I’m sure I have a ton of less-than-functional umbrellas lying around the house, but I never quite thought to do this with them. Interesting lighting fixture…
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I came across this series of awesome plush sea creatures by Lara Crooks a while ago.
I absolutely love this one:
See the rest of the series here.
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I have a habit of seeing a piece of furniture or a household artifact and constructing entire fictional rooms around them in my imagination. These DNA coffee tables go nicely in my imaginary science lab lounge.
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I admit it: I have neither heard nor watched the video for the We Are the World remake.
I did come across another musical tribute that blew my mind. Shane MacGowan of the Pogues gathered a truly amazing bunch of artists for a remake of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ ‘I Put A Spell On You’. The song features Nick Cave, Mick Jones (The Clash), Bobby Gillespie (Primal Scream), Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols), Chrissie Hynde, Cait O’Riordon, Paloma Faith, Eliza Doolittle and Johnny Depp.
The result is a captivating, raw, soulful collaboration (how could it not be with those folks behind it?). I will absolutely buy this single to show my support.
ALL proceeds go to Concern, a charity who have provided assistance to some of the poorest countries in the world including Haiti, even before the earthquake struck.
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There are not enough pieces of art that involve flying squirrels. This one is by Jimmy Swinnerton, one of America’s first comic strip artists.
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This fantastic creation, The Boneshakers, features three skeleton cyclists beings chased by a dog. I absolutely love how they occasionally turn their heads back to see if he’s still there.
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I’ve been at a medical conference since Thursday, actively geeking-out and absorbing lots of good information. Tomorrow is the last day. Be back Sunday!
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As a girl forever walking the line (evenly divided) between cold, hard structure and otherworldly artistry, I was pretty thrilled to see some art that appeals to my left brain.
Jeremiah Maddock’s art is often painstakingly done and impressively meticulous.
The intricate patterns are at once mind-blowing and soothing to the part of me that admires such structure. It’s a great formula for the industrial and quasi-tribal themes he so often uses.
Not all of his work involves the same sense of structure. There are some very well done pieces that deviate from this formula.
Many more at the source
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I have basically no chance of catching this performance, but it looks amazing. Chicago’s Redmoon Theater has brought back The Cabinet.
The Cabinet sets the story of the murderous Dr. Caligari and his somnambulist slave Cesare in an off-kilter world of puppetry and intricate machinery. Inspired by the 1919 German Expressionist silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Cabinet creates a wild, abstracted “cabinet of curiosities” in which five puppeteers manipulate and maneuver the characters and objects much as Caligari controls Cesare’s plight.
From the Coilhouse review:
The characters are played by exquisite glass-eyed puppets, manipulated by intricately costumed puppeteers…There’s a sense of charged symbiosis, with the performers moving in measured, clockwork rhythms, like antique automatons. They watch their puppets raptly, sometimes standing alongside them, sometimes hanging upside down, sometimes nearly out of sight. Gloved hands appear from around the edges of the stage; when a weapon appears, it is held out to the puppet with a long-handled silver hemostat. When there is a death, they unspool red ribbons of blood.
A short clip:
Anyone know of a way I could make an appeal for this production to come to NYC?
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