Just a single image from plainme’s deviantart portfolio that I particularly enjoy.
Brain Cell Regeneration:
That is all.
Tag: art
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Given the rising popularity of all things steampunk, I’m pretty sure Alessandro Maffioletti’s vintage imagery collages are going to go viral on the Web.
They really are quite lovely surreal constructions.
Get your fill of gears, instruments, creatures and technology of days gone by, spliced together in odd harmony here.
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Remember Etch A Sketch? Not once did I produce a design on an Etch A Sketch that remotely resembled…anything. Most peoples’ doodling comes out something like this:
And then there’s George Vlosich.
How he can possibly maneuver those two little knobs to create images of this calibur (without accidentally banging or shaking the Etch A Sketch, thereby erasing his hard work) is beyond me.
Vlosich has done a variety of pop art pieces, usually focusing on celebrities or sport figures. Each one takes 70-80 hours to complete.
If you want to see an incredible time lapse video of the sketch process, watch this video:
See more on the website.
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I can’t find as much information as I’d like on Michel Henricot, so I’ll just marvel at a few of his paintings for a while.
Henricot has a talent for musculature and anatomy, veiled by translucent skin and hazy lighting. This is not the stark work of textbooks. Nor is it merely the fantastical work of a gifted surrealist.
His work dances between the technical and the mystical until vastly divergent styles can no longer be separated. Henricot’s imagination is endowed with precision of form and function.
Here is a decent size gallery. So lovely…
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This site appears to be new, and I’m very excited about what they are going to dig up. Neuro Images collects depictions of the brain from historical anatomy sketches to modern day print ads (and everything in between). Here are just a few:
From days gone by…
And new technology…
And we can’t forget the world of advertising…
(T3db0t, you may want to follow this site!)
Here you go, fellow neuromaniacs.
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Remember the fateful day when Strawberry fought Mint Chip in an epic death match? No? Well, Derek Deal was kind enough to illustrate it for us, and turn it into a shirt design.
(love the sugar cone font)On a related note, Keaton Henson made this design for Drop Dead Clothing. Zombie ice cream is new to me. I like it.
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In the 1920’a Fritz Kahn released a series of books depicting the human body using industrial metaphors: switchboards, assembly lines, conveyor belts, projectors, machinery, workers, etc.
His modernist style made use of the growing popular fervor over industrial development, and his exploration of the anatomical relationship to man-made structures is intriguing.
Here we have the nervous system visually compared to an electronic signaling system with the brain as an office where messages are sorted.
I feel very lucky to know a few people who will attend (or would be willing to attend, if distance permitted) the Iconography of the Industrial Body lecture tonight, which will cover some of Kahn’s work.
Body as Machines gallery.
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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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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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The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a current exhibition of Irish figurative painter Francis Bacon (not to be confused with Sir Francis Bacon).
I particularly love his grim series of papal heads, tortured and seemingly fading (or rather, being pulled) in and out of reality.
See more from the exhibit here.
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