You pick the image the size and style of the output and you have instant, affordable, space filling wall art. Pretty clever. here. Read More...

Sarah Sze (born 1969 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American artist and sculptor based in New York and Cambridge. She is known in particular for site-specific ephemeral sculptures, in which thousands of small everyday objects are assembled into fragile, sweeping forms. Read More...

From MAKE Magazine

Gear

this is a small collection of flashlights, biking-lights and flashing LED lights they all work with batteries so that you are mobile you also get nice results with fireworks & torches .

there are 3 different type of lights we use:

xenon: makes a warm golden light.
LED: makes a thin precise line.
cold cathode: thick line.

but the best results you get by experimenting, use filters and things that reflect light. (click the pic for more)

HOW TO DO IT

the basics:
to get the best results you need a tripod. the exposure should be around 10-30 sec. or longer if needed. stay in front of the camera and do your writing.

to not overexpose set the camera to about iso100, and close your aperture as much as possible. if there is still too much light you might have to use a nd-filter.it is always nice to integrate the surrounding into your picture. Read More...

Unknown author collects receipts of their purchases and writes small notes on the receipts, then scans and posts them online. Voyeuristic and interesting. click the barcode to se the site. Read More...

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this is not Photoshopped. This building mural, a trompe-l’oeil, is located in Georges V Ave. in Paris, France. Trompe-l’oeil is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects really exist, instead of being just two-dimensional paintings. The name is derived from French for “trick the eye”, from tromper - to deceive and l’oeil - the eye. Read More...

Every other friday, a group of professional illustrators and artists draw their interpretation of a predetermined fictional character(in this case, catwoman). Fun to see how people with talent riff on the same subject matter. Read More...

Oliver Vernon lives in a renovated loft in Bed-Stuy, where he paints and draws obsessively. His work is a constantly flowing but constructive meditation on depth, mandalic design, and the mystic spunk that lends organic shapes their peculiar and sometimes alien sense of life. The fluttering ribbons and liquid rhizomes that often float through his evocative spaces are at once playful, probing, and recklessly extravagant. He paints on different types of surfaces, working both with and against the grain of wood and canvas, sometimes combining (and recombining) panels to form larger works; sometimes he adds collage elements as well. click the pic for more. Read More...

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Newfoundland artist Brenda Hoddinott has created a massive drawing tutorial site. Definitely worth checking out. Read More...

If you don't already know about it, FOUND Magazine is a Quarterly that collects, photographs and publishes collections of found stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework, to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, doodles-- anything that gives a glimpse into someone else's life. Anything goes.
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Diana Sudyka lives and works in Chicago as an artist, and is a sometime co-conspirator of the Bird Machine. She initially worked as a printmaker for Tony Fitzpatrick at Big Cat Press, and at Landfall Press for several years, until getting a Masters of Fine Art from Northwestern University.

She then worked alongside 15th and 16th century manuscripts, and archives including the John M. Wing History of Printing and Book Arts Collection at Chicago's Newberry Library. Currently, she works as an illustrator, focusing on watercolors, etchings and screen printed posters. When not drawing all sorts of small mammals with her husband, Jay, she is hanging out with Seth the Greyhound, volunteering in the Field Museum's Bird Division, and engaging in gereral bird watching nerdiness. Read More...

As part of the Simpson's Movie release, there is a really well executed Flash site that lets you create yourself as a Simpsons character. Here I am in all my glory. Click the pic to go make one of yourself. Read More...

From Artist Scott Blake (who looks a lot like Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips). Enter personal information about yourself to be bar coded. All of the calculations in Barcode Yourself are based on real world facts, gathered from the Internet. Read More...

heartbreaking moment from the documentary about his work, "Rivers and Tides" Read More...

‘In a Lonely Place’ takes the form of a 7 meter inflated black sphere punctured by a half-timbered structure. Inside, a stair leads up to a viewing platform, from where the surrounding void is broken by small pinpricks of light, made by transparent panels cut into the sphere.

The installation, entitled In a Lonely Place, was designed by Fat (Fashion Architecture Taste), who describe themselves as 'a company that makes architecture and art (and all kinds of things in between)'. In a Lonely Place was the first in a series of installations specially commissioned by the RIBA Trust.

The installation combines different kinds of architecture: high tech inflatable and nostalgic historicism – both of which are deeply embedded as opposites within English architectural debate. The half timbered structure recalls both church and factory in its sharp-pointed roofline, its mock Tudor pattern suggestive of faux-historical suburban styling. The sphere is made from industrial PVC sheet, inflated by a series of electric fans – a piece of raw infrastructure.

The combination creates ambiguities of form and formlessness, of narrative and abstraction, and of object and experience. Structurally, the two parts work in opposite ways, the half timbered structure in load bearing compression, and the spheres form maintained by air pressure pushing outwards from its interior – one hard and one soft.

‘In a Lonely Place’ – whose title is title is taken from a Joy Division / New Order song - is a modern day folly that explores the idea of architecture as a series of experiences made richer by drawing on diverse references, materials and techniques.
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wow. this one is two piles of garbage set up with a projector to shine on it and cast teh shadows of the 2 artists. LOVE it. click the pic for more. Read More...

There is a lot of great and strange illustration at jules.net but not a lot of information... click the pic "arghMyEyes" for more

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Pete Goldlust has some strange stuff going on in his head and expresses it in his work. He also carves crayons. Click the pic to see his website.

From his artist statement:

For several years, my work has explored a sculptural landscape where human urges (libidinous, predatory and monstrous) are acted out by half-recognizable, otherworldly surrogate creatures. The work reflects my interest in mutated, hybrid forms, and the disjunctive psychological states that they represent.

I’ve explored these themes using a variety of media. These have included traditional studio techniques, digital imaging, industrial manufacturing processes, and children’s arts-and-crafts materials. A sense of play is key to each of these creative strategies. For several years, the work has been largely focused on polymer clay sculpture.

Since 2005, I have worked with painter Julie Hughes to create collaborative mixed media installations that reflect our shared fascination with reconstituted, fragmented biomorphic form. Installations typically interweave Julie’s paintings on shaped sintra panels with my own polymer clay and mixed-media sculptures across a backdrop consisting of cut vinyl wall drawings. These environments explore the gray areas between seemingly distinct states of being: the alluring and the repulsive; the playful and the threatening; and the natural and the synthetic. Read More...

snip: Phirebrush is an online magazine (art group if you want) that displays user submissions in monthly issues. These submissions showcase visitor submitted artwork, photography, music, desktop wallpapers and writings of various styles. Unlike most art groups and e-zines, we let ANYONE submit, trying to showcase both the famous and beginners, giving everyone a voice and a chance in the spotlight. Along with each issue we release an interview as well. We try to spread the variety around, one month talking to an artist, another month with a photographer or maybe a band, spreading insight into their minds and styles. So, what is Phirebrush? Phirebrush is whatever you make it to be.
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Beer Cans + tea lights + ingenuity = cool art

Random Screen is a mechanical thermodynamic screen that the user can’t control and that functions without any electricity. Conventional tea candles illuminate and generate the changes on the 4x4 pixel screen.

This work is one of a series of low-tech screen projects that was originally inspired by the Blinkenlights media façade of the Chaos Computer Club in Berlin. The predecessor of Random Screen is the Papierpixel project in which a manual screen was controlled by a punched tape system that had to be pre-programmed by hand. Random Screen takes the reduction of the electronics one step further. The pixels become independent and fire goes digital.

click the pick for more explanation and pictures
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A collection of art made with books. Shown here is part one of Robert The's Bible series. Read More...

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hypotrochoid is the mathematical term for a line traced by a fixed point in a circle (your pen) which is rotated around the inside of a larger circle. these beautiful flowing curves have fascinated mathematicians for centuries. different points within the small circle produce wildly different patterns. a classic and absorbing drawing set, easy and fun to use. 11 piece set in a tin with instructions."
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What you see here are these things called Algues. Each algue is a plastic "branch" that can easily clip on to other algues to form wall hangings, room dividers, sculptures, etc...They're really pretty neat and would add a different sort of texture to an interior. So think about it. 50 elements make up an approximate 8' x 11' single screen.

(Each plastic algue's dimensions are about 9"w · 1.5"d · 12"h)

available in white, black, green, or red
package of 6 links $25.00
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David Ellis lives and works in Brooklyn. The artist calls his works ‘motion paintings’ and so they are - vivid and unusual. click the pic to visit his site. Read More...

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Georgia Russell was born in 1974 in Elgin, Scotland. She studied Fine art at Aberdeen University and the Royal College of Art and is a visiting lecturer at universities and art schools. Russell has exhibited with England & Co since 2002.

Russell uses a scalpel instead of a brush or pen, and works with obsessive perseverance and patience to make her constructions of cut paper. She appropriates found materials and utilises their decorative qualities and inherent potential as she manipulates, cuts and transforms books, music scores, newspapers, currency, maps and photographs. click the pic for more. Read More...

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Thomas Raschke brings to us his wonderful series of “wire frame” artwork pieces ranging from full sized rooms, teddy bears, radios, power tools, and various other objects made from wire steel…yup I said wire steel (the above image is not from a computer). Read More...

Pixelnotes (the creation of two artists) is a wallpaper consisting of four layers of varying gray tones, with each layer perforated in a grid format and backed with an adhesive similar to post-it notes. So basically you write a message on the wall, peel a square off, and reveal the gray beneath it. The wall will eventually form a pixelated image depending on how you use it. Read More...

This guy makes art using Rubik's cubes. Which means he has to solve the Rubik's cube (on one face at least) to fit what he wants. Well that, or peeling off the stickers and putting them on in the correct order. Which I wouldn't know anything about.
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I like artist process stuff... here's the finished version of a Matthew Curry painting featured in a stage by stage slideshow on Making Room Magazine. Read More...

These are setup sheets, which are used to test and tune printing presses. The resulting overlays of random images are fascinating Read More...

For anyone who loves octopi and women... here is a series of 98 mini paintings of 100 of each... by zak smith Read More...

Jen Stark's construction paper art. It's like origami on ecstasy. Read More...

or rather, 'foglia graffito' by Abigail Doan Read More...

Many thanks to Monica via Roland for this, a recent video by the Sunderland, England band Field Music. Most of the video is a tight shot of a hand drawing a nearly continuous line with a sharpie to the beat of the song "In Context". At the end of course the camera pans out and it's clever and well done. Read More...

Often using subjects which lie on the border of science and philosophy, Conrad Shawcross's structural and often mechanical sculptures, question empirical, ontological and philosophical systems ubiquitious within our lives. While at first appearing rational and functional, his often complex mechanised systems in the end deny all rational function and so the viewer is forced down philosophical and metaphysical avenues to deduce a 'rasion d'etre'. From early works such as The Nervous System, 2002 - a monumental spinning machine that endlessly weaves a length of coloured rope into the form of a double helix, the shape of DNA - to his recent giant spiral work Continuum, 2004, the artist has attempted to visualize, among other things, the incomprehensible of human concerns, time. Read More...

The project Yellow Arrow lets you discover hidden layers of your city and place your own stories in the urban landscape. Here's the gist... you get Yellow arrow stickers that have a code on them and stick them on stuff and send a story or note attached to the code to the website. When other people find yellow arrows you've placed, they can enter the code on their cell phone or on the website and get your story, message etc... Read More...

I'm surprised the cell phone companies aren't doing this too... random messages sent to a stranger and posted in their entirety online. Also perfect for downloading and mashing up with cheesy pop songs, art rock, etc...

503-766-2959

"this is my experiment to see how many random people i can get to leave me a voice mail. i got this phone number voice mail thing from privatephone.com, and i want you, whoever you are, to call it and leave me a voicemail. tell me anything. tell me what's going on, tell me what you're thinking, tell me what you ate for breakfast this morning... anything. just tell me something."

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In her exhibition "Sightseers Folklore", Artist Amy Yoes painted intertwining decorative motifs in bold red ink directly on the walls of the sunroom. Inspiration for this project comes from a wide range of sources including Greco-Roman painted interiors, to 19th century Scandinavian folk traditions, to the marginalia of illuminated manuscripts. She chose to work in a monochromatic red to contrast the green foliage out the window and to draw attention to the individuality of each motif. "Architectural accretions" in each section appear to belong in the room, but act as devices to accentuate the composition's dimensionality and draw the eye from the wall to the ceiling. In this project and in her paintings, she is fascinated by the irrepressible urge to create intertwining motifs that is universal to all cultures throughout time. She sees this as a manifestation of our innate humanness, not only rooted in our expression but in our bodies, such as the vascular, muscle, and circulatory systems. Read More...

nice collection of wall art, stickers and graffiti from all over the world. Read More...

Insect Lab is an artist operated studio that customizes real insects with antique watch parts and electronic components. Offering a variety of specimens that come in many shapes, sizes and colors; each specimen is individually designed and hand- assembled, each is one of a kind and unique.

Borrowing from both science fiction and science fact, Insect Lab's customized insects are a celebration of natural and manmade function. Specimens are presented in either custom made black shadow boxes or glass bell jars, allowing for display anywhere. Read More...

This is an awesome, custom-built mechanical tiger created by a local artist and taken out for a ride, in Brugge, Belgium.

Morenfo if you click this pic. Read More...

I like the muted tones and clean lines of these illustrations. Susie Ghahremani has put together a nice site with a good shop with lots of interesting things for sale. Click the pic to check out her stuff. Read More...

“Furoshiki” – a square piece of wrapping cloth traditionally used in Japan for carrying things – have been re-thought and re-designed. 30 artists and celebrities have challenged this traditional format of a square cloth to be applied for modern use in the current “FUROSHIKI” exhibition at Creation Gallery G8 in Ginza, Tokyo. click the pic for more from Ping Magazine. Read More...

I've seen his work all over the place... finally looked him up on the web... great stuff! click the pic for more. Read More...

Peter Callesen takes an A4 sheet of paper and creates little sculptures using just the positive (the paper that has been cut out) and the negative (the space left behind) these are great. click the pic for more Read More...

Film maker Lorenzo Fonda was such a big fan of Blu’s art that he felt everyone should know about it. They got a production company to back them and flew across the world to explore how different cultures and lifestyles would influence and inspire Blu’s art. Would it develop? Would it change? Would he like that one Mexican pattern so much that he will start be obsessed by it and paint it everywhere?

They crossed Mexico, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Argentina filming, taking photos and painting on buildings. Read More...

Gallery of street art in Tokyo train station that was painted on boxes that homeless people were living in.


"There were many of Homeless Cardboard Houses in Shinjuku station, Tokyo. The above was the symbol called "Left Eye of Shinjuku".
What had The Left Eye ever been seeing ..."
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PixelBlocks are not just another Lego wannabe. what's so special about them is their Digital Stained Glass service. it lets you turn any photo or artwork into a permanent translucent creation made from PixelBlocks. the finished products look like glittering stained glasses. you can upload the image onto the website and it turns the image into a pattern file (.pdf ). with this file printed out and information on how many blocks you should buy for each colour, you can assemble it on your own. when i have more spare time, i want to build one and light it up from the back. and no, this picture won't be the project that i'll work on. just want to show you the result of my test trial. $8US for 1 bulk packaging (200 blocks). Read More...

I found Cincinnati designer/artist Julie Hill's website randomly... her sketchbook illustrations tend to be explorations of lines in hair, decorative flourishes and often... birds and feathers. The UI of the site might escape you if you don't look for it. Click the picture above to go there and use the "older" button to travel backwards through her sketchbook.

She apparently does Indie Rock posters, pins and shirts. Read More...

The work is a combination of Marco Guerra's photographic figure studies and Yasmina Alaoui's pen and ink patterns inspired by her Islamic design heritage. Gorgeous stuff. Read More...

A lot of artists seem to be heavily sampling graphic design these days. Here is a small gallery of Beatriz Milhaze's work... fun and interesting, I wonder if it will hold up in the coming decades? Read More...

Ron Mueck (born 1958) is an Australian hyperrealist sculptor working in Great Britain.

Mueck's early career was as a model maker and puppeteer for children's television and films, notably the film Labyrinth for which he also contributed the voice of Ludo.

Mueck moved on to establish his own company in London, making photo-realistic props and animatronics for the advertising industry. Although highly detailed, these props were usually designed to be photographed from one specific angle hiding the mess of construction seen from the other side. Mueck increasingly wanted to produce realistic sculptures which looked perfect from all angles.

click the pic to see a nice set of images on The Washington Post.com Read More...

Suicide Bomber Barbie is a work of art produced by Simon Tyszko and displayed in the bookshop of the ICA on The Mall in 2002. The piece is described by the artist as a deliberate attempt to involve art in current affairs. "I was watching Newsnight,' Tyszko told The Observer "And I just got really angry. Artists don't seem to want to comment on current events. Meanwhile, look at what is happening out there. Political discussion seems to be dead in this country. So I wanted to reflect some of that."

"By his appropriation of a consumerist icon, the artist creates an emphatic subversion of this process, the artist seeking to help create the conditions of political change.
A recent interview with a nine year old Palestinian girl had her saying she had wanted to be a doctor, but could now no longer study or sleep at night, and now only wanted to be a martyr. Tyszko says of her that ‘she has effectively bought the notion of suicide bombing as a lifestyle choice – it has become aspirational, an off the shelf peer led option.’

Suicide Bomber Barbie draws attention to certain kinds of moral, emotional, and political equivalence, which uncomfortably exist within the nationalistic and political systems that contain them. That these systems are dysfunctional, goes without saying."

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For ten years Theo Jansen has been occupied with the making of a new nature. Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are used as the basic matierial of this new nature. He makes skeletons which are able to walk with wind power. Eventualy he wants to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives.

Seen here is Strandbeast #15

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K is a Los Angeles Illustrator. There are often sketches, shown in stages, and then... the finished art. Seen here is the pencil drawing of a Sigur Ros piece that will get finished in Photoshop. Read More...

Su Blackwell is a UK artist who uses an x-acto knife to create diaorama like art from the words and illustrations in a book.

from her artist statement:

I use non-art materials such as books and clothes to create work which evokes a sense of dreamy melancholy or magical enchantment. I'm interested in the realm of fairy-tales and folk-legends and have been working on a series of book-works exploring these themes, externalising the pages of the book and allowing it to be read in another way.

I find the materialization of the flat piece of paper an almost magical process.

As I become more involved in the making, I feel like I am creating small stage sets, inhabited by characters caught up in their own magical, whimsical and sometimes haunting journeys

The book-cut sculptures are displayed in glass cases, like relics found in a Victorian museum. Read More...