A series of animated portraits of the Grey alien species by Finnish artist Vladimir Stankovic.
If your brain tells you the one in the middle is blinking, they’ve already gotten to you.
Category Archives: Art/Craft
Images from ‘master disassembler’ Todd McLellan‘s book Things Come Apart, in which he reflects on the inner gubbins of 50 objects broken down into 21,959 component parts.
It’s a commentry on the permanence of repairable vintage tech versus the disposable functionality and rapid obsolescence of modern devices.
So now.
McLellan is currently exhibiting at The Chicago Museum of Science and Industry until May 19th, if you’re in the neighbourhood.
Artisan/engineer Jon Jones’ WheelHarp is a full-scale chromatic instrument inspired by the hurdy-gurdy.
Pressing on the keys moves one of 61 strings toward a rosined wheel. The right pedal controls the speed of the motor turning the wheel. The left is a damper. There are electromagnetic and a piezoelectric pickups to control amplification.
It’s quite the orchestral thing of beauty. It makes lovely sounds.
And for ten grand, you can have the entry-level version.
Here & There: two prints of Manhattan (‘Uptown’ (top) from 3rd and 7th and ‘Downtown’ from 3rd and 35th) with the horizon ‘removed’ and the topography folded upwards, Inception-style (but pre-dating that movie’s city-bending scene by two years), by London design group BERG.
Part of MOMA‘s permanent collection since last year, they’re also available as limited edition 90 x 120cm prints.
A ‘Bloody Mary Extreme’ garnished with bacon, popcorn, pickles, cheeseburger, pretzel, hotdog, baby corn, green beans, sausage, peanuts, nachos, cheese curds and ‘pure mouthal delight’, available for an astounding $5 at O’Davey’s Pub, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
Where would you even begiNOMNOMNOM
Illustrations from the Yesterday TV series Secret Life Of… in which figures from history are sartorially updated.
Above: Hipster Shakespeare, socialite Marie Antoinette, a slimmed-down Versace-wearing Henry VIII, an Anne Robinson Tilda Swinton-ized Elizabeth I and, eh, Admiral Lord Nelson.
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Hamburg-based visual effects studio The Marmalade show off their mastery of custom rigs and high speed photography – all in the service of food and drink advertising.
Chikka-wah-wah, etc.
By digital artist Roberto Vergati Santos who explains:
Imagine if one day capitalism reaches the point, where the big brands starts to sponsor the superheroes. How would this influence their images? Based on this hypothesis, I decided to experiment with some characters, and see what would be the results of such idea.
(Hat tip: Ringos Dove)
In this short documentary, Shaped on all Six Sides, directed by Kat Gardiner, carpenter Andy Smith shares his thoughts about a thing some men do because they can’t have babies.
Mmf.
New iconographic pop-culture prints from artist Chet Phillips (he of the Coen Brothers iconography series).
(Above: The Big Bang Theory, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Princess Bride and Firefly)
All available as 28cm x 35cm prints for around €20 each here.
UPDATE: Chet’s Etsy store doesn’t ship to the Republic of Ireland (thanks for the clarification, Ardoyne Aristocrat). Damn.