What better way to end the day and start the night than with The Simpsons? This intro was storyboarded and directed by famed British street artist Banksy.
Via: Boing,Boing
Friday, October 15, 2010
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Eclectix Artist Interview: Michelle Waters
A new interview with fantastic local artist, Michelle Waters...
Can you tell us where you were born and a little history about your childhood?
Born and raised into an artistic family in the San Fernando Valley. I was always restless there and knew that I’d leave when I got old enough because we’d go on vacations to beautiful places where there was more nature. My grandparents where social justice activists, also my grandfather was a painter... to read more go here.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Just In Time For The Day of the Dead, John De Jesus
Artist and sculptor John De Jesus just sent us his gorgeous hand painted skelly carvings. They are great gurl skeletons, from many different walks of life, one for everygurl! Deeply carved reliefs, out of wood, hand painted, recessed into the niche altar style of classic El Dia de la Muerte retablos. A great, hip gift for that special someone in your life.
(My personal fave is the rocker chick Wanda, above...)
Who doesn't need some fantastic sculpture to liven up
that Day of the Dead decor?
For all the relief images and info on prices, go to the Available Art section of the Eclectix site, here.
Ben Heine: Puttin' Pencil To Photo and Back Again...
Artist Ben Heine came up with a very fun and creative way to marry art and photography, superimposing a pencil sketch of an area in front of it and then snapping the foto. His series is titled "Pencil Vs. Camera" and he has a lot more entertaining images here.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
New Ryden Art: "Awakening The Moon"
A new Mark Ryden painting to start your evening off right.
“Awakening the Moon” will be at the Frieze Art Fair in London, Oct 14th through Oct 17th, in the Paul Kasmin Gallery booth. Glad to see Mark back into his luscious iconography, a beautifully composed and peaceful piece.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Saturday, October 9, 2010
26 Johns for John's 70th, A Birthday Portrait Gallery
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| John by Patricia Mitchell |
Today, would have been, could have been and should have been Lennon's 70th birthday. Everyone's been talking it up and doing special bits here and there. I thought it might be nice to find all the groovy artworks out there and stash them all on one page. Once started, I was floored to see how many really
fantastic "Johns" there were out there.
John would have liked them all.
Hope you do too.
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| Lennon by Don Coker |
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| Lennon, roach paper collage by Cliff Maynard |
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| John Lennon by Leonid Afremov |
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| Lennon by Kludoman |
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| Lennon by Andy V. Parry |
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| Lennon by Jeff Clark |
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| Lennon by Bob Harper |
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| Lennon by Debra Hurd |
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| Lennon by Joachim Rick |
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| Lennon by Joe Hendry |
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| Lennon by Paul Leli |
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| John Lennon by Sandy Schimmel |
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| Lennon by Todd Back |
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| Lennon by Vijay |
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| John Lennon by Braldt Braids |
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| Lennon by Andy Warhol |
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| Lennon by Richard Avedon |
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| Instant Karma by Alice McMahon White |
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| John Lennon, paper mache by Carlos Lorenzo |
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| Lennon by Lennon? (not sure, unknown) |
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| Lennon, tape cassette art by Erika Iris Simmons |
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| Lennon by Jeremy Johnson |
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| John by Dan Martin |
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| Lennon by Aaron Johnson |
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| John, sculpted phone book by Alex Queral |
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| A Study of John at 70 by Patricia Mitchell Happy Birthday, John! |
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Yarn Art Attacks in the Bay Area
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| Yarn Attack, downtown Berkeley |
While driving around Berkeley, Albany and Oakland lately, I noticed many stop sign poles and other public sign posts were recently adorned in cute little sweaters. Custom knit to fit the poles, they are colorful and strange oddities. Found a little note on one crediting "Streetcolor" , an anonymous knitter who documents his or her work on the Streecolor blog. A little web research reveals these yarn attacks are known as yarn bombing...
From Wikipedia - Yarn bombing, yarnbombing, graffiti knitting or yarnstorming is a type of graffiti or street art that employs colorful displays of knitted or crocheted cloth rather than paint or chalk. While yarn installations – called yarn bombs or knit bombs – may last for years, they are considered non-permanent, and, unlike graffiti, can be easily removed if necessary. The practice is believed to have originated in the U.S. with Texas knitters trying to find a creative way to use their leftover and unfinished knitting projects, but it has since spread worldwide.
There is a wealth of weird yarn bombing pix here at Yarn bombing. It has become a worldwide movement that aims to “improve the urban landscape one stitch at at time”.
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| Albany yarn bombing |
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