The following images look very much like traditional (rather ethereal) landscape works…
But Kim Keever creates these idyllic scenes in fishtanks.
Don’t believe me? Here are a few studio shots:
Amazing, no?
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Looking for something a little different to hang on your wall or perch on your mantle? Why not give Grand Ole Bestiary a try?
“The Grand Ole Bestiary is a collection of faux-antique, anthropomorphic, mythological curios. Each one carefully recovered from ancient catacombs discovered buried deep inside the molten core of a metaphysical holy mountain.”
Go ahead and mix one of these in with regular family portraits. If anyone notices, make up a name and an entertaining story describing your relation.
Some of them remind me a bit of Walter Potter taxidermy vignettes.
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I decided to do a little google image odyssey for holiday window displays in NYC, since some of them tend to be very elaborate and fantastical. I came across the Carnival of the Animals series at Bergdof Goodman.
Each window features a specific material that depicts animals you’ll find from icebergs to the tropics—but rarely on Fifth Avenue.
Now, even for those like myself who have pretty much NO interest in highbrow fashion, the outstanding artistry in these window displays trumps many of the gallery installations I’ve seen.
I do hope to walk by in person before they disappear on January 15th so I may immerse myself in each tableau up close.
See some extra closeups and a few snippets of info here.
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Suspicious Anatomy just took a flying leap to the top of my book wish list.
This project arose from the combined efforts of writer Wythe Marschall and multimedia artist Ethan Gould (of the Hollow Earth Society).
After staring at a Cognitive Neuroscience textbook continually over the past few months, I immediately became enraptured with Gould’s illustrations.
From the Suspicious Anatomy website:
In the tradition of John Hodgman, David Cronenberg, and H. P. Lovecraft, The Human Cranius explores an alternative anatomy at once mesmerizing and deeply unsettling. Gould and Marschall ask: What do we know about our own bodies? The answer: Very little…
Suspicious Anatomy does not purport to represent or speak on behalf of anything; it seeks rupture with discourses. Or should we say, with the discourses that it, in some ways, reminds us of. Because Suspicious Anatomy is not a discourse, and cannot prove anything. It is pure Surrealism—the mutilation, combination, and recombination of discourses (or, at the molecular level, of images and words associated with those discourses) towards the Impossible Discourse: The (Unconscious) Mind. Or, in our case…? The Unconscious Body?
Click on the images for a slightly larger view and be sure to examine the details and read to the absolutely brilliant labeling.
I have, at times, been known to invent body parts, but could never be quite so adept at illustrating them. I cannot wait to get my hands on this and lose myself in the “physio–psychomological quandaries” of the Shadow Self made flesh.
See more illustrations from the book here.
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Like bacon and cupcakes, zombies are all the rage these days. Naturally, with every trend comes a proliferation of holiday renditions. Who knew zombies and Thanksgiving (or zombie turkeys) would be such fertile ground for artistic exploration?
Sorry for the lack of sources. I’m too stuffed with leftovers to concentrate…
Some people even do zombie thanksgiving cosplay!
Love this one…
And of course, there have been many zombified versions of the famous Norman Rockwell painting.
Speaking of turkeys and death, has anyone seen Thankskilling? I’ve had it on my Netflix queue for about two years, but have neglected to watch this (clearly) high quality film.
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It’s Thanksgiving for those in the US today. Have a wonderful day if you celebrate it (I may post some holiday highlights from around the Web tomorrow).
By Mark Bryan
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Aww…how precious.
Of all potential purposes for a saw, I’m surprised they took the “make a life sized fake woman” angle for this ad.
In the many idealizations of beauty I’ve seen from every era, I believe this is the only one that involves having a giant pastry head. When will the media stop setting unrealistic standards?
Victorian photo manipulations…take THAT, Photoshop!
I’ve heard the term “putting on one’s face” but…
Oh boy, do I love this…
And this…
I relate to you, 70’s Textbook Girl.
Keep up with science? Don’t mind if I do!
I quite enjoy this Capybara illustration. It’s got AT-TI-TUDE! Wish I knew which artist to credit…
Oh hi, little fella…love your curlicue nostrils.
I refuse to believe that isn’t a real ad because it is entirely valid medical treatment.
And while we’re on the subject of cats, I’ve seen this scratch pad in a few different places and it fills me with extreme joy every time. I will one day hand make this for cats in my life.
This post was brought to you by Satan’s mop.
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For many personal (and artistic) reasons, I LOVE this animated short film. Absolutely brilliant!
“Blinding pain of a sinister expression!”
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Here’s a new destination for David Lynch fans: Silencio, the Parisian nightclub inspired by the film Mulholland Drive.
The club is buried within a elegant, respectable Parisian block supposedly the burial place of Molière and once home to two influential leftist newspapers–one must descend the six flights of stairs to Silencio before they realize a transformation is afoot. Inside, the visitor will encounter weirdly wonderful spatial sequences, from browsing in the art library and smoking in the “dream forest” to standing at the “Buddhist cocktail bars with their own bijoux cinemas” and passing through a “golden tunnel of mini-mandalas” with gold leaf applied by gilders who decorate the dome over Napoleon’s tomb. All this disorientation and sensory overload are, of course, heightened by copious amounts of alcohol.
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