Suuuuuhweet 3-D Paintings by Xia Xiaowan

http://dontpaniconline.com/magazine/arts/xia-xiaowan

This Will Be a Well Spent Seven Minutes...Trust Me

Holy Crapping CRAP this is COOL!!

I don't think anyone actually reads this blog anymore. Except maybe Amber...and maybe Matt. If you are reading this right now tap your foot twice and tug your left ear lobe...

Nope, no one is there.

Anyway, if anyone does find this blog, check this shit out!! Some beautiful work by an artist named Haroshi.


http://slamxhype.com/art-design/harvest-by-haroshi-exhibition-skate-destroy-recap/">

Parkour!!

parkour motion reel from saggyarmpit on Vimeo.

What's this? Banksy made a movie?!

Color me intrigued...

Dave Adey - Craft Punch Art

...pretty damn sweet. Check it out.

Sometimes Stratching in the Dirt with a Stick Yields Amazing Results.

Andrew van der Merwe

Check out this guys work.

Super Sweet 3-D Tattoos

These are by a guy named Lionel @ Out of Step Tattoo in France http://el.fahy.free.fr/

I really want a tattoo. Maybe I should get a 3-D one to start off with. A little gimmicky, but still super rad.

Martin Wilson

Martin Wilson remarkably creates images of words and symbols using every frame in a roll of film sequentially. He explains his process:

My pictures are painstakingly created frame by frame on 35mm film. I get the whole film developed, scan it, then piece the final image together on the computer, making a large contact sheet. It’s only when the completed film strips are laid out side by side in the contact sheets that the final image appear.

Each work usually takes months to complete, as each frame is obsessively taken in sequence. No pasting together after the event, no cheating in Photoshop!
If I make a mistake or take a frame out of place I start the film again from the beginning.

So Awesome

Jan Vormann: Lego Dispatch Work - Berlin

Wounds on buildings, in Berlin, caused by Soviet bullets, repaired with Legos. This makes me so, so happy. I wish I would have thought of it first.

Oh Your God! This is awesomely awesome!

These might be the coolest bunch of videos I've ever seen...EVER.

Animated, gibberish speaking monsters + unsuspecting real world Belgians =
http://www.demonsters.be/2009/01/

The Joys of Tilt-Shift Photography

Tilt-shift photography is the process of taking images of real places and through a series of manipulations making them look like miniature models. Basically you take an image at a high angle, with a super shallow depth of field, and over-saturate the colors, which results in images like these...

Effing awesome right!? I really want to try this. You can find more examples here, along with some tutorials.

Steve Schapiro Lecture

Photo journalist Steve Schapiro held a lecture on the 3rd floor today and I went down at the last minute to check it out. And I'm really glad that I did it; it was amazing. This man knew and shot some of the most influential people of the 20th century: Muhammad Ali, Robert Kennedy, Andy Warhol, Martin Luther King Jr., Samuel Beckett, Ray Charles, Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Barbra Streisand, James Baldwin, and Truman Capote. He also did the still photo work on some legendary movies: Taxi Driver, Midnight Cowboy, Chinatown, and the Godfather trilogy.

That's a pretty damn impressive resume. I really wanted to ask him some questions but I just didn't know what to say to the guy. I was really intimidated to be honest.

Fascinating lecture though. I'm amazed that there were only about 20 people in attendance.