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Okay, one last calender suggestion. Although, technically these illustrations aren’t calenders…just monthly illustrations. Sarah Jane Studios is a local artist with some fantastic talent. Check out her etsy shop here. I want these in our next daughter’s room. They’re so adorable.
So Rachel and I are kinda getting into this new-ish show, Chuck. There’s a character named Captain Awesome. He is definitely awesome. Anyway…Rachel wants me to be a little bit more awesome. So after a few hours of searching amazon, I found the perfect book to help with my awesomeness.
And the cactus below is anything but awesome. So steer clear.
Artist and designer Helen Amy Murray does amazing work with different materials. Enjoy.
Some details of her leather work.
This wall design was for a private commission she did in London. The material is a wool and cashmere. I adore this.
And another fun chair of hers…
My wife is gonna kill me when she sees this post cuz she hates when I post random stuff like this. But design is design. And this is design.
Guess Who.
Finger Puppets.
Square animals.
Cassette Tapes.
I’ve always wanted to try out a mustache but Rachel won’t let me. :)
Every wonder what Lightning McQueen (star of PIxar’s Cars) looks like on the inside? I did. And I found this.
Thanks to Agent44.
Alex Ostrowski is awesome.
In one way or another we are all looking for happiness. Some people even say that man’s sole purpose for existence is to hunt down and capture this intangible and elusive treasure. In 2006 researchers at The University of Leicester concluded that Denmark is the happiest country in the world - this was good enough for me. In March 2008 I made the decision to visit happiness, and embarked upon a pilgrimage to find it. My experiences are presented in this book.
Only one copy exists.
Artist Lindsay Brackeen has some adorable artwork. Fresh, Fun, and very adorable.
I really like some of this work by Willi Dorner and Lisa Rastl.
The urban based series was created as a set of human sculptures which were spread throughout the city of Vienna. the artist has effectively transformed the human body into form, a complete reversal from the classical convention of creating the human form from a material.
I’m not sure how Noriko Ambe does it…but I think it looks cool.
Banksy is by far my favorite Street Artist. For the longest time, no one knew who he really was. Well…a couple of weeks ago, that all changed. Mail on Sunday broke the story and revealed who Banksy really was. I’ve been meaning to highlight some of his work for awhile now. But first an excerpt from the story. There was also a good piece done on Banksy in Time and also Gawker.
He is perhaps the most famous, or infamous, artist alive. To some a genius, to others a vandal. Always controversial, he inspires admiration and provokes outrage in equal measure.
Since Banksy made his name with his trademark stencil-style ‘guerrilla’ art in public spaces - on walls in London, Brighton, Bristol and even on the West Bank barrier separating Israelis and Palestinians - his works have sold for hundreds of thousands of pounds.
He has dozens of celebrity collectors including Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Christina Aguilera.
My favorite.
My second favorite.
Some of his non-street-art stuff.
Some of his non-street-art stuff.
Some of his non-street-art stuff.
Some of his non-street-art stuff.
Some interesting work at Poladoodles.
The idea formed when I started exercising spontaneous drawing and found that I had a bunch of less than perfect Polaroid shots that I couldn’t let go to waste. Each of these photographs became a tiny canvas for me to doodle, and Poladoodles were born!
These are some random animated gifs that i’ve been collecting over the weeks…
Straight from D. Billy’s website.
Using colorful media such as twisting balloons, party streamers, and artist tape, I have begun to add visual representations of sound effects to public spaces as a sort of dimensional graffiti. After embellishing the found scenes and photographing the results, I leave my additions in place to engage passers-by for as long as the materials hold up. For me, this process encourages a reexamination of surroundings and objects that are usually taken for granted, and injects a hint of the fantastical surreality that I have established in my other work.
Or, at the very least, I hope someone thinks these things are kind of funny.
