Don’t get discouraged by the beginning of this video. If the cyclist doesn’t impress you, stick around for the burlesque dancer at 0:54. Sir Rollin D. Bones (starting at 1:50) is amazing. Best skeleton dance moves ever caught on film.
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This one is for my fellow crafters who love tea. I give you a somewhat literal version of Tea Lights:
I think this would make a dynamite lighting scheme for a cozy coffee house or bakery. I’d love to see a bunch of teacup lights hanging above my table.
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A Softer World contains an archive of captioned photo strips by Emily Horne and Joey Comeau.
They are funny, bitter, harsh, cynical, beautiful, wistful, hopeful…you name it.
Hehe…
See more clever little pieces on the site.
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I’m not even going to pretend that this will be the definitive anatomical cake post here at SheWalksSoftly. I have no doubt I’ll post plenty in the future, as I stumble upon them. But here are some very well done creations from the wonderful Cake Wrecks.
Fit for humans and zombies alike (I hope to get a cake like this after grad school):
I’m a big fan of organ themed celebrations, especially pre-surgical organ farewell parties. Perhaps this giant kidney comes from such a thing (do you have a better explanation? Maybe a promotion to Chief of Nephrology?):
I will kindly skip all “eat your heart out” puns as I post this cake. Just admire its twisting, turning aortic detail.
This last one wins the prize for realism, which in the arena of anatomical cakes is not necessarily a good thing. I give a great deal of credit to these talented chefs for their nearly photo-realistic accuracy. Bon appetit!
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Sometimes nature puts photoshop to shame with its beautiful formations. Mark Shandro’s flickr photos feature an incredible iceberg that anyone nowadays would mistake for a digital manipulation.
The photo was taken at Los Glaciares National Park and rises about 12 feet above water.
Another beautiful shot…
Shandro has many gorgeous nature sets, if you’d like to explore.
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I love this Swissarmius Cutlery Holder from the Art Lebedev Studio.
I suppose there’s not much I can say about it, aside from the fact that I’d like to own one. I might feel even more tempted to hone my kitchen skills.
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Dan Harding has a knack for creating sinister monsters with excessive teeth (everything seems far more evil when you double the teeth).
I can recognize a fellow horror movie fan when I see one. This man clearly grew up on a steady diet of the genre, yet manages to turn out original creations.
Zombie fish!
Pretty, pretty…
Harding has some wonderfully macabre drawings as well.
More horrific fun on his website.
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I saved the entire image collection from Portia Munson’s Pink Project.
In this installation, Munson collects and assembles thousands of inexpensive, mass produced pink items. The result is an overwhelming barrage of kitsch that really drives home the cultural significance of the color.
Tables, piles, cabinets, rooms…overflowing with saccharine plastic sweetness…
I’m so used to seeing these items spread out on store shelves that I rarely step back to think about the sheer proliferation of them.
You can see the rest of the images and read the artist statement here.
In a similar vein, Green Piece; Lawn collects environmental objects.
“It is interesting to see what is mass produced in green plastic and how, once again, color is used as a marketing tool. Almost anything you can imagine that has a relationship to nature, good or bad, can probably be found in green plastic.”
The Garden centers on the plastic procreation of nature; visions of artificial fertility and beauty.
Munson has quite a talent for crafting dense landscapes of cultural suffocation. Not a bad thing to immerse oneself in for the sake of a little consumerist perspective every now and then.
See more (plus some very cool paintings) on her site.
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Andrew Bosley developed a wonderful tool for sparking the imagination. The Brainstormer is a random project idea generator that combines concepts, phrases, objects and descriptions at the click of a mouse.
This application is really fun to play with. I’m sure I’ll find myself using it when I need to shake things up in my brain a bit.
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This project is high up on the “why didn’t I think of that?” list. I’m not a woman who throws words around easily, so for the rare and precious opportunity to debut the “L” word, I could envision commemorating it with some sort of handmade keepsake.
This hand embroidered love note by Katie Cupcake is just brilliant:
Not sure if I could conjure up comparable awesomeness (well, perhaps I could in the “misanthropic embroidery” category). Something to work on.
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