[art] - Nothing beats the giant duck. Why a giant duck? This summer, why not?
Picopico’s Monster Suit Paradise!
The Vader Project and a few more at flickr (and someone's ATAT walker)
the what did i eat? ephunt & popping through pictures book
Business Cards collection
[art] - Reverse graffiti
Charybdis, William Pye’s Vortex Water Sculpture (more videos)
[art] - Liu Ye paintings
insect lab studio (thanks joel!)
pimp my rice paddy, the great wave as crop art
vvork and we*heart*prints blogs - go archive dive
Paul Friedlander, Kinetic light sculptor, Scientific Artist
Tim Knowles: The Tree as Artist
[art] - Hyungkoo Lee - ANIMATUS - just, genius. Click through the 6 pages, it'll all make sense. (warning: very large images on page 3)
the aluminum dogs, very cute.
Naoshima: Japan's "Art Island"
The Daily Drawing, videos of artists at work, either screen captures or with tools in hand.
Masking tape in Melbourne, nice street art.
[art] - Atomix by Nike Savvas
Map of the World, paper spheres
chiho aoshima tube murals in London
Little People - a tiny street art project. heehee!
The Fat House - sculptures by Erwin Wurm
aeroplastics contemporary - huge gallery, artist & genre nav-boxes are lower down
Adam Cvijanovic - Love Poem (10 minutes after the end of gravity) - ignore the blurb, click the thumbnails
[art] - Nicholas Di Genova : Three-Headed Suckerfish with arms and legs. A stunning portfolio of vector illustration. Similar to feric.
julia hechtman - tree lines. Like a minimalist Japanese landscape.
organics: Catherine Howe's bust paintings, and paul n grech
surreal: Marion Peck - Kittens, and Aaron Jasinski - Migration of Frogs
BibliOdyssey: Industrial Anatomy
the chung. fun!
wandering star. should be a children's book illustrator. (slithy frames and popups)
[art] - Three galleries of the oversize sculptures by Ron Mueck: one, two, three
ronald kurniawan's paintings, plus his Seven Holes on the Head sculpture
World Championships of sand sculpture
Galerie Meile bone meal and glue sculptures.
Kropserkel: Prop Culture - costumes, props, and prototypes
"Colour Reading and Contexture". contourific!
[art] - Art Moco: House Ascending and Red Core and Franco Dellerba
Wooster: Union is strength, chics6 crew, and Mark Jenkins' Embeds plus video.
Jason Hackenwerth’s balloon art (the Dale Chihuly of balloons...?)
[art] - Typewriter art
Jean-Luc Cornec's telephone sheep
Moon Pool and Rolling Balls kinetic sculptures.
Ole Worm’s Museum recreated.
Video and article about Stephen Wiltshire, autistic savant.
Inka Essenhigh 2005, artist/studio miniatures.
[art] - more silhouettes. (previously)
Characters for an Epic Tale
The commonly accepted path of robot evolution
Guests, reversals
nest and flock candle shades
Susan Bradley - Creep tables and shelves
killa bunnies #1 photography
Takashi's Seasons - live shadow puppet show (with large video)
[art] - 600X III (reminds me of the matchhead sculptures)
The Land that Time Forgot (larger, front)
Sculpture and Metal Work by Michael Martindell
LOBZIK - Новости balloon sculptures (via)
burrow! burrow! robot sculptures
moonraker gallery display
Toss. sculptures by Nina Levy
[art] - batch of illustrators: Rooster Iglehart & Anatomia Collection (including a good history and timeline/gallery) & Jay’s new site
batch of painters: Tomory Dodge - Weekend & David Kapp - "Battery & Nie Jian Bing -Portrait de Fille & Andrew Gadd - She Became Lighter Than Air Somehow, II.
batch of sculptors: James Roper - 3-D Brushstrokes & Willie Cole - With a Heart of Gold and the light sculptures of Kouichi Okamoto - Two Days & Four Products.
batch from Wooster: Banksy and a Pickaxe & Fence Font by Autobahn & 2 wall doodles.
[organic art] - Gardens-in-a-Petri and More Gardens-in-a-Petri
Instrument for Mediated Terrain
Kit with seeds from 10 carnivorous plants should of course be combined with variously sized egglings. s'obvious.
see also: Galleria Carnivora
USB stick picked in the forest and PetTree Strap
and one of my favourites: mossgraffiti
[art] - Crayola Colour Theory
A Bit Sketchy. an AI artist.
The Whitney Biennial: Art (for insiders) in transition
more pencil sculptures: The Ironwood Gallery: Works of david silberkleit (previously)
wireframes by Thomas Raschke at the Centre of Attention and more from Thomas Raschke
see also: The Wireframe Car from Aisin Group (via)
[art] - crabfu steam toys includes videos (sadly silent)
200 RINGS at Velvet da Vinci Gallery. zow, dig those 16 pages.
Art MoCo: "Untitled (Head of a Baby)" and "Weed Choked Garden" and Hiroyuki Hamada
Colorblok Inc illustrations (via)
and two stuffed-full galleries: Buschlen Mowatt, Habatat Galleries
[art] - more 'faux trophies' (previously)
Antler Coat Rack
Flat-packed wooden moose, deer, and roedeer heads (click "collection") (via)
buddington bear rug (and almost the plaque-inpired mirror) (via)
Cuddly taxidermy and many more incredible pieces by Afke Golsteijn
[art] - portfolio of Rick Booth sculptures and models.
Maison d'Ailleurs - House Of Elsewhere
Dress Rehearsal dioramas
[art] - Bella Feldman. see it all. inspiring.
Mark Jenkins: Meter Pops (via)
Tatjana van Vark. mechanical nerd-porn.
genus belua florus lovely soft sculpture piece.
yokohama 2005. the second international triennale of contemporary art - scroll for some diverse oddities, incl giant foosball and yoshitomo nara.
[art] - more sillhouettes (previously)
"Carrying On", Janet Zweig (2004)
Aldrich Museum Installation by Michael DeFeo
a vertical map for ships from the Drawings On Geology book (via)
[art] - Rebecca Silus | Time-Based Urban Landscapes paintings
Audrey Kawasaki paintings
Walter Vasconcelos illustration and collage.
imascared check the illustration and sketches sections.
symptomatica illustration blog of ragnar
[art] - The Art of Chess and Game of Kings: Artists
Traveler 136 at Night snow globe dioramas
Sugar Time Jane Fine's paintings
Untitled (perfectionist) by Sarah Hobbs. photographs of installation art. may induce twitching.
mark bodnar paintings
[art] - Silicon Gardens
Popaganda, The Art and Subversion of Ron English. 13 pages.
Vincent Di Nguyen illustrations (via)
retrovisor cutoff, insomnia, mnemotecnia, and more. (via)
Remedios Varo painted Personages.
Yuko Shimizu illustrations (some NSFW content, and slithee popup navigation) including another great wave homage.
Tara McPherson soft, bold, illustrations and posters.
[art] - Douglas Walker's Modern Delft
Mr. Ween paints an admirer's bedroom
a denim version (click picture for fullsize) of Hokusai's Great Wave.
[art] - automatic zen
Photos From Banksy's Crude Oils Show. Also a video preview and a few more pics.
mediumphobic illustrations (also old work)
knit: organs, dna, a room, breasts, hyperbolic plane, goth miscellany, and an entire wedding.
Do-Ho Suh, fabric interiors sculptor.
[art] - more 'faux-trophies'. (previously)
Trophy Lamp which also points to the horribly kitsch Gemmy Talking Buck (albeit hackable)
Bear rugs and the Poor Teddy Table.
Hirschgeweih and rabbit 3 from the portfolio of Patricia Waller
Jackalope and Jackalope #2, from Nemomatic.
[art] - land art, earth art
Andy Goldsworthy. I highly recommend the movie Rivers and Tides (imdb), and the book Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature
Balancing Point from Rock On, Rock ON : The Rock Balancing Art of Bill Dan
Spiral Jetty, by Robert Smithson, is only visible when the lake is at low levels.
Maya Lin's WaveField (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). I also recommend her book, Boundaries.
Two Japanese sculpture parks: Site of Reversible Destiny - Yora Park, Gifu (large photos, more, more) and Moerenuma Park
[art] - Brian Jungen at the New Museum of Contemporary Art (more images)
Jinyoung Shin's illustrations
rland's paintings
Fire speaking to you. more of his work
wallpaper (for your dwelling) by Joshua Davis (from a collection)
Tiny Showcase and Arthur de Pins (via)
[art] - Jessica Joslin's sculptures. (via)
more on Roadsworth
Complexification | Gallery of Computation (via)
Everyday Matters - on cross hatching and on perspective.
illustrations of Brian Taylor: Candykiller
[art] - more silhouettes. (previously)
from Children's book illustrator Okamoto Kiichi: Pole Jump, Horse Jump, A Beehive, Seesaw, Baseball, Excursion, Basketball, Diving, Football, Jumping Rope, and A Flag Race
El Morro in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico from Flickr: The silhouette Pool
Threadless T-Shirts - Predicament
Turn Your Head . cheesy, based on the classic optical illusion. (via)
i suppose the ipod ads warrant a mention.
[art] - pencils
Pencil Revolution "Pencil philosophy: Wooden wisdom, product reviews & ephemera" is a great new blog, recent posts include:
Spine (more work by Jennifer Maestre at googleimage)
Dalton Ghetti (more) (more)
Pencil carvings
Tom Friedman (and his shaving)
and Pencilmation
Timberlines: The Pencil as Art
72 Pencils by George Hart. There was also Pencil Thing, a copy/derivative that i can't find the source/author of, so that's my copy of the image.
The Pencil Clock from Yugo Nakamura
Pencil Carving kinda kitsch.
Pencil Spinning and more pencil spinning. (see also pen spinning. To learn, practice with a chopstick or similiar as in the video here)
[art] - more blends and melds, specifically facial morphing...
the Face of Tomorrow: the Human Face of Globalization, photographs by Mike Mike. wait for the animated face to load, and watch it loop, then click it to go to a map selection screen, where you can narrow and compare the geographic focus of the composites (like the London one at right).
Face Research "Psychology experiments about preferences for faces and voices". BBC | Study focuses on 'trust not lust'.
The computer techniques they use include transformations and prototyping (reload prototyping for other Canadian-student samples).
FaceGen Modeller, click that "generate another" button under those first two faces.
Principal Component Analysis variations studies the shapes of faces. (related to eigenfaces)
Morpheus Software mutates any given picture into another. just select waypoints. those are some terribly chosen/made samples.
[art] - Blends and Melds and Mixes and Composites:
Jason Salavon - Selected Projects. a huge variety on the theme, including: The Class of, 76 Blowjobs, Homes for Sale, Every Playboy Centerfold, The Late Night Triad (with eerie movie), and 100 Special Moments.
There's also a book about his work, by Douglas Hofstadter: Jason Salavon: Brainstem Still Life.
50 people see... a sunset, a flower, an eye, the seasons, the eiffel tower, a candle, etc. (via)
meggan gould's google averages (page 2 and layer animations)
semi-related: Komar and Melamid's The Most Wanted Paintings
[art] - kanikuma (click the 3rd link in the navbar for the galleries)
Stef's Sketches and Stephen Silver's sketches and Diburros collective (via)
realtime sketching at artpad (via/by)
Komusin: Cute Korean food art. doesnt even need translation. though google can provide the konglish.
Eurovision Art Challenge (each page is 2mb+) (via)
Bracelli's illustrations from the 1600's.
dave chung
and Motomichi (via)
[art] - colo[u]r
start with my favourite, colorsystem.com, which covers the history of the theories and charts. [with horrible navigation for the image-hunter: click a name in the sidebar, and then the red-links, and then the thumbnail in top-right, for one of the] 128 wonderful illustrations: eg Walter S. Stiles, Michel Eugene Chevreul, Astrological connections, Richard Waller, Tobias Mayer, C.I.E. - 1931, Ignaz Schiffermueller.
COLOURlovers rate and create colours and palettes. (via)
Last November, the Adobe bookstore rearranged its 20,000 books into chromatic order. (more) (more) (more)
"Q: Which is pretty crazy, when you think about it.
A: Or inspired. One person's crazy is another person's inspiration."
oh, and its called "There Is Nothing Wrong in This Whole Wide World". yum.
ColorCube's Instructional Poster, screensaver previews, and color models diagrams.
flight stool for pantone by barber osgerby. slightly silly, but i can't resist a good colour swatch.
Colour of the Day (7 t-shirts). completely silly.
Colorstrology. ridiculousness from pantone.
repost: the other favourite, Color in Motion. Huge and brilliant. flash edutainment.
lastly, there are a variety of tools to help webdesigners pick and match colours.
and the firefox extension ColorZilla, an eyedropper for colourpicking right out of webpages.
[art] - Roadsworth street stencils. "watch" and "look" for 3 movies and a gallery. larger Roadsworth galleries.
Kobito: "Magic" on Your Breakfast Table (article-linked mpeg movie is 70mb, ignore the two avi movies) (via)
Imp Head Studio. work reminds me of Michael Parkes. i also like the homage to James Christensen.
Art MoCo: "Negotiated specimens, heartfelt goodbyes..."
[art] - i love the silhouette genre.
from the illustration of Kara Walker (pbs page with videos),
to the four sublime flash animations at Sinplex
a gallery of classic artists at The Virtual Silhouette Parlour
A History of Silhouette Art
the silhouette cutters mentioned earlier. and Banksy's West Bank stencil
Silhouette - wikipedia
Silhouette - flickr
Silhouette - google image
related are the book of Hand Shadows by Henry Bursill, and various shadow puppets/plays/theatre.
and dotheads, which i'll post about later.
[art] - The Sock Paintings of Kirsten Johnson. pure genius. save them all, they work well as desktop wallpapers. (reminded by)
Josh Keyes: Paintings and Drawings
Fuko Ueda surreal comic paintings
Super Slow Motion Video Collection
[toys] - The ultimate football table
a Giant football table by maurizio cattelan. "In 1991 he made Stadium, an enormously lengthened table-football game designed to be played by two teams of eleven players."
Human Foosball. life size, inflatable.
'soccer board game' by kosuge 1-16 and yokocom (via)
Table football - Wikipedia. overview of the sport, strategy and variations.
A brief history of football tables
funny trick shot video (wmv)
The Football Table Robot from Freiburg uni (videos, article). And the Foosbot from Rice uni (via).
[art] - tweedlebop.com illustrations by michael fleming
Femtasia has a striking long layout (infinite canvas?), and gleeful illustration.
one man safari (linked but days ago) is now Happy Palace.
West Bank stencils, by the amazing banksy.
Gen-pets: "They are twitching, shaking, clawing, moaing and head-butting their packaging with twist ties to keep them held in place. Feeding tubes supply the creatures with nourishment, as well as electricity for the glowing "fresh strips" and fully working heart monitors."
"My goal is not to ask such questions as, how will we relate to this new engineered life? How will it fit into our lives and us into theirs? You can see in my work that I already have this answer. I fear that we will completely objectify living matter" - Adam Brandejs
Zen in a Stone. biofeedback computer speaks iching passages once your heart beat is low enough. in a stone.
[art] - assorted recent woostercollective posts:
The Public Art of Seyed Avavi (the rest of the series: Signs of the Times) (OOPS, LINK FIXED)
(and a dothead ironing board!)
Miss Van's paintings
[art] - so grisly and cute!
Antlor - The Deer Departed by Danish designer Kenn Munk, avail from toydigger (more pics)
Animal Throw Rugs. hippo, lion, and bears.
How to Get a Head Without Hunting. the mythicals and dinosaurs are lacklustre, but the rest rock. plus a good How They're Made section.
see also:
Maximilian's Pet Shop
Animal Skulls matching/guessing game.
Fossils as Art - skulls to skeletons, dinosaurs to man.
duck feet
[art] - "Sol LeWitt on the Roof: Splotches, Whirls and Twirls"
audrey kawasaki paintings and illustrations (via)
Pars "Eating Me" paintings
one man safari blog of vintage photos and odd design. 'fascinating is the word I use for the unexpected.'
--UPDATE--
bad timing. he changed location. is now happy palace
Takanobu Kobayashi paintings
videos: Graffiti Analysis and application documentation (root)
[art] - Michael Paulus :: Skeletal Systems
dylan sisson paintings
Lorenzo Petrantoni - Illustration. complex b&w linework. collages or all original?
Vera Bee illustration and animation. you'll probably want to play snowcraft after watching snow-bo.
Eyvind Earle illustration
microbians illustration
wooden sculptures by Marcus Tatton and part 2. exhibition pictures: Dissatisfied Electrons
[art] - Hokusai's "The Great Wave at Kanagawa"
assorted homages/oddities/knockoffs:
Kozyndan's cover for Giant Robot issue 28. i'm the proud owner of a print of this.
great-wave-erni-vales.jpg and atari_nenga.jpg and dmwave.jpg
Great Wave Wall
Rokkakku kite
stained glass
notecube and mug and belt buckle
Denim wave
The Big Wave painting
[art] - PostSecret. astounding and heartwrenching admittances.
diesel sweeties riffs Bob Ross! oh, those trees, they were so happy.
The Roving Artist & Co. paper silhouette cutters. i had one of these done whilst visiting france as a young'un, most odd. (and as they say, done in ~90sec)
The Fantastic in Art and Fiction
rustfetish (pick a year, then month, then date-range)
CBC Radio 3 | Music and Modern Media - broadband musicand a slew more
Homeless - broadband documentary
art.com - peruse or purchase
brainpop - edutainment, meet flash
japanese streets - in the spirit of fruits
Petr Kazil's Urban Adventure art. One of the best and most concise collections of descriptions of bizarre performance art pieces.
"1972 - Chris Burden's piece 'Deadman' was another all-too serious game with death. He lay wrapped in a canvas bag in the middle of a busy Los Angeles boulevard. Luckily he was unhurt, and the police put an end to the work by arresting him for causing a false emergency to be reported. In other performances, Burden crawled through broken glass (Through the Night Softly, 1973), had pushpins stuck into his stomach (Back to You, 1974), tried to breathe water (Velvet Water, 1974), and remained on a shelf mounted just below the ceiling of a gallery without descending to eat or drink for twenty-two days (White Light/White Heat, 1975). "