I rarely make political statements on this blog, but seeing the news nowadays is enough to make some of us wish for this option.
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Keri Pajutee’s hand crafted miniatures could very well be the answer to my irrational wish to always be covered in cats.
These little cuties are constructed in mixed media at standard dollhouse 1:12 ratio. If I had one I’d keep it in my pocket or purse for emergency doses of feline energy.
There are many other animals in her portfolio as well. You can read about how she makes them here.
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Weird Kid Club has a small collection of laser cut, hand finished lapel pins that are pretty great.
A Kewpie doll! I love the Kewpie doll.
The other ones are cool too.
I’d definitely wear this little feminine skull.
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IDEA!
Everyone should know this.
Ah, refreshing summer treats.
Gorgeous!
This looks like an awesome model kit.
I love this painting. Such a sense of longing.
I left the trademark that says “for personal purposes only,” because I imagine all of us have ultra-cute kitten purposes.
On the other hand, I see no earthly purpose for this:
So…extra crotch room for Chuck Norris style kicks was a selling point?
A turtle skeleton, just because.
Incredible makeup job.
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How in the world have I not posted about Ciou before? (Actually, I haven’t posted about many of my all time favorite artists because I always have a flood of new material pouring in).
Her style is so unique, when you see a Ciou piece…you KNOW it’s Ciou.
Black lines, dense color and big eyes aplenty, her work is almost dizzying to look at, in the best possible way. It’s a psychedelic twirling and merging of worlds.
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How about some good old fashioned, fun lowbrow today?
Singapore based artist Sidd Wills serves up a hearty helping of bones, guts, ooze and rot.
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CT Nelson’s paintings are gorgeous explorations of light, color and movement. Some are breathtaking abstracts, taking the eye on a frenetic, sweeping journey…
And others contain familiar forms that give way to chaos and energy.
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This is technically an autumn item, but I’m posting it as the Northeast US starts to swelter with summer heat because it’s too good to wait.
I present: “Vegetable Harvest Creature.”
Made of early celluloid plastic from the Viscoloid company, this super rare fellow is…wait for it…
…TWO FACED! Yes, he can be happy or sad, tragic or comic (well, he’s always both of those no matter which face is forward).
The price tag is steep, but for serious celluloid collectors, this…exists.
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Lori Nelson’s work frequently features beams of light, illuminating either an unseen surrounding reality, or bringing her subjects into the hypnotic trance of electronic devices that effectively take them OUT of remarkable surroundings.
Other images are portraits, sometimes a bit uncomfortable to look at. Human…almost.
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The inimitable Joana Ebenstein of The Morbid Anatomy Museum has just published a remarkable book on the subject of the Anatomical Venus.
Of all the artifacts from the history of medicine, the Anatomical Venus―with its heady mixture of beauty, eroticism and death―is the most seductive. These life-sized dissectible wax women reclining on moth-eaten velvet cushions―with glass eyes, strings of pearls, and golden tiaras crowning their real human hair―were created in eighteenth-century Florence as the centerpiece of the first truly public science museum.
Conceived as a means to teach human anatomy, the Venus also tacitly communicated the relationship between the human body and a divinely created cosmos; between art and science, nature and mankind. Today, she both intrigues and confounds, troubling our neat categorical divides between life and death, body and soul, effigy and pedagogy, entertainment and education, kitsch and art.
The book is extensively researched and features over 250 images. It looks absolutely amazing. I’m sure many readers of this blog will want to pick up a copy. Let me know what you think!
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