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earth invaders is moving

2006-10-06T14:38:00.000-07:00

earth invaders is moving to a new address.

Strangely enough the new address is earthinvaders.blogspot.com (there are things which have no explanation).

The new earth invaders address has also a new layout and some implementations, like tags by subject, to find all the information related to one topic, and more.

So, from now on, the new posts are made at the new address, but, the moving process also involves transfering all the posts from this address to the new one, so the posts appearing now at earthinvaders.blogspot.com are the early posts from this blog.

Making it a good opportunity to read some news from the archive.

Pixel Tshirts

2006-09-18T06:34:00.000-07:00

Visit pixelshop and buy some cool Tshirts, mugs, mouse-pads and pins with unique designs.

Westfalia mobile home

2006-09-14T09:36:00.000-07:00

A modern design VW Westfalia mobile home, designed by verdier team of designers.

typewriter art

2006-09-14T09:20:00.000-07:00

1948 typewriter art, the grand-daddy of ASCII art.

Little People living in desserts

2006-09-14T09:11:00.000-07:00

More little people doing their daily activities.

Fun mit Banknoten

2006-09-13T10:05:00.000-07:00

Fun with banknotes.

Little People

2006-09-13T09:58:00.000-07:00

Little People is a street art project, with little hand-painted people, left in London to fend for themselves.

Banksy targets Disneyland

2006-09-12T11:56:00.000-07:00

Families visiting Disneyland on their holiday this week saw a life-size Guantanamo bay inmate standing inside the Rocky Mountain Railroad ride at Disneyland in Anaheim California.

The sculpture was attributed to banksy.

Read more from the BBC news.

Matchbox cars

2006-09-12T11:46:00.000-07:00

Nice collection of classic Matchbox Cars from the 70's.

More Matchbox cars produced in the 1950's and 1960'.

A webpage with Matchbox from 1967 to 1969.

1-75 range of Matchbox miniatures that have been released in the UK from 1969 until today.

A collection of Matchbox boxes from 1953-1979.

The Matchbox miniatures range 1953-70.

The flickr pictures with Matchbox tag.

ArtCar Fest

2006-09-11T15:17:00.000-07:00

100 of the nation's best ArtCars will converge on the San Francisco Bay area again this year for ArtCar Fest to demonstrate why Harvard's John Beardsley called ArtCars the "quintessential public art of our time."

If you have $500 to spend why not join the 24 Hours of LeMons, an endurance race for cars purchased, fixed up, and track-prepped for a total of 500 bucks or less.

update: flickr photos artcar

Jim Flora marine art

2006-09-11T14:37:00.000-07:00

More works from Jim Flora: marine art.

And another flickr photoset: the future according to Jim Flora, showing images from an article of 1960 LIFE magazine (spanish edition) about life in the future (1975) illustrated by Jim Flora.

Previous posts about Jim Flora here and here.

Un chien andalou

2006-09-11T13:04:00.000-07:00

Un chien andalou is a 16 minute surrealist short film made by Luis Bunuel (Writer/Director) and Salvador Dali in 1928. It is one of the best known surrealist films of the 1920s French avant-garde film movement. It stars Simone Mareuil and Pierre Batcheff as the unnamed protagonists.

Dowload the movie from the internet archive.

See more information about the film at wikipedia.

Tilt-shift photography

2006-09-11T07:33:00.000-07:00

Hamish D. Grant made a page of links to information about tilt/shift photography and to galleries of photographers who use t/s in their work. Tilt-shift photography as it applies to creating a 'toy-trainset' effect in scenery is catching on all over the world (mostly via flickr, the online photo sharing community).

Simpsons shorts episode guide

2006-09-11T06:57:00.000-07:00

The very first glimpse of The Simpsons.

Simpsoncrazy has a list of The Simpsons short clips to download.

These clips aired on the Tracey Ullman Show 1987-1989, before and after ad breaks, and you can download all 48 episodes.

The page also serves as an episode guide.

Link

Binvention - home recycling organizer

2006-09-08T10:19:00.000-07:00

The Binvention is Sprout Design's first self-initated batch production project. Hailed as 'Super slick' by Time Out, it's a new flexible way of re-using shopping bags to collect cans, bottles and papers for recycling at home and comes in four colours:

3-D Nightmare Before Christmas

2006-09-08T10:00:00.000-07:00

Joel Fletcher was an animator at Skellington Productions for The Nightmare Before Christmas in the early nineties. Whenever possible, I took the initiative to photograph the amazing setups in 3D stereo.

It seems that Joel was a bit ahead of the times, as In October Disney will re-release the movie in Digital 3D utilizing computer techniques to convert it to stereo!

Watch the trailer here.

Bugs Bunny dead or alive

2006-09-08T09:42:00.000-07:00

Bugs Bunny is wanted "dead or alive" by the Mounted Police, led by Elmer Fudd. Animation by Manuel Perez, story by Michael Maltese, supervising producer I. Freeleng. Produced in 1942.

Recycled Art Bazaar

2006-09-07T10:56:00.000-07:00

In Senegal, Mali, Kenya and other countries in Africa, resourceful people have long excelled at fashioning toys from the available materials - tin cans, wire and scrap rubber and plastic that we would discard as trash.

In addition to brightly colored trucks made from beer cans and wire bicycles, Indigo offers buckets constructed of tomato cans, and lunch-boxes and suitcases from tuna cans (lined with Senegalese funny papers!).

Continually searching the world for more such innovations, Indigoarts also offers cars, planes, purses and frames from Vietnam, tin ornaments from Mexico, papier-mache bowls from South Africa and cars and trucks from Cuba!

Tom Wilson

2006-09-07T10:20:00.000-07:00

Tom Wilson starred as "Biff" in the now classic "Back To The Future" film trilogy.

Wilson is also an accomplished painter. In 2006, he was selected to join the California Featured Artist Series at Disneyland.

Tom Wilson's paintings can best be described by the reactions they receive — a moment of joyful surprise, and happy longing. After studying fine art photography at U.C.L.A., he followed the path from photography, to mixed media works, until he finally found a home in color and canvas. Tom studied drawing and painting at the Art Academy of Los Angeles, as well as the California Art Institute, followed by extensive study in painting with the noted abstract painter Rene Amitai, as well as the renown California impressionist Arthur Bjorn Egeli.

The Alphabet

2006-09-07T10:14:00.000-07:00

The Alphabet David Lynch second film.

Lynch's wife, Peggy, told him of a dream her niece had during which she was reciting the alphabet in her sleep, then woke up and starting bouncing around repeating it.

Lynch took this idea and ran with it. First he painted the walls of his upstairs bedroom black. Lynch painted Peggy's face white to give her an un-real contrast to the black room, and had her bounce around the room in different positions as he filmed.

This footage was edited together with an animated sequence where the letters of the alphabet slowly appear and a capital A gives birth to several smaller a's which form a human figure.

David Lynch: Lumiere et compagnie

2006-09-07T09:59:00.000-07:00

David Lynch: Lumiere et compagnie 55 seconds short filmed with an original Lumiere camera.

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumiere Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895.

There were three rules:
(1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds,
(2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and
(3) no more than three takes.

Remember while watching that all the effects are in-camera and there is no cutting for scenes.

For more details and the complete list of the other directors in Lumiere et compagnie project visit the IMDB page.

ZenKaya

2006-09-07T09:33:00.000-07:00

Zenkaya design is an international Design Company Specializing in Prefabricated structures. Eric Bigot was the Designer for ZenKaya. Trained as an Architect in France, he has lived in New York, Japan and several parts of Africa. His interest for prefabricated was born out in New York and Japan where construction method are much more rationalized and cost effective.

ZenKaya name is born out of a name play. Zen because it is a trouble free experience and Kaya means home in vernacular South African language, where the concept was first sketched.

The Abandoned City San Zhi

2006-09-06T04:52:00.000-07:00

On the outskirts of Taipei, Taiwan there is an abandoned housing project, the area is called San Zhi and commissioned by the government and several local firms. They were trying to create a posh luxurious vacation spot for the affluent and rich streaming out of Taipei.

After numerous accidents during its construction locals say the area is now haunted by those who died in vain and because they are not remembered, they linger there unable to pass on.

This explains why the area was abandoned.

Ralph Goings Hyper-Realist paintings

2006-09-06T04:40:00.000-07:00

Ralph Goings is a realist painter who is recognized as one of the original members of the Hyper-Realist or Photo-Realist group of the late 1960's.

He is best known for his highly detailed paintings of hamburger stands, pick-up trucks, and California banks, portrayed in a deliberately objective manner.

Ralph Goings studied art at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland.

Banksy Punked Paris Hilton

2006-09-06T04:16:00.000-07:00

Banksy does it again, he took 500 copies of Paris Hilton's debut album, and given them his own unique makeover before smuggling them back into stores across the UK for sale.

He switched the CD's in store, taking the old ones out and putting his version in, but he left the original barcode so people could buy the CD without realising it had been interfered with.

He tampered with the CD's in branches of HMV and Virgin as well as independent record stores in Bristol, Brighton, Birmingham, Newcastle, Glasgow and London.

Some of the CD's appeared for sale on ebay.

flickr user sharl bought two of those cd's and posted the photos to flickr

Watch the video of the Banksy opperation at you tube.

For more about Banksy visit earth invaders previous posts here and here.

The flickr photos tagged Banksy

And also the Banksy locations map.

The Sultan's Elephant and The Little Girl Giant

2006-09-06T03:09:00.000-07:00

The Sultan's Elephant is a show created by the Royal de Luxe theatre company, involving a huge moving mechanical elephant and a time-travelling girl, which has taken place in a few cities.

The Sultan's Elephant is made mostly of wood, and is operated by over ten puppeteers using a mixture of hydraulics and motors. It weighs 42 tons, as much as 7 African elephants.

Read the story behind the time-travelling elephant by downloading the four newspapers produced during the show.

Visit the flickr photos pool about the show.

And watch the videos at youtube showing the
Little Girl Giant and the Sultan's Elephant Grande Finale.

The Burning Man festival

2006-08-31T17:53:00.000-07:00

The Burning Man festival is taking place now, from 28 of August to 4 of September.

To learn more about The Burning Man visit the wikipidea entry about the festival.

Watch the Burning Man TV Created in close cooperation with the Burning Man organization, TV Free Burning Man is Black Rock City's very first television station.

Update: see flickr photos tagged burning man

Tim Biskup

2006-08-31T17:51:00.000-07:00

Tim Biskup's dense, character driven style is inspired by mid-century modern design infused with a healthy dose of punk rock energy. Since the mid-eighties, he has produced a constant stream of limited edition prints, clothing, toys, books and other publications.

In September of 2004, Biskup opened his own store/gallery, called Bispop Gallery, in the center of Old Town Pasadena, Bispop Gallery exhibits and sells original paintings, hand painted objects, clothing, toys, books, cards and store exclusive items.

Antonio Riello's Ladies Weapons

2006-08-31T16:54:00.000-07:00

Antonio Riello says:

"In 1998 I decided to focus my artistic research mainly about a "fashion-fiction" visual story regarding an old passion of mine: weapons - objects full of symbolic senses. I want to mix, in an artistic way, traditional 'female stuff' like fashion with very traditional 'male stuff' like guns. It consists in a restyling of real military weapons into fashion items for ladies"

So he created Ladies Weapons

Newmindspace Bubble Battle

2006-08-31T16:45:00.000-07:00

Newmindspace is interactive public art, creative cultural interventions and urban bliss dissemination based in New York and Toronto.

One of the events they organized is called "Bubble Battle" where Hundreds of people with bubble guns, bubble machines create massive bubble battles.

See all the photos and videos, from the bubble battle and other events organized by Newmindspace.

streetwars

2006-08-31T16:21:00.000-07:00

StreetWars is a 3 week long, 24/7, watergun assassination tournament that has already taken place in New York City, Vancouver, Vienna, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London.

At the start of the game you will receive a manila envelope containing the following:

A picture of your intended target(s)
The home address of your intended target(s)
The work address of your intended target(s)
The name of your intended target(s)
Contact information of your intended target(s)

Upon receipt of these items, your (or your team's) mission is to find and kill (by way of water gun, water balloon or super soaker) your target(s).

If you are successful in your assassination attempt, the person you killed will give you their envelope and the person they were supposed to kill becomes your new target. This continues until you work yourself through all the players and retrieve the envelope with your (or your team's) picture(s) and name(s). Then you win. Cash...but first live in fear.

Jowlers Shake It Up

2006-08-31T16:17:00.000-07:00

Jowlers let's you upload and browse a unique type of photo called the Jowler. These fun pictures are created when the subject of a photo shakes their head really fast while the picture is taken. So, enjoy these unique expressions and if you feel up to it, take a few of your own and post em up.

Peter Stanick

2006-08-29T17:27:00.000-07:00

Peter Stanick combines traditional photography with vector based computer rendering to create large scale paintings of a fantasy world inhabited by lingerie models and movie starlets. Each piece is based on a computer model rendered for the web using Flash illustration and then outputted digitally on canvas using UV ink.

Space Art in Children's books

2006-08-29T17:06:00.000-07:00

John Sisson of University of California's Science Library has a collection of Space Art in Children's books from the 40's to the 70's. The illustrations in these books show facts (as they were known) mixed in with the fantasy of space flight and led many of the readers of these books to "dream of space".

Frank Gehry House at Santa Monica, California

2006-08-29T16:44:00.000-07:00

Before Frank Gehry acquired international prestige as the architect of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, he designed his own house in Santa Monica (1977 - 78). The story starts when his wife, Berta, bought a small pink bungalow in a bourgeois neighbourhood. Gehry decided to redesign what he considered "a dumb little house with charm", to build around it and try "to make it more important". The result was so emotive among their neighbours that the new house was even shot at one night!

Continue reading the story about the Gehry House, at Santa Monica, with pictures from the house and plans .

greatbuildings site has also information and images about Frank Gehry's work.

There is a guide about the Simpsons episode with Frank Ghery. Watch a video of the episode at You Tube (in spanish).

Visit the wikipedia entry about Frank Gehry for more links and information.

Jim Flora art

2006-08-29T16:09:00.000-07:00

Update to previous post about Jim Flora here are more links showing Jim Flora work.

JimFlora.com shows a collection of Flora album covers, music illustrations, and early small press work.

wardomatic flickr album with pictures of The Day the Cow Sneezed book.

Buy Jim Flora original art at the official Jim Flora art gallery site.

Jean Giraud aka "Moebius"

2006-08-26T15:33:00.000-07:00

Jean Giraud was born in Paris in 1938 and discovered the escapist world of science fiction and fantasy art early in life. He grew up with comic books and was creating his own all through his adolescence. He had some formal training at the Institute of Applied Art, but his real school was the French comic medium.

Read Jean Giraud aka "Moebius" biography here.

And visit the Wikipedia post about Jean Giraud for more links and information.

This is Miroslav Sasek

2006-08-26T15:25:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the wonderful world of Miroslav Sasek. This site is devoted to the life and works of the Czech artist, illustrator and author of the This is series of children's books.

The site has details of Sasek's life, and a full bibliography, with details of the This is series as well as his lesser-known other books. There is information about the This is films, as well as prints and paintings, postcards and other items.

Oil and Gas Museum

2006-08-26T15:14:00.000-07:00

Nice panorama of Oil and Gas Museum.

Bus Ticket Origami

2006-08-26T14:55:00.000-07:00

Bus Ticket Origami is a project from REZ design in Liverpool, they started folding, designing and then placing origami instruction stickers on the back of seats all around the liverpool area, so that people have something to do while they commute to work or study on the bus.

Dr, Grordborts Infallible Aether Oscillators

2006-08-26T14:48:00.000-07:00

Dr, Grordborts Infallible Aether Oscillators, is a line of 1:1 scale antique styled sci-fi hand weapon props, conceived by Weta Workshop's Designer Greg Broadmore and meticulously built by Master Model Maker David Tremont. The Ray-Guns will be available next year, for those who want to buy them.

Johnny yanok

2006-08-26T14:31:00.000-07:00

Johnny yanok is a freelance illustrator from Akron, Ohio graduated at the Columbus College of Art and Design.

Your Name in Japanese

2006-08-24T16:24:00.000-07:00

The Japanese Translator offers a service to translate your name to Japanese and save the results as an image. Choose from seven different character styles: traditional, calligraphy, quirky, sans-serif, antique, manga and modern.

See also other translation tools to translate Egyptian, Eskimo, Esperanto, Estonian and other languages.

Or as one would say in Esperanto:

Donu anglan vorton, por sercxi gxin en la klarigoj de esperantaj vortoj.

Stray Shopping Cart Project

2006-08-24T16:02:00.000-07:00

The Stray Shopping Cart Project is a project dedicated to developing a system of classification that allows stray shopping carts to be identified based on the situations in which they are found.

Ape Escape papercraft

2006-08-24T16:00:00.000-07:00

Build a papercraft of the Ape Escape Playstation Game figure, just download the three files and the instructions to print cut and glue.

Candida Hofer Libraries

2006-08-24T15:34:00.000-07:00

The nonist shows some photographs from Candida Hofer book titled, Libraries, with beautiful photos of library interiors, nearly all without visitors.

reservoir dogs the game

2006-08-24T15:11:00.000-07:00

Soon youl be able to relive the events surrounding the movie – experience the fallout from the botched heist first hand and guide the robbers from the cops to safety. Find out how Mr. White made good his escape, see where Mr. Pink stashed the diamonds, learn how Mr. Blonde picked up Officer Marvin Nash, experience the fates of Mr. Blue and Mr. Brown, and sort out the whole sorry mess as Nice Guy Eddie, With reservoir dogs the game.

Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase

2006-08-24T15:08:00.000-07:00

Watch Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase a Joan Gratz's Oscar winning Two-dimensional clay animation merging the work of 35 famous artists.

The Evolution of Speechballoons

2006-08-24T14:53:00.000-07:00

During the 18th century, British caricaturists changed the shape of speechballoons from gothic speech-bands or flags into fluffy balloons, our modern speechballoons.

Visit the Evolution of Speechballoons to learn all about speech baloons.

323 Rubiks cubes Space Invader

2006-08-24T14:41:00.000-07:00

Another piece of space invaders art, in Paris at Rue St-Andre des Arts, made using 323 Rubiks cubes is shown at wooster collective.

Here is the link to Rubikcubism mentioned earlier on earth invaders.

There are many space invaders flickr photos from around the world, and also a collection of space invaders photos made by Claudio at fotki.

Speaking of space invaders why not visit the ultimate Space Invaders Shrine, with everything about the classic videogame.

Paul Blow illustrations

2006-08-24T14:04:00.000-07:00

Paul Blow is an illustrator graduated from Maidstone College of Art, born in Scotland and now living in Dorset, England.

Paul exhibits his work extensively throughout Britain and in New York and has won several Awards: Gold and Bronze Awards from the Association of Illustrators, Transport for London Silver Award and Glenfiddich Food and Drink Award Nominee.

His list of clients includes: Time, The Guardian, The FT, Newscientist, Reader?s Digest, BBC Worldwide, LA Magazine, New York Magazine, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Management Today, Popular Science.

Game Over

2006-08-21T17:44:00.000-07:00

EatPES - home of the twisted films of PES, has a great stop-motion movie called "Game Over" which uses household objects as classic games characters.

Mobile Garden

2006-08-21T17:19:00.000-07:00

Kevin van Braak has many projects in his site, including the caravan series in which a collapsible caravan opens turning into a garden, this would allow anyone to carry their own garden everywhere they go.

Chest of Drawers

2006-08-21T17:15:00.000-07:00

Tejo Remy, a Dutch designer, the author of "Chest of Drawers", was one of the main members of Droog Design, the 1990s European design movement.

Tejo Remy is now separated from Droog Design and has formed a design unit with Rene Veenhuizen, with whom he is involved especially in the fields of architecture and spatial design.

Grass wheel

2006-08-21T16:48:00.000-07:00

A group of students from Dalhousie School of Architecture decided to make a street-ready grass-lined wheel. Alowing people to walk on grass with bare feet in any city.

plastic chairs whale skeleton

2006-08-21T16:31:00.000-07:00

Brian Jungen, a Canadian artist from British Columbia based in Vancouver. Made a sculpture called Shapeshifter,using plastic chairs, resembling a skeleton of a whale. Here is another photo.

Invisible Sphere

2006-08-21T16:23:00.000-07:00

Jonathan Schipper has built an Invisible Sphere. Using 215 monitors which are placed directly opposite to 215 cameras, allowing the viewer to peer directly through a eight hundred pound mass of steel, glass and electronics.

vintage wallpapers

2006-08-19T23:01:00.000-07:00

This store has a collection of vintage wallpapers from the fifties, sixties and seventies for sale.

The pictures from the site catalogue with all the available wallpapers, could be used for webpages wallpapers or printed for dollhouses wallpapers.

Update: American crafts as also an extensive collection of creatively themed, patterned paper.

Balancing Point In Reverse

2006-08-19T22:45:00.000-07:00

Balancing Point In Reverse, is a small movie with a man creating rock formations, made entirely in reverse, giving the idea that he is using supernatural powers.

The Day the Cow Sneezed

2006-08-19T22:38:00.000-07:00

Ward Jenkins from The Ward-O-Matic blog has written a great article about "The Day the Cow Sneezed", a book written and illustrated by James Flora, showing the book and author story, with many images from the book illustrations.

Bill Watterson's Rarest!

2006-08-19T22:15:00.000-07:00

"The Complete Calvin and Hobbes" wasn't completely complete. Most of what you're about to see, you've never seen before. Stay tuned for Bill Watterson's Rarest!

The Derkins Library for Calvin and Hobbes Research has also lots of information about rare Calvin and Hobbes including some not shown at the previous link.

JacksonPollock.org

2006-08-16T12:48:00.000-07:00

Create your own Jackson Pollock painting using this page made by Miltos Manetas, using a flash animation created by Michael Migurski, called splatter from stamen design, which is available for download under a liberal Creative Commons license.

Berlin Face by JohnnyJohnson

2006-08-16T12:35:00.000-07:00

woostercollective shows the work of street artist JohnnyJohnson called Berlin Face

universal connections

2006-08-16T12:30:00.000-07:00

dialog05 is a group of 5 German industrial designers.

They have a project called universal connections, which uses the USB interface as a medium, with all its possibilities and ambiguities.

They created installations, objects and products that are "surprising, enlightening, inspiring and questioning, and on the other hand ironic or even amusing."

Shreddding Scissors

2006-08-16T12:01:00.000-07:00

It's possible to destroy documents using just scisors but the Shreddding Scissors makes it easier.

Wind Shaped Pavilion

2006-08-16T11:49:00.000-07:00

The Wind Shaped Pavilion is a design proposal for a large fabric structure that can be used as a public or private pavilion. As a lightweight fabric structure, the wind slowly and randomly rotates each of the six segments around a central open support frame. This continually alters the shape of the pavilion, while at the same time generating electrical power for its nighttime illumination.

Stefan Sous three-dimensional installations

2006-08-16T11:48:00.000-07:00

Stefan Sous is an artist from Dusseldorf, some of his works show deconstructions of technical devices, which he transforms into three-dimensional installations in the style of exploded drawings.

Stefan Sous site also shows his other works, based on installations, sculptures, and photographie.

Thanks to Robert Broadfoot for pointing to Stefan Sous work in the comments to the "View Suspended" previous post.

In his comment Robert Broadfoot also mentions Damian Ortega work, also with an exploded view of a vw beetle.

Sea Orbiter

2006-08-10T12:53:00.000-07:00

The Gemini site has a nice article about the Sea Orbiter.

"A spectacular platform has been designed to drift across the oceans of the world with the aid of the currents and the wind.

This unique creation known as the "Sea Orbiter" has been designed by the famous French architect Jacques Rougerie. The design suggests the fantastic world of Jules Verne, and in fact a three-metre high model of the vehicle, built by MARINTEK in Trondheim, has actually been sent to the Jules Verne Exhibition in Paris."

Seurat Painting recreation

2006-08-10T12:35:00.000-07:00

The Friends of Riverfront in Beloit Wisconsin, made a recreation of a famous painting by George Seurat with real people, on the banks of the Rock River in Beloit. here is a flickr photoset made by OldOnliner showing the results.

Wicked Wench Paper Model

2006-08-10T12:24:00.000-07:00

Disney Experience offers a great paper model to download: The Wicked Wench Paper Model check out also the other models available to download.

Lockwasher's flickr photoset

2006-08-10T12:11:00.000-07:00

flickr member Lockwasher has three cool photosets on flickr showing is junk art creations, one with ray guns another one with robots and a third one with rockets

2001 seconds

2006-08-09T10:20:00.000-07:00

2001 seconds is a complete re-edit of Stanley Kubrick's original Space Odyssey from 141 minutes to 33 minutes 21 seconds.

Link

View Suspended

2006-08-09T10:15:00.000-07:00

View Suspended is a stunning art installation created from the thousands of parts that make up a Honda Racing F1 car.

The amazing display was created especially for the event by Dutch artist Paul Veroude. Each of the 3200 parts of the Formula 1 car are suspended on fine wires to produce a 3D 'exploded diagram' that allows race fans the chance to get closer than ever to the engineering secrets of the world's most technically-advanced sport. Link

The Souper Dress - Andy Warhol Campbell's Soup Paper Dress

2006-08-09T10:11:00.000-07:00

The 1960's Campbell's Soup dress was inspired by the work of Andy Warhol. They were produced by Campbell's Soup as an effective advertising campaign when paper dresses were all the rage in the 60s. A classic example where fashion, art and industry intersect into one image. The A-line dress is printed with the Campbell's Soup red, black and white labels. At the back of the neckline is the original attached label that reads: "The Souper Dress/No Cleaning/ No Washing/ It's carefree fire resistant unless washed or cleaned/To refreshen, press lightly with warm iron/80% Cellulose, 20% Cotton". Link

Zoomorphic Calligraphy

2006-08-04T01:53:00.000-07:00

"This new mode was not a matter of script metamorphosing into living forms which are also readable letters, but of using script to delineate such forms [..][Zoomorphic calligraphy] developed [..] in Ottoman Turkey, India and Qajar Iran [and] was known as early as 1458."

Toy Art Collective

2006-08-04T01:37:00.000-07:00

beinArt Underground Australian Toy Art Collective.

Faces around us

2006-08-04T01:18:00.000-07:00

Everywhere I look I see faces haha.

The million dollar facade

2006-08-03T04:42:00.000-07:00

The sandberg institute has a new project "the million dollar facade", allowing companies to buy tiles from their building for advertising. The concept is based on the milliondollarhomepage.com

Bjorn Bjarre

2006-08-03T04:25:00.000-07:00

Take a look at Bjorn Bjarre work.

clothes peg iconography

2006-08-03T04:17:00.000-07:00

clothes peg iconography is an exhibition from the collections of yoav ziv and gad charny, curated jointly with yaacov kaufman, and exhibited at his studio. the exhibition contains nearly 300 pegs, old and new, from all over the world.

Starship Dimensions

2006-08-02T03:39:00.000-07:00

Starship Dimensions is a museum of Speculative Fiction inspired Spaceships which allows science fiction fans to get an impression of the true scale of their favorite science fiction spacecraft by being able to compare ships across genres, as well as being able to compare them with contemporary objects with which they are probably familiar.

giantJoystick

2006-08-02T03:22:00.000-07:00

giantJoystick is an installation by Mary Flanagan where users are invited to play classic arcade games by collaboratively moving on and controlling a 9-foothigh joystick (modelled after the 1980 Atari 2600 one).

The joystick itself becomes a social sculpture and territory for inter-personal communication.

The Art of the Brick

2006-08-02T03:15:00.000-07:00

Nathan Sawaya in February 2004 converted his hobby into a career when he was selected for Master Model Builder at LEGOLAND California.

He now is a professional LEGO artist working freelance in New York here is Nathan great collection of LEGO creations.

Knitted Ferrari

2006-08-02T02:56:00.000-07:00

Art student Lauren Porter spent ten months knitting a full-size Ferrari replica using 12 MILES of yarn for her graduate show in the School of Art and Design at Bath Spa University.

Ron Mueck exhibition

2006-08-02T02:19:00.000-07:00

National Galleries of Scotland is showing a exhibition of the breathtaking sculpture of contemporary artist Ron Mueck.

Here are more links to Ron Mueck work.

Extensive gallery

Russian website with good gallery

Ron Mueck images on Flickr

Washington Post gallery

Space Invaders stop-motion

2006-08-01T00:38:00.000-07:00

Guillaume Reymond and his collaborators at NOTsoNOISY created this stop-motion video of space invaders for the festival Belluard Bollwerk International in Fribourg, Switzerland. Sixty-seven people act as the “pixels.” The three minute video took 4 hours to film using 67 figurants.

Watch the movie here.

Karen Shapiro

2006-08-01T00:27:00.000-07:00

Karen Shapiro makes ceramic sculpture of super-sized every day objects that she calls pop icons.

Odd Job Jack

2006-08-01T00:07:00.000-07:00

Master flash files and bitmaps of every piece of art used in this season of Odd Job Jack. Every character, prop, and background from every episode plus tutorials and other support material. All free to hack, use, remix under a share-friendly license.

Floppy Space Invader

2006-07-31T23:53:00.000-07:00

A good idea to recycle old 5"25 floppy disks by Flickr member mqtthiqs who made this mosaic using floppy disks called Floppy Space Invader.

The Game Reflected

2006-07-31T23:50:00.000-07:00

The Game Reflected is a project by photographer Kevin Tiell who made a series of photographs of pinball machines showing the pinball's perspective.

Bill Barminski

2006-07-28T03:54:00.000-07:00

Bill Barminski is a versatile artist who draws from popular culture to create visually complex paintings.

They function as cutting commentaries on our consumer culture by wittily appropriating images from advertising's past.

In addition to making paintings, Barminski has also produced CD- ROMs that not only animate his paintings, but also give life and voice to the characters of his imagination.

He is also the creator of previously mentioned gas mask designs based on cartoon characters shown at illegal art.

Clayton Junior

2006-07-28T03:23:00.000-07:00

Clayton Junior from Sao Paulo, Brazil studied illustration at Paraná Visual arts school in Brazil and also at New york School of Visual Arts and makes colourfull vector illustrations works with wonderfull shapes.

Animatronic Flesh Shoe

2006-07-28T03:16:00.000-07:00

The Animatronic Flesh Shoe made by Adam Brandejs is a Nike shoe stapled together with human flesh, twitching...

The shoe is stitched together with multiple pieces of latex rubber cast out of moulds made from my own skin. The shoe's toe and heel raise and lower as it occasionally vibrates/pulsates, and twitches on the floor as if it were still alive. The movement is not constant, and usually causes people to jump back while they are in the middle of leaning in for a closer look.

bikerod & kustom gallery

2006-07-28T03:05:00.000-07:00

The bikerod & kustom gallery shows a great collection of user submited custom made bikes including the one presented in the photo, the VacTrike made out of a vacuum cleaner by Tom Satterfield, with fender pods made out of art deco cookware lids.

Ben Grasso

2006-07-28T02:45:00.000-07:00

The first solo exhibition of Ben Grasso called In My Own Backyard presented by Sixtyseven gallery, shows Grasso's most recent body of work includes large-scale charcoal drawings and oil paintings. Often involving things such as aircrafts or missiles crashing upon impact or into archetypal houses, the work explores how tragic spectacles relate to modern-day sensory overload.

One cannot tell whether the work is based on true events, imagination, or both. Some disaster scenes seem physically impossible if not absurd, especially in the oil paintings, which at times are reminiscent of action movie stills or video games.

Ross McBride

2006-07-28T02:27:00.000-07:00

A selection of work from the studio of Ross
McBride, including Digital Dali (photo), Time Table, and Command Sit.

Jo Lawrence broom dolls

2006-07-26T16:13:00.000-07:00

Jo Lawrence places from time to time a box with the heads of dead filming actresses on its kitchen table. Some appear indifferently, some smile. All wait for the metamorphosis, which they will experience. They are actual photocopies of the faces of forgotten Holywood of star from and the 30's 20's.

The key to understand the charm of these dolls, with photo faces and fool bodies, is their equivocal quality: they appear as both, things and figures, as confrontation of mysterious elements and as human being-same forms. It is difficult sometimes to decide whether the person is a broom or the broom a person - in reality they are both.

webpaintings

2006-07-26T15:41:00.000-07:00

Valery Grancher has a collection of painting called webpaintings which are paintings of internet logos, internet screen, famous software screens and internet pages sources and codes...

He has started also a new series called Computer paintings dedicated to famous computers and computers departements, and also computer codes and screen.

Rooftop Films

2006-07-26T15:36:00.000-07:00

Rooftop Films is a non-profit film festival and production collective that supports, creates, promotes, and shows daring short films worldwide and in a weekly summer rooftop film festival.

Rooftop Films is more than a film festival; above all, it's a community. It's a collective collaboration between filmmakers and festivals, between audience members and artists, between venues and neighborhoods. Rooftop Films goal is to create a vibrant independent filmmaking community that bridges cultural boundaries.

Rooftop Films, brings the underground outdoors.

Bristol has considered to keep a Banksy piece

2006-07-26T15:25:00.000-07:00

The city of Bristol has considered to keep a Banksy piece that appeared one weekend on the side of a sex clinic

BBC reports that due to the overwhelming support of the public on the internet, the piece is going to stay up.

Naked man' mural allowed to stay
'Guerrilla artist' Banksy's graffiti
The mural is near Bristol City Council's offices
A piece of graffiti by Bristol artist Banksy has been allowed to stay after what the city council described as "overwhelming support" from the public.

The stencilled image shows a woman in her underwear standing behind a suited man leaning out of a window, and a naked man hanging onto the ledge.

The public was invited to decide whether it should stay on the side of a building on Park Street or be removed.

An internet discussion forum showed 97% of submitters supported the work.

Many people who logged on highlighted the fact that Banksy is a Bristolian, and that his work "brightened up" the urban environment.

However, the council warned the support of the

Banksy piece is not support of graffiti in general, and an extra council team has recently been created to tackle graffiti.