Outside former round-the-corner-from-Windmill-Lane U2 bolthole the (long since departed) Dockers pub on Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2.
Viral marketing or not, we like these.
Earlier: Polly Filler
(Pix: OisÃn Kane)
Category Archives: Art/Craft
In their body art series Museum Anatomy, artists Chadwick Gray and Laura Spector paint detailed reproductions of historical artworks on human canvasses. Their artists’ staement sez::
Museum Anatomy is a collection of documentary photographs of works from museums around the world that have been recreated onto the human body. The artwork goes through a significant process until reaching the final outcome, a photograph of Chadwick, sometimes unrecognizable as a human form, with an elaborate, detailed painting covering a portion of his body. The recreated paintings of these historic portraits recapture the subjects in their own moment in history. The resulting photographs reveal a unification of art combining antiquity, history and technology in a contemporary context.
Above: Cleopatra’s Feast by Jacob Jordeans (pix 1-3); Madeleine de France Queen of Scotland by Corneille de Lyon; Leda and the Swan by Correggio and Water by Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Remember how you always wished it was more, you know, spawn of Satan-y?
Painter and sculptor Erica Sanada has your new mantlepiece candy right here.
From a composite series entitled Selected People (2008) by American photographer Pelle Cass, who sez:
…this work both orders the world and exaggerates its chaos. With the camera on a tripod, I take many dozens of pictures and simply leave the figures I choose and omit the rest (in photoshop). Nothing has been changed. Only selected.
Cool folk have these on the inside.
UPDATE: Original photos by Todd Baxter of the Peter Bailey Company – part of an advertising campaign for Combos for DDB Chicago.
Monumental
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Japanese artist Manabu Ikeda works eight hours a day, taking up to a year to complete gigantic paper illustrations that combine traditional Japanese architecture and landscapes, nature, decay, science fiction and whatever you’re having yourself.
With no idea how the finished piece will turn out, he allows his imagination to dictate the work from day to day, working with an acryllic pen on one 4 x 4 inch square of the illustration at a time.
Above: History of Rise And Fall (pix 1 & 2), Regeneration (pic 3), Ark (pix 4 & 5)
Logo designer Graham Smith’s entirely plausible ongoing mashup of popular logos and brand names.
More here.
You’ll recall his trolling of the London Olympic sponsors last summer.
The Badpiper
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A fiery rendition of AC/DC’s ‘Thunderstruck at the Fremantle markets in Western Australia by the road warrior they call The Badpiper.
He’s good, but he’s no Unipiper.
The concept is simple: Take a blank sheet with nothing but the basic outline of a pinup girl and illustrate a unique scene around her.
MORE: from the imagination and deft doodling hand of David Jablow.