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No piano drop
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jul 11, 2014 -
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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
The art of Uwe Max Jensen
Some of Uwe Max Jensen's previous work includes his groundbreaking, self-explanatory piece titled, "For one complete week, I will only use the Aarhus Museum of Art when having a shit."
And there's also his 2005 piece titled "Raising the water level in a sculpture by Olafur Eliasson." This involved urinating in Eliasson's 'Waterfalls' sculpture.
[Copenhagen Post]
Posted By: Alex - Fri Apr 25, 2014 -
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Category: Art, Performance Art
Vegan Art
Austria-based artist Anamaria Finta went vegan two years ago. And for some reason that change inspired her to start making art out of her food.A lot of her art pieces seem to rely heavily on cream cheese and yogurt, both of which (last time I checked) aren't vegan. So I'm assuming she must use vegan substitutes for these.
So actually, I'm not sure what her art has to do with veganism at all. But it is nice food art. [via Today.com]
Posted By: Alex - Thu Apr 03, 2014 -
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Category: Art, Food
Art of the Insane
In early 1946, the St. Anne Insane Asylum in Paris exhibited some of the art work of its inmates. Collecting the art of people identified as insane seems to have been a trend at the time. See, for instance, the book of "Poetry of the Insane," published in 1933, that I posted about back in Feb 2013.The Associated Press caption on the top picture notes, "The writing is a miscellany of seemingly unconnected Gibberish, with no apparent relationship to the drawing."
Posted By: Alex - Fri Mar 21, 2014 -
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Category: Art, 1940s, Mental Health and Insanity
Sculptures of Rosa Verloop
Dutch artist Rosa Verloop creates sculptures out of nylon stockings. She writes that she likes this material because it is "soft, cuddly, and easy to shape." Though when I look at her sculptures, 'cuddly' isn't the first word that comes to mind.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Mar 08, 2014 -
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Category: Art
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