What would you do if you found an old abandoned tank in the London suburbs?
The Cubitt Artists happened upon just such a tank, so they painted it pink.
Isn’t it pretty, Sergeant Oddball would be so proud — via Beyond the Beyond
Online gallery of super-geeky lego sculpture, from artist Nathan Sawaya:
I decided to make Han Solo frozen in carbonite. Life size. It took about 10,000 bricks, almost all dark gray, and about three months of on and off building. I built the sculpture so it can break down easily into smaller parts, thus making it mobile. Because, like most people, I like to take large sculptures of people frozen in carbonite with me whenever I travel.
As you do.
Straight outta the Outré Gallery‘s newsletter:
Outré will be publishing a full-colour 48 page book on the work of Nathan entitled “Scarygirl: Art by Nathan”. This will be one of the very first monographs in the world focussing on vinyl as a new artistic medium. It will include reproductions of Nathan’s working sketches, illustrations and beautiful, detailed photographs of his vinyl work.
I want this fucking book. I want this exhibition to come to Sydney but alas it appears that this is not the case. Nathan J will only be available for Melbournians viewing pleasure, damn it!
HEROES AND MONSTERS: NEW WORKS BY SHAG, Sydney Opera House: 30 January – 24 February 2004.
Meet Shag in Sydney:
- Saturday 21 February at The Studio for Official Book signing, 2-4pm
- Sunday 22 February at The Studio for Closing Celebration, 6:30-8:30pm, and then following for DJs and dancing at The Opera bar until late (free admission)
Of course many Shaggy related items will be available for all your impulsive Shag needs. If you want to buy original paintings you are too late. There was a list, you could’ve joined the list, but it’s closed and the paintings are spoken for. Sigh!
The countdown is on!
Nice Mazda Flash animation showing one of their cars turning into an Autobot
Don’t know who or what Alpen is, but I love that they use studded, leather clad, masked, whip-wielding, bondage loving teddy bears as an advertising campaign.
I wonder if there are plans to merchandise the bears with the product. The NRMA had costumed teddy bears available, but they run more along the lines of aviatrix — Royal Flying Doctor fundraiser — than dominatrix — via Forget to Remember
Caterina Fake is sewing a dress entirely out of labels from other clothes, and she’s soliciting raw materials for the project.
If you have any clothing you are throwing out or giving away (or even if you’re not) would you do me a favor and cut the labels out of them and send them to me? I am trying to make a dress that is contructed entirely of labels for a show at the Helen Pitt this coming spring. I’ve cut all the labels out of my own clothes, and they aren’t nearly enough. I can only make a little doll-sized dress.
Lawyer Marisa Kakoulas has written an interesting article on copyright and tattoos
Human Pacman is a project of the Mixed Reality Lab of the National University of Singapore. Players don back pack computers, VR gloves, and ‘mixed reality’ goggles which overlay virtual cookies — shown as floating spheres — on a first person view of the real world. Aided by a helper who can view the entire game board, players realise their pacman fantasies as they physically move around in a wide-area setting, eating cookies and avoiding monsters
Moving onto something a little more cultured is a gallery of amazing three dimensional footpath chalk drawings by Kurt Wenner
Woo hoo! You can now buy Nathan Jurevicius prints from the Outré Gallery. I am very tempted by ‘Cat Guru’ and ‘Blue Kitty’.
An exhibition of his fine work has also been announced entitled ‘Girls and other Scary Things Toys, Prints and Sculptures by Nathan Jurevicius’, which opens 16 January 2004 at the Outré Gallery in Melbourne. Fingers crossed it’ll be heading over to Sydney as well.
Adobe’s CS range means new software, new packaging, new name and of course new icons. Checkout the icon for Illustrator CS posted on What Do I Know.
Hmmm… pink flower = a vector illustration program. Adobe what the hell are you thinking? Okay, so it goes with new packaging, but it says nothing about what the application does. If they wanted to keep flower graphics from the packaging, then surely they could’ve done something to it to show hey, it’s a vector illustration program. Even if the flower was drawn in Illustrator, (maybe it was?), or showed node points or a pen tool, or even use the same masking technique from the packaging.
Guess I’ll have to download the tryouts just to see the rest of the bouquet. They should at least have a purple one.
Arthur Radebaugh was an illustrator who teased the world with his images of the future. A place where we would all have Rocketeer jetpacks and hover cars. And all the cool stuff came with chrome, fins and streamlining
Bizarre and artistic boots for the lady who knows how to wield a whip
What? Cinder Blue, Deep Arctic, Champagne Bubble with a dash of Newtral and a hint of Soda Green? That is so 2003. Get the new 2004 Consumer Directions Palette from the CMG (Colour Marketing Group).
Haven’t been able to find any swatches yet but shall keep you posted. Names such as Jolt, Grow, Tickle, See and Coppertunity are quite intriguing.
The Pagan Prattle found an auction for a vampire-killing kit complete with a wooden stake and ten silver bullets that recently sold for US$12,000. The kit, a walnut box that also contained a crucifix, a pistol, a rosary and vessels for garlic powder and various serums, was bought by an anonymous phone bidder.
Proving that there’s an online store for everyone:
Some brains are just naturally better, juicier, and formerly smarter than others, and we’ve got them at Brains4Zombies.com. We sell only the highest quality fresh brains, delivered straight to your door. We do the dirty deed so you can spend more time… well… doing whatever the hell it is you zombies do when you’re not ripping open people’s heads.
Next time you’re stuck at some boring gathering, rather than gnawing your arm off to escape, taste a stab at some paper plate origami.Next time you’re stuck at some boring gathering, rather than gnawing your arm off to escape, taste a stab at some paper plate origami. And if you really want to get into the plate folding groove, there’s a couple of books; The Geometry of Wholemovement for the adults and The Hands-On Marvelous Ball Book for the sprogs.
Everyone is going hi-tech these days, so why not take advantage and book a visit from the Stool Fairy.
While not actually selling anything, an enterprising Russian has assembled a massive list of screen shots from video games featuring toilets — from Alien vs Predator to X-Com 3.
Smithsonian naturalist and photographer Kjell Sandved one day found a butterfly with a silvery, gleaming letter ‘F’ woven into the tapestry of its wings. Having found one letter of the alphabet, he wondered whether there might be others butterflies flying around with letters on their wings. His butterfly alphabet quest would take him 24 years
The Norman Lindsay Gallery held their Celtic Festival today and I went along to help with spinning demonstrations, mostly because I’ve never been their before.
It started raining on the trip up the mountains and was pretty heavy by the time we hit the turn off at Faulconbridge. That was when I noticed what I thought was blossoms across the lawn that had been knocked off the tree by the heavy rain. I wasn’t flowers, it was hail.
Got to the gallery and managed to find the other member of our group, who’d managed to get the gazebo up before more hail hit and was sheltering under it. I’ve heard the term hail the size of golf balls, but this is the first time I’ve seen it.
Needless to say we decided to forego spinning in the rain, but did have the chance to have a look around the grounds and gallery. Not a fan of Norman Lindsay’s paintings and sketches, but I do like his sculpture and there’s a lot of it in the grounds.
Nice place and, under better circumstances, it would have been a great day out. If you are in the area and a fan of Norman Lindsay it’s well worth dropping by.
A window between cities that allows people hundreds or even thousands of miles apart to meet and talk in real time could make its debut in Britain next year.
Tholos, named after a type of circular ancient Greek temple, consists of a large round screen nearly 10ft high and 23ft wide. Its designers hope to see one of the first two in the world become a new tourist attraction in the centre of London.
The London Tholos would be linked to an identical one in Vienna. Through them, people in both cities will be able to see and hear each other in real time.
The cylindrical structure contains a unique technology that simultaneously transmits and receives high definition live moving images. People standing in front of London’s Tholos would see a wrap-around picture of the scene in Vienna.
At the same time, a similar London image is displayed in the Austrian capital. Citizens in both countries would be able to face each other and talk via an array of directional microphones and loudspeakers, which keep conversations private.
Effectively, it is like meeting up in the town square — except that you might be on different continents.
Given the necessary sponsors and planning permission, Tholos screens twinning London and Vienna could be up and running by the second quarter of next year. There are ambitious plans to expand the system into a network linking at least 16 European cities by 2008, and then others in North America and Asia.
A Swedish couple hunting on a remote mountain in Sweden’s far northern region of Jaemtland this week found 70 pairs of shoes, all filled with butter. It’s not going to be pretty when the butter starts to rot and the authorities have to wait for the snow so they can get up there with a snowmobile
Looking for bonsai accessories that are both stylish and highly amusing? The good folks at Crash Bonsai have the answer.
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