‘For Adam’ – a ‘vintage’ Marvel style comic based on the Beastie Boys’ Sabotage video created by Canadian illustrator Derek Langille shortly after the death of Adam “MCA’ Yauch in 2012.
Category Archives: Art/Craft
Every kid in the world’s favourite street performer in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Inside, you’re clapping your hands and squealing with delight.
Don’t deny it.
Bio-Storms
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Calamityware
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Willow pattern dinner plates augmented with scenes of catastrophe – an ongoing Kickstarter project by Don Moyer, based on his own drawings.
Available to buy for between €20 and €33 each.
Oakswagon
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A VW Beetle with its steering wheel, hubs, gearstick, panels, dash and entire bodywork covered with 50,000 individually applied oak tiles.
The fully roadworthy vehicle was shingled over the last two years by retired Bosnian Bug-fan Momir Bojic, 71.
Photos: Reuters
Stunt professional Keith Ward writes:
Now I know you don’t normally do this but…Was wondering could you give us a mention or shout out on your page.We’re Stunt Register Ireland – an emerging Stunt Organisation whose members have been featured in 2 Seasons of Vikings so far with Season 3 just kicking off. I myself have been part of the core stunt team alongside Coordinator Franklin Henson, Asst Coordinator Richard Ryan and Paul Burke since its inception. We’ve really been kicking a** and taking names. I’ve attached 2 videos for you to have a look at which we coordinated, rigged, performed, shot and edited. Hope you like ’em…
G’wan the burning men!
Swiss surrealist artist H.R. Giger who designed the monster and revolutionary sci-fi sets for the film “Alien” has died, his museum said on Tuesday. He was 74. Giger, who was born Hans Rudolf in the eastern Swiss town of Chur in 1940, died on Monday in Zurich from injuries he obtained after suffering a fall, an employee of the H.R. Giger Museum said, confirming reports in Swiss media.
“Alien” artist, surrealist H.R. Giger dies aged 74 (Reuters)
Handmade linoleum prints on toned rice paper from Etsy seller Woodcut Emporium (shipping to the US only, dammit)
An animated 2012 op-doc by Drew Christie for New York Times Video in which two men discuss whether – given the ubiquity of palagiarism and adaptation – anything (especially in film or books) is original.
A short film made at a Kintsugi workshop organisd by Tokyobike in London.
Kintsugi or kintsukuroi is the Japanese art of fixing broken pottery with a gold dusted lacquer that – like all good restoration projects – celebrates the old, the new and the repair itself.
Acquire wherewithal here.