Oops…this was in my draft folder for quite a while. What a great concept for hardcore NES fans and old school gamers. Brilliantly executed design!
Happy 25th birthday, Nintendo!
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This is a beautiful little stop motion film about two long distance correspondents (of sorts) who share fragments of life through messages in a bottle. Whether you choose to view the ending as nihilistic or transcendent, I dare say it’s rather poetic.
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Maggie Hurley has a collection of adorable prints. A few characters include…
Sparx
Sprout
Twitch
Bean
And then there is Herbert, a stoic little owl who finds himself in a wide variety of circumstances:
“Herbert Contemplates His New Wallpaper”
“Herbert Finds Himself on a Magic Carpet”
“Herbert Likes Comfy Chairs”
“Herbert is Still Not Afraid of Monsters”
See more here
(Thinking of starting a new tag on here: “you can’t handle the cute!”)
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I couldn’t find much information about these images, but check out this little injection of anarchy into standard architecture.
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Before I file these away, here’s a random sampling of pieces from various summer art shows that I happened to like. They’ve been hanging out on my desktop, waiting for a nice cozy home on the external hard drive.
Chris Buzelli
Colin Johnson
Femke Heimstra
Jason Limon
Kris Kuksi
Lou Beach
Martin Hsu
Naoto Hattori
Ojimbo
Kukula
Teresa James
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I am truly astonished by Alexa Meade’s series of hyper-realistic acrylic body paintings. Upon first seeing these, I kept rubbing my eyes…incredible trompe l’oeil effect!
She has a remarkable talent to translate every nuance of how humans are represented with paint on canvas.
I would never guess that these are 3D living installations.
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This promotional event for the movie Buried is one of the strangest contest ideas I’ve ever heard, so it gets points for novelty. Not sure any amount of novelty could make me sign up to get buried alive though.
In celebration of [the film release], the Alamo Drafthouse and Fantastic Fest hosted Buried with BURIED: Rolling Roadshow of One. Four lucky (or not so lucky, depending on how you look at it) people were picked to be blindfolded, have a burlap sack put over their head, then silently driven 30 miles outside of the city. There, they were put in coffins and only then were they allowed to remove the blindfolds, where they’d see an LCD screen that would show Buried.
Splendid evening, eh? Gotta appreciate the postmodern spin of this…meta-burial.
Here is the movie trailer:
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This image arrived in some spam email (yes, I actually got spam about paper sculptures from an unknown source with no image credits).
I don’t have an artist to credit, but I love it. Far superior to junk mail about my supposed inheritances from foreign princes and medications to magically grow sexual organs.
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Here is a very unique stop motion film; the smallest known to exist. Various objects in the film show the scale. This is an impressive piece of work!
Professor Fletcher’s invention of the CellScope, which is a Nokia device with a microscope attachment, was the inspiration for a teeny-tiny film created by Sumo Science at Aardman. It stars a 9mm girl called Dot as she struggles through a microscopic world. All the minuscule detail was shot using CellScope technology and a Nokia N8, with its 12 megapixel camera and Carl Zeiss optics.
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