I’ve seen a number of gear, machinery and various android stylings in tattoo art, but perhaps none so unique as this brightly colored gem from Bez at Triplesix Studios:
Such a strange and beautiful combination of manufactured material and otherworldly organic matter.
Liquid Light Glass is the work of artist Elodie Holmes. After initially working with ceramics, she discovered her passion for glass work.
My favorite section on the site, and there’s a lot to look at, is Auroras (example above).
Each piece is so graceful and complex, yet somehow cohesive in its unconventional form. It’s like watching a dance, a light show…or a conversation on some alien language.
If you happen to be looking for someone to artistically desecrate the beloved pop culture icons of your childhood, James Flaxman can deliver!
His portfolio is rife with pale, sickly, decayed, obese, oozing characters.
…And, of course, cultural commentary/satire.
He has a great gift for creating truly grotesque, unsettling creatures.
My darling little kittens (who have not even left the top floor of my house yet), got fleas from a visiting family member’s outdoor cat, and it’s been impossible to get rid of them despite the most exhaustive efforts.
So we have to call in professionals today. While they work, feast your eyes on some vintage flea circus images (if ONLY these little buggers could be even mildly entertaining in this house…instead of the pestilent spawn of Hell they’ve proven to be).
When I first saw Hester Tatnell’s work, I thought she might be a talented digital artist. But these beauties are actually OIL paintings, with otherworldly light and color.
Gorgeous work, indeed.
I just transformed a room in my house into a craft studio, but it’s conspicuously missing a 1940’s Celluloid Caterpillar Thimble Holder.
This specimen was actually won on Ebay by an avid self proclaimed Thimble Psycho in 2007. I love that his/her whole blog is dedicated to thimbles. Ah, the tiny treasures one can collect.
A loved one introduced me to a term he and a friend coined many years ago: The Wrap Around. Essentially, when something is so incredibly, mind-blowingly bad that it becomes utterly fantastic…it “wraps around” (yes, we’ve all heard “so bad it’s good” but I feel The Wrap Around is a tidier, more effective term for the phenomenon).
The BEST example I’ve seen in ages of something that clearly wraps around is the The Mountain Fall Kitty Tee.
Soak in every detail (right down to the color coordinated scarf). I’ll wait.
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Note: Fall Kitty is 100% irony free and contains 0% self awareness.
It’s perfection in every single way except for the fact that it doesn’t come in my size. I believe it starts in a men’s medium.
I’d venture to say I’d never be caught dead with a man who would NOT wear this shirt.
Today I present Michelle Kingdom’s eccentric embroidery.
Beautiful Decay had a nice description. Excerpts:
Michelle Kingdom uses thread like paint in her highly expressive embroidery of peculiar situations. Her dense embroidery builds up layers of colors and textures, using each stitch to create intricate compositions. Although small in scale, each composition seems to hold endless mystery as it illustrates captivating narratives that are somewhat dreamlike in nature.
[Her] surreal work expresses truth and illusion, feelings of expectation and loss. They are small in scale but contain a large amount of emotion and depth. Each of her pieces depicts quirky, ominous scenes full of fun and color. However, we can feel a palpable sense of uncertainty as we are left questioning what exactly happening to the subjects.
She says: “My work explores psychological landscapes, illuminating thoughts left unspoken. I create tiny worlds in thread to capture elusive yet persistent inner voices. Literary snippets, memories, personal mythologies, and art historical references inform the imagery; fused together, these influences explore relationships, domesticity and self-perception.”
Ravendark Creations is the work of Arend Smith. Here you will find amazing one of a kind, quirky creations such as:
Cyclops Squirrel
Saber Snails! These may be my favorite.
Voodoo Puppet
Carnivorous Plants
The Cheshire Cat (I think this is a model kit design, actually. I’d love to make this!)
Most sculptures are polyclay (often inspired by his wife’s art!), but some are available as resin kits so you can bring these fine creatures into your own home and take part in the creation process.
Stefano Cerio has an interesting photo series taken at a water park in China during the off season (that anthropomorphic mile high sandwich with all the fixin’s, including…goldfish…is tops!).
Cerio’s photos remind me of Banksy’s new creation, Dismaland (which is excellent and may get its own post, but I’m skipping it for now due to the massive coverage it’s already getting).
Stark, raw, real…stripped to bone without the hoards of happy travelers that pepper the grounds in warmer weather…we see the gloomy haze of winter transform these attractions into something disquietingly lackluster.
SheWalksSoftly 