee wee herman and die antwoord. they are simple and a bit awkward but register immediately.

Kittiwat Unarrom...bread art

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:20:53 -0400

Kittiwat Unarrom is an artist who discovered his unique sculpting skills with bread dough at his family’s local bakery. when seeing his work, your first reaction might be to run the other way. but when you find out that it is only bread you will probably be relieved but a little uneasy about eating it….

read the full article

liu bolin...

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:33:00 -0500

liu bolin is a chinese artist focusing on how “city surroundings can affect the people living in them.” often his pieces make me think about the past. the figure seems more like a ghost that had once lived in the spaces that are now being occupied by something else. there were a few instances that bolin did so well at painting the figure to look transparent that it took me a while to find them. if you like the images below, the hiding in the city series is pretty big, check out more images here.

winston chmielinski...

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:14:00 -0500

winston chmielinski’s paint is fluid and energetic. the figures he paints are gorey with harsh brush strokes of intense colors and shadows. in some instances the paint looks as if it’s going to wash right off the canvas and in other spots it looks squishy and dense. you get trapped within his brush strokes and begin to forget that you are looking at a figure. beautiful.

paintings by monica cook...

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:46:32 -0500

shiny tentacles and substances on bare skin seem to be a pattern in monica cook’s paintings. the realism can leave you feeling a little disturbed because her subjects seem to be very uncomfortable with the situations she paints them in. when you step aside from what you are looking at and actually look at the paint, its gorgeous! the colors she uses are subtle and beautiful and full of luminosity.

this amazing stop motion animation was created by shynola for...

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:09:46 -0500

this amazing stop motion animation was created by shynola for coldplay’s song, strawberry swing. shynola is a group of artists that have created music videos for artists such as radiohead, unkle, queens of the stone age and beck.

1,000 melting people...

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:16:49 -0400

the world wildlife fund installed 1,000 ice figures in a berlin square recently to raise people’s awareness of the melting ice caps in greenland and antartica. the visual impact is quite impressive! the full article is in another language so you can view the translated version here via google translator. see some shots of the installation below:

food modification...

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:38:41 -0400

i am in love with these little buddha pears! this concept is really inspiring and makes me want to try it out myself! i am reposting this from the cakehead loves evil blog, check out the full post here.

amazing! japanese rice fields...

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:05:44 -0400

since 1993 crop art has become more and more popular in japan. rice farmers meticulously plant their crops by arranging the rice plants by color in a paint by number manner. the outcome is pretty amazing and almost unbelievable! see for yourself:

upcoming show : idle hour : baltimore, md

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:12:00 -0400

join me at one of baltimore’s coolest bars to celebrate the opening of my show. i will be hanging prints and originals for this show.
if you cannot make the opening, the show will be up for a month. i hope to see you there!

WHEN: Friday, September 4, 2009

WHERE: The Idle Hour : 201 E. Fort Ave, Baltimore, MD

PRICE: FREE

i look forward to seeing you there and toasting to art and good times!

astrid krogh

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:24:00 -0400

check out this amazing neon sign! i think it is the most impressive / beautiful / cool one i have ever seen. astrid krogh (the artist who designed it) is actually a textile designer, she was commissioned by the Commune of Kolding to install the neon lights on the Nikolai Quarter in Kolding, Denmark. beautiful. see the article here

Al Farrow....

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:39:09 -0400

al farrow’s reliquaries are what attracted me the most, but you must check out how versitile he is! the reliquaries i am including in this post are made of guns, bullets, bullet shells, bones, and steel…

a wooden mirror? wow! this guy (Daniel Rozin) is a genius!

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:23:00 -0400

a wooden mirror? wow! this guy (Daniel Rozin) is a genius!

another child prodigy...

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:19:03 -0400

6 year old kieron williamson will blow you away with his beautiful watercolor paintings. you may be imagining that he is just throwing some colors down and they mix beautifully out of luck…but this is not the case. kieron paints landscapes with a pretty good attention to shapes and colors as well as perspective. it is unbelievable! here is the article

just stumbled across this on devin castro’s blog. what an...

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:16:00 -0400

just stumbled across this on devin castro’s blog. what an amazing sound! all from a tree…im intrigued! the entire thing was created by diego stocco using a tree in his yard…he wondered if he could make music with it and boy did he succeed!