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Petrified Potato Art
As a follow-up to my prior immortal potato post, here's Dave McConkey who claims to have found a way to petrify potatoes, and he then makes works of art out of these perma-potatoes. I'd be curious to know what exactly his process involves, but I doubt it's actual petrification, since soft tissue doesn't petrify (as far as I know).If you want to delve deeper into the mystery of petrified potatoes, check out the Potato Rock Museum, which describes itself as being "all about the search for the elusive 'Potato, Rock' or the 'Petrified Potato' or the Per Mineralized Potato."
Posted By: Alex - Sat Jul 06, 2013 -
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Category: Art, Vegetables
Parking Ticket Art
Artist Ruth Rieffanaugh creates pictures of the Boston skyline out of old parking tickets. Her rule is that she doesn't take the tickets directly off of cars. She has to find them on the ground "discarded in disgust by others." [Boston Magazine]
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jul 05, 2013 -
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Category: Art
Salvador Dali Swimwear
A further installment in the Boese-Di Filippo Weird Swimsuit Wars.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jun 26, 2013 -
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Category: Art, Surrealism, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Fashion, 1960s
Endless Toilet Bowls
Constantin Brancusi's 1938 sculpture "The Endless Column" is quite famous. So much so that, as the Box Vox blog points out, not one but TWO artists independently came up with the idea of paying homage to it by making endless columns of toilet bowls — Tim Thyzel using white ceramic bowls (2001) and Konstantin Bojanov using red, acrylic resin casts of toilet bowls (2008).
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jun 20, 2013 -
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Category: Art, Bathrooms
Gustav Fassauer-Ferron
Although he was hardly as famous as Stradivarius, Gustav Fassauer-Ferron created some violins that still have their fans today. As one site says, "Pupil of Oswald Schaller of Frankfort (Germany), with whom he underwent a thorough training, proof of which is found in his work. Well made instruments after the Guarneri I. H. S. model, adorned with an orange oil varnish. His violins are esteemed by both artists and amateurs." You can hear one of his instruments in the video.
But when he wasn't busy making full-size ones, he turned out the occasional miniature. Don't you wish you had this for those times when you wanted to mock someone's self-indulgent hard-luck story?
Here is an image of the creator with his miniatures. Copyright prevents reproduction here.
Source of story.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 18, 2013 -
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Category: Art, Crafts, Eccentrics, Enlargements, Miniatures, and Other Matters of Scale, Music
Brainwave Art
Artist Lisa Park wears a headset that monitors her brainwaves, which are then translated into sound waves that vibrate pans of water. So she's making the pans of water splash and bubble with her mind.Or, at least, that's what she says. It occurs to me that no one would know the difference if she sat there looking very serious, wearing a headset that did absolutely nothing, while speakers randomly turned on and off beneath the water.
Eunoia from Lisa Park on Vimeo.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Jun 16, 2013 -
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Category: Art
Clown Art
If you're a collector of paintings of clowns, then you're probably already aware of Jim Howle. His website describes him as "the best-known clown artist in the world." He's actually the only clown artist that I know of, though I'm sure there must be others.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jun 14, 2013 -
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Category: Art, Clowns
You Can Touch My Hair
Last week three black women stood in New York City's Union Square holding signs that read, "You Can Touch My Hair." It was part of an "exhibition" intended to explore people's "tactile fascination" with black women's hair.But the exhibition quickly proved controversial, because apparently many black women don't think it's a good thing to be encouraging strangers to get their grubby hands all over their heads. A group of protesters formed, holding signs such as "you can't touch my hair but you can kiss my ass" and "touch my hair with your hand & I'll touch your face with my fist." [huffpost]
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jun 11, 2013 -
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Category: Art, Hair and Hairstyling
Makeup By Hanna Majava
Many more images at the links.
Her blog.
Her Facebook page.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 09, 2013 -
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Category: Art, Europe, Body Painting
Underwear Art
Woodward is upset that he was booted out of the event. He says he wasn't trying to shock anyone. He insists that, "I brought what I felt was my best work at the time." He's surely telling the truth because the hanging underwear was also his final thesis project at the university.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Jun 05, 2013 -
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Category: Art, Underwear
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