a curious, but beautiful oddity

bridgemcgidge:

Artist: Lora Zombie

aspiringauteur:

Non-sign II is an installation by Seattle based art collective Lead Pencil Studio located at the Canada-US border near Vancouver. The sculpture is made from small stainless steel rods that are assembled together to create the negative space of a billboard. While most billboards draw attention away from the landscape, Non-sign II frames the landscape, focusing attention back on it.

art appreciation blog today. this is so incredible. i want to visit it. 

Jocelyne Grivaud changes the way we see Barbie by incorporating her into various famous works of art

(Source: dashperiod)

nameless-liberty:

Smoking Children by Frieke Janssens.

“A YouTube video of a chainsmoking Indonesian toddler inspired me to create this series, “Smoking Kids”. The video highlighted the cultural differences between the east and west, and questioned notions of smoking being a mainly adult activity. Adult smokers are the societal norm, so I wanted to isolate the viewer’s focus upon the issue of smoking itself. I felt that children smoking would have a surreal impact upon the viewer and compel them to truly see the acts of smoking rather than making assumptions about the person doing the act. ”

There were no real cigarettes on set. Instead, chalk and sticks of cheese were uses as props, while candles and incense provided the smoke.

You can see the making of video here and see more pictures of this project at the artist’s website here.

this always is such a mindfuck to me, yet i don’t necessarily find it persuasive [changing my relationship with the act of smoking] as much as i find it affecting [prompting emotional thought on the issue]. 

(Source: sharekoube)

many of this artist’s scenes remind of of Barbara Helen Burger’s Gwinna, a book that I was so fortunate to have read a million times as a kid. i think i’ll email their deviant account and ask if they loved that book too, or if their ideas are just similar. 

brain-food:

Newspaper Blackout Poem Horoscopes for November 2011 by Austin Kleon

These are the only horoscopes I look for every month. 

Mine: “on occasion- be dragged into it”

blaaargh:

from georgechamoun:
“This is what I’ve been working on for the last three weeks. It’s the result of a workshop in Fine Arts with the theme “icons” (computer icons/celebrities/fashion icons/religious icons, etc).

“I chose to work with movie icons from two different eras. This project has been a lot about ideals, patterns and anatomy. I named the project Iconatomy from the words “icon” and “anatomy.”

“I have worked with a collage technique, but in a computer, which for me is a first. I am really pleased with the end product and I want to develop this concept further.”

This is incredible. It took me multiple doubletakes to see both celebrities involved in each image. A very poignant concept taken to fruition brilliantly.