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08.26.07 by Widge @ 7:29 pm  Erin Colleen Williams has crafted a steampunk replacement heart and liver. You can see it in action (worn) either on her website or on Brass Goggles, where we found these links originally. There's also a humor regulation set, which is to say the four humors of ancient medical theory and not something that's supposed to keep you from laughing (like American sitcoms). That aside, as another idea for steampunk things...I think someone needs to write a country parody song called "Your Steampunk Heart." I would give that someone a dollar. Categorized as: Art
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08.26.07 by Widge @ 12:37 am  Everybody gets their heart broken sooner or later. Artists, however, at least get the benefit of being able to use that heartbreak as fuel. And boy is it ever some serious nitrous. (Whether that's nitrous as an automotive boost or nitrous as in inhaling the ha-ha gas, we will not say.) This is interesting: an entire exhibition (and following book) that asks artists to revisit a past relationship via their art. Pictured is part of Dave Pressler's "the journey we all make alone," which I just love for its simplicity. And because the blimp-thing in the picture is smiling. Categorized as: Art
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08.23.07 by Widge @ 2:42 am  Brass Goggles continues their relentless assault of cool stuff we could never afford by offering up a link to The Necropathic Spectregraph, which is apparently done by the same cool frood who handled stuff like that Lovecraftian explorer box we mentioned earlier. Included in the spectregraph are: ouija board and planchet, instructions, protective goggles (!) extensive notes, a severed tiny human hand, for corporeal manifestation, a prayer book, photographs of previous ghosts obtained using the necropathic spectregraph Considering the device is "designed for the purpose of obtaining, containing and experimenting on spirit entities," you've got your steampunk containment system, now all you need are some steampunk unlicensed particle accelerators. Steampunk Ghostbusters. I want to see those at DragonCon. Get on it! Categorized as: Art
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08.21.07 by Widge @ 2:32 am  English Russia posted these, and their description is pretty apt: On the pictures of this photographer Moscow city looks like the futuristic world of Fallout or Stalker and inhabited only by deadly zombies. Yes. It's like some odd hell on earth configuration. There's a story in this somewhere, I'm sure of it. Categorized as: Art
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08.18.07 by Widge @ 4:43 am  No details about who created this or where this is, but the full pic is at Militant Platypus and is worth checking out. Categorized as: Art
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08.18.07 by Widge @ 3:06 am  Dindrane sent this in, and I think we need an entire line of classic sci-fi stained glass art pieces. I'd love a Robot Monster one, myself. Categorized as: Art
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08.17.07 by Widge @ 1:01 pm  Lines and Colors points us to Zhaoming Wu, and the only reason we look depressed is because now we have another artist whose stuff we want hanging on our walls. And, you know, we're webmasters...which means we're lucky we can afford walls. I mean, seriously: my last name is Walls--I can barely afford that for God's sake. I digress. Wu's art is just stunning. His paintings of figures, like the one pictured, remind me a lot of Jon J. Muth, and I'm a Muth fiend, so that only equals points in his favor. Wu is currently teaching painting in San Francisco. Find information on his books and art at his website. Categorized as: Art
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08.12.07 by Widge @ 3:36 am  Okay, so it's not enough that I have to drool all over my keyboard whenever the subject of the WETA rayguns comes up. But now, thanks to Brass Goggles letting us know, there's even more fantastic art out there that I'd love to have on hand. We're talking Raku Ray Guns here. Check out the Mothra Transmogrifier there. Just gorgeous. Here's what they have to say for themselves: Raku Ray Guns are one-of-a-kind ceramic sculptures made by West Magoon. They are inspired by alien technology unearthed at a secret UFO crash site, known only to a tribe of Wyoming Hill People. Each is named after a classic science fiction author or character. They all come with moon crater wall plaques. Too cool. If I ever get the safari room in my house that I want, one of those on the wall would do nicely. Categorized as: Art
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08.04.07 by Widge @ 1:20 am  Web Zen points us to this wild array of modified lunchboxes, most of them hand-painted, some using mixed media, all of them pretty damn awesome. Pictured is "Hope It Doesn't Have Worms" by Joe Vaux. It's pretty damn twisted. Let's just say you haven't seen the thermos yet. Also of note is "Bully Proof" by Miq Wilmott, which is basically what you would get if Siege designed lunchboxes. Categorized as: Art
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07.31.07 by Widge @ 4:32 am  Neatorama points this out and we agree: Halleux's stuff is fairly badass. And looking around, we would concur also with Lines and Colors and Juxtapoz: it really is a lot like Tim Burton, Henry Selick and Sylvain Chomet all tried to get together and create some stop motion puppets. I mean, seriously, these things are just crying out to be used in animation, don't you think? Categorized as: Art and Stimuli
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