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Posted on 09.14.08 by Widge @ 11:04 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  You know it's funny to find a pointer to this on Ectoplasmosis--we ran into this print, No. 8 by Kathie Olivas and Brandt Peters, at DragonCon. And we share their zeal for it. It's amazing. The artists were there (nice folks, them) offering it as part of a series of equally wicked cool postcards. Sadly, we were never able to make it back to the art area what with all the madness going on that weekend. You can find the print for sale here. Of course, we ask the next question. And that is: where's the first seven? Can we collect them all like they were offered at our local Hardee's? Are there more beyond the eighth? Inquiring, demented, cephalopod-fixated minds want to know. Categorized as: Art
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Posted on 09.11.08 by Cosette @ 2:33 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Banned from Waffle Houses across the Southeast, I drive the getaway car for the Waffle Bunny Bandit. He looks cute, gets served his food, then bares his fangs and goes batshit on the breakfast. In the ensuing melee, he bounds out into the parking lot and we make our escape. He always saves me some bacon and some toast. That's why he's my new best friend. I found my new best friend at Under The Licorice Tree (via Craftzine), whose talented proprietor has this to say about him: "calvin drinks maple soda with his waffles and likes to dance the macarena. don't try and take his waffle..." Wise advice. Categorized as: Art
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Posted on 09.09.08 by ScottC @ 9:17 am
Comments on this: 2 so far. Add your own.  The Internet can be weird. I'm not talking about the normal weirdness of zombie puppets and the whole 25ology concept. I'm talking about the kind of weird that makes you feel like someone walked on your grave. For instance, Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles is hosting its second Crazy 4 Cult exhibition, Crazy 4 Cult 2: This Time Its Personal. Like last year, it was hosted by Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier. Essentially, its a bunch of artists interpreting classic cult movies and TV through the prism of Artistic Expression. Actually, some of the pieces look quite interesting, especially this work which they used for one of their advertising posters. The weirdness started when I saw the artist's name, Scott Campbell. That's my name. Now, I'm just capable of drawing stick figures so I'm pretty sure I didn't do this. Is this some strange extrusion from an alternate dimension? I mentioned this to Widge and he started wailing about Sammy the Slug. Don't ask, long story. Do I have some doppelganger living a different and more talented life? I mean, he's the same age as I am. But then I figured out what's going on. The big clue was Kevin Smith. As some of you know, Ken Plume works for Kevin Smith's site Quick Stop Entertainment. So I figure this is his plan to gaslight me and drive me insane. Categorized as: Art
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Posted on 08.19.08 by Widge @ 9:50 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  I enjoyed the movie Cars. I am not a car expert nor am I into autoporn, so anything that can be about cars and still be interesting is, in my mind at least, pretty impressive. Hence my great respect for Top Gear. But for something to actually get me excited about car racing--at least the kind where you drive in an oval shape for a prolonged period of time--that's even more impressive. So the fact that Cars' opening sequence was intriguing says a lot for Pixar magic. They can put life into lifeless things and put my interest into things that I could normally give a shit about. So I enjoyed it. But I apparently wasn't the only one to consider what a world populated by anthropomorphized cars would mean--sort of like Playskool's Maximum Overdrive. We envisioned a world where the cars were running on a biofuel made of nothing but ground-up people. Jake Parker at Agent 44 has wondered about Carworld as well. So much that he created a model of Lightning McQueen that shows his "major internal structures." There's a fragment over there--you'll need to go to his blog to check out the full deal. It is extraordinarily weird to see a giant brain in the back seat area of a car. It reminds me of a friend of mine in high school who took the back seat out of his car so he could install bigass speakers back there. So it's like my friend from high school turning out to be the Ultra-Humanite. Categorized as: Art
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Posted on 08.03.08 by Widge @ 8:02 am
Comments on this: just one. Add your own.  I just have this thing for fictional things made real. Whether it's the art of AlexCF (who helped to inspire this creation) or even something as more "mainstream" as J.K. Rowling creating a real version of a fictional book, it's really cool to be able to yank such things into the tangible realms. This is a piece entitled "Artifacts, Specimen, and Ephemera salvaged from the Wonderlands" by absinthetic. He made it for his girlfriend, and how cool is that? Professor Jonathan Lake, of Miskatonic University, traveled to Wonderland in attempt to catalog and archive the remaining flora and fauna so that Wonderland would not disappear into the forgotten depths of history. This is his collection of specimens, artifacts, and ephemera salvaged from the Wonderlands.
Included, apart from the pictured pinned card, are a sample from the Pool of Tears, mushroom samples, and a fetal Mome Rath plus more. (Sidebar: While we're on the subject of mome raths, have you seen these as well?) Lovecraft + Carroll = win. Categorized as: Art
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