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.

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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…

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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.

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Have a Merry Christmas and a big 2008!

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I love this site: FFFFOUND! I am a fan almost since the beginning, and someone was gentle enough to give me an invitation last week. A perfect place to get inspiration and works with a simple bookmarklet added to your browser toolbar, then pick up your found images on the websites that are pleasing you. (only works with html sites - no flash embed images). Simple. I just wish I had some invitations, but unfortunately I don’t have any left to give away.

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Santa’s Ghetto - 2007

Bethlehem is one of the most contentious places on earth.

Perched at the edge of the Judaen desert at the intersection of Europe, Asia and Africa in the state of Palestine it was governed by the British following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. After World War II the United Nations voted to partition the region into two states - one Jewish, one Arab and there’s been fighting ever since.

It’s obviously not the job of a loose collection of idiot doodlers to tell you what’s right or wrong about this situation, so you’re advised to do further reading yourself (this month’s National Geographic has an excellent article all about Bethlehem).

We would like to make it very clear Santa’s Ghetto is not allied to ANY race, creed, religion, political organization or lobby group. As an organisation the only thing we’ll say on behalf of our artists is that we don’t speak on behalf of our artists. This show simply offers the ink-stained hand of friendship to ordinary people in an extraordinary situation.

Every shekel made in the store will be used on local projects for children and young people. Not one cent will go to any political groups, governmental institutions or, in fact, any grown-ups at all.
Salaam.

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This wall marks the spot where over 40 people were killed during the first Intafada (the little holes along the top are from bullets).
While Banksy was painting it a lot of people came over, some to shake his hand and others telling him to go away. Eventually the local MP was called out to diffuse the eighty-strong crowd that had built up (by which time Banksy had left and the piece was completed by the local kids).

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Business Cards, the Calling Card … with their everyday and ephemeral nature but also as a keepsake - a token of remembrance, this intrigues me…

I admire the card as a medium for artistic expression and communication. Marveling at the typically tiny size but also the concept, story, meanings and design subtleties. Then I am absolutely captivated by the endless possibility for expressing an individual, a philosophy, an aesthetic or concept through the design with type, copy, materials and processes…

I am excited to share my collection with you in hopes of sparking your curiosity and appreciation and connecting you with the potential … if nothing else, I hope you become inspired…

Please note that the copyright of each card is held by the individual designer and or client…

What matters most is, beauty or design that has depth, meaning and power – the kind that transforms … and then to share all that with the all of you…

I hope you enjoy!

More details and info at dailypoetics.com

Ellen Jackson

design by www.funnel.tv eric kass
Ellen Jackson by dailypoetics on Flickr.

24 FPS set Stills from movies, most of them with “the end” titles.

by fliegender on Flickr.

Harlan Ellison — Pay the Writer Listen to this. Would you go to a gas station as ask for free gas?

Vintage Vegas

 Artist rendering,,,The Mint

Martin Stern renders The Mint on fremont street ,,Vegas
Artist rendering,,,The Mint by Vintage Vegas on Flickr.

An awesome collection of Graphis spreads. Entire set here.Via SwissMiss.

Graphis 121 –– 1965

Graphis 121 –– 1965 by insect54 on Flickr.

Bobby Neel Adams paired photos of the same person, creating an intriguing and captivating image, from the assembled childhood + present. Also browse through his other works. Stunning.
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ReubenMiller : Designer Packing Tape Review (over 20 designs).
I found this one via Core77 and it’s all related to our own fitacola (means ‘adhesive tape’), where a good collection of tape designs and the respective designers are showcased. I want some!!!

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Strictly No Photography is a photo-sharing site for photographs taken where you are not allowed to take them. From the inside of the Kremlin to Kensington palace, from art galleries to war zones. Here you can see everything you’ve ever wanted to see that you’re not supposed to. There are pictures that range from the ordinary to the profound. Whatever the content or the quality though we think that each one stands as a little piece of art in itself, as a little expression of personal liberty.

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adhesive tape (Fita-cola) by Ana Ventura.

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Each roll (printed in PVC 5 cm = 1,96 inches - height) have 66 m = 72,20 yd.
Pattern repeats every 20 cm = 7,87 inches.

for more information please send me an email to: anaventura@clix.pt (let the subject be tape)

Thanks

sticky tape by ana ventura on Flickr.

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A few weeks ago, I was surprised while visiting my local news stand, to look at the price of a PRINT MAG, it was about 40€!! no lie! No I wonder where retailers and distributors get such percentage.
Today I was reading the regular newsletter from amazon, they are now offering a 6 issue subscription for only $37. I can save ± 80% if ordering through amazon. This is not easy advertising, a serious recommendation! Click the image to access the promotion (time limited).

Via Its nice that

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matchbox5.jpg by COOP666 on Flickr.

…You all know what DADA is…

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The Dada movement was a protest against the barbarism of World War I, the bourgeois interests that Dada adherents believed inspired the war, and what they believed was an oppressive intellectual rigidity in both art and everyday society. Dada was an international movement, and it is difficult to classify artists as being from any one particular country, as they were constantly moving from one place to another.

Dada thought that reason and logic had led people into the horrors of war, so the only route to salvation was to reject logic and embrace anarchy and irrationality. However, this could also be thought of as the logical side of anarchy and rejection of values and order; it is not irrational to embrace the systematic destruction of values, if one thinks them to be flawed.

According to its proponents, Dada was not art - it was “anti-art”. It was anti-art in the sense that Dadaists protested against the contemporary academic and cultured values of art. For everything that art stood for, Dada was to represent the opposite. Where art was concerned with aesthetics, Dada ignored aesthetics. If art were to have at least an implicit or latent message, Dada strove to have no meaning - interpretation of Dada is dependent entirely on the viewer. If art is to appeal to sensibilities, Dada is to offend. Ironically, Dada became an influential movement in modern art, a commentary on order and the carnage Dadaists believed it wreaked. Through their rejection of traditional culture and aesthetics they hoped to destroy them.

A reviewer from the American Art News stated at the time that “The Dada philosophy is the sickest, most paralyzing and most destructive thing that has ever originated from the brain of man.” Art historians have described Dada as being, in large part, “in reaction to what many of these artists saw as nothing more than an insane spectacle of collective homicide.”

Years later, Dada artists described the movement as “a phenomenon bursting forth in the midst of the postwar economic and moral crisis, a savior, a monster, which would lay waste to everything in its path. It was a systematic work of destruction and demoralization…In the end it became nothing but an act of sacrilege.”

While broad, the movement was unstable. By 1924 in Paris, Dada was melding into surrealism, and artists had gone on to other ideas and movements, including surrealism, social realism and other forms of modernism. Some theorists argue that Dada was actually the beginning of postmodern art.

By the dawn of World War II, many of the European Dadaists had fled or emigrated to the United States. Some died in death camps under Hitler, who persecuted the kind of “Degenerate art” that Dada represented. The movement became less active as post-World War II optimism led to new movements in art and literature.

Dada is a named influence and reference of various anti-art and political and cultural movements including the Lettrists and the Situationists.

Some cute and weird interesting robots by Lockwasher

steer skull

I created this from an all aluminum vintage tricycle seat, pair of Harley brake/clutch levers, typewriter parts and a couple of clock gears.
steer skull by Lockwasher on Flickr.

Glitch Browser
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The glitch browser represents a deliberate attempt to subvert theusual course of conformity and signal perfection. Information packetswhich are communicated with integrity are intentionally lost intransit or otherwise misplaced and rearranged. The consequences ofsuch subversion are seen in the surprisingly beautiful readymadevisual glitches provoked by the glitch browser and displayed throughour forgiving and unsuspecting web browsers.

This work was produced for New Langton Arts Packets programme,by Dimitre Lima, Tony Scott and Iman Moradi.

Some new works on My FOLIO VISIT KODAP.COM

Esquecer, Não esquecer

Memo board. 47cm X 37 cm - 16 hrs of work here… erhg..
Esquecer, Não esquecer by kdoap on Flickr.

Amy Jo - Custom screen printed posters and graphic design.

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