Obligatory seasonal costumes by Helen Tseng and Wendy Steiner.
Category Archives: Art/Craft
A new forced perspective installation from 22 year-old Cork based art student Mark Dooley.
(H/T: David)
Illustrations from The Married Kama Sutra: The World’s Least Erotic Sex Manual by Simon Rich and Farley Katz.
Impressive animal portraits emerging from a complex swirl of intricate, expressive strokes of jet black ink by UK artist Si Scott.
‘The Duck Machine’ by British designer/sculptor David Cranmer consists of 49 independently controlled rubber duckies connected via actuated rods to independent, microprocessor-controlled motors.
We have been staring slack-jawed at it could watch it all day.
Tiny, hideously uncomfortable sandpaper sculptures by artist and designer Mandy Smith.
*oooooh*
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Artist Wendy McNaughton’s open letter to art critics worldwide.
Meh. Too much time on her hands. That’s her problem.
The inspirational amputee Josh Sundquist, author of Just Don’t Fall, sez:
When life hands you lemons, make awesome Halloween costumes.
This year’s is a doozy.
One of three films by AirBrush Action Magazine showcasing the considerable skillz of master pinstriper Glen Weisgerber, who has been hand-detailing ornate script onto cars, guitars and motorbikes since the early 1970s.
It’s like RTE’s Simply Painting, only with Slash instead of Frank Clarke.
MORE: Single Stroke Script and Chrome Script techniques.
WISH: a public art project for the Belfast Festival at the Titanic Quarter by Cuban-American artist Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada.
After several years of planning, the portrait of an anonymous Belfast girl was plotted on a grid using GPS, set out with 30,000 hand placed stakes and created over four weeks with over 3600 tonnes of soil, sand and rock.
Viewable in full only from the air, the piece – which will remain in place for the rest of the year – has already been nicknamed ‘The Face from Space’.