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Category Archives: Art/Craft
Collage artist Mark Wagner sets to work on the US dollar bill. Sez he:
Anarchists are certain that I’m an anarchist because I cut up a favorite tool of the oppressor. Capitalists think I am a capitalist because I revel in it.
Illustrations by Christina Hess : Cat Queen (Elizabeth I), Napoleon Boneapart, Cleocatra, Jizo Bodhissatva, Henry V, Bruno The Brave, Joan of Bark and Marie Antoinippe.
(Yes, we’re aware that Bodhisattva and Joan of Arc were not monarchs. We just like the art.)
MORE: Historical Figures Playfully Portrayed as Cats and Dogs
(My Modern Met)
(H/T: Joanne)
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Six Styles of Russian Folk Painting (Gorodets, Gzhel, North-Dvina, Zhostovo, Mezen and Khokhloma) rendered in a Dia de Muertos style by Sasha Vinogradova.
An excerpt (and behind the scenes feature) from Urban Tale – a combination of projection mapping, acrobatics and dance by Italian ‘vertical performance’ team Cafelulé – last May at the 86 meter tall bell tower of Modena cathedral.
Cosmology of Life is Indonesian artist Toni Kanwa’s collection of 1000 intricately carved, needle-sized ritualistic figures displayed on a lit table at the 2013 Singapore Biennale.
Magnifying glasses allow less-than-hawk-eyed viewers to observe the miniscule figures – each of which has its own teeny-tiny energy and character.
These miniature, talisman-like sculptures were intuitively carved and shaped by Kanwa to express his worldview of nature, spirituality, and the macro and micro cosmos. His creative process follows a special ritual, informed by his past investigations of sacred knowledge and practices in Indonesia, where he dialogues with the material and medium used before beginning to sculpt.
Dublin-based filmmaking/screen-acting/training resource house The Factory, supported by the Irish Film Board, has just announced Cornerstones – a new micro-budget funding initiative whatsit.
Five successful applicant teams will EACH get €5,000, loan of equipment, access to facilities, mentoring and a screening of the completed film before an invited audience of film industry types.
Apply here (for €50).
(Thanks Muireann)
Ruby – a stop motion short by London based animator and body painter Emma Allen, created in five days and featuring the artist’s face cycling from one form, through death and decay, to the next.
Youtuber SafetyHammer (animators Doug Bayne, Ben Baker and Trudy Cooper) sez:
The Elegant Gentleman’s guide to Knife Fighting is an Australian sketch show- they came to me and said “you love Terry Gilliam, right?”
Yes. Yes I do. I made them a bunch of animated bumpers, these are some of my favourites.
(H/T: Rachel Wynne)
In this quasi-promo for Marvel’s upcoming Thor sequel, master swordsmith Tony Swatton and his crew forge a chromoly steel replica of that hammer at Tony’s Burbank California workshop.
Previously: Forging Gimli’s Axe