Spirited wordplay by artist Mark Marianelli, who tired of the endless derivative Die Hard titles and decided to come up with a few of his own.
Category Archives: Art/Craft
Cardiff-based illustrator Ed Fairburn extrapolates portraits of human faces ‘hidden’ in the topographical features of various maps of the world.
(Above: Ink on a vintage street map of Cambridge, reproduced military maps of the Western Front (World War II); Lake Windermere; an original Michelin map of France (2 pix) and a vintage street map of Paris.)
He also sells them as prints.
The Sterling silver ‘Just a thimble full’ shot cup, one of many ‘exclusively sourced’ trinkets for sale on Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle website, goop.
The blurb reads:
This sterling shot cup has the phrase “Just a thimble full” engraved on it – a gentle reminder to practice a little bit of restraint.
The thimble costs $950.00.
US artist Paul McCarthy’s inflatable installation ‘Complex Pile’ at The Mobile M+: Inflation exhibition which opened last Thursday at a park in the West Kowloon cultural district of Hong Kong.
(Photo: Bobby Yip/Reuters)
The entire opening scene of Daniel Craig’s first outing as James Bond painstakingly recreated in blocks frame by frame by the wonderfully named Brick Tease.
19 year-old Hungarian photographer Flora Borsi imagines the real life subjects of abstract paintings.
The Folk Ye Bump Intae is a blog project by Scottish artist Stuart Murray who sketches the people he meets in Glasgow (and what they say, just as they said it).
It’s wonderful. Explore.
A concept (soon to be put into production) sculptural chandelier from Hilden and Diaz entitled Forms In Nature, inspired by a genealogical ‘tree of life’ created by the German biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel.
…the roots are those elements of the forest that are the most visible. Thereby the sculpture is not only mirrored, but also turned upside down in Hilden & Diaz’ artwork. […] The shadows engulfs the room and transforms the walls into unruly shadows of branches, bushes and gnarled trees. Mirrorings are thrown out upon the walls and ceilings and provide weak Rorschach-like hints of faces, life and flow of consciousness. Dimming the lights transforms the installation and one senses a weak fire burning deep in the center of the forest.
Steady on.
A presumably delicious, high-calorie treat courtesy of Katrina’s Kitchen via NewlyWeds blog:
1. Preheat oven to 350 (175°C)
2. Let ice cream soften at room temperature for 10-15 minutes.
3. In the bowl of your mixer combine ice cream with flour until the flour is incorporated.
4. Evenly distribute sprinkles in the bottom of a greased Bundt pan and scoop batter evenly on top.
5. Bake for 35 minutes until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
6. Invert and allow to cool complOMNOMNOMNOM.
Subtle cosmetic surgery by ace Illustrator, veterinarian and all-round nice guy Alan O’Regan.
Can you spot the artist’s deliberate correction? mistake? modifica? …it”s the leg.
We always hated the leg.