Last night.
Cool Hand Lucan writes:
Came upon an unusual billboard on Sarsfield Road, Inchicore. I wish it was a couple of miles down the road so I could call it The Shroud of Crumlin.
Category Archives: Art/Craft
Self assembly, anatomically correct balloon animals by designer Jason Freeny [even he of the anatomically correct Gummi bear, above].
Available to buy and build here.
Diffused, dreamy, mixed media combinations of painting and photography by artist Stev’nn Hall.
This morning.
South Georges Street, Dublin
A new mural to mark International Women’s Day and 1916..
Darragh writes:
Irish artist Gearoid O’Dea has installed a 35 foot street art installation inspired by the Women of 1916. The installation is on the corner of South Great George’s Street, the same location as Joe Caslin’s iconic Marriage Equality mural.
The title of Gearoid’s piece is ‘Le Chéile I Ngruaig’, which translates as ‘Together in the hair’. It features three women who each played an important role in the Easter Rising: Countess Markievicz (left), Margaret Pearse (right) and Grace Gifford-Plunkett (bottom). The piece was drawn in full colour using the mediums of colouring pencil and gouache, with a focus on meticulous detail. It was then scanned and digitally reproduced on a large scale….
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Meanwhile…
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Thanks Kathleen
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An aerial photo of the farm of the Virginia farm of Jeff Slankard, who spent four hours out in his pasture making his feelings clear about the Republican frontrunner.
In cow poo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=305YQqGrpZo
The mesmerising precision work of Hungarian chef Judit Czinkné Poór of cake decorating shop Mézesmanna.
You can keep yer oul’ iced rings.
Geometric patterns trampled into the snow at Powder Mountain Resort in Utah by Simon Beck, who admits that each piece can require a minimum of ten consecutive hours’ of precise trudging.
Previously: Simon Beck: Snartist
New and adorable, ephemeral and site-specific anamorphic drawings on the streets of Ann Arbour Michigan by David Zinn.
Previously: Street Chalk
He has a new book out: Temporary Preserves.
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Gnarly tree sculpture at St Anne’s Park, Raheny, Co. Dublin.
Chewed out from solid oak with a chainsaw or carefully carved with a hammer and chisel?
We may never know.
Any excuse
Of original 600 handwritten pages of Charles Darwin’s On The Origin Of Species (1859), all but 45 have been lost. Those that remain were used as doodle pads by his kids.
As Darwin Manuscript Project director David Kohn says: “Darwin was done with those pages — he was throwing away sections of his draft and not caring about it because the book was published.”
Last Friday was the 206th anniversary of the naturalist’s birth.
MORE: Darwin’s Kids Doodled All Over His “Origin of Species” Manuscript (AMNH)