Okej, jag fascinerades av det här så himla mycket så jag måste dela med mig:

På sjuttiotalet skrev illustratören och architecten Luigi Serafini en uppslagsbok över en okänd parallellvärld. Det är 380 sidor lång.

”it is written in an unknown language, using an unknown alphabet. it took him 30 month to complete that masterpiece that many might call “the strangest book on earth”.

Boken som heter Codex Seraphinianus är uppdelad i elva kapitel och har två delar, den första om natur och den andra om människor.

Vi kollar lite,

Så himla sjuttiotalsknarkigt men älskar saker man själv inte ens kan föreställa sig om natten i drömmarna.

Här kan du ladda ner boken och här kan du läsa mer och titta på fler bilder.

Knäppt var ordet.

 

streeter:

I’m glad the portrait of Ben Franklin stayed the same on the new $100 bill. There’s something about his slight, tight frown, the paternal hint of disappointment in his eyes and those pursed, sealed lips that seem to say, “I don’t approve of what you’re doing, but I can’t stop you from rolling this banknote into a straw and ripping a fat rail of white lightning in the Buffalo Wild Wings handicapped bathroom stall, you goddamn beautiful disaster.” 

Florian Meacci.

Recent illustrations by Florian Meacci (Previously featured):

Florian Meacci: Tumblr

Stephen Ibbott.

Loosely painted, pop culture still lifes by Stephen Ibbott:

Stephen Ibbott: Website

via http://www.lostateminor.com/2009/02/11/paul-balmer/

Sleeping With Nostalgia, 2013. Acrylic & colored pencil. 20″ x 26″

Bedridden Mementos, 2013. Acrylic & colored pencil. 14″ x 18″

Taste For Bittersweet Beds, 2013. Acrylic & colored pencil. 13″ x 16.5″

A Place We Once Homed I & II, 2013. Acrylic & colored pencil. 13″ x 16.5″

Artist Tran Nguyen was born in Vietnam but now lives and works in Georgia. These are just a few of her latest acrylic and pencil works from an exhibition at Roq La Rue gallery late this summer. Nguyen says she is “fascinated with creating visuals that can be used as a psychotherapeutic support vehicle, exploring the mind’s dreamscape.” You can see a full gallery of her latest work right here.

These portraits from 1979 were taken by American photographer William Coupon at the Mudd Club in lower Manhattan, New York City, where the young and the hipster punk rockers used to hang out all night long.






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Rainbow Brown just might be my new favorite author. I can think of dozens of folks who could benefit greatly from this fine literature. Lemme say that again, dozens.

LiarTownUSA is my daily go-to website for a laff. Just like Internet K-Hole (NSFW-ish), it’s highly addictive.
 

 

 

 

 

 
And finally, LiarTownUSA presents this little-known volume by Ann Coulter…

 

Bill Mayer.

Paintings by Bill Mayer:

Bill Mayer: Website

Cristóbal Graciá, an artist in Spain, makes watercolor paintings, props and sculptures. The latter category is the most interesting. He makes baby anthropomorphic versions of plants, such as these mandrake roots. They’re made of polymer clay, artificial leaves and glass balls for the eyes.

Mandrake root can be turned into a mild hallucinogen and the roots vaguely resemble human bodies. That’s why Mr. Graciá’s dolls come with a warning: the scream of an adult mandrake is similar to that of a banshee.  When it’s pulled out of the ground, the scream can kill a human being. The scream of a baby mandrake can knock a human unconscious. 

Born in Tokyo, Dusseldorf-based artist Ramon Todo creates beautiful textural juxtapositions using layers of glass in unexpected places. Starting with various stones, volcanic rock, fragments of the Berlin wall, and even books, the artist inserts perfectly cut glass fragments that seem to slice through the object resulting in segments of translucence where you would least expect it. You can see more of his work over on Art Front Gallery, and here. (via My Amp Goes to 11)

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Behold "Bleeding," an absolutely incredible sand sculpture by Quebec City-based artist Guy-Olivier Deveau. It's so freakishly good it makes us not want to pick up a shovel and pail ever again.

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Gaby D’Alessandro.

Illustrations by Gaby D’Alessandro:

Gaby D’Alessandro: Website

Via Booooooom

Shot surreptitiously over several months at Disneyland and Walt Disney World, Randy Moore’s surreal cult nightmare turns Disney’s sleek corporate parks into one man’s personal hell.

via http://www.nonsolokawaii.com/kawaii-book-flare-junko-mizuno/

French comics artist Boulet (Gilles Roussel) has posted a short comic story that is evocative of one of my favorite types of childhood memories: falling asleep in the back of a car on the way home from somewhere.

Titled Our Toyota Was Fantastic, the comic is animated and, as is usually the case with Boulet, simply and beautifully drawn.

[Via SpacemanStix on MetaFilter]

drauh:

Poem By My Ass (Typed while sitting naked on an electric typewriter keyboard), by Annie Sprinkle

If you love The Venture Bros., then you know that Henchmen 21 and 24 are some of the most hilariously inept characters on a show filled with bumbling fools. For those that find that level of stupidity impressive, Justin Orr's fake pulp novels about the two characters are something you know you'd love to read if they were made into a reality.

Of course, if you prefer romance stories, then you'd probably prefer his take on the classic love story between Brock Sampson and Molotov Cocktease.

Even if you don't dig on The Venture Bros. though, you should still check out his great gallery, which is filled with all kinds of delightful geek art like this.

Via Zaphod Rowsdowr

Ise Ananphada.

Complex illustrations revolving around ideas of feminine mystique by Ise Ananphada from Bangkok, Thailand:

Ise Ananphada: Website

Keinyo White.

Paintings by Keinyo White:

Keinyo White: Website

(Photos: Columbia University)

This unusual antique is called a diptych dial—a type of sundial. Skilled craftsmen produced them from the Sixteenth through the Eighteenth Centuries, usually in Nuremberg. They were used to determine the time using the light of the sun or the moon.

When opened, the string gnomon—the raised device that creates a shadow—is drawn tight. On some more sophisticated models, the string can be adjusted to account for different latitudes. Typically the top section would be used to determine the time using sunlight and the bottom section would be used to learn the time with moonlight.

This particular diptych dial dates to 1603 and is owned by Columbia University in New York City.

-via Erik Kwakkel

Aah, just finished. It was time to return to Dino library.

PacLabyrinth - via Shokxone Studio's deviantART - via The Verge

Josh Gilbert of Shok Xone Studios mashed up Jim Henson's 1986 movie Labyrinth with Pac-Man to come up with this bit of genius: the PacLabyrinth poster. The tunnel of hands is a particularly nice touch!

Josh's poster is one of 200 posters from 100 groundbreaking artists being featured in a new book Alternative Movie Posters: Film Art from the Underground by Matthew Chojnaki.

From The Verge:

Matthew Chojnacki's latest book features exactly 200 movie posters, celebrating everything from Tron and Blade Runner to The Da Vinci Code and Bambi. But they aren't the kind of posters you see lining the walls of a movie theatre. "The only criteria was that the poster couldn't have been used in an official theatrical run of the film," Chojnacki says of the book, Alternative Movie Posters: Film Art from the Underground. "And it had to kick ass."

The posters come from more than 100 artists and designers, and range from fan art to magazine illustrations and promo pieces for theaters. Two hundred may sound like a big number, but it's a heavily curated list — Chojnacki spent a year combing through more than 10,000 pieces in order to find those that were ultimately featured in the book. "I wanted to include a wide range of artistic styles, film genres, and countries of origin," he explains. Alternative Movie Posters artists hail from 20 different countries around the world.

Alessandra Maria.

Brand new work by Alessandra Maria.  Both pieces are for Beyond Eden Art Fair in Los Angeles which opens this weekend, October 12th - 13th.  Look for new work by Alessandra in January for the 3rd Annual Supersonic Invitational as well.

After years of training to become a professional ballet dancer, artist Kylli Sparre realized it wasn’t the path for her and instead channeled passion for dance into photography and image manipulation. The influence of her past career is immediately apparent when viewing her conceptual photographs that depict posed figures, taunt with energy, at the peak of choreographed motion. You can follow her work over on Facebook, Flickr and prints are available by request. (via Fubiz)