Author Archives: Niall Murphy

During her time as a high school art teacher in New Jersey, artist So Yoon Lym was very taken with the intricate cornrow hairdos of her students.

I loved the many beautiful hair styles of both my male and female students… I would sometimes run after students in the hallway and request that they stop by room 108 briefly to allow me to take a picture of their hair and braid patterns.I was always pleasantly surprised and pleased that everyone always stopped by and allowed me to document their hair style. All my students if they had an interesting or unusual hair and braid pattern always allowed me to take pictures as well.  I knew I wanted to use these photographs as reference material for a future art project but wasn’t sure what I would do with them.

So she started painting them.

Braided Masterpieces (literally) (Natural Selection)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXO-jKksQkM

Marquese “Nonstop’ Scott dancing to a Butch Clancy remix.

Why he’s chosen to do this outside what looks like an interpretive centre is his business.

Give him a minute to warm up. He’s excellent.

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UK artist Steve Payne has been doing things to 19th century paintings of Russian generals.

George Dawe was an English portrait artist who painted 329 portraits of Russian generals active during Napoleon’s invasion of Russia for the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

I’m using digital copies of these paintings as a basis for my own work which involves incorporating my friends, family and even some celebrities into the paintings using photoshop.

We wish we were his friends. Bodger can really work an epaulette.

MORE HERE 

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE-ZmwATS8E&ob=av3n

Cardboard Warfare (above) – an epic, low-budget VFX combat scene with cardboard weapons directed by Clinton Jones racked up millions of Youtube hits last year. Now the creators are back with a 25 minute long sequel.

Even more cardboard. Even more epic. You’ll like it.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAz-Ax330tE

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Seventeen years we’ve waited for this. For $230 you get:

A 1/6 scale poseable sculpture of Jean Reno as Léon (RM4 ABS action body with more than 30 points of articulation ), 6 guns including: a Ruger SP101, a Beretta 92FS, a Smith & Wesson Model 586, a Smith & Wesson Model 41 and Springfield M1911-AS SASS, six grenades, clamps/pincers, folding dagger, 10 interchangeable hands, weapons vest, beanie hat, long felt coat, black t-shirt, white t-shirt, black trousers, glasses, houseplant, milk carton, glass, leather suitcase and stand.

Miniature Natalie Portman and dreadlocked Gary Oldman not included.

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‘The City’ by documentary photographer Wesley Townsend Kitten who sez:

“This timelapse is about a year in the making. I started sometime in June of 2010 and finished it on August 19, 2011. It wasn’t constant work of course, just working on it every now and then. I’d estimate I have invested anywhere between 250 and 300 hours on it. Most of this was time I spent walking, biking, or riding the bus to locations I was shooting. There are very few locations I used a car to get to. Total frame count is about 28,000 frames and 85 different shots.”

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