You ever get the feeling collage artists are just messing with you? (They actually are.) They blithely deliver disparate images apparently haphazardly placed together on a page, creating a new whole. Yeah, there’s some WTF. But also a momentary little brain matter whisk.
OK, out of the realm of what I already knew was great and into the world I didn’t know was great until I saw it. These are done in tempera on canvas. Sort of like spilling egg on your jeans but in a very controlled way. (Not that I’ve ever done that.)
The wives and husbands of lifecasters must be very tolerant of models in their spouses’ studios. “Oh, hi, honey, I’m just smearing Vaseline and Geltrate over this mostly nekid person who is not you for Art’s sake. Don’t mind me.”
Hmm . . . Best job ever? Mebe.
These. Are. Hil. Arious. Yeah, yeah, I have a slightly macabre sense of humour. But Ms. Harrison’s figurines made my day.
Some of the earliest color movie film in the world. Sad to think these ladies are all gone now.
The happy people over at Skull-a-Day have updated their paper robot skull with a nifty pattern.
While we’re on the topic of paper models, here’s a page with a crapload of free paper ship patterns.
I’ve never been big on point-and-shoot photographers. The guys who got the photo, not through of any great creative effort of their own, but entirely because they were the ones who showed up. Still, you can’t diss a good eye or excellent technique, both of which qualifies Lâm Duc Hiên for some kind of prize for being at the top of that particular heap.
Incidentally, this is my 700th post. What the hell? Where has the time gone?
This guy has an artistic Midas touch. If he even looks at a canvas sideways, it turns into a rockin’ great image.
Maybe I’ve been watching too much True Blood, but that’s my first association now when I see skin and blood in the same image.
