I’ve been following Emi Slade’s work for a while, but was freshly impressed by this taxidermy project (featured at La Luz de Jesus in the 3rd Biennial Taxidermy Show).
It’s all in the teeth.
Double your taxidermy pleasure:
She takes artistic liberties with existing creatures…
…or invents her own.
The Deck of the Bastard is a hybrid tarot deck that draws from a number of antique/vintage decks.
The creator says:
I always wanted a vintage deck. But they were so expensive. I saw them on eBay (over $500) and even then, the old decks did not have the same cards we use today (no Hanged Man, & with odd cards like “Birds & Animals” & such). As an artist, over the years I tried to design a vintage – looking deck…but, I could never make anything I was happy with.
In frustration, I finally bastardized several vintage decks, including the Egyptiens Fortune Telling Cards by Delarue France in the 1890’s, the Dames deck and the Rider Waite deck for most of the pips. I added vintage edges in the borders and photo-shopped antiquing onto each individual card (NOT dropped into a single TEMPLATE! ), and unified them with similar colorings. For the back, I used an antique book cover that I edited.
The cards look beautiful and are “aged” quite well for an authentic appearance. While $70 is too steep for me at the moment, I do think these cards would be a great collector’s item.
Where were these when I dressed up as a (slightly mischievous) doll for a holiday card photo, circa 2002? Bead Borg makes fantastic hand-airbrushed stockings that look freakishly like ball jointed doll legs.
How wonderful are these?
I’m definitely a fan of the cracked versions (for the vintage/antique feel). I think this would be my top choice if I were to order a pair:
Some are android/robot parts.
Though quite pricey, this Morte Decanter is a beautifully piece for the morbidly inclined.
Here is my favorite one.
The site says:
Drop dead beautiful. That’s the best way to describe the dark and lovely Morte decanter from Esque Studio. Each is hand-blown, and as such has its own haunting characteristics. Choose from gold white or black.
Not long ago, I had a dream that I was crafting a sacred geometry shape out of silver wire in my (hopefully soon to actually exist) metalwork area at home. This led me to a search a few things and stumble upon Delftia .
My favorite piece in the collection:
Here’s one I’ve yet to see anywhere else (though I can’t say I’ve searched much hypercube jewelry).
Great jewelry for science geeks in this Etsy shop.
Meredith Dittmar creates amazing 3-dimensional sculptures, showing oddly mechanized creatures and interwoven nature themes.
A couple of them, like this one below, remind me of ancient alchemical art.
Click images to enlarge.
From the artist bio:
Dittmar’s human-animal-plant-energy amalgams contain threads of common elements and colors to express deep levels of union across themes of biology, technology, and consciousness . Her characters are frequently involved in quiet expressive moments, or lounge facing their audience so they can share their inner space. Dittmar believes it is this space we recognize in ourselves, and through convening in that space, the interconnectedness of all things is revealed.
Born near Boston Mass, she grew up in a world of pet pigs, horses, hay-forts and spy games . Follow this with an education in computer science, a career in interactive design, a compulsive need to create, and a drive to Seek and you get the major elements of her person and work.
I wish these pieces contained a listing of size and materials used. I want to get a sense of what they would look like in person.
Happy Easter, to those who celebrate! Here we have the kind of coloring project I would’ve LOVED as a child: Sugar Skull Bunnies!
Oh, who am I kidding with this “as a child” business? I want to sit in a sea of crayons with young nieces or nephews and color these NOW!
See a few more here.
Tyree Callahan has re-purposed a 1937 Underwood Standard typewriter to create a conceptual art piece called the Chromatic Typewriter.
Looking at this immediately begs the question “Does it work?” Callahan states:
“It’s important to remember this is a conceptual art piece and not entirely functional. To type out an actual painting would be fairly cumbersome as the paint would have to be manually reapplied each time it was used. Not to say it’s impossible, but the design would need some further modification to produce the type of artworks suggested in the images below.”
Still, I would love to type a painting, or to see how actual visual artists would use such a medium.
Check out this re-purposed microscope lamp from Northern Electric on Etsy.
I would love to make something like this if I could ever find a great deal on a busted vintage microscope at a flea market! Anyone getting rid of one? 🙂
Nekranea’s creations would satisfy any (plush & polymer) sweet tooth.
This is some expert needle felting (a technique I’ve been meaning to learn). She brings adorable little morsels to life!
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