A real website instead of... This.

A whole mess of my art: here

The City Museum

A Perennial Favorite of Many, Half-Art, Half-Playground, Half-Museum
(I Realize thats too many halfs

Two Bunnies, One Cup, Each

My next art installation will be 500 of these arranged in a grid categorically by ear height to recreate the topographical landscape of LA. The Title will be: "There's a hare in my drink, I'd like another."

Effing Ridiculously Good Work

You Win Kanye. Why make art ever again?

P.S. - Story and Direction by Mr. West

Scuba Fight

I miss Illustrations Like this one from James Bond "Thunderball" Some images just need to exist.

Exploring the Cosmos

EL GUINCHO | Bombay from MGdM | Marc Gómez del Moral on Vimeo.

Amazing Video.  Definitely NSFW, and Potentially Problematic Sexism, but there are so many great images in this for what amounts to a music video it makes me want to quit art.

Drip. Bang.

 Photographer  Alexander Augusteijn takes some amazing high speed photos. It's like two Edgerton images had babies.

P.S. This one is also pretty awesome.

Via Dude Craft

Labyrinthine

 Crazy complex detail work by Motoi Yamamoto.
These installations are made entirely out of loose salt.

Stereoscopic Baby Eating

        -If you don't click the image, your not getting the experience.

I found this a few months ago, but it keeps coming up in conversation.

Artist/Title unknown.

Wild Things

Really Amazing Photography By unknown Artist.

Much Cooler But NSFW versions after the Jump

It Does the Body Good

Crazy detailed art with by: Milk
I like the use of symbols and musical iconography, but they're just plain pretty too.

This Could Use a Little More GrimDark.

If you understand this picture, you probably don't want to admit it, or i've talked with you too much recently.

It's Hip To Click on Little Squares.

People could use a little more Dayglow, For Their Skin Tones

The whole site's falsh so know sample pictures do I have.

Sorry about the long absense i have no intrawebs at my apartment, and work was finally slow enough for a stretch to play around on.

I'm so far behind on Boing Boing and XKCD...

This used to be my wallpaper, The Homing Pidgeon soceity released hundreds of thousands of birds simultaneously, each set of pirds trained to return to their respective owners, during a huge celebration in the Netherlands, I think.

The exact details are sketchy it's been a while since I got this image, and I unfortunately do not know the artist's name.

(click to see full size, otherwise your just not seeing it the way it should be.)

Greener Space

Photos of an abandoned church with the surfaces covvered in living grass. I cannot find the original artist, but it reminds me of Misha's B.F.A. piece, although I think this kind of tops that a bit. The photos on the inside are particulary brilliant, a little haunting even.

Packing Some Art

These are portraits and oter works made entirely out of layers of packing tap illuminated from behind. The creations of Mark Khaisman.

It's a Delicate Mechanism

This is pretty incredible already, before you find out that the whole thing is made of paper. My mind boggles at the level or precision this would require.

Via BoingBoing

Supplemental To That.

Supplemental to the last post this is another painting by Brueghel, known as The "Little" Tower of Babel.

Also both might have been painted as a condemnation of the House of Habsburg, the Austrian rulers of an international empire at the time, that continued all they way to the cessation of the first World War, and whose last head of house only abdicated (albeit in exile) in 1961.

Let's All Work Together.

The Tower of Babel by Pieter Brueghel the Elder (1563)

"And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children built. 6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do; and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do."

It is interesting to me that this is seen as a bad thing by God. I must admit I've aways found the story of the tower of Babel interesting. plus I really like towers, it seems the ideal construction method really. Brueghel's painting is Beautiful, it seems so much more evocative of the possibilities of people cooperating, rather than the foibles. Instead of a lesson against pride, I wish we could take this as a lesson in the power of working together towards odd tasks.

Perosnally I Think They Were Just Bored And Thought building a tower to heaven sounded fun. Which sort of reminds me of a quote from The Book of The Seven Seas, "At first I thought I might go fishing, but that seeming dull I resolved on a voyage around the world." The quote is by Joshua Slocum about his 3 year journey, the first ever solo-circumnavigation of the globe, begun in the spring of 1895.

FUN FACT: (if it really could be defined as such) while the height of the tower is something of contention, it is listed in a couple of places:

The Book of Jubilees: 5433 cubits and 2 palms (according to ancient measurements, one cubit is twenty-four inches) putting the height of the tower at about 10,866 feet tall, about 8.75x taller than the Empire State Building, or nearly 2.5 kilometers.

A typical mediaeval account is given by: Giovanni Villani (1300): He relates that "it measured eighty miles round, and it was already 4,000 paces high (5,920 m (19,423 ft)) and 1,000 paces thick, and each pace is three of our feet."

The 14th century traveler John Mandeville also included an account of the tower, and reported that its height had been 64 furlongs (= 8 miles), according to the local inhabitants.

The 17th century historian Verstegan provides yet another figure - quoting Isidore, he says that the tower was 5164 paces high, about 7.6 kilometers, and quoting Josephus that the tower was wider than it was high, more like a mountain than a tower. He also quotes unnamed authors who say that the spiral path was so wide that it contained lodgings for workers and animals, and other authors who claim that the path was wide enough to have fields for growing grain for the animals used in the construction.

So the height kind of tends to vary from story to story, but is sort of universally immense by modern standards.

And finally, a contemporary author looking at it from an engineering perspective wrote, in his book, Structures or why things don't fall down (Pelican 1978–1984), Professor J.E. Gordon considers the height of the Tower of Babel. He wrote, 'brick and stone weigh about 120 lb per cubic foot (2000 kg per cubic metre) and the crushing strength of these materials is generally rather better than 6000 lbf per square inch or 40 megapascals. Elementary arithmetic shows that a tower with parallel walls could have been built to a height of 7000 feet or 2 kilometres before the bricks at the bottom were crushed. However by making the walls taper towards the top they ... could well have been built to a height where the men of Shinnar would run short of oxygen and had difficulty in breathing before the brick walls crushed beneath their own dead weight."

Most of this was taken from the Wikipedia Article here.

We All Need The Occasional Free Ride.

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