When you give stickers to children...

This is what happens!

via this awesome art exhibit

Retro-Future Ad Contest

This is part of an ongoing contest to design and create retro style ads for futuristic concepts/events/products based on works of fiction (TV, books, movies, what-have-you).

I'll post more when I find them!

Edit: Here's the site with all the rules so you can enter too!

New Song, Old Stylings

So, I saw Cee-Lo Green's new video today, and was immediately reminded of Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries' "Dakota". Green's piece is kind of a simpler version of the yhchang piece, but both are really enjoyable. Now I shall share them.



and

Dakota

Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring...

Lobster phone!

Lobster Phone, Dali, 1936

Inspired by Art

Working on an art project for school and stumbled upon this striking photograph.

via

Godyssey

Gorgeous new exhibition by Lynne Naylor. See the rest here.

Moth Flight

This kind of thing (a video made from long-exposure still photos of moths in flight) makes me want to sit outside with my camera and make art. I really don't photograph things (and certainly don't *make* things) often enough. I plan to remedy that soon.

Enjoy.

flight patterns from Charlie McCarthy on Vimeo.

Japan Loves Lovecraft

Look, it's Nyarlathotep in his/her manga form...from the upcoming manga series based off of the famous Lovecraft story. Now...how to get my hands on this?

Paper Art

I really love and admire paper cutout artists. A recent favorite is Bovey Lee, whose work just fascinates me--some of the most intricate and detailed paper cutouts I've seen.

See more of her work on her website.

Through the Looking Glass Chess

This Ukrainian artist recreated the chess set (with variation) from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. The results are lovely, and I urge you to check them out here.

Most Beautiful Bookstore

Words fail me.

Real Life Lichtenstein

A photoshoot for MAC cosmetics recreated a Roy Lichtenstein painting to great effect. I think it's lovely (and looks like fun!).

See more of the shoot process here. 

Be Adam

I wish I could see this in person.

Recreation of the Sistine Chapel ceiling on the side of an elevator puts you in the role of Adam! My dream come true!

Rotating Kitchen

This art installation by Zeger Reyers started rotating last Friday, and will continue to rotate until February 28th, 2010. It's quite strange and interesting, and I'm still not sure entirely what to make of it. Thoughts?

Embroidery!

I've been practicing my hand-embroidering, even though my sewing machine has an embroidery function. I just think it's clever and sweet to have things embroidered by hand. Such a wonderful tradition of old. Anyway, my first few attempts were too...interesting...to post. This one turned out pretty well though. And from the subject I suppose you can tell what I'm reading at the moment. (Or just finished I guess.)

Another (close-up) picture after the jump.

Pretty blogs are pretty

You may have noticed how excitingly new and pretty-fied my blog has become of late. This is entirely thanks to my good friend Ana, graphic/web designer extraordinaire. My English-major brains are not suited to photoshop and the like, but Ana is wonderfully talented--and with very little inspiration from me came up with this rocking layout. I'm over the moon about it.

Check out Ana's awesomeness at her blog (also linked on the side): oh ana.

Money Hats

So cool. Possibly the coolest thing ever to do with money.

Whoa...

Howl's Moving Castle out of legos!

Dollies

Another arty post for the day...

Caitlin sent me a link to a blog with weird doll work from various artists. It introduced me to a few new people, and made me recall old loves (the Brothers Quay, Svankmajer's Alice, among others).



"The Moffet Twins" by D.L. Marian (found here)



couldn't find the title for this guy, but it's by Shain Erin (and can be seen here)

I also love, love the Brothers Quay. My favorite has to be their "Street of Crocodiles", but this shorter (and earlier) piece is exemplary of their work.



and finally, a clip from Svankmajer's Alice, too weird for words (but I adore parts of it...just can't get through it in one sitting).



Thanks Caitlin!

Art projects

Caitlin and I shared pancakes and sausage and craft-time yesterday, so I thought I'd post a bit about what we're working on, and then update later with finished pictures!

Basically we want to make one of these out of cardboard:



Only, not quite as large...and without the taxidermy man in the background. Anyway, after an hour of work I had almost successfully finished one antler, and Caitlin had the beginnings of the base and neck. Cardboard is hard to work with...