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Animal Rummy: Rob Jones Posters - Austin, TX…. Makes some ’super duper’ posters!

Natalie Ascencios

Received her BA and BFA at the New School for Social Research at Eugene Lang College and Parsons School of Design NY/Paris.

Works first appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Review of Books, Rolling Stone, Time, as well as other publications. Ms. Ascencios’ paintings can also be seen in the various competitive annuals of the Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, Communication Arts and the Print Annuals.

The Society of Illustrators has awarded her one gold medal and two silver medals. She also received first place in puppetry in the Henson design competition. Interviews with the artist appear in the Pro-Illustration Vol. II, 1999 January/February Print magazine and in the January 1999 Communication Arts.

She has taught drawing and painting at the School of Visual Arts at the graduate and undergraduate schools and has given talks on painting at Parsons School of Design, Maryland School of Art and various other institutions throughout the country. Ms. Ascencios has lived in New York for fourteen years and currently keeps a studio in Brooklyn.

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Understanding art for geeks is a continuous collection by Paul The Wine Guy, a webdeveloper from Italy, explaining and illustrating works of art with geek terms and current internet trends… Funny stuff…

Read more at the Underwire

EDIT: Deleted… :(

I’ve decided to delete the “Understanding art for geeks” set from both Flickr and my blog.I started it all just for fun, with a genuine enthusiasm: I enjoyed a lot mocking pieces of art that I like, just to show the funny side of it all - or at least what was funny to me. It was personal, and it made me feel fine.

Then something happened, and online media “discovered” it all: I can’t possibly mention all the blogs and sites that posted about it, as there’s loads of them. Add to that Corriere della Sera (a national Italian newspaper) nicking the flickr set without linking back to it, and all the bloggers backing me with their solidarity. Corriere della Sera really made me angry for about a few minutes, then I thought Leonardo da Vinci or Paolo Uccello would’ve been mad at *me*, too.

So I took all the images off because I reckon I’ve made a mistake, i.e. modifying pieces of art with no right whatsoever of doing so.

I acted in good faith, of course. Personal enjoyment, sure. Arbitrarily putting my “licence” on it all. But since it all became common knowledge, and since I’m no Duchamp - he would’ve said any art manipulation is art itself - well, I’d rather delete everything as now it only feels like a big, huge mistake to me.

Even though they’re my own creation, even if images have been “manipulated” enough (for whatever that means), I don’t find it funny anymore.

I apologise to you all for deleting it all, but please don’t make it bigger than what it actually was: a bunch of ‘shopped images.

Covers of Life Magazine at Life.com from 1950 to 2007.

This was in due to be posted last week, but I just forgot to unwrap it from my drafts, so for those who missed the happening held in Rome, by Mad-hatter artist Graziano Cecchini who has struck again. He released 500,000 brightly colored plastic balls Wednesday from the top of the Spanish Steps in Rome.

The balls, similar to the ones you can jump into at a Chuck E. Cheese pizza parlor, “represented a lie told by a politician,” Cecchini told the Italian press.

The stunt cost Cecchini close to $30,000. Excited tourists grabbed the balls as artistic mementos, while Italian police proceeded to arrest Cecchini. Look for overpriced plastic balls on eBay.

He was the same public-art prankster who filled the Trevi Fountain in Rome with blood-red dye last October.

Koen Demuynck. Amazing photography. Add image retouching and a good concept and you get speechless results like this!!

Dear friends and visitors, sorry for the shameless self post, but I’m kinda stuck with nothing to do but silly drawings and browsing around on the web… and I’m looking for freelance visual work for advertising, editorial, products fashion… and I can also sell you some nice drawings and collages! How about some webdesign or graphic design? Please let me know if you need any services estimate or artworks. Email carlos()kodap.com, Thanks!

Kent Rogowski Works.

Also check these puzzles:

Sven Brasch - danish poster designer - 1886-1970

SVEN BRASCH was born in 1886 in Sealand, Denmark, the son of a master house-painter. After finishing school, he worked in his father’s firm, and at the age of 21 he had his first drawings published in various small magazines. By 1910-1912 he had become a wellknown designer of posters and drawings in the Danish magazine world. During World War I, he produced his first movie posters. Througout the 1920’s he made himself a name as a dandy, a handsome and elegant artist in Copenhagen’s high society. In his most productive period he made a poster a week, besides many commercial drawings. At the Paris exhibition in 1925, he was awarded a gold medal for his brillant posters. In the well known year book “Posters and Publicity” the author Sidney R. Jones wrote in 1926: “…The Danish designer, Sven Brasch, is producing some of the most distinguished posters of to-day…”. In the 1930’s a new generation of artists began to appear, and by the time World War II broke out, Brasch had almost no work to do. His last commercial drawings were presented in 1956, after which there was silence about his name. He died in 1970 84 years old, in Glostrup near Copenhagen - almost forgotten…..

Good to know that Wallpaper Mag is spotlighting The good’ old Portuguese traditional products (in this case beauty products). These are becoming very “Fashionable” today and seen in the selective shops all around the world, something I wouldn’t imagine of when I first met Catarina Portas, who’s been collecting and re-collecting these forgotten and almost dead products that are part of our parents and grand-parents generation, under the name of Uma Casa Portuguesa. Beautiful Packaging. // (Retro passion aside) :)

The New York City Waterfalls
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, (…) and Public Art
Fund President have announced today that a major new work of temporary public
art by internationally acclaimed artist Olafur Eliasson, The New York City Waterfalls, will be on
display in New York City from mid-July to mid-October 2008.

Brooklyn Bridge Waterfall by Olafur Eliasson

Michel Gondry is now on the homepage of YouTube selecting the featured videos during Sundance Film Festival.

Via Drawn:

Director/animator Michel Gondry is curating the featured videos on YouTube’s home page during the Sundance film festival, where his Be Kind Rewind is premiering. The collection of videos feature the types of creative imagery that you’d expect from a Gondry playlist, including a fair share of stop motion and pixilation, as well as this demonstration of some MIT technology that allows computers to understand simple drawing and mechanics.

Eduard Bezembinder has some nice collages and a great collection of ‘illustrated links’ in his weblog: weblog.bezembinder.nl.

We were featured (under my account) at BEHANCE NETWORK. A great feeling to be side-by-side with the best professionals! Thanks Scott!

flickr.com/commons

Back in June of 2007, we began our first collaboration with a civic institution to facilitate giving people a voice in describing the content of a publicly-held photography collection.

The key goals of this pilot project are to firstly give you a taste of the hidden treasures in the huge Library of Congress collection, and secondly to how your input of a tag or two can make the collection even richer.

The following photos are from 1930s-40s in Color Set You can find aprox. more 171.000 photos in LOC’s collection.

Via Techcrunch.

Aesthetic Apparatus profiled at YouWorkForThem. Great quality posters and prints. Adding more value to the music industry since 1999.

Faces in Places: a growing collection of … well … faces in places!

5.5 Designers
These images were sent by a friend via email, and I managed to look for the designer(s) before publishing. I think I found most of the products creators (above link). I haven’t confirmed every image, please let me know if there are other amazing creations in the bellow images by other designers and refer the respective website… (click the smaller images to enlarge).

COREY ARNOLD PHOTOGRAPHY
Some cover the amazing Bering Sea Crabbing, as seen in Discovery Channel. Also don’t miss the other great photo sets.

Right Brain vs Left Brain Creativity Test at The Art Institute of Vancouver

Being creative or artistic doesn’t mean you know how to draw or play an instrument. Being creative is a way of thinking, a way of viewing the world.

Creative people use the RIGHT side of their brains more than the LEFT. Take the test and find out if your brain is RIGHT for a creative career.

Square America: America’s Lifestyle seen through Snapshots & Vernacular Photography. Ridiculously fun and random!

A QBN TOPIC for this cool “What band are you?” get your own Artist name / Album name / Album cover.

1. THE NAME OF YOUR BAND: first article title on the Wikipedia Random Articles page.
2. YOUR ALBUM TITLE: The last 4 words of the very last quotation on the Random Quotations.
3. YOUR ALBUM ART: The third picture in Flickr’s Interesting Photos From The Last 7 Days
4. Use your graphics program of choice to throw them together, and post the result.

Here’s mine: first random results are much funnier and unpredictable, instead of picking up the best random!

Yadogg » Vinyl Sleeve Heads. Interesting and funny collection of shots where people use sleeves at the same angle of their heads… and other body positions…

GoGoods.com 1932 Flamed Roadster Pedal Car

I’m gonna get this for my kid!

The quintessential American Hot Rod, the ‘32 Ford Roadster, capturing the excitement of this history-making car in our line of ride-on toys. Designed by Warehouse 36, the ‘32 Ford Roadster line is a completely new pedal car recreating the distinctive lines of the famous “Deuce Coupe.” Officially licensed by Ford Motor Company, our ‘32 Ford Roadsters feature chrome “Ford” hubcaps, detailed ‘32 grille, working trunk, custom graphics and real hood louvers. These cars are sure to thrill children and collectors alike.