The collaborative series Circus Posterus from Kathie Olivias and Brandt Peters is wonderful.
Their two styles blend seamlessly for some delightfully twisted creations. Both of these artists merit their own post here in the future.
Tag: art
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Joshua Longo’s plush installation at the Shelburne Museum wins the prize for WORLD’S CUDDLIEST ENTRAILS.
I can honestly say I’ve never felt the pressing need to curl up in the entrails of a disemboweled creature.
Until now.
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Oh boy…this reminds me of the days when I would spend countless hours on St. Marks, tirelessly digging through used CDs, coming away with more than I could carry. Then I’d drive around Long Island with Ron and do the same exact thing.
Let’s take a moment of silence for all record stores that have closed in the face of the changing music industry.
*hangs head*
Okay, now I give you this delightful series by Stefan Glerum, depicting the various Hazards of “Crate Digging.” This is a MUST SEE for all of my fellow obsessive music fans.
He includes a small description of the Crate Digging habit (click to enlarge):
At least there’s still Amoeba Records on the West coast. I’ll be paying them a visit very soon.
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Nothing like a slice of good pop surrealism to get the morning started. Yosuke Ueno paints lovely, vaguely Ryden-esque (though his style is unique in its own right) surreal visions of creatures, colors and cultures.
Very worth a look.
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Alexandrox Vasmoulakis does wonderful, larger than life work on buildings.
I love his giant cartoon worlds amidst the urban concrete towers.
He also has a number of smaller works, peppering dirty city streets with splashes of color and design.
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Isaac Pierro paints some mighty fine pictures.
Like this lonely guy (why do I have a weakness for robots expressing human emotion?)…
And an iconic homage to two important staples in my life:
Not to mention a few black and white pieces that could have made fantastic cautionary images for Betty Boop…were she ever tempted to go on a total bender.
Check out Bottle Devil and Hangover Head.
NOTE: a few images on his site may be NSFW, but you can tell which ones from the gallery thumbnails (which are fine from a distance)
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This is by far my favorite image by Alex Dukal.
I absolutely love the combination of wide-eyed wonder and abject fear on the bird’s face as it surveys the world outside of it’s delightfully cozy egg.
We all love our comfort zones.
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Chris Roth brilliantly entitled the above image “FINALLY.” Perhaps this will form the basis of a trendy, expensive, celebrity endorsed religion. Octopus God wants your money…and your soul.
He also has some wonderfully creepy images:
Some that had me happily puzzled upon initial viewing:
Wonderfully bastardized fairy tales:
And editorial:
His site is most definitely worth a visit.
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During the 1920’s, May Gibbs wrote a series of books: The Gumnut Adventures, featuring amazing (and mildly disturbing) characters such as “Snugglepie and Cuddlepot:”
And Obedelia:
May Gibbs (1877-1969) emigrated to Australia from England with her parents when she was four years old. Part of her childhood was spent at a farming homestead in Western Australia where Gibbs’ love of the unique species in the Australian bush developed. The nuts, leaves and flowers she discovered as a child provided a lifetime of inspiration for her iconic and imaginative illustration work.
Children everywhere couldn’t help but wonder when they saw such things, whether Gumnut Babies really did live there, especially when they could actually see their scribbly writing on the trees. Gibbs took what every child could easily find and gave it a fantasy life of its own.
I can’t help but wonder if this series resulted in hordes of very paranoid, frightened children.
You can actually buy the book on Amazon.
Source and more pictures/info.
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Colour Lovers just had a great post about the Colors of Bacteria, Fungi and More.
Some of the brilliant colors come from image enhancement, but many are produced by the microorganism’s natural absorption of light at different wavelengths. Some of the growth mediums also add a chromatic boost.
Nature will often paint a pretty picture in the ugliest of places.
SheWalksSoftly 
