With a drunken Mickey Mouse looming over Sunset Boulevard and a urinating dog in Beverly Hills, Banksy, the British graffiti artist, has hit Los Angeles in the runup to the Oscars on 27 February, in which his film, Exit Through the Gift Shop, is nominated in the best documentary category — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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The sassy senator has been portrayed many different ways in the original Star Wars trilogy: virginal, strident and sexy. But Leia’s rarely been as boldly retro as in this series of posters.
Hungarian illustrator Szoki crafted these images, as well as studies of various denizens of Mos Eisley’s cantina, for his personal enjoyment
, and they look a bit like fashion illustrations from ’60s magazines like Vogue.
Which is not a bad thing at all — via Blastr
This is not your grandmother’s doily, indeed! Portland, Oregon artist Jo Hamilton takes the art of crochet to another level by reproducing faces with yarn. She also does landscapes in crochet — via Neatorama
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We love Octopuses!! For those of you who love them too, here are 3 more just for you. We took this orange octopus and gave him a little more flair for our print in this listing, while offering him in a mod blue and another in black & gray in our shop as well! — via Etsy
Oil 11×17 in 2008 — via deviantART
I got a lot of help on this one from the good people at ConceptArt.org. So anything good in it is due to them 😉 Coloring (on the octopus, anyway) was inspired by Klimt — via deviantART
Salvador Dali’s Portrait De Paul Eluard set a world record at Sotheby’s auction house in London when it was sold for more than 13 million pounds — via redwolf.newsvine.com
My fave octopus. One day I want a tattoo that looks like this. Letraset markers & fine liner — via deviantART
Illustrator CS3, blends, brushes and the pen tool — via deviantART
Larger version size of one of the backgrounds you can use for your aquarium in Gaia’s aquarium Facebook app, Ocean Party — via deviantART
— via The Oatmeal
8×10? gouache and ink on Canson board — via CrashOctopus Blog
Sculptor Chris Bathgate makes beautiful, abstract machined forms with edges that look like they’d cut and curves that are cold and stern. They’re like the gleaming brass sex-organs of some exotic, alien life form — via Boing Boing
A good fight should be awesome. An awesome fight should be great.
Have majestic squids ever wrestled with vicious sharks? And I am not referring to anything ever televised on the Sci-Fi Channel. I’m talking about real squid and real sharks and real, true fury — via Etsy
Spell out your child’s name with my A-Z letters!
These digital prints are made available on archival quality, matte, acid-free paper, and are printed using UV-stable pigment inks. Each print is individually signed and numbered by the artist. A certificate of authenticity is also included with each print. Actual image size is 5″ x 7″ — via Etsy
Yellow Squid, 2001, crocheted yarn, 104 x 144 x 9 inches — via Mary Carlson
One of the things I love about working Google is that you can come up with an idea one day and the next day start getting to work to make it a reality. That’s what happened with the Art Project—a new tool we’re announcing today which puts more than 1,000 works of art at your fingertips, in extraordinary detail — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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