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My fellow blogger Andrew Hearst over at SUNfiltered posted this amazing VHS shaped tribute by artist David Herbert to Kubrick's 2001 (one of my all time fave movies).
Relatedly, you can get caught up on entries I've posted that you may have missed on SUNfiltered here.
Bulgarian artist Pravdoliub Ivanov's "Monument To The Unknown Washerwoman" reminds me of one of my favorite books from my childhood, Esphyr Slobodkina's Caps for Sale.
An exhibit of his pieces just recently came to an end, but you can still view some of Daniel Newman's stuff at the gallery site.
Using photographs of noteworthy celebrities, some linked through history and others by his youthful ardor, Newman creates new characters from once-recognizable faces. His work forces us to decipher these faces in pieces – solving their puzzle of ambiguity by grouping together individual components. Depending on what one first sees, new portraits are created each time the work is viewed.
This artist channels his youth in the arcades and interest in the game Mortal Kombat into a commentary on video game violence with his (entertaining) 8-bit fatality project, which illustrates pixelated confrontations from classic video games in "a much more visceral, and gory way than could ever be shown with limited graphical systems."
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Must click link of the day: Calligraphy ink-erface. [Via]
Korean artist Gwon Osang's impressive evolving series of life sized sculptures pierced together from photographs: "After different parts of the model’s body were shot with the same light source, the film was developed and the prints pieced together to form a sculptural body (made without looking at the model)."
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Mo' cash, mo' problems like baldness. Actually this is probably what these founding cats looked like underneath their wigs.
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Paper Magazine asked super creative people to come up with ads to promote the new America.
Flickr group devoted to jazz hands.
I recently attended the Affordable Arts Fair with Pooja and Munira. Photographs of the pieces I enjoyed. When I remembered I snapped the artists names.
Elisabeth Lecourt, $3000.
Interactive! Touch!
Maria Clemen, $1350
Top, Boyarde Messenger, $2,750. Bottom, Tom Leighton, $4500.
Nicolas de Saint Gregoire, $4200
James McCune, $1400
Jordan Eagles, $10,000
Nickolaus Typaldos, $500
Susan Jane Belton, $1200 each
Ruby Rumie, $7000
Nicolas de Saint Gregoire, $10,000
Rona Yefman, $1500
Shai Zurim, $4000
The Little Artists, $1800
Pooja, $Priceless
Mrod, $7000
Fun promo stop-motion video stitched together from 4,000 photographs. [vimeo=http://vimeo.com/4472980]
Sarah Maple is a young UK artist where "much of her inspiration originated from her being brought up as a Muslim, with parents of mixed religious and cultural backgrounds." Her photography and paintings have an obvious pop wit tilt with a sharp edge behind her come-hither eyes, most evident in her self-portraitures, which deal with themes of, to step outside the realm of pedantic art-speak, "being a woman, Islam, sex, drugs, and fucking off." Her pieces are entertaining, but I'm more curious to see what her next stage will bring.
Photograph by Adam Hester of Darth Vader doing yardwork. The force can't help much with leaves.
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