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Nymphomaniac

Project
Land Sea Air

Photography
David Vintiner

Link
davidvintiner.com

The perfect cure for a case of ‘The Mondays‘ is surely some fantastically designed sci-fi LEGO. Today’s pharmacist, dealing out the proper dose is none other than LEGOLIZE IT MAN.

And remember boys and girls, follow the instructions on the label, and never exceed the maximum daily dose. Recommended to be taken on a full stomach.

Self-taught artist Glen Weisgerber is a master pinstriper who has been in business since the early 1970s painting all matter of truck lettering, race cars, logo designs, guitars and bike customizations. This summer Airbrush Action Magazine filmed Weisgerber doing a number of different hand lettering tutorials including single stroke lettering, and chrome lettering. It’s almost a miracle to see each letterform leave his paintbrush so fully formed and perfect. If I was asked to make a list of 100 guesses of what this man was about to demonstrate based on his looks alone, I don’t think pinstriping would have crossed my mind.

Scanning Electron Micrographs of Diatoms Title: John von Neumann Folkert

An underwear company designed a range of pants using chemical warfare technology to filter your farts. Gal finds success as a male model. 12% of the respondents said they would pay a home’s full market value or more if they believed a house was haunted. The “good” partners’ faces proved to be represented differently in the [...]

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Untitled (2008), dimensional lumber (2×4′s), 82″ x 18″ x 12″

Untitled (2008), dimensional lumber (2×4′s), 82″ x 18″ x 12″

Copper Gate (2011), wood, 32″ x 19″ x 12″

Copper Gate (2011), wood, 32″ x 19″ x 12″

Untitled (Knight)

Untitled (Knight)

“Globe” 2010, Pine 2×4′s, Figure is life-size.

“Globe” 2010, Pine 2×4′s, Figure is life-size.

Based in Richmond, Virginia artist Morgan Herrin transforms the most humble material—laminated construction grade 2x4s—into spectacularly detailed figurative sculptures. His choice of imagery is surreal: a noble 15th century knight melts into a network of dripping stalagmites or a classical marble bust that is overgrown with parasitic sea creatures. The resulting works are a fascinating juxtaposition of material and subject matter that require up to a year of labor to produce. Of the untitled knight piece Herrin says:

Untitled (Knight) is the product of the combination of two subjects: 15th century plate armor, and geological cave structure. Studied separately, these two subjects are completely unrelated. The manmade geometric precision of plate armor is formally opposite of the flowing, organic stalactites and stalagmites. Seen together, these two parts present a striking contrast in form and create a theme of time and the effects of nature. The pose of the figure and the general composition are references to the classical sculpture “The Dying Gaul” of ancient Roman antiquity. Rendered entirely in laminated construction-grade 2 by 4s, the material itself irreverently contradicts this classical allusion, and at the same time draws attention to our own culture’s reliance on the fast, cheap, and impermanent.

You can learn more about Herrin’s work at ADA Gallery, and Mulherin + Pollard. All images courtesy ADA Gallery. (via My Modern Met)

This is an updated version of a classic episode, featuring a new story from Snap Judgment.

We answer the following questions about superpowers: Can superheroes be real people? (No.) Can real people become superheroes? (Maybe.) And which is better: flight or invisibility? (Depends who you ask.)

Chris ware's comic mentioned in the episode is here.

Guys I’m super pumped to share this title sequence from Steven Universe with you! I spent the first half of the year working on Steven as the art director helping Rebecca define a look for her show. This title sequence was one of the last things I worked on before I left. It was really challenging because we didn’t actually have any time in the schedule to do it, but we also felt that it was really important and also Rebecca’s theme song and storyboard were so inspiring (the theme song is so catchy, I think I was whistling it in the shower for like a month straight!) I think we wanted to make the time to do it! My role in it was primarily color stuff. The first thing I did when I started working on it was this color script:

A lot of things ended up changing from this first color script but it gave us a good place to start. I ended up painting most of the BGs myself in order to avoid overburdening the color team, although I got some much needed help from Amanda Winterstein, who painted the boardwalk shot with the Donut Shop, and Jasmin Lai who figured out the light burst effects for the beginning! Rebecca and I were holed up in my office practically every night for like 2 weeks eating Chipotle bowls and trying to nail down the color stuff. I think it came out really well in the end and I feel super proud of it and all the hard work everybody did! Everyone really put a huge effort into this thing. Here’s full credits for the titles from Ian’s blog:

Storyboard by Rebecca Sugar

Art Direction by Kevin Dart

Music composed by Rebecca Sugar, Arranged by Jeff Liu, Aivi and Surasshu

Animation by Danny Hynes, Joe Johnston, Ian Jones-Quartey, Jeff Liu and Rebecca Sugar

Background Design by Steven Sugar

Character Color by Tiffany Ford

Background Color by Amanda Winterstein

Overseas Production by Sunmin Image Pictures Co., Ltd

Animation Direction by Nick DeMayo and Ki-Yong Bae

And oh yeah! That shot at the very end of the video with the hand is actually one of the show’s title cards (for some reason sans titles), painted by me and composited by my best of buds Stephane Coedel! I’ll talk more about those in another post, and also maybe post more stuff from the title sequence like final BGs and whatever!

In conclusion, get pumped everybody, this thing comes out NOVEMBER 4TH!!

Lush Scarf. 100% recycled. Bonus! https://www.lush.co.uk/product/6432/Flight-Path

Over his long career of making and building, self-taught photographer Michael Paul Smith has at times referred to himself as a text book illustrator, a wallpaper hanger and house painter, a museum display designer, an architectural model maker, and art director. All of these skills have culminated in the amazing ability to shoot forced perspective outdoor scenes using his extensive diecast model car collection. Something he calls his “quirky hobby.”

For nearly 25 years Smith has been working on a fictional town he refers to as Elgin Park where all of his miniature scenes take place. To make each shot he positions an old card table at scenic points around Boston and positions his minutely detailed cars and model sets on top. Using an inexpensive point-and-shoot camera and natural light he then snaps away, simply eye-balling the perspective to get everything right.

While these are his most recent photos, earlier shots from the collection have gone into a book titled Elgin Park: An Ideal American Town. To learn more you can read an extensive interview over on Fstoppers. All photos courtesy Michael Paul Smith. (via PetaPixel)

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.

Various Keytags made me chuckle. These would make for a fun gift. (Thanks Brian)

For his 13th day in New York, Banksy pulled a fantastic prank on unsuspecting passersby in Central Park yesterday by setting up an unannounced art stall with dozens of 100% original signed canvases. In a world where copies of unlicensed Banksy works are available for a dime a dozen, it’s not inconceivable for somebody to peddle cheap knockoffs for $60 apiece. To further camouflage the artwork the booth was labeled simply “SPRAY ART” and manned by an unsuspecting old man who seemed completely uninterested in what he was doing.

So after having the art stall open for an entire day in Central Park, with an inventory that could have value into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, how many people stopped to buy something? Over a period of 7 hours just three people bought a total of 8 canvases, one of whom managed to haggled the price down 50%! Total haul for the day: $480. One lucky man who said he was decorating his new house in Chicago just won the lottery and unknowingly walked away with four original Banksys. But don’t get your hopes up, according to the artist’s website this was a one day affair. “This was a one off. The stall will not be there again today.” Watch the video to see it all unfold.

For those of you following along the past few weeks via Instagram, Banksy’s website (or perhaps following his tracks around New York), the artist has been creating a new artwork every single day in October as part of his Better Out than In Residency.

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)

Thomas Mailaender - Unity is a Farce (2012)

Julian Hoeber - Demon Hill (2010-12)

"A freestanding structure based on the architecture of ‘gravitational mystery spots’. The architecture of these shacks creates the illusion that gravity works at an angle, that water runs uphill, and that bodies stand at a sharp angle to the floor.

'Mystery spots' claim to be an effect and marker of a geological anomaly or a supernatural phenomenon and the illusion is so convincing that it gives even rational people pause. The project allows for a playful experience of space and narrative while opening questions of how psychology and ideology form meaning in art.”

Additional installation shots found here and here.

Bart Hess - Slime

This fantastic bit of filmmaking blends music video and documentary in a new clip for British rock group Django Django’s 2010 track WOR. The subjects of the video are Allahabad’s Well of Death riders who risk life and limb daily to earn money at local melas (fairs) by driving cars and motorcycles inside a temporary cylindrical structure about 25 feet high and 30 feet across. The cars are held in the air by centripetal force and needless to say there’s very little room for error. The Well of Death is extremely risky for both performers and audience members, but regardless, it frequently draws a huge crowd as evidenced in this video. Directed by Jim Demuth, based on an original concept by Vincent Neff. More music video documentaries, please. (via Vimeo)

The foundation responsible for the construction of the famous Sagrada Família church in Barcelona recently released a video depicting what the final stages of construction will look like as nearly 150 years of building (and delays) finally wraps up in 2026. The breathtaking clip combines footage shot from a helicopter with computer-animated renderings to show what the basilica, designed by Antoni Gaudí, will look like. The structure is said to be “the most extraordinary personal interpretation of Gothic architecture since the Middle Ages.” Read more over on Co.Design. (via Design TAXI)

Calcified Fish Eagle, Lake Natron, 2012

Calcified Bat II, Lake Natron, 2012

Calcified Swallow, Lake Natron, 2012

Calcified Dove, Lake Natron, 2012

Calcified Flamingo, Lake Natron, 2012

Calcified Songbird, Lake Natron, 2012

Lake Natron in northern Tanzania is one of the harshest environments on Earth. Temperatures in the lake can rise to 140 °F (60 °C) and the alkalinity is between pH 9 and pH 10.5, almost as alkaline as ammonia. Animals who enter the water are almost certainly doomed, save certain kinds of fish that have evolved to survive in such a caustic environment.

While working Africa photographer Nick Brandt stopped by the lake to discover several dead animals on the shoreline. Birds and other small mammals that end up in the water gradually become calcified, turned to stone in the deadly water. Brandt tells NewScientist, “I could not help but photograph them. No one knows for certain exactly how they die, but it appears that the extreme reflective nature of the lake’s surface confuses them, and like birds crashing into plate glass windows, they crash into the lake.”

These photos and many more are included in Brandt’s new book, Across the Ravaged Land, a third and final volume of photography documenting the disappearance of animals in Eastern Africa. All photos copyright Nick Brandt, courtesy of Hasted Kraeutler Gallery. (via My Modern Met)

Artist Gerhard Marx in conjunction with Spier Architectural Arts recently created an enormous sculptural mosiac of an aerial photograph of Johannesburg, South Africa. Seven professional mosaic artists, together with nine apprentices worked for 5 months to complete the project using natural stone such as marble and travertine, fragments of red brick, ceramic elements and chippings of Venetian smalti glass. In the end, the 56-panel aerial image weighs nearly three tons and was presented last month at the 2013 FNB Joburg Art Fair.

Watch the video above to see how the piece came together, and also learn about another work created through an additional partnership between Spier and artist Sam Nhlengethwa. (via Colossal Submissions)

Biologist Sam Droege photographs insects for U.S. Geological Survey’s Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab. Check out the amazing Flickr stream here. The photos are used to track bee populations. Droege's gear includes a camera, 60 mm macro lens, and a StackShot macro rail. The StackShot is used to adjust the camera and take multiple images for later focus stacking, a process in which photos with a narrow depth of field are digitally combined into a single image. Above, Augochlorella aurata, Boonesboro, Maryland. At right, Halictus ligatus coated in pollen, Morris Arboretum, Philadelphia, PA. "Bee-utiful! The Stinging Insect Gets a Close-Up" (Smithsonian)

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I’ll be honest in that I’m not quite sure what’s going on here. Created by Berlin-based artist Sebastian Bieniek, Doublefaced is an ongoing series of experimental portraits where a second (or third), rudamentary face is painted with makeup products on the side of a subjects face. While the idea seems ridiculously simple, the actual result is a super bizarre, off-kilter series of photos. Kind of gives you the heebie jeebies. See much more here. (via My Modern Met)

Quite charmed by these Designer, Maker and Thinker pins by Skinny Vinny.

James Brown performs for US Troops in Vietnam 1968

Who owns the Graffiti? • La Repubblica