No trip to a new country would be complete without experiencing the culture that makes it unique. Indulging in the local food, attending festivals and visiting museums is easy but getting to know the language is a great way to take your understanding and appreciation to a whole new level. Hotel Club asked Australian illustrator and animator Jared Atkins to depict some typical as well as some of the more quirky Australian sayings you might come across on your next trip — via Hotel Club
The general election will soon be upon us so we thought we’d upload a new poster every day during the week’s run up.
All the posters are from the 1970s Watch Out! There’s a Politician About
campaign.
Just before the Scarfolk election of 1975 the ruling party was keen to permanently eradicate all political opposition and set out to smear what it called a hazardous surplus of politicians and others suffering from civic delusional disorders
. The incumbent’s aim was to bring about a state of emergency that would permit a legal postponement of the election, a postponement that could, in theory, become indefinite.
The smear campaigns knew no bounds as one politician after another was exposed for corruption, sexual and moral improprieties, and poor table manners. The media was awash with reports that many election candidates were telepathically controlled by immigrants, who, it was alleged, were all born of the same non-human mother and functioned as a hive mind.
As the campaign gathered pace, there were even false flag
acts of terror. For example, when a bomb destroyed the headquarters of the National Health Service in May 1975, it was blamed on exploding lice carried by the children of liberal and intellectual parents, and in the same month a plot was uncovered to shackle the UK to mainland Europe with billions of tonnes of string below the waves of the English channel.
Use your vote wisely. Alternatively, vote for one of the parties currently on offer — via Scarfolk Council
Don’t go looking for The Twilight Zone limited edition prints by Shag at his own online store. The only place to get any variation is at theDark Hall Mansion website.
The hugely popular artist is the the first guest
to take on the challenge of the iconic TV show as part of a new and ongoing series of prints. There is, of course, a richly coloured edition of the artwork, but not only that — you can also get a black and white homage to the show as well as an extremely select, signed, foil edition
of just 15.
All the prints are signed and numbered by Shag and measure 22 x 39 inches, with the standard in a run of 150, the variant in a run of 50. The standard will sell for $325, the variant for $450 ad the foil edition will cost you $575 — via Retro To Go
shubbabang — via thefrogman
The Lockheed Lounge by Australian designer Marc Newson has retained its title as the world’s most expensive design object, after selling for more than £2 million.
Newson’s riveted aluminium and fiberglass chaise longue fetched £2,434,500 during a sale at auction house Phillips in London last night.
This surpasses the £1.4 million raised by a prototype of the design when sold by the same auctioneers in 2010, when it first became the most expensive object sold by a living designer.
We are proud to have set, yet again, the auction record for Marc Newson, one of the most influential designers of the last quarter century,
said Alexander Payne, worldwide head of design at Phillips — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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— via Society6
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Octopus Spotted — via Quantum Creative Glass
I belong to a top secret organisation called Shut Your Damn Pie Hole — via thepigeongazette
By Mel Gillman [tumblr| website | twitter] — via Pigeon Bits
Public Art originally uploaded by Red Wolf
At the SAMO space for contemporary art in Italy, the inventive art collective Truly Design have transformed a simple concrete hanger into a B-Movie set, as a giant jungle green coloured octopus spreads it eight tentacles over pillars and the ceiling. They use the space provided to them in ingenious ways, as the dips and cracks of the hanger become places to create perspective illusions — via Illusion Magazine
This super-swell octopus tentacle wall art sculpture features a transparent aqua splash and a rusted porthole. Invite this critter into your home and observe how it wriggles its way through your wall and into your heart. The octopus arms are cast out of urethane resin in moulds from the original sculptures. They are polished and coloured with dyes and paint. The porthole is coated with iron and rusted, then sealed to keep the rust tidy. A hanger on back slips over a screw in the wall to mount. Protrudes about 22cm from the wall, porthole is about 11cm in diameter — via Etsy
24 x 48 mixed media painting on wood — via Etsy
So so much to get done. No sleep the next few days it looks like. Here’s my final hellboy sketch cover for the @heroinitiative templesmith
— via Dinara Mirtalipova
As Comic Arts Brooklyn approaches once again I find myself in a mad dash to screen print, draw, make, cry, draw some more, separate, ink, pull, and dry as much as possible. I’ll have some awesome new stuff to unleash on the unsuspecting public! The octopus above will be there in force and so should you — via CM Butzer Comics & Illustration
Silkscreen Madness! or something like that as the March towards APE continues! 3 of the 4 colours are done! Just need to print the back and the cover! This is my second edition of this book — I’ve changed the colours up a bit and added a pattern to the back — via CM Butzer Comics & Illustration
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