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Posted on 12.14.08 by Widge @ 8:52 pm
Comments on this: just one. Add your own. The trouble with TED.com is that there's literally way too much that you can see and listen to there. So I'm constantly running across new vids and talks that apparently everybody in the world knew about but me. This is probably one of those: in which artist Siegfried Woldhek takes you through how he used a bit of deduction to come up with what he thinks Leonardo da Vinci actually looked like. Because even though Da Vinci probably had schematics somewhere in his notes for a digital camera, webcam and YouTube, he never actually executed on any of the projects. Hence the lack of certainty. Categorized as: Art
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Posted on 11.18.08 by Widge @ 1:38 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  After finding this monstrous wonderment on Ectoplasmosis, I was struck by a thought: it looks like a wild and evil doppleganger of the Astrobase from our friends at Astrobase Go!, shown below:  It only makes sense: the Hall of Justice's opposite was the Hall of Doom. New Genesis had Apokolips. It's actually a work by Kris Kuksi, "Imminent Utopia." But still. What would the Crime Syndicate versions of Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick be like? The mind boggles at the thought... Categorized as: Art
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Posted on 10.19.08 by Widge @ 5:18 pm
Comments on this: 3 so far. Add your own.  As we drift into the magical realm of Holy Shit I Want That, we find a grinning Johnny Zito who points to this--a wall decal featuring a silhouette of shambling doom. Yes, a wall full of zombies, being offered up by Michelle over at her eBay store. The only thing that could make this possible more badass than it already is--and more apt to scare the crap out of your pets--is if they glowed in the dark. Yes, a wall full of glowing zombies. Possibly because the authorities tried to "drop bombs in all the big cities." I'm thinking about this too much again, aren't I? Categorized as: Art
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Posted on 10.03.08 by Widge @ 3:32 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Brandi Milne has got a kickass print available for $45. Limited edition and signed. The snippet here really doesn't do it justice. It's borderline morbid whimsy, which always wins with us. And either the pumpkins are smoking because of the candles inside, or it's really cold out and you can see their breath...or they're pumpkin bombs from the Green Goblin. Whatever works. I dig it. And come to think of it...you know what's really spooky? The way she draws their legs is exactly the way my legs are shaped. Which is why I have to buy relaxed fit jeans. Categorized as: Art
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Posted on 09.30.08 by Widge @ 11:53 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  I've always had an appreciation for Gerald Scarfe's work. After all, this is the guy who brought us the fucked up animated world of Pink Floyd: The Wall. And I knew he had been called in by Disney to work on their Hercules, but somehow I had never run across his original art. Now I have...and it is choice. That snippet above is just part of his design on Zeus, for example. There's also Cerberus, The Three Witches, Hades, and more. And of course his stuff from The Wall. He sells signed prints, too. Trouble is, the Zeus print is £241.25. Which in today's American dollars is $5625.15. So. Someday, anyway. Categorized as: Art
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