http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/vik_muniz_makes_art_with_wire_sugar.html Brazilian artist Vik Muniz’s TED talk about his incredibly witty artwork. Well worth the watch.
Tag Archives: Arts
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http://www.rokebygallery.com/images/wwtreedrwing_0.jpg The Tate Modern has bought several of the tree’s pieces at $30 million and up.
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http://www.magazine13.com/arts/master-of-miniatures.html Microscopic art. While I appreciate the skill, I question the effort. Six months to carve something that, with an ill-timed sneeze, will be lost forever.
The Stories Behind Hollywood Studio Logos
http://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/03/the-story-behind-hollywood-studio-logos/ One aspect of movie culture that I’ve never previously thought to study: The studio logos. This is pretty neat, actually.
amy ross. – my love for you is a stampede of horses.
http://myloveforyou.typepad.com/my_love_for_you/2008/04/amy-ross.html Fukkit, I’m goin’ Photoblog on all yer asses. It’ll save you from drowning in the bile of my unhappiness. For my bird nerd sis, a beautiful painting of all her favourite songbirds.
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http://www.mylittleunderground.net/products/commands/index.htm My work situation, with a little in-joke thrown in for any who know where I work…
X-Rite: Get exactly the color you need, every time, anywhere in the world.
http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?PageID=77 This is a really neat little hue test for one’s eyesight. Despite the fact that the boxes started strobing after the first minute, I scored a four.
bomomo
http://bomomo.com/ Nifty but hard to describe. The best I can do, is to imagine painting with the iTunes music visualiser.
NEWSPAPER BLACKOUT POEMS by Austin Kleon
http://www.austinkleon.com/category/newspaper-blackout-poems/ “Blackout Poems”: The kind of thing I wish I’d come up with, but am far too unpoetic (“poethetic?”) and uncreative ever to have imagined. *jealous*
Spam One-liners – a set on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/linzie/sets/72157602417089145/ Twee lettered art based on actual spam subjects. These are so incredibly well done, and the concept so simple, my jealousy kill-switch was flipped at first sight.