The Lovers, The Dreamers, And Me is a Jim Henson tribute art exhibition at Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra, California. Exhibiting artists include Mike Mitchell, Felt Mistress, Anna Chambers, CatRabbit, Graham Annable and many more. The show runs through 2 January 2012 — via Laughing Squid
San Francisco-based illustrator Bill Robinson created Palace of Fine Squids in appreciation of the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Prints of this friendly pink squid are available at Bill’s Etsy shop, Flimflammery — via Laughing Squid
What you’re seeing isn’t a single structure, but ordinary buttons hanging from wires spaced just right so that they present the image of a piano. It’s a medium in which Miami-based artist Augusto Esquivel works — Neatorama
A new ad campaign for the College for Creative Studies by Team Detroit lightheartedly gives its academic programs the DARE treatment. Stay off the art, kids — via Breaking Copy
Walktopus – In Progress – Clay- 5 feet tall, originally uploaded by Late Fauna.
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8×10″ gouache and ink on Canson paper — via CrashOctopus Blog
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The last two captains left on a tiny fishing island take the only boat and set out to hunt the Squiddlepus — via CiaranDuffy illustration
Untitled, originally uploaded by Joel Brochu.
Joel Brochu is taking hundreds and thousands to a whole new level in this portrait of a pup getting a bath. The piece includes 221,184 hundreds and thousands that are painstakingly placed using jewellers tweezers. Only six colours of sprinkles were used in the picture, giving your brain a colour blending treat when viewed from a distance — via CRAFT
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Brett Parson — via PLANET-PULP
No need to tell you why this Mondrian coffee table set at Made is so named.
But we will anyway, The idea is, presumably, to create a suite of tables that mimic the artwork of Piet Mondrian in the 1920s. Not a new idea, we featured a similar concept at Liberty last year, but it’s still very well done and a nice ways to add some practical modernism to your home for not a lot of cash — via Retro To Go
The staff members at Spool and Loop (sister fabric and yarn stores in Philadelphia) took their love of fabric designs and turned them in to a series of tattoos in a bonding-through-ink celebration — via CRAFT
Rogue. Clown. Troublemaker. Caretaker. Reverend.
Stir in a good dose of testosterone, some survival instincts and plenty of humour, and you have the Firefly Les Hommes Poster Set. Created by designer Megan Lara using the sinuous lines, floral motifs and organic pastels that are characteristic of art nouveau, each of these gents smoulder with distinctive personality and masculinity — via Qmx
Jerrod Maruyama — via PLANET-PULP
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A canvas by Roy Lichtenstein, I Can See The Whole Room!… And There’s Nobody In It!, popped previous world records for the landmark contemporary artist when it sold for $US43.2 million in New York.
The sale at Christie’s beat the artist’s previous auction record of $US42.6 million and led a strong performance for contemporary works.
I Can See the Whole Room!… was executed in 1961 with oil and graphite in Lichtenstein’s familiar cartoon style, depicting a stern male face peering out from the canvas into a peephole and featuring the work’s title in a speech bubble — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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