Pick Your Cupid

Stephen Fry on Language

upcoming documentary: Influencers

 This trailer for an upcoming documentary film about the NYC creative/innovative scene has me feeling inspired already. It definitely seems like something I'd want to see, but for some reason I feel they could have titled it better.

Creative Frustration

Pascal Campion on creating art

Inspirational Artists: Pascal Campion from Onyx Cinema, Inc. on Vimeo.

Illustrator Pascal Campion speaks about the process and insight of creating art.

Nutty Tarts Hairy Underwear Collection

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Booty & Bones

This x-ray pinup calendar is a mix of sexy and spooky. Grinning skulls coyly show off their rears [and more] to advertise EIZO monitors to German doctors. There's some irony to be appreciated here. The images take superficiality to a whole new level by presenting skeletons. This kind of beauty goes deeper than skin, yet the figures still lack a name and [literally] a face.

via copyranter

Fun with Dad

"What do Metal Dad's do when their kids are bored? THEY CRAFT!"

Art by fairie

         

Some great mixed-media pieces by fairie. She achieves amazing composition and an outlining technique that is effective without looking cartoonish, using colored pencils and marker, among other media.

One of those days

These .gif's of popular rappers are perversely mesmerizing and reminiscent of a carnival house of horrors.

Body Ink

I am something of a body modification enthusiast. In this area I'm most into something less conventional; scarification. I admire the complexity that it carries in its history and also its contemporary form.

Tattoos, though, are a different horse all together. Or, you could say, scarification is the horse and tattoos are its embellished cousin [read: zebra]. I find that among tattoos, the ones that impress me the most are those that catch me by surprise because they take the art form in a new direction. The examples that follow are some of my all time favorites.

Monochromatic Tattoos:
The use of bold, solid black can make much bigger impact than color, which gets busy. It takes skill to impress through minimalist simplicity, and these kinds of tattoos are much sleeker looking. This approach contradicts the sailor inspired tradition of overly busy, carnival-esque tattoos.

Nostalgia

Nostalgia, Nicol 2010

This came from my messing around on good old Photoshop. Scanned sketch + Photoshop. It had been forever, but it is such good fun :D !

Three Frames

 via Threeframes

Hahahaha. For some reason I find this too funny. It might have something to do with the fact that I didn't sleep last night...

Eva Wylie paper sculptures

Beautiful installation pieces by Eva Wylie, an artist that works primarily in paper. Unfortunately, found out about her exhibition at the Gallery Joe only just today, on the last day.

Erykah Badu on 106th & Park

Erykah Badu wore this to a recent appearance on BET's 106th & Park. Her look has me semi-conflicted, which is somehow winning me over. I think it comes close to great because it is such a huge contradiction, but something is missing...or too much? Despite my ambivalence, I think it's a look worth noting.

Peepshi

A creative approach to Easter, this is sushi made with peeps, what looks like rice krispie treats, and some candy similar to fruit-by-the-foot. Visually clever for sure, but I imagine it would taste terrible. A tutorial here gives detailed instructions on how to make it.

Arlequine

Art by Emmanuel Malin

postcarden

Postcards that fold out into mini-gardens, from postcarden. Shifting away from the typical inertness of postcards, this starts out neat and transforms into something neater, and useful to boot.

cyberfunk is where it's at

Janelle Mon�e - Sincerely, Jane. Found at abmp3 search engine

Janelle Monae has me dancing while I file