This dapper fellow is only available for three more hours! So, if you want a shirt featuring a moustachioed and bemonocled cephalopod for only $10—AND WHO DOESN’T?!?—you need to act fast! This is the first shirt from Ript Apparel that I’ve featured, and I don’t know much about them. They appear to use the TeeFury model—a new shirt every day, available for just that day — via Indie Squid Kid
Mariel Clayton photographs dioramas of Barbie dolls in grisly scenes that juxtapose the glamor of Barbie with the savagery of her hidden violence. It’s like all this time she’s always been a female version of Dexter Morgan — via Neatorama
Sean Hartter’s large collection of Alternate Universe Movie Posters (which includes numerous book covers and other ephemera) are extremely well-done and present a tantalizing view of a better world than this one — via Boing Boing
I’m blown away by Lori Nix‘s post-Apocalyptic diorama photographs. Her Unnatural History>
series, which shows a natural history museum askew, is also fabulous. She builds each diorama from scratch over about seven months and then spends up to three weeks perfecting the lighting and placement of the props. I love this quote from her FAQ: I have miniature power tools throughout the apartment, a chop saw under the kitchen table, a miniature table saw on top
— via CRAFT
An Andy Warhol portrait of Chairman Mao owned by the late Easy Rider star Dennis Hopper has sold for $302,500 (£193,000) at a New York auction — via redwolf.newsvine.com
…more tea, darling
– Nextwave 01 (Director’s Cut) – art by Stuart Immonen 2006 — via A Moment of Ellis
The rainbow warrior is a street artist working in Albuquerque, using spilled paint to pour rainbows off the tops of buildings. He (or she)’s really got some people riled up and it strikes me as remarkable that people can be so dour in the face of rainbows — via aesthetics of joy
Octopus and Clear Hand Blown Sherlock Glass Tobacco Pipe. The Octopus is made from solid Ruby Red and lampwork on the tobacco pipe. Mouth piece is made from the same color. Carb is on the left side hidden in the Octopus tentacle. The Octopus head is the finger rest. We use a lot of the expensive color but it shows in the final product — via Etsy
Cthullu Christmas by Oliver Wetter, aka Fantasio — via John Freeman
As many Americans were spending Christmas night with their families, Olek, a New York based artist was near Wall Street, freezing her fingers to the bone while outfitting the famous Charging Bull
into a giant crocheted cozy — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Some examples of ancient rock art in Western Australia maintain their vivid colors because they are alive, researchers have found.
Scientists at the University of Queensland have discovered that colorful bacteria and fungi have colonized the rock paintings, the BBC reported Monday.
Researcher Jack Pettigrew and his colleagues studied 80 rock artworks in 16 locations in Western Australia’s Kimberley region.
They found some of the oldest examples showed signs of life, but no paint.
The team dubbed the phenomenon living pigments
— via vanessa-wilson73.newsvine.com
Head Huggers has a tutorial for knitting an aviator-style cap. It’s cute, and I think it might be next on my list. But first I’m going to finish the striped fingerless mitts that I started at Bazaar Bizarre a couple weeks ago (I’m making them in light blue and gray) — via CRAFT
Police are seeking help in recovering nearly half a dozen pieces of art by Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol stolen from a New York City apartment by burglars who who broke through a wall — via redwolf.newsvine.com
I had just finished reading some HP Lovecraft, so his flavor of awesome was still fresh in my mind. Usually when thinking about making these I go through lots of failed ideas before connecting something random to something else that could relate in shape or texture. I landed pretty quickly on Santa’s beard being similar to Cthulhu’s tentacle mouth. After that, I just needed classic scene to befoul, like a child in Santa’s lap — via Scott Brundage
Yule Squid by Hwango — via Childhood Fear
I always stay with my octopus — via 100% Kawaii Graphics
Great news for Alien franchise purists, as Alien conceptual artist HR Giger has been confirmed as a contributor to the prequel that Ridley Scott is set to begin shooting in February — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Hongtao Zhou, a sculpture professor at the University of Wisconsin, made a bench out of a thousand leather belts. One end is shaped like a belt buckle and serves as a table and the other is shaped like a bull’s head — via Design Boom
I thought I’d take a brief break from my obsession with holiday cheer in honor of someone else’s obsession–namely Andrew Chase, who makes incredibly detailed, accurate, and articulated metal sculptures — via CRAFT
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