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Strange But True: Tattooed LEGOS - The mad men behind Pilot Extra-Fine ball-pens (aka Barcelona’s Grey agency) have created a great viral marketing featuring LEGOS with drawn on “badass” tattoos. Straight out of your mother’s nightmares, these LEGOS have dedications to Harley Davidson, lots of angry skulls, and in one instance, a rather racy tramp stamp. Click through to view our favorite tatted up bad boys. From cw
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Street Art - I know it's not Banksy but I know you will appreciate this anyways. I saw it and immediately thought of this blog and knew I had to share it. I view this as the ultimate graffiti project :) From cw
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Communist Media Attacks Norman Rockwell - Bottom line: it is politics, not really art that has Gopnik so upset at Norman Rockwell. And compared to what he considers good art, those velvet paintings that used to be sold at gas stations look like masterpieces.
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2010/07/05/wapo-art-critic-slams-norman-rockwell-lacking-courage#ixzz0suf23bYQ
From NeoCon
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ben newman art - naughty art, filthy fairytales and other perverted nonsense. From Nony
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Marina Abramović Made Me Cry - Portraits taken during the MoMA's exhibit of performance artist "Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present". From Nony
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Don't Jump Off The Roof! - Anthony Gormleys latest piece of public art is causing a stir in New York City. Event Horizon, as it is known, consists of his trademark life-sized figures, thirty one of them in total. The only problem is that people keep mistaking them for suicide jumpers and call the police.
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Lehman Brothers Painting for Sale - A popular portrait of ex-Lehman boss Dick Fuld painted by street artist Geoffrey Raymond could fetch a price deep into the six-figure range as its owner, former Lehman head trader Larry McCarthy, fields offers from prospective buyers.
McCarthy, who now works as the head of levered products at Chapdelaine Credit Partners downtown, told The Post that he paid $10,000 in cash to Raymond for the artwork three days after Lehman filed for bankruptcy on Sept. 15, 2008. From NeoCon
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Sarah Palin 'gets porno treatment' - Sarah Palin has become the subject of a pornographic portrait by a controversial artist.Buzz up!Jonathan Yeo, the son of former Conservative minister Tim Yeo, is reportedly working on the painting of the former Alaska Governor using cuttings from hardcore pornographic magazines."I think she's fair game because it's the Republicans who are, basically, responsible for ------- up the world," The Telegraph quoted him as saying apparently saying. From Nony
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Introducing the Super Punch Tarot - So, about this project. I wanted to do something special for the third anniversary of Super Punch, and three weeks or so ago, the idea popped into my head of inviting my favorite artists to create tarot cards. Other than reading Promethea, I knew very little about tarot cards, so I got up to speed courtesy of Wikipedia. I then went about contacting artists and matching them to cards. From cw
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Undead Ed's ART MUHAHAHAHHAHHAHA by UndeadEd - Welcome to my grave of goodies!!! I will be uploading alot of art I made a year ago and I'm currently working on a silent hill styled pony. So pick up a shovel, find a fresh plot and help me get some new supplies! MUAHAHAHAHA!!! From Nony
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The Wrappings of Freshness - Photographers Pauline Fabry and Daniel Torz have taken it upon themselves to keep the world on top of itself. Here in this post is their collection of freshness. Fabry and Torz photograph a set of people whofve got style and finesse, plus one man underwater, with a bit of plastic rap. Look through this group of serious looking folks and note how nice and shiny fabulous it keeps them in itfs everyoung plastic state. Itfs a holdup! From Nony
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AFP: New York woman falls, rips Picasso painting - A significant Pablo Picasso painting was damaged after a woman attending art class lost her balance, fell into "The Actor" and tore it, The Metropolitan Museum of Art said.The unusually large canvas, measuring 77.25 by 45.38 inches (196 by 115cm), sustained a vertical tear of about six inches (15cm) in the lower right-hand corner in the accident on Friday. From Nony
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Nuit Blanche - Mirror ball, 1000 mirrors, 7.5 meters in diameter.The spectacular view of the starry sky has long been a source of delight and curiosity, but the abundance of artificial light in urban areas produces a glow that covers the stars in the firmament. The largest mirror ball ever made was suspended from a construction crane 50 meters above the ground to render the starry sky to the citizens of Paris for one night in the Jardin du Luxembourg during the Nuit Blanche event. (photo Émilien Châtelain) From Nony
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(Art for a Dollar) - Critically acclaimed tattoo artist, Scott Campbell, showed his work at the O.H.W.O.W. gallery in Miami, FL. The highlight of the evening was a series of laser-cut etchings, each on a stack of $1 bills. The collection is entitled “Make It Rain” and shows a sampling of the artist’s dark and beautiful undertones. From cw
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Art For Juniper (NSFW) - a fair number of the works here are of an adult and/or homoerotic nature. Since you were alerted to this on the main page, it can be assumed you are a) of legal adult age and b) know exactly why you are here and what you want to see. From Nony
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Behind The Lens: Norman Rockwell's Photographers, A Mixed Picture - Who can forget the vulnerable childhood experience of going to the doctor? I remember sitting nervously on that white butcher paper, feeling like a particularly choice deli cut, and staring at a painting of a little boy pulling his pants down for a shot -- a foreboding image of what might be in store. That image, a Norman Rockwell illustration, stuck with me for years. And that's the nature of Rockwell's legacy: his work is everywhere, and has become an indelible part of American culture. So, as someone who looks at photos all day, imagine my shock when I saw a photograph of the exact doctor's office scene in that painting. From Nony
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Mind-blowing optical illusion - No matter how strongly you want to believe you are seeing blue and green spirals here, there is no blue color in this image. There is only green, red and orange. What you think is blue is actually green. You can check this through Photoshop or by zooming, if you need an affirmation. Your eyes cheat you. From buzzhunt
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Mind Blowing Hyperrealistic Sculptures - Artists that produce photorealistic sculptures, for the most part, aim to show us our bodies and life as it really is.Technically, artists who strive for a high resolution level of detail in painting or sculpture are called “hyperrealists”, although all hyperrealists are also considered to be photorealists.Every detail is slavishly recreated as close to the real life model as possible, even if the sculpture is larger than the original scale.Photorealistic sculptors create truly amazing sculptures that will make you feel wonder, revulsion and the sense of looking in someone else’s mirror. From cw
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Andy Warhol Polaroids - There is a small gem of a show at Danziger Projects right now, featuring a little-known trove of Polaroids by Andy Warhol of famous athletes. They were commissioned by one collector in the late 1970s and early ’80s. The simplicity of Warhol’s method — straightforward portraits shot with the Big Shot camera — gives the tiny images (4 1/4″ x 3 3/8″) a purity and sincerity that belies the radiance and aura of greatness coming from the sitters. Even today, there is something tingle-inducing about seeing Muhammad Ali, Dorothy Hamill, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Chris Evert, Pelé, Tom Seaver and Wayne Gretzky captured at the height of their youthfulness and fame. These portraits, made by the ultimate connoisseur of fame himself, have aged beautifully. The show is up through Dec. 12 at 534 West 24th Street. From cw
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Giant breasts shock China - Parents and teachers in China are protesting after a sculpture of a tiny girl with giant breasts was installed in a city park. From Nony
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Jesus as an ape? Artist crucifies simian specimen in London - No, that's not a real gorilla hanging from a cross. It's a large waxwork sculpture that British shock artist Paul Fryer has crucified in an attempt to "highlight [the] plight of the Western Lowland Gorillas, and to challenge the Christian notion that animals do not have souls," according to one report. From Nony
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Paper Art - by Simon Schubert From milkmaniak_NLI
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Personas - Enter your name, and Personas scours the web for information and attempts to characterize the person - to fit them to a predetermined set of categories that an algorithmic process created from a massive corpus of data. The computational process is visualized with each stage of the analysis, finally resulting in the presentation of a seemingly authoritative personal profile. From Nony
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Berkeley Students Praise Communism - Symbols of communism and marijuana and a prediction that "capitalism will fail" aren't exactly the sort of end-of-year messages you'd expect from an eighth grader.
But that's precisely what some students at the Black Pine Circle School, a private school in Berkeley, Calif., chose to include in their "Class of 2007" mosaic. From NeoCon
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The gates of Malibu - 23 Photos - Here's to the creative residents of Malibu and the architects, woodworkers, glass artisans and metal sculptors they employ to build the sometimes interesting, sometimes gorgeous, sometimes bizarre and (we are the first to admit) sometimes cheese-ball gates for them. From danomil
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Glass Act: A Blowpipe Virtuoso - WSJ.com - This love of glass, music and African textiles merges in his recent works, which range in price from $20,000 to $52,000. At the Riley Galleries exhibit, the vibrantly colored, mandolin-like "Chitamarra" and "Springarpa" series are representational, if not literal, in shape, with the latter combining both mandolin and harp-like elements. Three wall pieces with elongated necks suggest shields or Indian sitars. The "Tiraboson" series are more fanciful in form but eschew the contrived pretentiousness of some glass work aspiring to "fine art" status. From danomil
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Tusk Art - Mankind knows tusk-carving traditions for many centuries. Mammoths are long gone centuries back, and most of their remnants are found deep in the frozen soils of Siberia. Mammoth tusk is a very rare and precious substance, it's used in making of artifacts and jewelry. And before the invention of plastic, it was ivory that was used for making cutlery handles, musical instruments, billiard balls, buttons, and wide range of ornamental items. From danomil
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Life Size Illusions. - Impossible Triangle, Perth, Australia: It was designed by artist Brian McKay and architect Ahmad Abas. It's a 13.5 meters high aluminum sculpture of the impossible triangle and is located in East Perth, Western Australia. From danomil
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Mural Art By John Pugh. - John Pugh is a trompe l'oeil artist who focuses primarily on mural paintings. He found that the "language" of life-size illusions allow him to communicate with a very large audience. And these are some of the best we have come across. From danomil
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Mesmerizing Kinetic Sculptures - If this page could move in tune with these sculptures, it would crawl out of your computer monitor. TRULY ASTOUNDING AND MESMERIZING. From danomil
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The Living Statue Company, Living Statues and Human Statues - A UK company that specializes in living statues. Appropriately enough, it's called The Living Statue Company.
Based in London but covering the entire UK we provide the best human statues for the most prestigious events in Great Britain, Europe and beyond. Our wide range of costumes and characters can be styled to suit any occasion and our Hollywood makeup effects will amaze and enthral your guests. From danomil
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Art historians claim Van Gogh's ear 'cut off by Gauguin' | Art and design | The Guardian - Vincent van Gogh's fame may owe as much to a legendary act of self-harm, as it does to his self-portraits. But, 119 years after his death, the tortured post-Impressionist's bloody ear is at the centre of a new controversy, after two historians suggested that the painter did not hack off his own lobe but was attacked by his friend, the French artist Paul Gauguin. From danomil
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New beach shoes combine high heels and flippers - Telegraph - Known as High Tide Heels, they combine the elegance of stiletto heels with the swimming speed of flippers. They could provide a fashionable alternative for sun-seekers who don't want the hassle of changing footwear every time they cool off with dip in the sea. From danomil
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Pressefotografforbundet: Too much Photoshop? Judge for yourself - Three photographers were told to deliver their RAW-files for closer inspection, when the three judges in January were assembled to select the winners in Picture of The Year in Denmark. This is the first time in the competition's 35-year history that it has happened. One of the photographers, Klavs Bo Christensen, has accepted to show his RAW-files for the readers of pressefotografforbundet.dk. You can also hear a recording of the conversion between the judges about the photographer's story. From Nony
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Ghost in the Machine - a set on Flickr - In this series I showcase a number of portraits of musicians made out of recycled cassette tape with original cassette. Also included are portraits made from old film and reels. The idea comes from a philosopher's description of how your spirit lives in your body. I imagine we are all, like cassettes, thoughts wrapped up in awkward packaging. From Nony
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Liberals Allow Graffiti Vandals Free Ride in San Francisco - That's seconded by Officer Troy Courtney, who was the city's graffiti expert for seven years. Asked why some other cities, like Seattle, don't seem to have much tagging, Courtney is blunt. "You know why?" he asked. "Because in Seattle the first time you get caught you spend six months in jail." From NeoCon
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Iranian Artist Escaped Iran's Torture Chambers - "The Grave was the harshest punishment I went through. It makes you crazy, really frustrated and crazy," says Dadgar, a Mill Valley artist who was arrested in 1981 for handing out pro-democracy newspapers. She spent five years in various Tehran prisons for refusing to sign a document accepting "the truth" of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's oppressive fundamentalist regime. Some of her friends were executed, others snapped. From NeoCon
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Iraq National Museum Reopens - Up to 7,000 pieces are still missing, including about 40 to 50 considered to be of great historical importance, according to the U.N. cultural body UNESCO. From NeoCon
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Tiny Art Director - I just want everyone to know that although she is a very outspoken critic of my artwork, my daughter is really a delightful and well behaved girl!Also I know the site is slow to load today - I'm trying to move the images to a faster server now so hopefully that will help.Thanks for coming and enjoy the site. Most of these posts were from when the Tiny Art Director was two and three, and I think it actually makes sense to read from the bottom up, but it's up to you From cw
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Yvonne Lee Schultz Porcelain Pistol - Porcelain PistolPorcelain, handpainted, marked with YLSPP_BO_teatimePP/BO_tea timeThe Porcelain Pistols are replicas of James Bond's Walther PPK and its contemporary sister, the P99,with friendly permission of Carl Walther Inc.The fragile weapon, hand-painted in the style of classic tableware motifs, liesnext to your coffee and cake, asking to be picked up. Its coolness andcomfortable grip increase the qualms of the user, leaving him in a quandary between the pleasure of luxury and violence. From cw
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LA Times Celebrates Communist 'Art' Show - Communism does not need to have "an open dialog." It needs only to be excoriated and despised. Communism is the single most murderous idea that man has ever spawned and it should be treated like the plague that it truly is. Yet, here is the L.A. Times and our local California universities telling the very victims of communism and their family members that they are the fearmongers!
Nice going, Times. From NeoCon
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Live Wire Installation - 'Live Wire' is an installation created by american architectural studio oyler wu collaborative, currently on display at the sci arc gallery, los angeles. the site specific installation was created to exploit the spatial potential
From John
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Note art - I´ve been working at the biggest telecom company in sweden for a cuple of years, every now and then. But after a while it got quite monotonous, so I started creating something else out of the notes. To begin with, I just made a wavy pattern, but after a while it went to be more motif-like.So, the pattern you see is actually those customers who called to the customer service. And that´s the reason I have to keep them so small, they contains a lot of sensitive information, such as telephone numbers, personal security numbers, their issues and so on. From Nony
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Happy Halloween - Happy Halloween
Halloween has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain. The festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture, and is sometimes regarded as the Celtic New Year.
From Zee
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Gropper Windows - Genesis in Glas - In 1967, artist William Gropper completed a series of five windows along the east wall in the Gottlieb Community Hall at West Suburban Temple Har Zion. From Nony
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The Pedestrian Project - Yvette Helin’s Pedestrian Project is an ongoing performance work created in New York City in 1990. The project consists of several performers wearing entirely black custom-made costumes that are modeled after the generic graphic images of people used on many types of signage. From justin88
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Trophy Wife of Lehman CEO to sell off Art Collection - Kathy Fuld, the art-collecting wife of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Chief Executive Officer Richard Fuld, is selling a $20 million set of rare Abstract Expressionist drawings at a November auction, according to two art dealers. From NeoCon
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camoflague by liu bolin - liu bolin is a young beijing based artist who has exhibited primarily in china until last year's solo show atparis galerie bertin toublanc and a group show with the gallery in miami. he recently finished up a showat eli klein fine art in new york showcasing a variety of his pieces including some form the series‘camoflague’. this series is an exploration of human nature and animal instincts which features chinesecitizens painted to blend into their surroundings. the subjects are covered head to toe in paint,camouflaging themselves in front of the chinese flag, a billboard or downtown beijing. From cw
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Flying piece of art causes museum chaos in Switzerland - A giant inflatable dog turd by American artist Paul McCarthy blew away from an exhibition in the garden of a Swiss museum, bringing down a power line and breaking a greenhouse window before it landed again, the museum said Monday. From cw
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Satirical Maps of Europe - Vintage stuff is way underrated, especially when you see such great artwork forgotten by time. We've come across some satirical maps that describe in a humorous fashion Europe's situation as seen during the first World War. Here are the artworks: From cw
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35 Beautiful Music Album Covers - Album cover art is often considered to be one of the extincted fields in modern graphics design. In times when digital copies are cheaper and quicker to get, album covers have somehow lost their importance as less and less customers actually buy CDs and LPs in the stores. That's a pity because album covers can be extremely expressive and convey the message of the album in a number of creative ways. This post attempts to prove exactly that. From cw
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Cardboard Sculptures - Very interesting and amazing work made with cardboard. Those sculptures from real life are very good present, they looks very good. There are many interesting sculptures, my favorite is a helicopter made with cardboard. From cw
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Bambi Threesome, Gay Dolphins Highlight Animal Erotica Show - Consider the sex life of the spotted hyena, depicted in three shocking photographs at New York's Museum of Sex (MoSex).You'll find it difficult not to notice that both the male and female have penises. The female, it turns out, has a scrotal sack too. For reproductive purposes, the male transfers his sperm through the female's penis, which doubles as her clitoris. From Juniper
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Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds - Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. From Nony
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Mona Lisa mown into suburban garden lawn - Tania Ledger from Croydon in south London employed a 3D art expert who reconstructed the famous painting for the The Da Vinci Code film to do the same in her garden.Chris Naylor took two days to replicate Leonardo Da Vinci’s masterpiece in grass, using a small lawnmower and a handful of garden tools. From cw
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Balls Designed Phallic Art - "A man who is ashamed to show or name the penis is wrong. Instead of being anxious to hide it, man ought to display it... with honor, as if it were an envoy." Leonardo Da Vinci From Juniper
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Web Gallery of Art, image collection, virtual museum, searchable database of European fine arts (1100-1850) - The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture from 12th to mid-19th centuries. It was started in 1996 as a topical site of the Renaissance art, originated in the Italian city-states of the 14th century and spread to other countries in the 15th and 16th centuries. Intending to present Renaissance art as comprehensively as possible, the scope of the collection was later extended to show its Medieval roots as well as its evolution to Baroque and Rococo via Mannerism. More recently the periods of Neoclassicism and Romanticism were also included. From Nony
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Russian Vintage Advertising Posters - Full of "Art Nouveau" design elements, often a visual treat in itself, these sophisticated posters advertised no less sophisticated products, some of a very fine quality. The select few who could afford to buy, could truly engage in a world-class Victorian luxury. From cw
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The Underappreciated Art of Firecracker Labels! - Aside from decorative urinal cakes, I really can't think of a more underappreciated form of art than firecracker labels. Think about it. Sure you might buy the ones that look the coolest, but soon after you're lighting 'em on fire. The once amazing artwork is now blown to smithereens and you couldn't care less. Well, I've always been a huge fan of the artwork on firecrackers 'n fireworks because I often find miniature masterpieces on them. Sometimes the art is beautiful, sometimes it's hilarious. One thing is guaranteed though, it's always interesting. From Nony
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Aborigine Magic Paintings of Australia - This was a boys initiation site, our guide said, and the paintings under this rock illustrate some of the Ang-Gnarras most sacred, secret ceremonies. Allan, who was explaining the rock art to us, had to lie down on his back to point with his walking stick at the stylized human images, and we crouched low to see them. There was grotesque monster, a voluptuous female figure, and a man with a missing front tooth. Allan explained that these pictures told the story about circumcision rites. After an adolescent boy was circumcised, he had to live in isolation, not speaking to anyone nor touching anyone elses possessions, until his scar healed. Afterwards, he would be taken away by an older woman and taught about sexual intercourse. The rock picture of the monster showed the kind of horrible creature the boy would become if he violated sexual taboos. From Alter J. Ego
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Assassination Artist Is Questioned and Released - This morning, a Boston-born performance artist, Yazmany Arboleda, tried to set up a provocative art exhibition in a vacant storefront on West 40th Street in Midtown Manhattan with the title, “The Assassination of Hillary Clinton/The Assassination of Barack Obama,” in neatly stenciled letters on the plate glass windows at street level. From cw
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ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive: Illustration: Artzybashef - In his introduction to the section titled "Machinalia" in his book As I See, Boris Artzybasheff says, "I am thrilled by machinery's force, precision and willingness to work at any task, no matter how arduous or monotonous it may be. I would rather watch a thousand ton dredge dig a canal than see it done by a thousand spent slaves lashed into submission. I like machines." From cw
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Overweight nude sets art world record - A picture of an overweight woman lying naked on a couch, painted by British artist Lucian Freud, set a record Tuesday night for the most money paid for a painting by a living artist. From Olga
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Largest TV sculpture in the world - "LNK Infotree" (LNK Infomedis) is currently the largest TV sculpture in the world (Guinness World Record). It's using 2,903 individual television sets, spanning 3,135 sq metres (33,744.85 sq ft) at the Open Air Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania. I've been there a couple of years ago and it looked really amazing. It's currently closed for reconstruction but we can look at some older images. From cw
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Feather Paintings - Awesome paintings on feathers, very interesting artworks. Man need a lot of pasion to make something like this From cw
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Jessica Rabbit Untooned - So this ended up taking quite a bit longer than the last 2 even though I had expected a pretty easy time with it. I was able to complete the face relatively quickly but the real challenge was everything from her neck down. Trying to piece together parts of a body from multiple photos on top of a highly disproportionate body was pretty difficult. I considered only doing the face but I predicted pitchforks and torches if I chose that route. Creating the sequins took a bit of time too. I recently saw some camera effects in a music video I tried to duplicate too with the streaked brightness which I gave a shot here to add to the whole realism. From cw
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Graphic Design - This is some seriously humbling work done by a very talented artist, Andre Kutscherauer. Check this out From cw
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Cool X-ray Art by Nick Veasey - For Nick Veasey, artistic inspiration came from an unlikely source. While working as a photographer/designer for morning television in England, he was assigned the monotonous task of X-raying soda cans to determine which ones contained a winning code for a contest sponsored by Pepsi. After three days without a winner, he X-rayed his sneaker for kicks. Veasey recalls, “It was a great image and I thought ‘there’s something to this.’ It was one of those life-changing experiences. I just left behind everything else I was doing.”Veasey spent the next three months working with scientists to refine his technique. He learned to gauge object density and structure by experimenting with a variety of materials including plastic, flowers, metals and people, taking the utmost care with his living subjects. (altpic reports) From cw
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Magical world of optical street art illusions - Kurt Wenner is a master artist best known for his extremely high quality street painting and chalk murals using a projection called anamorphosis. These 3D chalk drawings on pavement have been featured in many newspapers and on several television shows.Wenner's work has received global media attention. Newspaper and magazine articles have appeared in Italy, Germany, France, Switzerland, the United States, and Mexico. His artwork has been seen on ABC's World News Saturday, Good Morning America, and Pan Am and TWA's in-flight programs.Here are some of his latest and street illusions: From cw
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woodezine - Carver of the Month - Steven has been creating toothpick sculptures for over 30 years - everything from a thirteen foot long sculpture of the Golden Gate Bridge (right) to radio controlled toothpick boats that actually work in water (below). This month - February 2005 - he is being honored with a solo exhibition at the Concourse Gallery (555 California Street in San Francisco), where thirteen of his unique sculptures are on exhibition through the 5th of the month. From cw
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Children vs Artists - Children's innocent artists skills = something nice, creative and a little strange. Children started to draw, artists continued.... From cw
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High School Punishes Art Student for his Christian Beliefs - "We hear so much today about tolerance," said David Cortman, an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian legal advocacy group representing the student. "But where is the tolerance for religious beliefs? The whole purpose of art is to reflect your own personal experience. To tell a student his religious beliefs can legally be censored sends the wrong message." From NeoCon
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Reactive Art - Daan Roosegaarde has created a number of amazing art installations that explores the combination of art, experience and interaction. From cw
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Film Geek Graffiti - If you look around the streets, you'll sometimes find film geek graffiti. Here is a collection of some of the better street art we have come across around the interwebs. From cw
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Leonardo da Vinci's Horse Returns to Milan - After a span of five hundred years, from Leonardo's proposal to the Duke Horse in Milan of Milan in 1482, to Allentown's Charles Dent reading about the unfinished work in 1977, The Horse was unveiled in Milan at the Cultural Park sponsored by SNAI on September 10, 1999. The Horse, brilliantly created by sculptor Nina Akamu and cast in bronze by the Tallix Art Foundry, represents the appreciation of the Americans for the genius of Leonardo and the legacy of the Italian Renaissance. From NeoCon
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Pigcasso Pig paints pictures - THE art world has been stunned by a pot-bellied pig that PAINTS pictures.Now Smithfield the porker is being dubbed PIGCASSO and Vincent HAM Gogh.His canvases of unique “abstract expressionism” are already in big demand — even though art experts are sty-mied to explain what they might mean!Proud owner Fran Martin, 54, sells them for £7.50 over the internet. From CJDUSA
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McLaren Formula 1 Car Built From 956,000 Matchsticks - What do you do when you can't afford a million quid to buy a real McLaren 4/14 Formula 1 car? You spend almost £4,500 building one out of matchsticks, of course.Wacky German, Michael Arndt spent 6 years building this immaculate replica in his kitchen. And all it took was 956,000 matchsticks and 1,686 tubes of glue. Of course, there’s not much room left for socialising. From cw
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Bo Fransson - Beautiful Paintings of France - "Paintings from South of France, the Cote d'Azur area. The beautiful Riviera from Nice to Cannes are occasionally my working place for some months during the winter. A favorite spot is the Renoir Garden in Cagnes sur Mer with the old Olive trees and lovely garden." From CC
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[NSFW] lick the sun - Brian walker is a contemporary digital artist whose images explore and exploit the realm between fantasy and reality, recreating scenes that meld illustration and fashion with an element of surprise. From Nony
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Fine Art Taco Photography - Fine Art Taco PhotographyI have always liked tacos. You have to respect the simplicity and ergonomics of the taco. It is what it is.Many will believe this is a joke; that I'm making the point that anything, when photographed in black and white, looks artistic and interesting.Please view the photographs and make up your own mind. I believe they speak for themselves. From CJDUSA
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lens culture: Tamara Lischka - Fetus, fish, squid - the lifeless bodies of these creatures appear eerily animate, even grotesque out of context. Yet the hands that hold them nurture as much as they expose, fingers curving around the tiny forms, even as they lift them gently up into the light. From Nony
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Bic Pen Art - Artist Juan Francisco Casas uses a bic pen to create stunning, photo-realistic drawings.Think Chuck Close meets that kid in high school always doodling on his notebooks. Casa's work is currently up at the Galeria Fernando Pradilla in Madrid. From cw
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Chewing Gum Sculptures - Italian artist Maurizio Savini has distinguished himself by using a very unusual material for his sculptures: pink chewing gum. Here are some of his works. From cw
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Smoking Jacket - The jacket has a built-in pair of lungs on the front. As the wearer smokes, the lungs fill up with the exhaled cigarette smoke and begin to gradually darken over time.This project was a result of exploring reflective design as it relates to the body, behavioral choices, and information displays. From Nony
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[NSFW] fine nudes - a space dedicated to contemporary erotic photography From Nony
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Topiary Art Designs - Topiary plants trained and shaped, manufacturing and supplying topiary frames, creating topiary sculptures, shapes and figures.Artist Steve Manning of topiary art designs makes custom and bespoke feature topiaries andstainless steel topiary frames for gardens designers, landscapers, theme parks, civic amenities,exhibitions, garden shows and event promotions.... From cw
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Masturbating artist slammed - AN ARTIST has created a new exhibition of drawings by masturbating over paper.Controversial performance artist Jordan McKenzie, 40, has made 55 images by ejaculating over canvas and sprinkling carbon over the results to immortalise them.The results of his labour entitled Spent are to go on display at the Centre for Recent Drawing in Highbury, north London, for a month.But Father Kit Cunningham, of St Etheldredas Church in Clerkenwell, said: “All we can do is pray for the artist.”The clergyman, based at the oldest Roman Catholic church in London, stressed: “The extraordinary thing is that someone actually thought it was art and put it on at his gallery.“We are clearly dealing with a very mixed-up person. From Nony
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Rob Sheridan - Author of the illustration with Golly's Xmas poem From Nony
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Picasso stolen from Brazil museum - Thieves in Brazil have stolen two paintings said to be worth $100m (50m) in a dawn raid on Latin America's most renowned museum. From NeoCon
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Typewriter Sculptures By Jeremy Mayer - Jeremy Mayer's sculpture are made from bits and pieces from old typewriters! It's even more amazing when you find out that he did it without any gluing, welding or soldering - it's all cold assembly. From Nony
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Baghdad museum's slow recovery - That collection was devastated in the days following the US-led invasion in 2003, when looters emptied the vaults. The only items that were saved were either too heavy to carry, like those in the Assyrian Hall, or were being stored elsewhere at the time, like the Nimrud treasures. From NeoCon
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Bus Stop Knobs - The Glorious Sexual Graffiti Of The World - A feast of phalluses, a plethora of public place peckers. This book brings together the world's best bus stop knobs. Hastily drawn for a moment of amusement and now immortalised forever in the most talked about coffee table book released early 2008. From Nony
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Paul Smith's Typewriter Art | Biography - Since he couldn't press two keys at the same time, he almost always locked the shift key down and made his pictures using the symbols at the top of the number keys.
In other words, his pictures were based on these characters ...
@ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ From cw
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Mural Mosaic - See art panels before and after! The panels are created in advance by creator/artist Lewis Lavoie. Panel Artists have the challenge to turn them into creations of art From cw
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Art For The Sky - Giant Living Paintings Made of People . . .Adventures in Team-Building and Perception to Deepen OurRelationship to Sky and Earth From cw
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[NSFW] TheFlowerDrumSong - A Celebration of the Unity of Nature
Each woman is paired with a flower... From Nony
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Student finds baroque painting inside old sofa - BERLIN (Reuters) - A Berlin student who bought a second-hand sofa bed at a flea market learned she had been sitting on a small fortune when she found a baroque painting hidden inside the couch.
From cw
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mickey feio - Mickey Mouse as he's not meant to be From cw
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15x15 - Have your own 15 seconds of fame ... WARNINGDon't even think of clicking this link if you're on dial-up!!! From Nony
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Pricasso - The worlds greatest penile artist From Nony
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Creative 3M Post-It Art - On 3Ms corporate site the Post-it Notes are sold with the slogan So express yourself in color. Some creative people took that idea to heart and below are several examples of how people have used the sticky notes to create works of art.
From gahsoon
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The Super-Realist Sculptures of Duane Hanson - Duane Hanson was born in 1925 in small city in Minnesota. He received his BA at Macalester College in Minnesota and his MFA at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. As he was in school and later professing abroad, he began sculpting in an eerily real style. While teaching in Munich, Germany, he came into contact with the philosophy of the Post Expressionists. He would lated be considered to be a Verist, a movement of Post Expressionism who, as described by the art historian Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub, “… tear the objective form of the world of contemporary facts and represent current experience in its tempo and fevered temperature.” As such, his focus turned to creating accurate, surreal recreations of regular people. Duane Hanson died on January 6th, 1996. From cw
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Brian Dettmer: Book Autopsies - Brian Dettmer carves into books revealing the artwork inside, creating complex layered three-dimensional sculptures. From Nony
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Still Life - Martin Klimas destroys a lot of clay to make his art. Combining the silence of Eadweard Muybridgefs horse pictures with the association-rich composition of a still life, Klimas breaks recognizable objects so they become something else, and stops us just at the moment of transformation. From Nony
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President in the Flesh: 'Porn Bush' Angers Republicans - Artist Jonathen Yeo has created a collage portrait of US President George W. Bush by cutting up porn magazines. The Bush portrait, currently on display in London, has attracted the wrath of Republicans. British artist Jonathan Yeo had every reason to be offended. The Bush Library in Texas had yet again rescinded a commission it had given him to paint a portrait of United States President George W. Bush. In the end, though, the artist decided to go ahead with his artistic portrayal of the 43rd president, even if he wasn't getting paid for it -- and created a portrait of Bush using a collage of pornographic images. From Nony
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Top Ten (10) Most Expensive Paintings Of All Time w. Pics - Millions and Hundreds of Millions of dollars are spent every year by the wealthy seeking a highly sought after piece of art. Following is a list of the Top Ten Most Expensive Paintings of All Time and an explanation of what makes them so special and worth the exorbitant price. From cw
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8 Expensive Art Works Found Accidentally - This is a list of 8 great works of art (well - maybe one is only nominally so) that were found in unusual places. It makes you wonder how many great works of art are lost to the world simply because no one is looking in the right place! From cw
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Amazing - pencil photoshop CS2 15 hours of intense concentration From cw
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When a canvas won't do - the amazing images above are of paintings by the same artist - jean-marie pierret. the top photo is of the painting he did at cruas nuclear power plant on one of the cooling towers - he was helped by nine mountaineers to complete the mural in 8000 hours using 8 tonnes of acrylic paint. the second image is of a painting of hercules situated on the face of the tignes dam (the tallest dam in france), created in the 1980s. From cw
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infinity - "Paths are made by walking"In order to determine whether the above phrase was actually true, we kept running in a park for 5 days. In the fast-forward movie compiled from digital photographs taken one per second, a path the shape of ∞ (infinity) gradually emerges as we move with high-speed. From Nony
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things magazine - Now an independent magazine, things has built a reputation as a home for new writing essays, reviews, short stories and poems about objects and their meanings. The website contains a weblog, photography galleries, special projects, searchable archives and the occasional on-line only article. From Nony
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The Cloud by Atelier Hapsitus - The Cloud is a speculative design for a resort city elevated 300 metres in the air above Dubai and supported on slanting legs resembling rain From Nony
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Match The Painting With The Artist (Gorilla, Elephant, Child - See if you can match the paintings to each artist (You can choose from a Gorilla, Two Famous Artists, Elephant, or Nine Year Old Child). You might be surprised at your results! Be sure to read the basic bios of our artists below, it might make the game a little easier for you. Then, scroll down for the quiz! From cw
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Tom of Finland Foundation - The Tom of Finland Foundation website includes explicit depictions of sexuality, including homosexuality, heterosexuality, transgender, fetishes and other forms of art that are unsuitable for minors. From Juniper
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Let's GRAFUCK! - Grafuck is an annual publication featuring the latest erotic work from ... From Nony
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Tim Knowles - Postal Works - Spy Box - A digital camera inside a parcel looks out through a small hole and captures images of its journey through the postal system. The Spy Box was sent from my studio to the gallery taking an image every 10 seconds recording a total of 6994 images these were then edited together to create an animated slideshow. From Nony
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Julian Beever, the greatest sidewalk artist in the world - Julian Beever, the greatest sidewalk artist in the world...... finished his piece for the Charleston (WV) FestivALL today. I was lucky to be able to be there. He's a great guy to talk to and he just works like a madman. From cw
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Extraordinary Microscopic Art - Willard Wigen - Microscopic ArtWillard is a resident ofBirmingham , England .The show is in Manchester .He has a learning disability (Dyslexia),but has talented hands.He makes the sculptures out ofdust particles, sugar crystals, etc.Works only around midnight,and can only do some of the workbetween heartbeats. From cw
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