Boing Boing just posted a link to some wonderful woodcuts by the Asamblea de Artistas Revolucionarios de Oaxaca.
The Asamblea de Artistas Revolucionarios de Oaxaca (Assembly of Revolutionary Artists of Oaxaca or ASARO) grew out of the 2006 Oaxaca teachers’ strike and the violence that followed. ASARO formed as a collective, no individual artist’s names are used, working in a variety of mediums to commemorate public actions and critique political responses.
A few more here
I’m a gal who LOVES her share of heads on the wall…providing they are fake, of course.
I just discovered Cherrybox’s etsy site, with many faux taxidermy delights to choose from.
This is the kind of stylized animal stuffing I can get into! Deadly cute.
Aren’t the little accents and details wonderful?
See more here.
After posting about the vintage monster board games, I was wondering what would come up in an image a search for monster coloring books.
Some wonderful retro ones came up.
I’d love a copy of this one…
Monster Cereal book on etiquette!
What an oddly cozy little family…
I even saw a few pages ready for coloring.
Although I haven’t gotten around to posting this (awful quality) snapshot until now…a couple of weeks ago I woke up with the insatiable desire to make a plush Anglerfish.
Meet “Cuddles:”
Cuddles enjoys bioluminescence and distending his jaw to devour prey twice his size…whole.
I may put this little sweetheart up for adoption at some point. Don’t all line up at once.
There’s a proliferation of great art shows this summer. I wish I could be in multiple places at once.
Pretty much every image in Daniel Danger’s They Will Take it Back (Gallery 1988, Los Angeles) made me stop and stare.
Overgrown, shadow-laden works that instill just the right amount of sparse, rural unease in the viewer. Some are stark and ominous, others incorporate mild surreal elements.
I admire his use of humans as secondary subjects. They are small, insignificant, powerless in their surroundings. While the scenery has a dark beauty, I cannot claim I would like to be dropped in the middle of it. There’s something menacing in the air…
A cautionary tale about alcohol…
Three cheers for perfect parenting! Go ahead and shrink wrap ’em while you’re at it…
Stylish advancement in head and body gear:
You don’t see the winning combo of cookies and guns widely offered anymore.
An existential dilemma:
Someone may be gravely injured…very soon.
I actually have a postcard copy of this somewhere.
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This recent Coilhouse post reminded me of my little Josef Fenneker folder tucked away in my art archives.
Fenneker was a revered illustrator in the early 1920’s, Germany. His posters adorned many theaters (most notably, the prestigious Marmorhaus).
I love his haunted, contorted figures…glowing eerily, moving unnaturally…beautiful, grotesque…
He makes fantastic use of contrast. Subjects, whether brightly colored or bloodless beasts, seem to pop from the stark black backgrounds.
More here.
This minimalist robot has been getting a ton of web coverage lately, so I’m going to keep this brief and take a different angle.
If you’d like to read about the actual robot and its telecommunication purposes, you can do that anywhere (or at my source).
My personal opinion is that this would make a KILLER horror and/or suspense thriller prop.
So I ask you…what kind of horror plot do YOU think it belongs in? Get creative in the comments!
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