Happy Easter, to those who celebrate! Here we have the kind of coloring project I would’ve LOVED as a child: Sugar Skull Bunnies!
Oh, who am I kidding with this “as a child” business? I want to sit in a sea of crayons with young nieces or nephews and color these NOW!
See a few more here.
Tyree Callahan has re-purposed a 1937 Underwood Standard typewriter to create a conceptual art piece called the Chromatic Typewriter.
Looking at this immediately begs the question “Does it work?” Callahan states:
“It’s important to remember this is a conceptual art piece and not entirely functional. To type out an actual painting would be fairly cumbersome as the paint would have to be manually reapplied each time it was used. Not to say it’s impossible, but the design would need some further modification to produce the type of artworks suggested in the images below.”
Still, I would love to type a painting, or to see how actual visual artists would use such a medium.
Colette Calascione creates beautifully odd surreal fine art. Many of her subjects are, quite literally, two faced.
I think this is what’s inside my chest cavity too.
I adore this brightly colored reworking of the original Max Ernst illustration.
Welcome to this edition of desktop goodies!
Would you buy Kellog’s corn flakes after seeing a child in the ad who looks like he’s be propped and posed postmortem?
Antique “eye massager,” for when your eyes need a little therapeutic squishin’!
AXOLOTL in a portrait! (See some axolotl info here, and an artistic interpretation here)
Don’t mind him…he’s really into that “sitting in a wall” thing.
The most complete system ever? Really?
I’m going to give you a great life tip here, folks. So listen up: be sure to set the iron to medium heat so as not to burn your crocodile.
The world’s most wistful butter substitute:
You can conveniently sell your sister by placing a check mark in the appropriate box.
Don’t say it, Dana…don’t say this piece of kitsch is…”corny.” D’OH!
I’m falling in love with Olga Valeska’s photography…
The rich warm colors of autumn…the beautiful composition…I want to step into these scenes and bask in the warm, hazy glow and vibrant reds.
Gorgeous!
She has done amazing work with this model, who seems to be quite the muse! I must say, it is a perfect model choice for these photographs.
I’ve been staring at Lukasz Wodynski’s Human Light series, admiring his brilliant use of color. The glow he achieves in these flares of luminosity is rather lovely, isn’t it?
I also find Machinations of Dementia quite moving. Obscured faces manage to convey desperation and sadness…
See more of his work here.
Brace yourself for The Dayalets; an instructional (and I use that word loosely) “suiatable for framing” series of food beasts designed to hang in doctors’ offices.
The idea was the educate the masses about vitamin deficiencies and nutritional imbalances. Wasn’t there a pamphlet they could hand out?
While tempting to generate my own sarcastic commentary for each of these, I think it’s only fair to direct you to the source, where the curator has taken a good deal of time to display and write commentary for the entire series (featuring gems such gems as “This looks like some self-proclaimed sex expert circa 1951.”)
I actually went through the whole series and was repeatedly stunned by these creations. Who wants one on the food table at my next party?
I wasn’t joking when I said “suitable for framing.”
See the whole collection here.
Naoto Hattori has a new show at the Dorothy Circus Gallery.
As I struggle to think of fitting descriptions for his work, the word “cyborganic” comes to mind. It’s not a real word. I made it up. But I’m sticking with it.
Naoto Hattori
See all the pieces in the show here.
Previous post on Hattori here.
Adrian Baxter defines his work as Traditional illustrations, based on life, death, the Universe, the natural world and human philosophy.
Rich in symbolism, gently calling forth sacred geometry, alchemical principles and the intricacies of nature, each of these pieces has a lot to say.
Put down your superhero comics, folks. It’s time for PSYCHOANALYSIS! Faster than free associations! Stronger than neuroses! Able to leap elongated sofas in a single bound!
From Wiki:
Psychoanalysis was a short-lived comic book published by EC Comics in 1955, the fifth title in its New Direction line. The bi-monthly comic was published by William Gaines and edited by Al Feldstein. Psychoanalysis was approved by the Comics Code Authority, but newsstands were reluctant to display it. It lasted a total of four issues before being canceled along with EC’s other New Direction comics.
The comic featured three patients, Freddy Carter, Ellen Lyman and Mark Stone, who were undergoing psychoanalysis. The analyst was the central character. He was never named, simply listed as The Psychiatrist. Ellen Lyman did not appear in the fourth and final issue, having been cured in the third issue.
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Later, all 4 issues were compiled in a book (and briefly re-issued individually in the 90’s).
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