Author Archives: Niall Murphy

Draw and Fold Over is a site for fans of fold-over drawings (you know, where someone draws the head, folds the paper, the next person draws the body, folds over, and so on).

Drawings are sent by email, relayed between four people and everyone gets to see the finished piece when it’s done.

It’s all in a good cause: The Big Draw, an international museum and gallery promotion event taking place next October. Armagh County Museum has already signed up. IMMA? National Gallery? Glucksman? You could do the body, legs and feet, no?

via LaughingSquid


Vanity Fair photographer Howard Schatz encourages actors to place themselves in a series of emotional and dramatic situations to reveal the ‘essence of their characters’. Whether he succeeds or not, the resulting conjoined triplets are pretty arresting.

From top: Brendan Fraser, John Slattery, Thomas Haden Church, Jane Krakowski, John Goodman, Whoopie Goldberg and Jane Lynch, who was offered the following scenarios:

Left: You’re a child swallowing a spoonful of medicine that your mom promised would taste good, and now she’s telling you that if it didn’t taste awful it wouldn’t work. Centre: You’re at a social dinner with your work colleagues and their spouses, desperately trying to signal your partner to stop talking so freely about your shared sex life. Right: You’re a bunny-level skier who has decided to try a black-diamond slope, and now, with no idea how to stop, you’re headed straight for a tree.

Actors In Character – Now That Is Acting (25 pix) (MediaDump)

Californian portrait artist and sculptor, Andrew Myers is a patient man.

He draws out a face and pre-drills 8,000 to 10,000 holes, by hand. As he drills in the screws, Myers doesn’t rely on any computer software to guide him, he figures it out as he goes along. “For me, I consider this a traditional sculpture and all my screws are at different depths,” he says.

One of the most challenging parts is getting rid of the flat drawing underneath because he then has to paint over each of the screw heads, individually, so that in the end, the sculpture looks like an actual portrait.

Thousands of Screws Make a 3D Portrait (15 pics) (MyModern Met)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5c_MYLDV-w

Goodbye February. Hello Twisternederland’s monthly nad-flattening, face-planting gravel-rash-a-thon.

Warning: contains actual pain and almost-certain maiming.

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zx5UxKf0M0

Last Friday, 2 million Romanians tuned into the first episode of Romania’s Got Talent and were promptly blown away by 15-year old Narcis Iustin Ianau, channelling Dame Kiri Te Kanawa.

Presumably, the internet will now take over.

First edition of “Romania’s got talent”, over 2 million viewers; rare countertenor voice discovered (Romania Insider)