:: November 28, 2005
Stupid bird! ::
:: June 10, 2005
Lots of good art to see at the Miller Block Gallery website ...
Kojo Griffin, Spilled Milk, 2002
Eric Lebofsky, The Folly of Fashion, 2004
Lori Nix, Birdhouses, 2003 (check her site -- diorama photography!)
Laylah Ali, Blue Leg Hat, 2002
Michael Harrington, Figures With Plants, no year
via Art for Housewives
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:: August 29, 2004
GlassTire: an online journal of Texas visual arts. Where have you been all my life? What a gorgeous site, worth a look even if you have nothing to do with Texas or visual arts. (via Prentiss Riddle) ::
:: March 26, 2004
"My study is entitled 'Black People Really Like Michael McDonald, and to a Lesser Extent, the Later Works of the Doobie Brothers.'" ::
:: January 5, 2004
Brawny before and after! Another cool old brand image gets a revamp, and I am sad for reasons that confuse me. This article refers to the old Brawny man "the 70s porn guy"; official timeline of the Brawny Man here. (Thanks Scrubbles) ::
:: August 8, 2003
I ripped this link off The Morning News website. Dr. Suess was in advertising before he was Dr. Suess.
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:: May 31, 2003
Tucker Nichols here, here, here (click on his name in the Gallery section), and deep into this but it's worth flipping though. ::
Mr. Bingo checked in to announce that he has a new section up: 'Print 2'. If you liked Print 1, you will pee your pants over Print 2! ::
:: May 3, 2003
"Beginning construction in 1956 at age 60, and working until 1981, Tressa "Grandma" Prisbrey transformed her 1/3 acre lot into Bottle Village, an otherworld of shrines, wishing wells, walkways, other random constructions, plus 15 life size structures all made from found objects placed in mortar. The name "Bottle Village" comes from the structures themselves -- made of tens of thousands of bottles unearthed via daily visits to the dump for years, some of them from her husband's own bad habit."
(via April Winchell's Linkapalooza) ::
:: May 1, 2003
Just one of the great doodles at Mr. Bingo
UPDATE: Oh my I realized I just double-posted on myself. What does that mean? ::
"Learning to Love You More is both a web site and series of non-web presentations comprised of work made by the general public in response to assignments given by artists Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher and various guests ... "
"Now that you are here you will want to accept an assignment, complete it by following the simple but specific instructions, send in the required report (photograph, CD, video, etc), and see evidence of your work posted on-line. Like a recipe, meditation practice, or familiar song, the prescriptive nature of these assignments liberates you from creativity and allows you focus on what you are feeling and experiencing."
There are some very intriguing and accessible assignments. Like: "re-create this snapshot":
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"I'm Sorry" by Rachell Sumpter ::
:: April 29, 2003
"Robot Battle With Dave Choe" by Souther Salazar
Souther Salazar makes art, illustrations, comics, zines; he also puts in an appearance at the Grandaddy site.
Californians take note: there's an exhibition called "Puddle Jumpers" at New Image Art Gallery on Santa Monica Blvd. which ends soon (May 3), featuring Salazar, his ladyfriend Saelee Oh, and Caroline Hwang, who incorporates textiles into collages and art onto (I think) pillows:
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:: April 27, 2003
Wet washcloth origami, with diagrams so you can DIY (via Speckled Paint) ::
"kitchen" by Seow Yen, Singapore (24 minute exposure)
Happy World Pinhole Photography Day. People are posting their lensless camera works -- all created today -- to an online gallery. (via Metafilter) ::
New York Flea Market 5 by Cindy Kim
Hey everybody it's art and illustration week on the Excitement Machine! We start with Cindy Kim, an illustrator with a thing for humans. Her "visual journalism paintings" are amazing. Look how her drawings pack so much into so few lines. ::
:: April 16, 2003
Beautiful drawing and design from the U.K. at Mr. Bingo and Kat Stubbings (both via Quasimeta) ::
:: April 3, 2003
Artist-Illustrator James Graham presents Jamjot. Keep reloading the intro page for lots of great superhero/monster/creature drawings. (via Quasimeta) ::
Stickernation is back from the dead and looking superfly. Stencil Revolution is the same idea only without industrial adhesives. ::
:: March 30, 2003
To Inhale the Black Mosquito, a story in six images from Bovine Inversus ::
:: March 18, 2003
Wrigley's Juicy Fruit, Doublemint, and Spearmint gum package design through the ages ... via Scrubbles ::
:: March 16, 2003
Great moments in anonymous design: I found your glasses ::
:: March 14, 2003
E-mail from Bryan today:
"I was looking for pictures of Lee Majors. I think she's my hero.
Unfortunately she's passed, but to the benefit of young christian female artists everywhere." ::
The art of Pedro Moraleida, a young Brazilian artist who committed suicide in 1999, is presented lovingly, creepily, amazingly, Flashingly at Cave Cave. (via Dooce) ::
:: March 7, 2003
I love everything about Nerfect. The Creeps are a good place to start -- and they come in icon form too. The photo-essay A Visit to the Bunny Hutch novelty golf course (bottom of page) is beautiful! ::
The Eccentric Art of Lewis Smith (via Metafilter) ::
:: January 21, 2003
1" scale model Sixties Boy's Bedroom diorama, with hamster (via Muxway) ::
:: January 11, 2003
Until Zoo Tycoon is released for the Macintosh operating system, I will be contented with Flip Flop Flyin's Cheap Zoo ::
:: January 3, 2003
Other People's Stories: "Every story on OPS is a story a contributor heard from someone else. These stories have been overheard and misheard, told and re-told and sometimes refined over time. They do not shy from hearsay, gossip, myth or guys we knew in high school. OPS is dedicated to the time-honored tradition of stealing other people©ös material and we therefore recognize our debt to those from whom we©öve stolen and acknowledge that these stories do not belong to us.
New stories will appear every Tuesday and Thursday."
Good art, too.
(via Travelers Diagram) ::
:: December 30, 2002
Gumby X-Maz, a psycho flash cartoon from the frenetic Paperrad ::
:: December 11, 2002
Dr. (Walter) Potter's Museum of Curiosities is up for sale. According to CNN, "The collection is one of the most elaborate surviving examples of the 19th-century craze for anthropomorphic displays of preserved dead animals." A Case of Curiosities has lots more photos and a Potter timeline -- look around the site for more examples of wacky taxidermy. (Via Bonnie) ::
:: December 1, 2002
Mouth-cam! (via Mister Pants) ::
:: November 22, 2002
Lots of good stuff lately from Metafilter: Hugh MacLeod's cartoons on the back of business cards; Brad Christensen's very entertaining responses to Nigerian scam spam; Twexus, a database of images that increases in functionality the more you look through it; Distributed Proofreaders, a way to use your proofreading skills for good instead of evil; and exhastive lists of movies featuring jugglers, bagpipes, accordions, librarians, math, socks, hypnosis, smoking, whipping, soup, bare feet, dogs, deuces of clubs, peeing, quicksand, and plumbing. ::
:: November 8, 2002
The World of Wassco's new arcade is more fun than you deserve right now, frankly. ::
:: November 3, 2002
Freakshow in My Pocket is matchbox dioramas animated for the web. (Via Reenhead) It seems like the band Lincoln, on whose site the pocket freakshows are hosted, might be good. ::
:: October 29, 2002
"The arched entranceway from the street, watched over by a stoic double-faced owl, is significantly barricaded by a tall mesh fence and a stand of tall Queen-of-the-Night cacti. Like the elaborately bottle-skirted hostesses within the yard, this arch must have been intended to welcome the visitor into her 'world', but the fence speaks plainly of an increasingly troubled relationship between Helen Martins and the outside world."
From 1945 until her death in 1976, Helen Martins transformed her South African homestead -- which came to be known as The Owl House -- from the inside out, much to the chagrin of her village. How much this derision had to do with her long-term collaborations with black men, most importantly Koos Malgas, is not hinted at on this stunning website ... maybe it's in the book. (Via Metafilter) ::
:: October 18, 2002
"The Illegal Art Exhibit will celebrate what is rapidly becoming the 'degenerate art' of a corporate age: art and ideas on the legal fringes of intellectual property. Some of the pieces in the show have eluded lawyers; others have had to appear in court." Speaking of the Residents ... ::
:: September 27, 2002
Blather introduced me to Funkuncle. Now I want to introduce you. Hi, this is Funkuncle. Funkuncle, this is ... aaaa shit, I forgot your name. I'm so sorry. I'm bad with names. ::
:: September 15, 2002
"That's essentially my father and me. My father is tied to a tree, with a light set up. I'm standing in a coracle with a pacifier in my mouth and the coracle has no prow, so it just floats like a lily pad. E.T. is reading from the book." Jarvis Rockwell, Norman Rockwell's 70-year-old son, makes crazy diorama art and speaks in poetry. (via Scrubbles) ::
:: September 5, 2002
Crashbonsai: miniature cars and trucks crashed into wee trees. Art! ::
:: August 20, 2002
Marcel Dzama pumps out the art. $700 a pump. Not bad, not bad. I'll take two. ::
:: July 30, 2002
Fontomas Those Germans sure can make some mean fonts. This is one of the best free font sites out there, and it's undergone a nice redesign since I last saw it. There are currently 10 free fonts available, and soon you'll be able to buy all their older creations on a CD, with the proceeds going to poor children the world over. ::
:: June 24, 2002
Cut and Paste: A History of Photomontage ::
:: June 21, 2002
Bubbles the Artist is either an outsider artist that has made the big time or a big timer who paints like an outsider artist. I'm not one to make those distinctions. On the big-time side, there's the Bubbles-created official Lily Tomlin website and an animated show for Oxygen. Then there's this Jennifer Aniston site, and I'm not sure whether it's reverential or a parody or both or neither, but it's definitely weird. Bubbles' paintings are accompanied by interesting stories and sometimes by obnoxious yet compelling MIDI music. Finally, there's the Bubbles Basement gift shop, with some fine non-Bubbles-created crap to buy. ::
:: June 17, 2002
PJ Chmiel's personal site is inventive and delightful and I would would very much like to steal the whole thing and make it my own. He's PETA's web designer (but not for much longer) ... think what you want about the organization, but you can't mess with the web design he's done for them. He also adds to the growing body of found art on the web with his Photos Found on a Thrift Store Camera. (via Scrubbles) ::
:: June 10, 2002
Joining the ever-amazing world of Australia's Renewal.org is Art Crimes, a site documenting acts of vandalism/hooliganism against works of art. When these incidents are taken as a whole, the line between destruction and creation gets blurry. ::
Weird and lovely Needlepoint Museum ::
:: May 20, 2002
Tenderoni.com: Lovely paintings, drawings, and animations by Francine Spiegel, which seem to be inspired by airbrush cheeze and 80s clip art.
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:: May 10, 2002
(to your right: Erwin Wurm's "Create These Sculptures on Your Way to Work")
Want to be an artist, but have no ideas of your own? Do It "is a manual of artist's instructions for you to actualize." Choose from scores of contemporary artists, take a pictures the process/realization, send them in, and poof! You're part of collaborative interactive performance art history. Projects range from digging a small trench in your yard throughout the summer to tipping a bicycle seat "so that the front points upwards and use the seat to squeeze lemons" to building a camera out of a washing machine. (Via Caterina.net) ::
:: May 3, 2002
Paper Rad All the colors of the rainbow never looked so pretty. (via Sharpeworld) ::
If You Are Trying to Read While Lying Down The Ergonomy of a Book Will Kill You! (click Experiment #3 on the left-hand side) Reading in bed sucks. In fact, I nearly died last night trying to flip through a five-inch thick encylopedia. Nofont has some typographical solutions to this problem. (via Linkdup) ::
:: April 10, 2002
60X1.COM: Sexy Bella MamaCita Come to Sugar Daddy! Keep clicking through for another take on George W. photoshopping. The contest winners will be announced soon, by the way. (Via b3ta) ::
:: April 2, 2002
From Powazek's request for non-boring sites to counter this dumb NY Times article:
Findsounds.com
The Degree of Confluence Project
DPlanet
Destroy Rock City
Fat Trucker's Union.
From Fat Trucker's Union:
Blixie
Peter Hamlin.
I wish I was more bored with the web, then I wouldn't be getting the ass-spread so much. ::
:: March 15, 2002
The story "Pig," by the subversive and often adults-only children's author Roald Dahl, is illustrated with some incredible Photoshop collages here. (Via Boing Boing.) ::
:: March 13, 2002
Went through some piles today and was delighted to find stuff that Brutal Gift gifted me a while back. I don't know if the proprietor, Mark Shepherd, is still giving away his treasure books, but you can grab an art brut font without delay.
I was also thrilled that Chip Wass of World of Wassco wrote in with unsolicited praise for the Excitement Machine. (I hope he doesn't mind me outing him.) You may recognize his retro futuristic work from Nickelodeon or any of a number of fancy publications. He carries the Chuck Jones torch onward and I can't wait till his Chipart section opens for bidniss. ::
:: January 30, 2002
Today we announce another new Excitement Machine section. It is dedicated to the drawings of Bryan Kight, genius self taught outsider folk comic drawing artist. More to be thrown into the random mix as time progresses. ::
:: January 24, 2002
My new desktop picture. Mister Pants is your friend. ::
Everyone's chattering about the recently announced SXSW Interactive Award Finalists. They always introduce me to some mighty fine sites: dizzzamn, look at Thinkcollective, Bambino's Curse, All My Life for Sale (and its new incarnation, Temporama), Bubblesoap, and Teddy. It's sad that SXSW killed this year's interactive art exhibition -- the sites they choose for that tend to make even the award-takers look like little bitches in comparison. You can still see last year's show, fortunately. ::
:: January 14, 2002
I looked for a website dedicated to paintings on the sides of vans. You'd think there'd be something out there, but if it indeed exists, I failed to locate it. And yet it seems that there are billions of pages dedicated to Dr Pepper knockoff brands, which I get behind fully, but. Where are the van paintings? ::
:: December 19, 2001
Just when I was wondering where all the high-art concept restaurants were. Oh. Don't read German? Try this. (Another lift from Metafilter.) ::
:: November 29, 2001
Irrational Exuberance is a good thing to keep with you as you go forth into the holiday shopping season. What is this yatta? Is it anything like natto? (Link via memepool)
My officemate Kate just figured out that you could take a plastic supermarket bag, cut off the bottom, and wear it as a tank top. Do this with the new crop of bags printed with the American Flag, and you can make quite the politico-fashion statement. ::
:: November 7, 2001
Kitty hypmotize you! ::
:: October 23, 2001
Learn to cross-stich a dung beetle! Then go up a couple levels for more fun, some of it involving jumpsuits. ::
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