This one is for Steph. 🙂
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If I walked into someone’s house and saw an entire crocheted coral reef, I’d be absolutely floored. What an incredible project.
I pretty much only crochet scarves and blankets (thus far). I’m impressed!
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I saved a folder of images by Christopher Conn Askew a while ago, but I’ve been putting off posting about him because his work challenges my descriptive abilities. I’m an avid (nearly obsessive) consumer of art, but I’ve never studied it in the academic sense, so I risk sounding unrefined and ignorant when I try to put words with pictures.
In this intriguing mixture of styles, I see a bit of traditional Japanese influence in terms of the line work mixed with something that almost resembles…art deco? I see children’s book illustrations mixed with vintage political propaganda posters.
When I look at these, I have no idea how to feel (which I thoroughly enjoy)…I have to simply let my eyes wander around and drink in the detail. So stunning…
I love Askew’s color scheme (I’m a bit biased toward all things dark red and black). The following image reminds me of the Tournee du Chat Noir poster I’ve had on my wall for over half of my life.
Since I’m bound to be inelegant and clumsy in my own descriptions, I’d welcome any other reactions to this work.
See more here.
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And now to set this up with the proverbial “They can put a man on the moon BUT…”
WHY wasn’t this invented hundreds of years ago? And if it was, why didn’t I know about it? I love to sew by hand (and anyone else who does knows how annoying it can be to thread the needle sometimes). I have to get my hands on some Spiral Eye needles.
You can easily thread these in a few seconds flat.
Product page
Source (including theories in the comments about why this didn’t hit the market sooner) -
Walk into the stately Victorian Kelvingrove Art Gallery and you’ll be confronted with a truly unique site: countless floating heads in a myriad of expressions, by Sophie Cave.
I would love to walk under this series of sculpted apparitions. Are they the ghosts of former reactions that took place in the front hall?
These expressive masks are fascinating because they capture a single moment in time, usually fleeting in real life. Faces are forever transforming as we navigate our daily existence…except here.
Apparently some people find the faces unnerving, perhaps because these moments are so rarely frozen and de-contextualized. I happen to think they are fantastic.
See more photos at the Source
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I received links to the I Am A Paleontologist video by TMBG at least three times when it first came out, due to my love of animation and science. When Steph suggested that I check out Sean McBride’s animation projects, I was unaware that I had already seen his work in that video.
I’m a big fan of Dreamscapes, a montage of animated narrations taken from the dreams of many different people. I’ve created many physical objects from dreams, but since I don’t have the skills to produce an animation I really adore this.
And since my delight in the imagination of children never ceases, I enjoyed Why Did Yoda Fight Count Duku? Here, he grants his five year old cousin’s wish to make a movie about Star Wars (using cousin’s art work, story and voice). Okay, so maybe it’s not about Star Wars, but really…does it have to be? (If you answered “yes,” you have no soul, by the way)
There is also a whole series of short animations featuring Sean and a character based on his best friend Tony. Great dry humor. A favorite:
Sean has so many other fun projects that I promptly got sucked into his website, clicking and clicking, until I had no idea where the time had gone. I look forward to seeing more by this talented guy.
Go check out more on his website, or Youtube channel.
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I’ve posted about how drip hooks would be a wonderful addition to the hypothetical art studio in my head. Now here’s something else for that imaginary place: Disengo Cermaica’s color splash sink basins.
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Just want to share these two designs from Chair Couture that I found intriguing.
Ah, to sit in shimmering water without getting wet…
And one for the dreamy folks out there…
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I came upon a flickr set from Friday Feltz containing this miniature vignette of needle felted creatures.
Introducing Filipe Melie
Felip Melie is worried
Filipe fights the White Eater
Filipe bests the White Eater
Bravo, Filipe!
The White Eater is genius.
See more creations here.
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Lisa Snellings makes adorable, mildly creepy creatures called Poppets.
Where did the “Poppet” come from? According to the artist:
The two-inch Poppet sculpture was originally to be the pawn in a toy-themed chess set. Not far into this project I decided it was the wrong time to make a chess set, possibly the wrong universe and that there were too many chess sets already.
But I liked the little pawn.
Love the inscription…
There are other little sculptures as well…
See more in her Etsy store and on Poppet Planet.
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