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Friday
Jul 27, 2007
I never expected the bleak existentialism of early Peanuts to work well with the drunken, failed machismo of Charles Bukowski but, wow, it does.
to Art by riotnrrd
Saturday
Jul 21, 2007
Thriller as performed by prisoners in the Philippines, Bollywood, and a wedding party.
to Art by fool
Saturday
Nov 11, 2006
At War with Baraka is an underground film which syncs Fricke's Baraka with the Flaming Lips' At War with the Mystics.
to Art by fool
Saturday
Sep 23, 2006
Surreal Sock Puppet Polka
to Art by netcowboy
Friday
Sep 22, 2006
John Hodgman, humor writer, Daily Show correspondant and embodiment of the Windows operating system, invented and recited over guitar accompianment 700 hobo names. For those of you not content to read (or listen) and giggle, portraits of these hobos have also now been drawn
to Art by riotnrrd
Tuesday
Aug 29, 2006
With two films about turn-of-the-century stage magicians released in the space of as many months (The Illusionist and The Prestige) tickets to magic shows are enjoying a resurgence in popularity. Cheap slackers too lazy to go find our own show (or those of you who can't get an invitation to The Magic Castle), rejoice! Thanks to YouTube, you can enjoy some jaw-dropping illusions from the comfort of your own home with Paper Butterfly, Burger Thief or watch Penn & Teller expose a classic illusion on national television.
to Art by pjammer
Wednesday
May 24, 2006
Like musicians playing covers of their favorite songs, visual artists love to offer their own interpretations of famous characters from literature and cartoons.
to Art by riotnrrd
Thursday
May 18, 2006
Jim Woodring (whose work I am sure you've seen before) has his own blog, where he posts the hallucinatory artwork and elliptical commentary he is so famous for.
to Art by riotnrrd
Tuesday
Feb 28, 2006
"A sublime showcase for the diversity and creativity of mankind." Music? Bah, too pedestrian. Visual art? Nothing so obvious, my friend. No, it's balloon hats of the world.
to Art by riotnrrd
Monday
Jan 30, 2006
In February 1995, artist and strange person Myranda Didovic, working in conjunction with nutritionists at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, took a crap that measured 26 feet in length.
to Art by riotnrrd
Friday
Jan 13, 2006
Batgirl is everywhere!
to Art by riotnrrd
Monday
Dec 5, 2005
Patterns!
to Art by riotnrrd
Wednesday
Nov 30, 2005
Children's drawings of famous people from Calgary.
to Art by riotnrrd
Monday
Oct 17, 2005
If hacking is just like painting, then all you programmers should be worried about your jobs.
to Art by riotnrrd
Destroy.Hot.Action takes porn clips and visually mangles and distorts them into something like abstract art.
to Art by riotnrrd
Friday
Oct 7, 2005
I want to balance rocks on each other for a living too!
to Art by fringehead
Tuesday
Sep 20, 2005
50,000 speech balloons placed on posters and ads and filled in by anonymous strangers.
to Art by riotnrrd
Sunday
Aug 28, 2005
Art inspired by videogames or using gaming technology is all the rage these days, and Richard Horsman joins in with his translations of 2D sprites into 3D renders, with stylish and sometimes creepy results.
to Art by riotnrrd
Wednesday
Jul 6, 2005
Boring postcards.. from Sweden!
to Art by riotnrrd
Friday
Jul 1, 2005
I have a strange feeling that surrealists actually kind of like it when people rip them off or (perhaps) debase their films.
to Art by fool
Thursday
Jun 30, 2005
If you're ever in Seat 29E, make sure nobody is carrying any dry ice.
to Art by roo
Thursday
Jun 23, 2005
The Surveillance Camera Players are using ubiquitous surveillance cameras as a stage for protest against, well, ubiquitous surveillance cameras.
to Art by faisal
Tuesday
Jun 7, 2005
Dave DeVries takes kids' pictures of scary monsters and makes them a little more real and, strangely enough, a lot less scary.
to Art by fatherdan
Tuesday
May 24, 2005
The marriage of robotics and meat continues with the cybernetic parrot sausage.
to Art by riotnrrd
Wednesday
May 18, 2005
Hating that nasty seascape or still-life on the Paris Econolodge wall? If you're lucky, somebody might have left you a gift behind it.
to Art by yoyology
Like the Sgt. Pepper's artwork redone by someone with OCD and two grams of meth in his bloodstream, Howard Hollis' Picture of Everything is a huge, annotated drawing of, well, everything.
to Art by riotnrrd
Tuesday
Mar 22, 2005
Unrealised Moscow documents a Moscow that was never built.
to Art by riotnrrd
Friday
Mar 18, 2005
Play those funky breaks whiteboy.
to Art by fool
Friday
Feb 25, 2005
To those who thought Road House was only a cult classic movie: You are wrong. Welcome to Road House: The Play.
to Art by isosceles
Monday
Feb 21, 2005
Grafik Dynamo takes images from Livejournal and adds text and speech balloons to create a surreal ongoing narrative.
to Art by riotnrrd
M-city konstruktor allows you to place stencil-shaded tiles of buildings, people and giant robots to create your own isometric cityscapes.
to Art by riotnrrd
Thursday
Feb 10, 2005
I remember back in the day when sending a valentine was easy. Now you gotta fight for it!
to Art by 7layerburrito
Friday
Jan 28, 2005
"It is for you, the viewer of the cat lady church art, to determine whether this is a fun little Lego-building hobby, or whether it's gone over the line to full-blown Lego OCD."
to Art by yoyology
Thursday
Jan 6, 2005
S.P. Dinsmoor (not to be confused with Dinsdale) began, at the age of 64, to build a monument that would stand long after he was gone. With 2,273 sacks of cement and countless tons of limestone, he constructed a "log" home and sculpture garden in Lucas, Kansas called the Garden of Eden. As if the whole place weren't creepy enough, one of the exhibits is Dinsmoor himself, in a homemade glass-topped concrete coffin.
to Art by yoyology
Wednesday
Jan 5, 2005
Who said money and art can't co-exist?
to Art by riotnrrd
Friday
Dec 31, 2004
After drinking that egg nog I found in the dumpster, I started to hallucinate that I could see the skeletons of cartoon characters.
to Art by riotnrrd
Tuesday
Dec 21, 2004
Dude, don't bogart the art.
to Art by riotnrrd
Friday
Nov 26, 2004
Zoom in and in and in (or out and out and out) on the trippy detail of the collaborative artwork, zoomquilt.
to Art by riotnrrd
Tuesday
Nov 23, 2004
"With both clown and viewer locked in an endless loop of failure and degradation, the humor soon turns to horror."
to Art by fatherdan
Tuesday
Nov 2, 2004
Horrifying and bizarre tableaus, presented by the Minnesota Association of Rogue Taxidermists.
to Art by riotnrrd
Saturday
Oct 30, 2004
Technology enables art.
to Art by belford
Wednesday
Oct 20, 2004
How would a robot act if it was self-interested? Give me a coin or two, and I'll tell you exactly how it would behave.
to Art by fool
Tuesday
Oct 12, 2004
Maus set in feudal Japan? Flash Gordon's heirlooms? Corporate raider wear? Call Jeff De Boer.
to Art by yoyology
Friday
Aug 27, 2004
Researchers have spent years trying to uncover possible uses for spam. Political candidates have risen and fallen based solely upon the spam plank of their platforms. (Or not.) Now, one man has taking spam recycling to its truest, most genius level: cartoons.
to Art by jacquez
Wednesday
Aug 25, 2004
A messageboard without a topic, shaped like a tree, Ecotonoha sounds straight out of 1999, but is oddly compelling. The tree grows larger and greener with every message left, and the archives are available as a screensaver.
to Art by riotnrrd
Saturday
Jul 31, 2004
Michael O'Brien has an eclectic collection of 50's and 60's movie posters and weird old exploitation novel covers.
to Art by riotnrrd
Thursday
Jul 15, 2004
Each of Jason Kronenwald's portraits are made entirely from chewed bubblegum on a plywood backing; no paint or dye is used.
to Art by riotnrrd
Thursday
Jul 8, 2004
Travel to exotic and beautiful India and enjoy their many colorful trashcans.
to Art by riotnrrd
Tuesday
Jun 29, 2004
By now, GPS drawing has become old hat, so there is only one place left to take it: the third dimension.
to Art by riotnrrd
Friday
Jun 25, 2004
Someone has gone to a lot of trouble to document graffitti of little octopuses around New York City.
to Art by riotnrrd
Wednesday
Jun 9, 2004
Cover every roof on your block with sod, and other conceptualist pranks.
to Art by fool
Friday
May 21, 2004
Creepy Clown is what you get when you give a bunch of render geeks a running joke or two.
to Art by braino
Wednesday
May 19, 2004
If you like the aesthetic of modernist architecture but don't have the budget for a custom-built home then perhaps modernist prefab housing is what you're looking for.
to Art by riotnrrd
Monday
May 17, 2004
A Case of Curioisities shows off a fascinating collection of vintage and original taxidermy and other curiosities.
to Art by riotnrrd
Thursday
May 13, 2004
The Infinite Cat Project is attempting a grandiose internet trompe l'oeuil effect.
to Art by fringehead
Thursday
Apr 22, 2004
Subservient Chicken comes in many flavors.
to Art by fool
Thursday
Apr 15, 2004
Science fiction has always provided illustrations of the future of evolution - from H.G. Wells's The Time Machine with its Eloi and Morlocks, to Peter Ward's (less fiction, more science) exploration Future Evolution. The morphological possibilities of Photoshop, however, are often overlooked. Well, no longer. Human Descent provides many examples of possible future genetic freaks.
to Art by jacquez
Saturday
Apr 10, 2004
Bubble wrap, Skittles, and worry fill the world of obsessive-compulsive artists.
to Art by fringehead
Thursday
Apr 8, 2004
When a nice Jewish boy and a nice Chinese girl get together, and they both love food, you get Soy Vay! It's kosher, parve, organic, and has no MSG, GMOs, or peanuts.
to Art by yoyology
Wednesday
Apr 7, 2004
Artist Dan Goodsell keeps an obsessive collection of advertising- and food-related toys.
to Art by fringehead
Tuesday
Apr 6, 2004
Sweet, sweet design porn.
to Art by riotnrrd
Tuesday
Mar 23, 2004
The labels on fruit crates can be surprisingly well designed and even pretty.
to Art by riotnrrd
Monday
Mar 22, 2004
R Kelly meets Bathroom Designs
to Art by leptirica
Monday
Feb 23, 2004
Nasosov paints disturbed-looking portraits, in a manner that suggests a high possibility that the artist might have experienced more-than-normal amounts of trauma strapped to the dentist chair having things hung from and attached to his face; if you have a dental appointment looming ahead next week, this might make you want to postpone it.
to Art by monde
Wednesday
Feb 11, 2004
I can't stop myself from wondering if David Hasselhoff's video is a bizarre flash movie (despite evidence to the contrary).
to Art by fool
Wednesday
Dec 31, 2003
It is interesting to compare art composed by those under the influence of LSD, and those experiencing psychosis.
to Art by fool
Monday
Dec 22, 2003
Bert and Bud create custom-made coffins If you have a unique idea for your final rest receptacle, they can probably build it (urns too!). And here's one just in time for Christmas! Ho ho ho!
to Art by fatherdan
Friday
Dec 19, 2003
Graffiti Archaeology is devoted to the documentation of graffiti-covered walls as they change over time. Use the GrafAc Explorer, to watch the graffiti ebb and flow in selected areas of San Francisco.
to Art by riotnrrd
Die Screaming with Sharp Things in your Head. There's really not much else to say.
to Art by yoyology
Thursday
Dec 18, 2003
From the brick artist who built Han Solo in Carbonite and the Legoville Slugger, we humbly present: Achewood fanbrick.
to Art by yoyology
Friday
Dec 5, 2003
Matt Stuart's photography of London is a bit like Diane Arbus's snapshots of New York.
to Art by fool
Howdy, Pardner. If those long nights on the prairie are feeling kind of lonesome, why not cuddle up with some cowgirl pinups from the 1930's through the 1960's? Giddyap!
to Art by riotnrrd
Thursday
Dec 4, 2003
"The lostlove project aims to compile stories about lost love. Users enter stories which are then linked by the lostlove engine to create a metanarrative of a relationship."
to Art by riotnrrd
It's about that time of year again. Remember, sixfold radial symmetry, and never make two alike. If you work hard, you can get pretty damn elaborate.
to Art by yoyology
Tuesday
Dec 2, 2003
I love comic books, but sometimes.. boy can they suck.
to Art by riotnrrd
Monday
Dec 1, 2003
If you grew up without a crotchety grandfather filling your head with nonsense, American Folklore can give you all the tall tales and ghost stories you missed out on.
to Art by riotnrrd
Monday
Nov 17, 2003
Out from the mud comes the lotus flower. Tampon art finds new life in things we usually prefer not to find at all.
to Art by scromp
Back when Burning Man was just a low-key get-together, Survival Research Labs made Killer Robots. Now that the field of weapons development as art has expanded, you could easily find a personal EMP bomb, or a lethal biological pathogen vending machine at your next vernissage or festival. All this, courtesy of the Experimental Interaction Unit.
to Art by caspian
Friday
Nov 7, 2003
"In my attempt to realize 'death', I have decided to watch the dead body of a dog continuously at the coast."
to Art by riotnrrd
Oh, she's just your average playboy centerfold.
to Art by fool
Thursday
Oct 30, 2003
Get your cartoon on, old-style, with the Bayeux tapestry webtoon toolkit.
to Art by riotnrrd
Friday
Oct 3, 2003
Swingin' 50's and 60's design style meets web craziness in the work of Japanese artist Kazumi Nonaka.
to Art by riotnrrd
Online art gallery Decontrol uses beautiful design and an intuitive navigational interface that doesn't get in the way of the art.
to Art by riotnrrd
Tuesday
Sep 30, 2003
Andy Goldsworthy's art is not so much "outsider" as it is "out-of-doors." He works almost entirely in nature, using the materials at hand to create pieces of extraordinary, ephemeral beauty and monumental presence. On occasion, he does create installations, and he stunned London on Midsummer Day 2000 by allowing 13 enormous snowballs to melt on the city streets.
to Art by yoyology
Maggot Art is a fantastic new teaching tool for use in the elementary school setting.
to Art by riotnrrd
Next time you ogle a swimsuit model remember that she doesn't really look like that.
to Art by riotnrrd
Monday
Sep 29, 2003
You have ASCII Porn. There is ASCII Quake, ASCII Matrix, and ASCII Star Wars. But personally, ASCII Rock just goes too far.
to Art by imploded
Sunday
Sep 21, 2003
Watch Atomic Age Dog's Cows Are Evil and never quite the same about that cool, refreshing glass of milk again.
to Art by joshua
Monday
Sep 15, 2003
Prepare yourself for a visually compelling headache, but a headache nonetheless.
to Art by pyrrhuloxia
Thursday
Sep 11, 2003
Knowledge that 'pipe' is french slang for blowjob allows a much more entertaining interpration to Magritte's "ce n'est pas une pipe" caption.
to Art by fool
A riddle: what do steamy windows, champagne, Picasso, and asphalt share in common? A hint: something like Hirschfield's Ninas.
to Art by fool
Sunday
Sep 7, 2003
Somewhere between steampunk and Max Ernst lies the magical world of the Industrial Art Gallery.
to Art by fringehead
Tuesday
Aug 26, 2003
Always be prepared to handle life's little disasters.
to Art by fatherdan
Friday
Aug 22, 2003
Twexus generates imagery from a database of pictures using symmetry and pairing.
to Art by fool
Wednesday
Aug 20, 2003
Trong Lovdal has amassed an impressive collection of over 500 vintage Chinese posters. Lucky for us, he's placed images of these beautiful artworks on the web, and is even selling a few of them.
to Art by riotnrrd
Friday
Jul 25, 2003
The aesthetics of minimalism and constuctivism are being exploded into unusual geometries.
to Art by fool
Tuesday
Jul 15, 2003
If Kabuki actors could somehow render the game of Ping Pong to be superhuman, like The Matrix ... oh wait, they can.
to
Art by isosceles
Saturday
Jul 12, 2003
Ahh, yet another art critique message board. Don't be surprised if some of the pictures on this one are a bit pixelated.
to Art by 7layerburrito
Sunday
Jun 29, 2003
When the Rube Goldberg Honda advert made the rounds, some folks noted it ripped-off The Way Things Go, but it's not the only rip-off floating around.
to Art by fool
Friday
Jun 20, 2003
Welcome to Pablo's Art World! "A fantasy world where imagination is the master!" And where men sit on the crapper and read the newspaper.
to Art by fatherdan
Thursday
Jun 19, 2003
After learning about Chrissy's Caviar, I was tempted to make a cheap joke about Roe v. Wade, but I'm much too big for that.
to Art by yoyology
Monday
Jun 16, 2003
Hot on the heels of April Winchell comes 365 Days, an archive of the most bizarre multimedia including the hilarious Religion for the Retarded, the pathetic Orson Welles Frozen Peas commercial, and a positively terrifying recording of Louis Farrakhan singing a calypso song about a transsexual.
to Art by isosceles
Saturday
Jun 7, 2003
Manhole covers may not be exciting but they are often artistic both artistic inspiration and sometimes, art themselves. See covers from Manhattan, the United States, Russia, Hungary, London, Norway, Japan, and France.
to Art by joshua
Sunday
Jun 1, 2003
Arthur Ganson makes fascinatingly delicate and elegant mechanical sculptures and machines. Some will take thousands of years to complete their tasks and some are astoundingly ephemeral. You can see his work at the MIT Museum and see his creations in action.
to Art by joshua
Tuesday
May 20, 2003
Everybody likes fine art, riddles, and free stuff, but how often do you get all of them in one package? By the way, the horse is smiling because he is made of meat.
to Art by riffraff
Sunday
May 18, 2003
One of the most fascinating and unique pieces of horticultural and printing history are framed seed packets, which were printed nearly a century ago by manual-labor-intensive 1910-era methods that would boggle the imagination of those of us familiar with the modern-day 4-color printing process.
to Art by pjammer
Tuesday
May 13, 2003
Pixel Creation has a small but beautiful collection of Chinese advertising art from the 1920's and 1930's.
to Art by riotnrrd
Thursday
May 8, 2003
Art meets poker at the next Green Room Gallery exhibition: Muck on the Bottom. A Texas Hold'em tournament will be conducted at the gallery using a deck of cards designed by 14 artists. Check out the twos, fours, aces, and my favorite, the satanically rockin' six-six-sixes.
to Art by fatherdan
Tuesday
Apr 29, 2003
Hoaxes aside, there are animals who paint. For a couple hundred, you could own a masterpiece by Koko the gorilla or exuberant abstracts by Asian elephants.
to Art by sylvar
Friday
Apr 18, 2003
If you missed this year's art car parades in Texas, you can still see the Weapon of Mass Instruction, and visit old favorites in the Art Car Museum, and at this art industry website.
to Art by pyrrhuloxia
Wednesday
Apr 16, 2003
Imagenetion has an enormous collection of scanned pinups, cheesecake art, and fantasy art. Including some very, very odd peices of fan art.
to Art by riotnrrd
Tuesday
Apr 8, 2003
The Art-o-mat project is making use of banned technology in a good cause.
to Art by fringehead
Monday
Apr 7, 2003
You may look like an idiot doing it, but GPS Drawing may be just the creative outlet you're looking for.
to Art by mrnonrespondo
Friday
Apr 4, 2003
Time now has a complete archive of their covers online, from first to last. Popular searches include historical figures, popular icons, and controversial topics, but since it's online, we know what people will really be looking for.
to Art by yoyology
Tuesday
Apr 1, 2003
Icontown inhabitants who wish to move up to a high rise would do well to consider Mr. Wong's Soup'partments.
to Art by buttercup
Are the wild animals around where you live not picking up the slack? Why not give them a new job?
to Art by fotbon
Jackson Pollock is turning in his grave right now. But is it art? (not worksafe)
to Art by isosceles
Friday
Mar 14, 2003
PDAs may be good for keeping appointments and organizing your address book, but are they good for making art?
to Art by riotnrrd
Tuesday
Mar 11, 2003
What with all the Jesuses, Elvii, and huge-eyed sad children, velvet paintings have a bad reputation for tackiness and tawdriness. Well, Voodoo Velvet intends to change all that. I think they may succeed.
to Art by riffraff
Thursday
Feb 27, 2003
Metalwork doesn't have to be explicitly decorative to be beautiful. Consider, for example, stove burners and drain covers.
to Art by gator
Pleix contains some extraordinarily interesting and somewhat disturbing video art. Highlights include a satirical video for Plaid's track "Itsu" and parody commercials of a beauty kit for little girls.
to Art by fool
Wednesday
Feb 19, 2003
During his career as an artist, Donald Evans created hundreds of hand-painted postage stamps for imaginary countries. The influence of his works can clearly been seen in the painted and collage-work envelopes and stamps from the Griffin and Sabine books, or the haunting surrealism of the Codex Seraphinianus.
to Art by riotnrrd
Thursday
Feb 13, 2003
Simply start with a pencil, and remove all that is not a chain, spirit, or geometric figure
to Art by gator
Thursday
Feb 6, 2003
The Remedi Project is a twelve-issue interactive art project that may trigger hours of web-surfing, productive or otherwise.
to Art by pyrrhuloxia
Wednesday
Jan 1, 2003
Why bother with sculpting bonsai trees when you can quickly do the same ("Zen - Without the wait!") with a potato? They range from the sublime to the extravagant. It's the taking the world by storm.
to Art by crikey
Thursday
Dec 26, 2002
Hugh MacLeod draws cartoons drawn on the back of business cards. "With life in New York being what it is, with each person being hit with a million strange, random moments a day, there's a lot to be said for being able to fit your entire studio inside your coat pocket."
to Art by joshua
Wednesday
Nov 27, 2002
What is the meaning of the mysterious giant letters on the sides of mountains and hills?
to Art by joshua
Tuesday
Nov 26, 2002
Show Me Your Wound is a twisted little commmunity dedicated to sharing and discussing stories and images of scrapes, cuts, burns and worse.
to Art by joshua
Monday
Nov 25, 2002
Guilloche patterns are the intricate sinusoidal forms created by a Rose Machine and are found in ornamental metal such as watches and are frequently used as anti-counterfeiting security devices in money and other financial paperwork .
to Art by joshua
Thursday
Nov 21, 2002
Who would have thought that your paint-by-number that you toiled over as an 8 year old would be of any value to anyone other than your mom? From nudes to portraits of Jesus, paint-by-numbers are taking America by storm... again! But wait, there's more, now you can even have your very own customized picture to paint!
to Art by mrnonrespondo
Thursday
Nov 7, 2002
Upload a photograph to LEGO and they will sell you only the parts you need to construct a mosaic. This can be taken to extremes.
to Art by urog
Tuesday
Oct 29, 2002
Witness the intriguing interactive art of Project Euh. In particular, the collaborative "scribble board" and the strangely symmetric graphical poll.
to Art by geofforama
Scientists are pretty sure men cannot actually lactate, but that doesn't stop some from trying.
to Art by joshua
Monday
Oct 28, 2002
Someone put a lot of effort into their haunted dollhouse. Especially impressive is the miniature jack-o-lantern complete with pumpkin snot and the tiny party snacks.
to Art by lucky
Tuesday
Oct 22, 2002
Everything nowadays is self-referential art, even auctions.
to Art by fringehead
Friday
Oct 18, 2002
Tove Jansson, author of the popular "moomintroll" children's books, once illustrated a Swedish version of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit."
to Art by riotnrrd
In the deep of summer, 200 sign painters invade Mars, PA.
to Art by goboro
Thursday
Oct 17, 2002
When art is outlawed, only outlaws will create art.
to Art by fatherdan
Friday
Oct 11, 2002
It's a fusebox that pushes things down staircases and removes stubborn stains and other surreal inventions of the Prior-Art-O-Matic.
to Art by fool
Thursday
Oct 10, 2002
"Driven by a dream I had at the age of twenty-three during my junior year at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas, I began to draw pigs with wings. I drew pigs with wings over and over until, during my senior year, I realized it might be possible to actually create a real winged pig by employing tattoos."
to Art by joshua
Friday
Oct 4, 2002
Sploshing, a rather British phenomenon, is best described as the food fight as foreplay. Like all fetishes, sploshing yields mixed results - while some find it incredibly arousing, others are just left feeling cold and wet.
to Art by lux
Thursday
Oct 3, 2002
René Magritte showed that through the juxtapositon of common objects in unexpected yet ordinary settings, the normal becomes surreal. This is called magic realism. So, therefore, have magic realists designed the new state quarters?
to Art by fatherdan
Typophile's Smaller Picture is an attempt to collectively design a typeface.
to Art by joshua
Tuesday
Oct 1, 2002
Laurie Hogin is a very interesting artist. A fan of 17th Century Flemish painting styles, she applies them to a wide variety of otherwise mundane and cuddly animal subjects. Except, terrifyingly, sometimes said subjects are neither mundane nor cuddly.
to Art by isosceles
Sunday
Sep 22, 2002
Banksy's stencil art has been causing panic on the streets of London, or at least wonder about who's behind the slippery samizdat.
to Art by fool
Thursday
Sep 19, 2002
Holy #%£*!!! You think you have the @#*! to be a master obscenity-generator like Pete and Ray or Red of the Tube Bar? Lucky Pierre needs your most finely woven obscenities for their Swear Line Project. So, what the #@&Ø is your #&@-ing problem you, @#%? Do you need #@$%!-ing inspiration?
to Art by fatherdan
Thursday
Aug 22, 2002
Ah... so many tampons, so many different uses. From aquariums to bondage and counseling, Tamponart is the solution for all your needs!
to Art by leptirica
Friday
Aug 16, 2002
Origami: animal, vegetable, mineral.
to Art by goboro
Wednesday
Jul 24, 2002
In the unlikely surroundings of Death Valley, California, an opera house has been running for more than 30 years. Owner Marta Becket and her work are the subject of a documentary film now as well.
to Art by fringehead
Saturday
Jul 13, 2002
On November 16, 1974, a self-decoding message was sent from Arecibo Observatory towards the M13 globular cluster.
On August 21, 2001, their response arrived.
to
Art by joshua
Thursday
Jul 11, 2002
You haven't lived until you've seen Cobra: The Musical.
to Art by isosceles
Friday
Jun 28, 2002
The secret lives of numbers: "an exhaustive empirical study to determine the relative popularity of every integer between zero and one million."
to Art by fool
Friday
Jun 21, 2002
When building with Legos, it is good to have plans and pieces, but what you really need is an idea with a bang.
to Art by mercaptan
Wednesday
Jun 5, 2002
Real-life Miltons of the world have expressed such demand for red Swingline staplers that a second-hand market in painted units boomed on eBay until Swingline introduced their own.
to Art by joshua
From the rather mundane to verging on art: scientific glass.
to Art by goboro
Friday
May 31, 2002
Women have been getting (and giving) tattoos in America (and Europe) for longer than you might think.
to Art by bruce
Thursday
May 23, 2002
No program conveys more geek cred than the screen saver.
to Art by joshua
Wednesday
May 22, 2002
Before digital video effects, there were analog video synthesizers. One of these, the Scanimate, still has afficonados today.
to Art by gator
Tuesday
May 14, 2002
Beefcake, beefcake,