I’ve seen scattered images from Troels Carlsen around the web and just managed to track down the name behind the work. I’m rather partial to his series of skeleton installations.
These skeletons are always emerging…breaking through…enjoying miniature moments of personal triumph. They are curious and worldly little things.
See more here.
Alnwick Garden is now on my destination list.
The one kind of “medicine” I’d really like to overdose on:
Amazing outfits ahead! This was taken in 1915 (probably what I would have worn if I were around in that time period):
And now an incredible “sport dress” from 1885:
So, is this pretty much the greatest sweater of all time…or THE greatest sweater of all time?
And now for the requisite skeletons that somehow make it into all of these posts. I may have actually featured this before, but I just love it so much.
Be careful when someone asks to “pick your brain.” It may be literal.
With tooth-care proofs of purchase, one could acquire this fabulous dental clock from Zonweiss (well, a rather long time ago anyway):
Mmm…I love the hazy glow of this photo…
When writing a letter to me, please address it as such:
This is how I lift my elephants, too.
I do enjoy de-contextualized slices of vintage printed work…
Absolutely a cause for celebration!
Bats: is there anything they CAN’T do?
Oddly, a few images of bats dealing with headless things grace my desktop at the moment.
This one puts me in a good mood, instantly.
I confess to a bit of library corner lust for this globe lamp:
And these rings are wonderful (yet another example, like most of these images, of lack of sourcing in micro-blogs…does anyone know who makes these?):
I’ll close this post with a monstrously sweet image by McLean Kendree.
Have a bunch of time you want to kill looking at wonderfully fun art? Visit the Laluzapalooza group show if you’re in LA.
La Luz De Jesus Gallery proudly rebrands our annual juried group exhibition, LALUZAPALOOZA. This gigantic, no-theme show features works from some of the freshest and most relevant artists working today. Over 9,000 submissions from commercial illustrators, graphic designers, tattooists, scenics, students, animators and working gallery artists had to be sorted-through, and we’ve finally narrowed it down to 125 or so artists.
There is a ridiculous amount of eye candy in this show. Paintings and sculptures abound, to suit all of your pop surrealism and lowbrow art needs!
If you can’t make it there in person, you can always do what I did last night: dive into the buffet of creatures, warped pop culture, anatomy, undead and just plain beautiful things by viewing the whole exhibit online.
For some reason, I’m very drawn to Ken Wong’s fish images, despite their anatomical strangeness…
These characters also caught my attention:
See more of his work here.
I don’t have much info about this wonderful amigurumi rendition of Freddy Krueger, but I feel he needs no introduction.
Very well done…
Until today, I was unaware that according to certain old European customs, women were “allowed” (even encouraged) to propose to men on Leap Day.
So I give you this hideous, rather sexist vintage homage to the tradition:
Ladies, if I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a thousands times: love, loyalty and a healthy balanced partnership will get you nowhere. Nets, guns and forcing someone to bear your loathsome presence entirely against his will…THAT is what marriage is made of!
Get a hustle on!
According to Wiki, in Denmark, the tradition is that women may propose on the bissextile leap day, February 29, and that refusal must be compensated with 12 pairs of gloves. In Finland, the tradition is that if a man refuses a woman’s proposal on leap day, he should buy her the fabrics for a skirt.
Normally I hate being in front of any kind of camera, but when I see Natalie Shau’s gorgeous, compelling photography…I must admit I wish I could be the subject in one of these fine creations.
I had posted about her illustrations before. And now I’m going to revel in her photography. Vivid, surreal, beautiful, enchanting…
I think I will have to save her whole body of work so I can occasionally glance at them and get lost.
Previous Natalie Shau post here
Artist site
My favorite creature of the week is the adorable Bobtail Squid.
From Wiki:
Bobtail squid (order Sepiolida) are a group of cephalopods closely related to cuttlefish. Bobtail squid tend to have a rounder mantle than cuttlefish and have no cuttlebone. They have eight suckered arms and two tentacles and are generally quite small (typical male mantle length being between 1 and 8 cm).
Sepiolids live in shallow coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean and some parts of the Indian Ocean as well as in shallow waters on the west coast of the Cape Peninsula off South Africa.
Like cuttlefish, they can swim by either using the fins on their mantle or by jet propulsion. They are also known as dumpling squid (owing to their rounded mantle) or stubby squid.
Why are they so bright, colorful and just plain awesome, you ask?
Bobtail squid have a symbiotic relationship with bioluminescent bacteria (Vibrio fischeri), which inhabit a special light organ in the squid’s mantle. The bacteria are fed a sugar and amino acid solution by the squid and in return hide the squid’s silhouette when viewed from below by matching the amount of light hitting the top of the mantle. The organ contains filters which may alter the wavelength of luminescence closer to that of downwelling moonlight and starlight; a lens with biochemical similarities to the squid’s eye to diffuse the bacterial luminescence; and a reflector which directs the light ventrally.
If you want to watch how these little guys dig in the sand, have an eyeful:
Daniele Del Nero’s After Effects is a series of architectural scale models covered with black paper and flour…left to mold.
I always find it interesting when an artist purposely lets nature take its toll on pieces of work. Objects find themselves splashed with new life, new colors, as the process of decay takes over.
Del Nero states:
My purpose is to talk about the sense of time and destiny of the planet after the human species, through the sense of restlessness which abandoned buildings are able to communicate.
See more from this series here.
I found The Psych Store on Etsy while searching for neuroscience themed jewelry. I had previously found one lovely Glial Cell Necklace that was a bit out of my price range, so finding these beauties was a treat.
Awesome detail and very fairly priced! Both of these neuron items are on my wish list now.
The Dopamine Molecular Earrings are nice as well:
See more here.
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