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Recently I walked by the Ala Moana Mac cosmetic store and noticed a crowd of Japanese tourists gawking and snapping pics. Amazingly, a model in full body paint was posing against a set. She was a darn good simulation of a late 19th century oil painting.
Makeup Girl • Ala Moana Shopping Center - “Ceci n’est pas un tableau.” This is not a painting—it’s a photograph. Absolutely amazing.
Via Kottke.
Update 3/15/10: Kottke found another artist who does the same thing!
Throne of weapons
Made by Kester, Maputo, Mozambique, 2001
The throne was made by the Mozambican artist Cristovao Canhavato (Kester) from decommissioned weapons collected since the end of the civil war in 1992.
What could I say that would be more awesome than this picture?
Nothing. Except knowing that it’s art for this game.
World’s Largest Ball of Paint, Alexandria, Indiana - So American, but so beautiful in all its peculiarity.
A series of drawings produced using drawing implements attached to the tips of tree branches, the wind’s effects on the tree, recorded on paper. Like signatures each drawing reveals the different qualities and characteristics of each tree. Tim Knowles - Art - Tree Drawings
Creative Uncut - Video Game Art Treasury
I was hoping something like this existed. Oh Internet, how you have it all.
A Journey Round My Skull: Thirty Book Covers from Poland : I’m fascinated by things that look foreign to my eyes. Some of these Polish book covers are disturbing, or at least visually off-kilter, but I imagine some of that is partially attributable to my eye not being accustomed to such abstract and discordant illustration. It interests me because it’s a signal that my brain is experiencing something new—I get a weird sensation when I see things like this.
Blackbird | Online Journal
“An online journal of literature & the arts.” A good one at that.
Art Review - At MoMA, Song Dong Displays Ingredients of His Mother’s Beijing Home - NYTimes.com
A journey through a person’s life in possessions. Fascinating.
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It was on an average Wednesday that a very serious Israeli newspaper conducted a very wild experiment. For one day, Haaretz editor-in-chief Dov Alfon sent most of his staff reporters home and sent 31 of Israel’s finest authors and poets to cover the day’s news.
Literary Lesson: Authors, Poets Write the News – Forward.com : An awesome experiment that proves a beautiful point: at the end of the day, there’s not only nothing wrong with bending or breaking the rules, but doing so also presents an opportunity to discover something new about our professions and about ourselves.
This is brilliant. My face hurts from laughing.
ieva, let’s do this to the house…Pytttt
