Category: Art

Simple yet effective collage work. Reminds me of Russell Mills’ work for the early Eno albums.

So this morning I had a very odd dream that I removed all my skin and stood in front of the bathroom mirror checking myself out, looking like the Visible Man. I could see the exact reason why my neck was aching. I wondered whether my skin would snap back when I put it back on. (Don’t worry, it did, quite nicely).
Much later in the day I wandered into a flowerchildgathering at the park near my house and met a girl there who painted my face. She had brought an art book to look out while picnicking and it was by Alex Grey. And there was the image from my dream (minus the spiritual aura stuff that he does.
So there you go! A very odd day. Paging Dr. Jung…

Going through some old files I came across an art postcard for an exhibition of Andrew Schoultz. I meant to blog about him at the time (2005), but forgot. The large scale of his art and the fine linework don’t get fairly represented on the ‘net, so seek him out if you have a chance. He has a thing for wood, elephants, and battles.

This is very cool. The only bad thing is that it’s not an actual deck. The graphic is available on Cafe Press as cards, T-shirts, and posters.

That’s all you really need to know, right?

Over at Datajunkie (which doesn’t have anything to do with technology, but is a blog about pulp novels and old comic books), they’ve unearthed these unpublished pages from datajunkie: a Prisoner comic book adaptation drawn by Jack Kirby! He only got a few pages into it, but it’s good stuff, seeing one iconic program drawn in Kirby’s blocky style. Check out this panorama of the Village. If only Kirby could have gotten the go-ahead. Who knows what his own Prisoner scripts would have been like.

Using a specially modded camera and taken from a helicopter, Olivo Barbieri’s photos render out the world we know into what looks like plastic models. These photos make me feel all weird and wonderful. Here’s a short article on Barbieri along with a photo gallery. Awesome.
Update: BoingBoing posted this link a few days later (ha ha, beat ya!) and their users passed on two other links: A Japanese photographer doing the same thing and a tip on how to mod your own tilt-shift lens.

Very cool Push Pin Studio-influenced art from Tadanori Yokoo found in this Mazda 110S L10A brochure from however many years ago. Found on Boing Boing, of course.

Artist Dave Devries takes children’s drawings of monsters and superheroes and replicates them as fine art. The results are brilliant and slightly frightening.