Ben Wilson
I came across the mini-spectacularity of Ben Wilson’s jewell-like paintings on chewing gum mere days ago, though I’m a little slow on the uptake (he’s been doing them for nine years).
Category: Art & Design
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Ben Wilson
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Worst Wurst by The Little People Project
Worst Wurst by The Little People Project
Artist and photographer Slinkachu recently created Worst Wurst for his ongoing series of miniature street art installations at The Little People Project.
via Laughing Squid: http://laughingsquid.com/worst-wurst-by-the-little-people-project/
Slinkachu recently created Worst Wurst for his ongoing series of miniature street art installations at The Little People Project
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1949 National Candy Wholesalers Association Salesman Catalog
1949 National Candy Wholesalers Association Salesman Catalog
The 1949 salesman’s catalog from the National Candy Wholesalers Association is full of great images and slogans for making confectionery sales. View the
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The 1949 salesman’s catalog from the National Candy Wholesalers Association is full of great images and slogans for making confectionery sales
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Mosaics of Movie Poster Clichés
Mosaics of Movie Poster Clichés
French film distributor Christophe Courtois has evidently seen thousands of film posters in his life: witness his spot on and often hilarious film posters
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The Evolution of Video Game Controllers
The Evolution of Video Game Controllers Poster by Pop Chart Lab
The Evolution of Video Game Controllers by Pop Chart Lab, featuring “119 species and 11 genera over seven decades of gaming”. This new “Deluxe Edition” is
via Laughing Squid: http://laughingsquid.com/the-evolution-of-video-game-controllers-2/
The Evolution of Video Game Controllers by Pop Chart Lab, featuring “119 species and 11 genera over seven decades of gaming”.
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Why writers sometimes work for free and designers don’t, as Huffington Post contest reminds journalists
The AIGA worked to ensure that professional designers should be compensated fairly for their work long before technology allowed for easy, free publication of writing and photography
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The Titanic Taxonomy of Professional Wrestler Names
The Titanic Taxonomy of Professional Wrestler Names
Pop Chart Lab has created The Titanic Taxonomy of Wrestler Names, celebrating the noms de guerre of 382 professional wrestlers.
via Laughing Squid: http://laughingsquid.com/the-titanic-taxonomy-of-professional-wrestler-names/
Pop Chart Lab has created The Titanic Taxonomy of Wrestler Names, celebrating the noms de guerre of 382 professional wrestlers.
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Graphic of Everyone Killed by Jason Voorhees In Friday The 13th Films
Graphic of Everyone Killed by Jason Voorhees In Friday The 13th Films
Andrew Barr of Canada’s newspaper National Post collaborated with illustrator Mike Faille to tally up the carnage from antagonist Jason Voorhees in the
via Laughing Squid: http://laughingsquid.com/graphic-of-everyone-killed-by-jason-voorhees-in-friday-the-13th-films/
Andrew Barr of Canada’s newspaper National Post collaborated with illustrator Mike Faille to tally up the carnage from antagonist Jason Voorhees in the Friday the 13th slasher film polylogy which began in the 1980s.
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Artist EVOL Installs Miniature City Underneath Grassy Field
Artist EVOL Installs Miniature City Underneath Grassy Field
German artist EVOL uses stencils to create the illusion of tiny buildings on walls and street furniture. For his latest installation, he excavated an
via Laughing Squid: http://laughingsquid.com/artist-evol-installs-miniature-city-underneath-grassy-field/
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An appreciation of '60s and '70s bubblegum trading cards
An appreciation of ’60s and ’70s bubblegum trading cards
Dangerous Minds recently did a nice image gallery of selected bubblegum trading cards of the 1960s and ’70s, including some sci-fi classics, Bo Derek, What’s Happening, and Dukes of Haz…
via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/07/12/an-appreciation-of-6.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+boingboing/iBag
Dangerous Minds recently did a nice image gallery of selected bubblegum trading cards of the 1960s and ’70
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David Young V Interview
David Young V is on a mission. Shuttling between two studio spaces in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco— frequently in the dead of night—he engages in the business of recovering fragments from a future world. To hear him speak about the tomorrow he foresees; a world of zealots, martyrs, psychotic orphans and armed bike couriers, one is reminded of Mad-Max… if it had more military training and dabbled in cryptography and linguistics.
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Mosh pit paintings by Dan Witz
Mosh pit paintings by Dan Witz
Brooklyn painter, street artist, and musician Dan Witz has a solo show opening at NYC’s Jonathan LeVine Gallery on June 30. The series of large-scale hyper-realistic figurative paintings is t…
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Applying old master techniques, (Witz) achieves impressively convincing trompe l’oeil illusions of light, shadow and depth in his finely rendered portraits, landscapes and still lifes. The artist recently added digital media tools to his process (having previously used traditional projection methods). Combining old master techniques and digital technology, he photographs his subjects, composes in photoshop, prints an a-chromatic underpainting on canvas then glazes and scumbles over this foundation using traditional representational painting…
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Jerry Saltz on Why the Work of Today’s Well-Educated Artists Lacks Content — New York Magazine
Jerry Saltz on Why the Work of Today’s Well-Educated Artists Lacks Content — New York Magazine – Nymag
I went to Venice, and I came back worried. Every two years, the central attraction of the Biennale is a kind of State of the Art World show. This year’s, called “Illuminations,” has its share of high points and artistic intensity. (Frances Sta […]
via New York Magazine: http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/venice-biennale-2011-6/
There’s always conformity in art—fashions come in and out—but such obsessive devotion to a previous generation’s ideals and ideas is very wrong. It suggests these artists are too much in thrall to their elders, excessively satisfied with an insider’s game of art, not really making their own work. That they are becoming a Lost Generation.
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Very bad late '90s hip-hop cover art
Very bad late ’90s hip-hop cover art
An academic appreciation of very bad late ’90s Hip-Hop cover art. (thanks, David)
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Bad Art of The Rapture
Bad Art of The Rapture
Eager for May 21? Can’t wait for Jesus to dustbust up all the Christians so you can get on with your on post-rapture orgies and looting? Well, some of us
via Laughing Squid: http://laughingsquid.com/bad-art-of-the-rapture/
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The Graffiti of War
The Graffiti of War
From war, art. This is the basic premise of The Graffiti of War, a project from two combat veterans that features the unconventional military art that soldiers, seamen, marines, and airmen (and wom…
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From war, art. This is the basic premise of The Graffiti of War , a project from two combat veterans that features the unconventional military art that soldiers, seamen, marines, and airmen (and women) create during deployments. From tanks spray painted with “I love u baby” to memorials for the dead to enemy jets covered in graffiti, every art work tells a story. It’s the alternative, unauthorized history of war from those who fought it.
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US Soldier-Taggers: Afghanistan as Fight Club
Soldier-Taggers: Afghanistan as Fight Club – Reading The Pictures
Street art depends on disrupting the order and values of everyday life. Except, that is, when it’s riffing off of “Fight Club” and posted on a NATO military base in Afghanistan.
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2011/04/us-soldier-taggers-afghanistan-as-fight-club/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Bagnewsnotes+(BAGnewsNotes)
Here we’re introduced to the artist ZEROSIX, whose imagery is characterized by quirky and deadpan quotation, in both image and text. Who, by the judgement of his colleagues, is truly badass.
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Miniature Town Brings Its Creator a New Life
Miniature Town Brings Its Creator a New Life
As a way to cope with his new life after an attack, Mark Hogancamp built a Nazi-besieged, World War II era town in his backyard at 1/6th scale. He populated the model town with miniature alter egos of him and his friends. Each one is a personality in his
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2011/04/marwencol/
In a documentary released last year and out this week on DVD, entitled Marwencol, Malmberg takes audiences inside Hogancamp’s fictional city, his real life and his struggle with public recognition after his photographs started appearing in New York galleries.
