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27 February 2010

Animal Sleep Stories

So many fun stories captured in Daria Tessler's (AKA Animal Sleep Stories) works. An added bonus: the back/next navigation on the site will make you chuckle.

22 February 2010

classic color-coded Penguin Celebrations book covers

This isn't really news, but it was to me. Penguin has re-released British, and Canadian, contemporary titles with the classic grid design originally used in 1935. They're 'colour-coded' according to genre and I love 'em.

17 February 2010

from Flat to Flight

From the Curiosity Group in Portland, Oregon comes a brief animated glimpse of their papercraft at play. From Flat to Flight features the same winged elephant you can print and fashion yourself. Wonderful!

10 February 2010

flashback to Coles Phillips

Philips was an illustrator and painter early in the 20th century, his first magazine cover appearing on Life's February 1908 issue. In addition to long runs doing cover art for Life and Good Housekeeping, Phillips was in high demand for advertisements. In turn, he was one of the first artists to insist his name appear on each of his images. I'm really drawn to the scenes he creates and the bold vs. implied line-work.

For lots more images and information, visit the American Art Archives. Be sure to read the copy for the advertisements, too...."you can expect only man's luck." So great.

08 February 2010

Polly Morgan

It seems I'm on a taxidermy kick lately...or the art world at large is...but Polly Morgan has an approach unlike others I've come across. Her creatures find themselves in rather unnatural settings, encouraging you to look at the animals as if for the first time.

05 February 2010

100 Abandoned Houses

Here are just three of them.

Live Transmission Drawings from Morgan O'Hara

Have you seen this?! Morgan O'Hara intently studies the movements of a subject and records the gestures with her own and pencil and paper.

Movement of the hands of
pianist Martha Argerich
while performing the first movement allegro con brio of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4
Carnegie Hall, New York City
28 October 2001

Movement of the hands ofConductor Riccardo Chailly
while conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Mahler's Symphony No 4.
first movement
Carnegie Hall, New York City
10 February 2000

Movement of the hands of
Dr. S. J. Schmidt while lecturing
Vom Lesen Des Sehens - Vom Sehen Des Lesens
International Performance Konferenz Kunsthaus Glarus
Glarus, Switzerland
7 March 1999

04 February 2010

fantastical sculptures from Elizabeth McGrath

03 February 2010

Louise Despont

I'm quite taken with the ornate, yet ordered, work of Louise Despont's series entitled "the Plant Life of Saints." She uses antique ledger paper as the backdrop for her graphite and inks.

found via dear ada

31 January 2010

Ella ja Aleksi – Yöjuna Rovaniemelle

This is something I happened upon many months ago, but still think of on occasion due to its absolute awesome adorable-ness. Why can't I dance like that?

Ella ja Aleksi are a Finnish duo of children who have an album out, but this is the only video (last I checked).

30 January 2010

Della Storm

What a name! "Lewinsville, Virgina., circa 1910. A younger member of the Storm clan."

If you have yet to visit, or know of, Shorpy and you are intrigued by vintage images, their historic photo archives are a must see...or, if you want to be lazy about it, just add Shorpy to your feed reader and have images delivered to you regularly. I never get tired of the glimpses at our past - in high-resolution, no less. In my experience, it's really easy to search for specific themes, just so ya know.

29 January 2010

watch it now!

Glorious psychedelic use of puppetry, animation, and stop-motion made by a collaborative of designers, directors, animators and musicians.

Pssst...The End from Buck on Vimeo.

most papercut pieces are intricate, but....

...the ones created by Bovey Lee are amazing! Like, knock you over "these must have been produced with a laser" amazing. But no, each one is hand cut out of Chinese rice paper.