Posted on
07.29.07 by Widge @ 10:15 pm  The Beat points out the website of Esao Andrews, who we last saw as the artist on "The Witch's Tale" from Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall. My first art collecting goal is to grab something wonderfully badass from Dave McKean. Something like "Letting Go" (an excerpt of which is shown here) comes a close second. Categorized as: Art
|
Posted on
07.28.07 by Widge @ 3:16 pm  So while I was checking around the StudioBo site for this post on Colors Are Overrated, I couldn't help but notice these delightfully sick ceramic bowls, designed to show a ship and a plane in a position of distress, having crashed into your soup. If you had a bowlful of Siege's chili there, you would know that all the little people would have been dead instantly. Categorized as: Art and Gear
|
Posted on
07.27.07 by Widge @ 3:15 am  Here's the larger pic. Yes, I can't get a picture of Hitler singing that song out of my head now. It burns. It burns the inside of my head. And the other thing I remembered was a great phrase by Mike over at Progressive Ruin: "I'm not entirely sure, since each time a new issue of Anita Blake comes out, Chris goes after it, guns blazing, like it was made of Hitler." Emphasis mine. He's referring to Chris of Invincible Super-Blog fame. So now I picture Chris, with guns blazing, fighting a teapot. And no, I've never used drugs. Why do you ask? Categorized as: Art
|
Posted on
07.27.07 by Widge @ 2:04 am  The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive has posted more bits of gold. Just like last time where we mentioned a WWII Dispatch From Disney, now we've got another one that has lots of goodies, including cool artwork, an article on Saludos Amigos, and the tale of how Oliver Wallace came up with that classic song, "Der Fuehrer's Face." Here's a bit: My wife laughed: "Who wrote that?" Yes, that sums up inspiration perfectly: eureka followed by near disaster. Go and check it out. Categorized as: Art and Stimuli
|
|
Posted on
07.24.07 by Widge @ 10:07 pm This is brilliant. They've basically taken the concept of our BostonSafe TM plugin and brought it into the real world. The video explains it all. Of course, this could backfire: Boston could require pretty much every device that appears in public to be able to declare itself bomb-free at will. Don't think somebody hasn't proposed this. For more info check out Sternlab's page on the project. Categorized as: Art
|
Posted on
07.21.07 by Widge @ 11:33 pm  Pink Tentacle tells the story in more detail (and more coherently) than I, but the gist is that Yanobe Kenji, who we've mentioned before, created this for Disneyland's 50th anniversary exhibition...but it didn't crank Disney's tractor. We think this is a huge missed opportunity. Disney characters already appear in Kingdom Hearts, right? Now they have a chance to appear in Fallout! See? It's genius. Somebody pay me. Categorized as: Art
|
Posted on
07.21.07 by Widge @ 8:49 pm  Pink Tentacle does an interesting round-up of rice field art from Inakadate in Japan. They've (the farmers, not Pink Tentacle) been doing this since 1993, apparently, creating "works of crop art by growing a little purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed tsugaru-roman variety. And I can't even draw a straight line with a ruler. So color me impressed. Some of the art has text included--wouldn't it suck to have a typo in something like this? Categorized as: Art
|
Posted on
07.21.07 by Widge @ 8:38 pm  The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive has posted an excellent round-up of mostly German propaganda posters. Also of interest is their reasoning as to why the Germans weren't very good at using propaganda effectively. Also of note over at the Archive: Dispatch From Disney's: "...this 1943 publication was distributed to Disney employees who were serving in the war effort." Categorized as: Art
|
Posted on
07.20.07 by Widge @ 4:00 am  We're all familiar with the fun of morbid whimsy, but thanks to Ectoplasmosis we now have a new flavor: deviant whimsy. We find it in the work of Maleonn Ma. It's fantastical, it's fun, but it feels just a wee bit off--but strictly in a good way, know what I mean? Categorized as: Art and Stimuli
|
Posted on
07.19.07 by Widge @ 3:00 am  This cross-stitch, "The Fenwick Special," glows in the dark. Now this is just an idea that's ready-made for abuse. And by abuse I mean the fun kind. Imagine all manner of innocuous, normal, ho-hum cross-stitch bits that, with the lights off, turn into crass declarations of mayhem. Maybe letters drop out, maybe you've cross-stitched white glow-in-the-dark stuff in with regular white, so the hidden message only appears in the dark. Have a warm, happy "Welcome to Our Home" cross stitch in your guest bedroom that becomes a huge "GET OUT" when the lights are turned off. I'm telling you: the sky's the limit. Categorized as: Art
|
|
|
