Art
Credit Card Painting
Artists like to come up with gimmicks to set themselves apart. Sandy Byers' gimmick is that she paints using credit cards as her paint brush. Full story at komonews.com.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Aug 24, 2014 -
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Category: Art
Clysmic Water
Source of B&W image (in back page advert section).
If this ad were selling bottled elk urine, I'd buy the stuff. Luckily, the product actually sounded beneficial.
Source of text.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 15, 2014 -
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Category: Art, Business, Advertising, Products, Health, Regionalism, 1900s
Ashland Bridge Art
On a recent road trip through Oregon (while on vacation) I came across something in the town of Ashland that seemed WU worthy. It's an outdoor art gallery located on the underside of a bridge.From a distance, you can't tell it's there. But as you approach, you see a sign identifying the area beneath the bridge as "The Path to Joy and Unity." It invites you to "open your heart and contemplate the magic that you will view." And then, as you get closer, you can see the artwork hanging upside-down.
Beneath the "Path to Joy and Unity" sign is another sign: "NO ADA ACCESS". So apparently there's no wheelchair access to Nirvana.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Aug 14, 2014 -
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Category: Art
Tattoo Baby Dolls
An art project by Sherri Wood. Check out the full gallery of her dolls at her site, daintytime.com.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jul 29, 2014 -
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Category: Art, Toys, Tattoos
No piano drop
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jul 11, 2014 -
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Category: Art
Upside-Down Artist
Dana Helms calls herself the "upside-down artist" because she completes all of her work upside-down. And then she turns it rightside-up for display.I guess this might be a useful trick for learning how to draw. Though I suspect my own attempts at drawing would look equally distorted whatever way round I did them.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jun 17, 2014 -
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Category: Art
Theodor de Bry
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I love the almost-human arms and legs on this enormous alligator, which is being attacked, ostensibly, by Native Americans, as depicted by 16th-century artist Theodor de Bry.
"The verisimilitude of many of de Bry's illustrations is questionable; not least because he never crossed the Atlantic. "
Posted By: Paul - Wed May 14, 2014 -
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Category: Animals, Art, Europe, North America, Sixteenth Century
Anti-DNA Spray
We last reported on artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg a year ago when she was collecting random samples of DNA on the street (bits of hair, saliva on cigarette butts, etc.) and then using the genetic information to reconstruct what the person whose DNA it is looks like.Now she's back with a new project. She's started a company called BioGenFutures that will be selling a spray called "Invisible" for $99 that you can use to erase your DNA from everything you might leave it on. In case you're worried about leaving your DNA around.
I'm not sure what's in the spray, but I imagine bleach would break down DNA and be a lot cheaper than what she's selling.
Invisible from biogenfutures on Vimeo.
Posted By: Alex - Tue May 06, 2014 -
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Category: Art
Beautiful Stained Glass
You do not have to be religious to appreciate the beauty and craftsmanship of these stained glass windows from around the world. 'Glory Window' pictured above resides in The Chapel of Thanksgiving in Dallas, Texas.
Picture above from Yahoo images.
Posted By: Alex - Sun May 04, 2014 -
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Category: Art
Terrifying Mask Man
More on the artist.
Posted By: Paul - Sat May 03, 2014 -
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Category: Art, Disguises, Impersonations, Mimics and Forgeries, 1930s
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