A New Eclectix Interview With Isabel Samaras

"It all kinda whirls together - old movies, a pretty broad spectrum of art, music music music, all the sci-fi books I tore through as a kid, Ultraman and all kinds of Kaiju, fairy tales and fables, the absurdist humor of Monty Python, monsters of every ilk, and very most especially all the many permutations of love: unrequited, blazing out of control, thwarted, tender, forbidden, maternal, and inter-species. Often a painting will..." 

For a little life story, artist tricks and some gospel according to Isabel -

Direct link to interview page

Amazing Video of Morphing Masterpieces

Stumbled on this really wonderful video of paintings of women - all morphing together into each other. Someone really took some time to do this, they did a beautiful job and it works really well.


Sit back at least a few feet from your screen when you watch it, helps with the overall progressions. Grab a drink, kick back for a few minutes and enjoy. 
Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcmQpROaUEo

Eric Joyner Interview

Just got an interview in my email with our fave local boy, artist Eric Joyner. 
Written by the art bloggers, Chippy Coates and Richard Scarry
For a peek at it go here

The Rare Phone Booth, Embellished

Walking around Berkeley the other day and spotted this phone booth. Got me to thinking how rare they are nowadays and also to wonder how long before they are all gone? Gone the way of the typewriter and their lovely clacking noises, ditto machines and the cool smell the purple memos made, flashbulbs in their funky cube shapes...  Mailboxes also seem to be disappearing, there used to be one at every major corner or shopping spot and now you have to hunt for them. Newspapers are also biting the dust, the empty racks at the Bart stations are kinda depressing. 
This phone booth had been decorated by some artist and I thought it looked so cool. Some untalented tagger came along and did a little damage but it still looks fun and poppy. The stickers and ads on the phone itself were a fun juxtaposition as well.

New Piece by Janna Stern

Just got an invite for an upcoming show by artist Janna Stern. The new artwork on it (above) was moodily riveting. Worthy of a post.

Janna's Site

Eclectix Artist Interview: Robert Steven Connett

Like this? Of course you do! Click here to see more of Robert's incredible works and read the newbrow lowdown with him.

Lady Gaga- Made Out of BBs, Believe It or Not!

Ripley’s Believe It or Not! has acquired a portrait of Lady Gaga made out of 61,509 Airsoft BBs, the plastic balls used in a popular type of BB gun. 
“The artwork was created by Gainesville, Florida artist John O’Hearn, who is primarily a sculptor, but has spent the last few years experimenting with Airsoft BB’s as a medium,” the release explains. “The BB’s act as pixels in the mosaics he creates. O’Hearn says he can recreate any picture or portrait from just 5 colors of BB’s — red, yellow, blue, black and white. This project took about a month to finish.”


- Via Popwatch

Dean Fleming's Mouth Watering Wanderlust

Dean Fleming's newest piece is just so friggin' gorgeous, I couldn't wait to share it in a future Eclectix issue. So here she is, today, in all her glory, "Wanderlust".

Past posts: Interview with Dean - LINK