rubik's cube Mosaic

A picture make by Rubik's cube... that's pretty crazy, just to get the colour into the right spot is super hard. well, at least for me. Rubik's cube is always a challenge for me.

to find out more about these art go to rubikcubism :

 http://www.space-invaders.com/rubikcubism_.html

Underwater Sculpture

The Underwater Sculpture Gallery in Grenada, West Indies is a project started in May 2006 by sculptor Jason Taylor, with the support of the Grenadian Ministry of Tourism and Culture. His sculptures highlight ecological processes whilst exploring the intricate relationships between modern art and the environment. By using sculptures to create artificial reefs, the artist’s interventions promote hope and recovery, and underline our need to understand and protect the natural world.

The sculptures are sited in clear shallow waters to afford easy access by divers, snorkelers and those in glass-bottomed boats. Viewers are invited to discover the beauty of our underwater planet and to appreciate the processes of reef evolution.

To see more of the underwater sculpture, go to :
http://www.underwatersculpture.com/

I find it really creepy and beautiful at the same time. Other then Jason Taylor creating a very nice sculpt, nature is also a very good artist too.

Exit sign wars!

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Apparently there is a internation war over exit signs. Its between the little running green man and the big red word.

The green sign is developed in the late 1970s by a Japanese designer named Yukio Ota and adopted for international use in 1985. The big red word sign that spell out EXIT is design in the 1970s by the American.

Some say the red sign does not read well, cause it will only understand by people who can read English and red usually mean danger, you would not like to run to something that are dangerous. And the other people say the green one doesn't look like an exit and its showing a person running, and everyone shouldn't run in panic when needed to exit...

Well, you can read abit about it here :

http://www.slate.com/id/2246107/?yahoo=y

I would just put a red exit word under a green running man . There problem solved.

jon burgerman

Jon Burgerman, one of my favorite artist or doodler! He is a UK artist and you will probably seem his work before, on video games, toy, poster and even shoe. I love his doodle, they are so colourful with simple characters and so detail at the same time. It look really easy to draw, they all just look like crooked line and weird shape... but they are certainly not! (yeah, i tried). You can see all kind of characters with personally and story with all the crazy lines!

To see more of his work go to :

http://www.jonburgerman.com/
http://www.doodlesplatter.com/

drawing with both hands

I've been trying to post this video up, but forgot about it. Anyways, its amazing how he can draw with his both hands, I wish I can do that too.

Samurai Jack is back!

Samurai Jack's Moive is in the work, produced by JJ. Abrams (Lost, Star trek) I love Samuri Jack and Lost! This is just awesome news! I guess anything with time travel JJ Abrams will get his hand on it. lol. Hopefull this actually happen and happen soon!!

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Yoshitaka Amano

Yoshitaka Amano was born in 1952 in a small town at the foot of mount Fuji in Shizuoka, Japan. As a child, he reveled in making unbroken loops of drawings on the huge paper rolls that his brother brought home from his job at a paper factory. "I don't remember a time when I wasn't making drawings," he recalls. After a year of training, Amano took part in designing characters for many of Tatsunoko's greatest cartoons, including Gatchaman (released in the US as G-Force and Battle of the Planets), Hutch the Honeybee, and Cashaan: Robot Hunter. Yet after fifteen years with the animation studio, Amano began to grow restless. He tendered his resignation at the age of 30, exchanging his established career for the precarious life of a freelancer. "Even the tax authorities questioned my decision," he remembers. "But once your life is too stable, your creative dies." He went on to collaborate with numerous writers, creating close to 20 illustrated books that have sold millions of copies. These works include Hideyuki Kikuchi's Vampire Hunter D, Kaoru Kurimonto's Guin Saga, Yoshiki Tanaka's Arslan Chronicals, and Rasen-O (Spiral King) and Chimera by Baku Yumemakura.

His artistic success won him access to yet another format in the 1980s; concept illustration for videogames. His first project, Final Fantasy, became an international hit. He also created character designs for the games Front Mission, Gun Hazard, Rebus (released asKartia in the US), and Emblem of Eru (to be released in Japan by Capcom.)

Amano pushed his boundaries even farther in 1997, when he began creating work in New York City. His 1997 "Think Like Amano" exhibition in New York City's Puck Building presented a retrospective of his work, and debuted his series of ambitious New York paintings. 1998 saw the premiere of 1001 Nights , a collaborative film/music project with composer David Newman that was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The 3D computer graphic animated film was produced by Yukio Sonoyama and premiered as the inaugural event in the L.A. Philharmonic's innovative "Filmharmonic" series. Also in 1999, Amano has joined for the first time with Neil Gaiman to introduce a new edition of the wildly popular Sandman series.

To see more of his work go : http://www.amanosworld.com/

Women in Art

“Faceless watch”

Design by Hironao Tsuboi

Part of apertures of metal band became digital display screen. Metal band and digital figures mingle together in proportion naturally. Without the face of "timepiece", it displays figures only when needed but also quite vague existence, "time"

Gary

An very nice and creative animation I came across, I like the style and colour, and also the layout look great! Dont really understand French, but by looking at their action, you can kind of understand it.

Dr. Seuss

At the time of Theodor Seuss Geisel's eath in 1991, his 46 children's books had sold more than 200 million copies, and his last, Oh, the Places You'll Go! (1990), was still on the bestseller lists. His books, which he both illustrated and wrote, have been translated into twenty languages as well as Braille.
Better known by his pen name, Dr. Seuss, he populated his odd and fanciful children's books with a hybrid bestiary of Wockets, Whos, Grinches, bunches of Hunches, Bar-ba-loots, red fish, blue fish, and a fox in socks. He once remarked in an interview, "If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up."

His stories march forward at an incantatory, rhythmic pace, and are full of tongue-twisters, word play, and highly inventive vocabulary. The American Heritage Dictionary in fact credits Dr. Seuss as the originator of the word nerd, which made its first appearance in his 1950 book, If I Ran the Zoo: "And then just to show them, I'll sail to Ka-Troo And Bring Back an It-Kutch a Preep and a Proo a Nerkle a Nerd and a Seersucker, too!"

Among his most famous books is The Cat and the Hat (1957), a story about two children who find themselves home alone with a roguish, hat-wearing feline who is a study in bad behavior. With only 223 vocabulary words and much repetition, it was ideally suited for beginning readers . Green Eggs and Ham (1960) managed with a vocabulary of just fifty words to tell the story of a Seuss creature's relentless crusade to introduce a hapless furry character to a revolting dish.

These two book are my favorties among all his book. I remember reading it over and over when i was a little kids. The best children book artist ever!!

Bio and his work : http://www.seussville.com/

Stop motion with wolf and pig

This is so amazing brilliant and well done. Its is such a creative way to do stop motion animation. He used 1,300 printed pictures! I love the concept!

Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt, 1862–1918, Austrian painter.

"Whoever wants to know something about me must observe my paintings carefully and try to see in them what I am." - Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt explored the themes of beauty, eroticism, life and death through his subjects, embellishing them with richly patterned surfaces. Although he is best known for his paintings, however he also produced thousands of drawings. Public commissions were the basis of his early success, but he later broke with traditional Viennese art society and formed the Vienna Secession, promoting the advancement and exposure of modern art in Austria. Gustav Klimt's "The Kiss" is one of the best known and loved decorative painting in the history of art. It is the golden yellowish one below. I use to have a copy up on my wall.

Gustav Klimt's Bio and works : http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/klimt/

new Dora unveiled !!

Last week I post up a shadow showing how the new Dora the Explorer will be like. Well, today the new Dora unveiled. It doesnt look as bad as alot of people think it will be. It show you a silhouette can make you think differently :)

I actually like it when cartoon characters grow up with their audience.

New Dora the Explorer !

Old Dora

New Dora!

The cutsie cartoon character is ditching her shorts and the neat little backpack for what her creators are calling a "new fashionable look."

Although the new Dora will not be officially unveiled until fall, Nickelodeon and Mattel released a silhouette of the revamped figure that shows her with long locks, a short skirt and pointed ballet pumps.

And it has some parents up in arms.

"What next? Dora the Cheerleader? Dora the fashionista with stylish purse and stilettos? Dora the Pop Star with Hoppin' Dance Club and "Juice" Bar?" says an online petition started by two moms, Lyn Mikel Brown and Sharon Lamb, who coauthored the book Packaging Girlhood.

"We can expect it all, because that's what passes as "tween" in the toy department these days."
Creators of Dora the Explorer, a favorite character among preschoolers that teaches kids English and Spanish, say they are just making her move with the times.

The tweenage Dora will live in the big city, attend middle school and have a new wardrobe and accessories.

"For nearly ten years, Dora the Explorer has had such a strong following among preschoolers, catapulting it into the number one preschool show on commercial television," said Gina Sirard, Mattel's vice president of marketing.

"Girls really identify with Dora and we knew that girls would love to have their friend Dora grow up with them, and experience the new things that they were going through themselves.

"The brand captures girls' existing love of Dora and marries it with the fashion doll play and online experiences older girls enjoy."Critics say they would prefer Dora to grow up true to the character she is as a child.

"If the Dora we knew grew up, she wouldn't be a fashion icon or a shopaholic. She'd develop her map reading skills and imagine the places she could go," the petition says."It's such a sell out of Dora, of all girls."

Albert Hirschfeld

Albert Hirschfeld (June 21, 1903–January 20, 2003) was an American caricaturist, best known for his simple black and white satirical portraits of celebrities and Broadway stars.

Hirschfeld's art style is unique, and he is considered to be one of the most important figures in contemporary caricature, having influenced countless cartoonists. Hirschfeld's caricatures are almost always drawings of pure line, with simple black ink on white paper, with little to no shading or cross-hatching. His drawings always manage to capture a likeness using the minimum number of lines. Though his caricatures often exaggerate and distort the faces of his subjects, he is often described as being a fundamentally "nicer" caricaturist than many of his contemporaries, and being drawn by Hirschfeld was considered an honor more than an insult.

During Hirschfeld's nearly eight-decade career, he gained fame by illustrating the entire casts of various Broadway plays, which would appear to accompany reviews in the Times. Though this was Hirschfeld's best known field of interest, he also would draw politicians, TV stars, and celebrities.

Hirschfeld is known for hiding the name of his daughter, Nina, in all of the drawings he produced since her birth in 1945. The name would appear in a sleeve, in a hairdo, or somewhere in the background. Sometimes "NINA" would show up more than once, but Hirschfeld would helpfully add a number next to his signature, to let people know how many times her name would appear. Hirschfeld originally intended the NINA gag to be a one-time gimmick but it soon spiraled out of control. Though the NINAs were a popular feature in his cartoons, with many enjoying the game of searching for them, on more than one occasion Hirschfeld would lament that the gimmick had overshadowed his art. On occasion he did try to discontinue the practice, but such attempts always generated harsh criticism.

Permanent collections of Hirschfeld's work appear at the Metropolitian Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

He died of natural causes at his home in New York City at the age of 99 on January 20, 2003. His late wife, Broadway actress/performer Dolly Haas, mother of Nina, died of ovarian cancer in 1994 at the age of 84, and he never lost his anger over her painful death.


Offiical site : http://www.alhirschfeld.com/
Others : http://www.footlightsgallery.com/hirsch.htm
http://hirschfeldart.com/

Tiniest Art

This is some crazy crazy small sculpture . I don't think its even possible to make it....

Spam One-liners

UK illustrator Linzie Hunter has made spam useful and used it to create a quirky little Postcard book and a series of prints. She uses spam titles or subjects from her junk mail folder to illustrate her hand lettered typographic designs. Its interesting to see artist turning junk into something beautiful!

The rest of Linzie's Spam One Liners series can be seen here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/linzie/sets/72157602417089145
http://www.linziehunter.co.uk/letter.html

Victoria Reynolds

Victoria Reynolds Down the Primrose Path, 2003 44 x 29 Inches , Oil on panel

Victoria Reynolds Flight of the Reindeer, 2003 32 x 43.75 Inches , Oil on panel

Los Angeles artist, Victoria Reynolds paints pictures of row meat...with oil paint. Its a very interesting subject to paint.They are all really really nicely painted and beauiful, does it have a deep message? I dont know, but it's technically excellent.

Also, apparently she got high-quality meat to paint, this stuff is really well-marbled.

Hmmm meat....

For more art work from her, check out :

http://www.richardhellergallery.com/dynamic/artist.asp?ArtistID=30

Font in the sky

Here is a font created by Lisa Rienermann while studying at the University of Duisburg-Essen, the alphabet is formed of the shapes of buildings against the sky when photographed.